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Gillard signs Afghan aid agreement

Julia Gillard

THE Prime Minister Julia Gillard vowed "not to abandon" Afghanistan after formally signing an aid agreement with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai.

 

Blind dissident arrives in US

The main courtyard at Beijing's Forbidden City.

HIGH-profile Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has arrived in the United States after being flown out of Beijing with his immediate family.
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Unique wedding proposal at war zone

A TYPICAL engagement ring-in-a-Champagne glass proposal holds no appeal to Flight Lieutenant Cinda Lyons. Where's the element of danger?
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Kennedy's wife 'committed suicide'

Robert Kennedy Jr, right, and ex-wife Mary Richardson Kennedy. An attorney on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 said Mary Kennedy has been found dead on Robert Kennedy Jr's property in Bedford, N.Y.

THE Kennedy family is grieving again after the estranged wife of Robert Kennedy Jr hanged herself at her home.

 

Obama campaign calls Romney 'vampire'

Barack Obama

THE Obama campaign attacked Mitt Romney as a "vampire" who amassed his vast personal fortune as a venture capitalist by exploiting ordinary workers.
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Afghan President annouces transitions

President Karzai announced on Monday that the third tranche of provinces would begin the transition to Afghan-led security responsibility.

AUSTRALIAN soldiers stationed in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province will start heading home as early as the middle of this year, says the Afghanistan President.
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49 bodies dumped on Mexican hwy

Forensic experts examine the area where dozens of bodies, some of them mutilated, were found on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border in the town of San Juan near the city of Monterrey, Mexico.

FORTY-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies have been found dumped on a highway in what could be the latest outburst in an escalating war among drug gangs.

 

NZ PM comes out for gay marriage

Neq Zealand Prime Minister at the Big Gay Out festival

NEW Zealand Prime Minister John Key has joined US President Barack Obama in declaring that he is ''not personally opposed'' to same-sex marriage.
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Obama supports same-sex marriage

Barack Obama has come out in support of same-sex marriage.

BARACK Obama has become the first US president to say publicly he was in favour of same-sex marriage, in a pre-election debate roiling American politics.
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CIA stops al-Qaeda bomb plot

A file photo released in 2010, by Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Interior purports to showmaster bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri.

THE CIA have thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a US-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design.

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Doorknock appeal raises $17,000

Doorknock appeal raises $17,000

THE Salvation Army’s Red Shield doorknock appeal has been generously supported in Coffs Harbour with $17,000 raised.

 

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