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![East Timor's deputy PM Mario Carrascalao has resigned. [AFP] (AFP)](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201007/r607558_3993356.jpg "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.
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![Julia Gillard tells Australia's Governor General Quentin Bryce she can form a government. [AFP] (AFP)](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201009/r634632_4351093.jpg "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)](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201006/r590354_3773898.jpg "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)](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201008/r619414_4148287.jpg "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)](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200906/r390520_1825425.jpg "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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