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  1. South Korea's new president calls for 'parallel talks, sanctions' to rein in North

    South Korea's new president launches international efforts to defuse tension over North Korea's weapons programs, urging both dialogue and sanctions while also aiming to ease China's anger about a US anti-missile system.

  2. 'I was going to fire Comey regardless': Trump changes story on FBI sacking

    US President Donald Trump has contradicted his earlier rationale for firing James Comey, saying he would have sacked the FBI chief regardless of what the Justice Department recommended.

  3. Donald Trump: Another week of Russian Roulette in the US politics

    It's all a game in US politics. The latest casualty? FBI boss James Comey, fired by President Donald Trump for not "doing a good job".

  4. Young Venezuelans fling faeces at soldiers as unrest claims more lives

    Young Venezuelan protesters lob bottles and bags of faeces at soldiers who are fighting with tear gas to block the ongoing protests against socialist President Nicolas Maduro.

  5. Leaked UK Labour Party manifesto marks shift to the left

    Britain's main opposition Labour Party promises to renationalise rail and mail services and take some of the energy sector into public hands, in a shift to the left aimed at winning over voters before next month's election.

  6. IS victims, farmers, bullfighters: Macron announces parliamentary election candidates

    Farmers, teachers, a bullfighter and a famous mathematician are among a partial list of 428 candidates announced by Emmanuel Macron's team for French parliamentary elections in June.

  7. IS recruiter Neil Prakash to be extradited 'within months'

    Australia's most wanted terrorist, Melbourne-born Neil Prakash, is likely to be extradited from Turkey "within months" to face trial, the Prime Minister says.

  8. Is it AFL or rugby? Chinese none the wiser ahead of Shanghai showdown

    The AFL's attempt to crack the Chinese market faces a number of obstacles, experts say, as the Port Adelaide-Gold Coast game approaches to little local fanfare.

  9. Russian gets suspended jail sentence for playing Pokemon Go in church

    A man is found guilty of inciting religious hatred after playing interactive smartphone game Pokemon Go inside a Russian Orthodox church.

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  1. Venezuela's civil war risk

    A former adviser to Venezuela's Supreme Court says the risk of civil war is high unless a path towards elections is found.

  2. Cholera in South Sudan

    In a school classroom South Sudan, families wait to find out if they will be among the first victims of a feared cholera outbreak.

  3. After the battle for Mosul

    The battle for Mosul is entering its final phase, but what comes next will be crucial.

  4. What happens now at FBI

    Donald Trump needs to find someone to head the FBI after unceremoniously sacking James Comey. Here's what's going on.

  5. US immigration problems

    Canberra man Baxter Reid found out the hard way that US visa rules can be a trap for young players.

  6. Mob politics claims Ahok

    The mob came for Jakarta's Christian governor Ahok, and it caught him, writes Adam Harvey.

  7. Lunatic asylum remains

    The remains of at least 7,000 patients from an old lunatic asylum are buried beneath the University of Mississippi, archaeologists say.

  8. Yemen cholera outbreak

    MSF says humanitarian assistance to Yemen needs to be scaled up urgently as the country battles a new deadly cholera outbreak.

  9. Pussy Riot head to Tassie

    Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot will be in Hobart next month for a screening of a film about their imprisonment.

  10. Rare albino orangutan

    The conservationists who rescued a rare albino orangutan in Borneo call upon the public to name it.

  11. Barcelona's tourist rentals

    How do you make housing more affordable? Barcelona thinks part of the answer is cutting down on short-term tourist rentals.

Asia Pacific

  1. North Korea seeks 'biochemical' plot extraditions

    Pyongyang will seek the extradition of anyone involved in an alleged CIA-backed plot to kill leader Kim Jong-un with a biochemical poison, a top North Korean foreign ministry official says.

    The security ministry has vowed to "ferret out" anyone involved in the alleged plot, which it called "state-sponsored terrorism."

  1. East Timor maritime boundary

    East Timor's President Lu-Olo is expected to push for a new maritime boundary with Australia.

  2. Indonesian couple face caning

    After a single-day trial, prosecutors in Indonesia are demanding two gay men be punished with 80 strokes of the cane.

  3. Thailand car bomb attack

    A car bomb explodes outside a busy supermarket in Thailand, injuring 60 people and ripping the building apart.

  4. Jakarta Governor Ahok jailed

    Indonesia sentences the Christian governor of Jakarta to two years in prison for blaspheming the Koran.

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Posted April 08, 2013 12:22:49 | Updated January 15, 2016 16:06:02

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