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Olympic torch heads to Argentina
19:49:35, 11 April 2008, Radio Australia News
The Olympic torch has arrived in Buenos Aires amid intense security.
![An RAAF investigation team spent a week at the wreck site on an isolated mountain ridge on New Britain Island. [Australian Defence Force]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/gallery/png_raafplane_adf_131008.jpg "An RAAF investigation team spent a week at the wreck site on an isolated mountain ridge on New Britain Island. [Australian Defence Force]")
![Global meltdown: International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss Kahn says concerns about the viability of big US and European banks could send the world's financial system into meltdown. [AFP]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/gallery/imf_strausskahn_afp_111008.jpg "Global meltdown: International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss Kahn says concerns about the viability of big US and European banks could send the world's financial system into meltdown. [AFP]")
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![Thousands of police have been deployed in the area where parliament house, the main metropolitan police headquarters and government house are located. [AFP]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/gallery/thai_protestclash_afp_081008.jpg "Thousands of police have been deployed in the area where parliament house, the main metropolitan police headquarters and government house are located. [AFP]")
![President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, the islands' leader for the past 30 years, faces five bitter rivals in the poll. [AFP]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/gallery/maldives_gayoom_afp_061008.jpg "President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, the islands' leader for the past 30 years, faces five bitter rivals in the poll. [AFP]")
![Anti-government demonstrators try to take cover after riot police fired tear gas at protesters blocking Parliament in Bangkok. [Reuters]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/gallery/thai_protest_rtr_071008.jpg "Anti-government demonstrators try to take cover after riot police fired tear gas at protesters blocking Parliament in Bangkok. [Reuters]")
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