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East Timor's deputy PM Mario Carrascalao has resigned. [AFP] (AFP)

East Timor's deputy PM resigns

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:27:00 +1000

East Timor's Deputy Prime Minister Mario Carrascalao has resigned.

Amendment allows Sri Lankan President to run again

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:44:00 +1000

Sri Lanka's parliament has passed a controversial constitutional amendment which allows President Mahinda Rajapakse to run for a third term.

Three arrested in Pakistan over Times Square bomb plot

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:53:00 +1000

Pakistan police have arrested three suspects over links to a Pakistani-American accused of an attempted car bombing in New York's Times Square.

Australia's Opposition urged to support new parliament

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:58:00 +1000

The Australian government and the Greens Party have warned the Liberal National Opposition not to act as spoilers in the new Parliament.

Features

Julia Gillard tells Australia's Governor General Quentin Bryce she can form a government. [AFP] (AFP)

Australia's first female PM, just

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:50:00 +1000

Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard has now won the right to remain in the job as head of a minority government.

The world is just five years away from a United Nations deadline to halve global poverty. [AFP] (AFP)

UN conference revisits poverty goals

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:50:00 +1000

More than 2,000 delegates from 70 countries are in Melbourne for a major United Nations health conference, the first of its kind to be held in the region.

Cambodian military police, hired by a politician's company, fire shots at villagers resisting clearing of the land. [LICADHO] (ABC)

Evictions at gunpoint

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:33:00 +1000

Sugar, guns, and money: Radio Australia investigates rural evictions in Cambodia.

The world faces the prospect of higher food prices. [AFP] (AFP)

Panic buying pushes prices

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:11:00 +1000

There are warnings social and political instability could occur in developing countries as a result of an increase in the baseline price of food.

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