Australian troops head to the Solomons in wake of fatal shooting
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Three planeloads of Australian troops are heading for Solomon Islands, in a show of force directed at rebels around the capital Honiara.
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The Australian government announced on Wednesday it will send more troops to the Solomon Islands after an Australian officer of a regional intervention force was killed by
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Elite Australian troops arrived in the troubled Solomon Islands on Thursday as the body of an Australian peacekeeper, the first casualty of Canberra&#39;s tough South Pacific security policy, arrived home.
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A first contingent of uniformed Australian police heads to Papua New Guinea this weekend to launch a risky law-and-order mission in the troubled Pacific nation, officials said.
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Australia has easily defeated Solomon Islands in the first leg of the Confederations&#39; Cup soccer final played in the Solomons capital, Honiara.
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Australia will send an extra 150  troops to Afghanistan due to the deteriorating security  situation, Prime Minister John Howard said on Wednesday,  briefly boosting Canberra's commitment to Afghanistan to more  than 600.
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Suspected mass graves of East Timorese  killed during the bloodiest crackdown of Indonesian rule are to  be excavated by Australian forensic experts to try and identify  hundreds of people slain by Jakarta's security forces.
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After a lightning visit to Iraq where he hinted at possible U.S. troop cuts, President George W. Bush arrived in Australia on Tuesday for an Asia-Pacific leaders' meeting amid heavy security and anti-war protests.
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Australia&#39;s swift reaction to the sniper killing of one of its soldiers serving with an international peacekeeping force in the troubled Solomon Islands on Wednesday will likely quell any further turmoil.
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An intense manhunt is under way in Indonesia for Islamic militants behind a deadly attack on Australia&#39;s embassy in Jakarta as warnings have been sounded for a second suicide squad planning further attacks in the city.
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Foreign Minister Phil Goff today deplored the murder of an Australian police officer in the Solomon Islands, saying the death proves the Solomons is still a dangerous place.
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Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made  a lightning visit to East Timor's locked-down capital Dili on  Friday in a show of strength after a double assassination  attempt on the fledgling nation's leadership.
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The Solomon Islands government has made overtures to Canberra for Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare to meet Australian leader John Howard in a bid to resolve months of diplomatic tension.
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SYDNEY, Australia  - A new Australian patrol ship armed with two machine-guns will scour the country's territorial waters in a "deadly serious" mission to stop illegal fishermen from taking Australia's fish, officials announced Friday.
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd touched down in East Timor Friday for a lightning visit designed to show support for the tiny nation's government after the shooting of its president this week.
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TWO Palestinian security officers were killed yesterday and five others injured when militants opened fire as PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas arrived at a mourning ceremony for Yassir Arafat in Gaza, sparking fears that the succession race could descend into
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An Australian policeman becomes the first casualty in a peacekeeping operation in the Solomon Islands.