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Radio Australia News nospam@your.abc.net.au nospam@your.abc.net.au 2008-10-07T13:47:19+11:00 2008-10-07T13:47:19+11:00 Thailand's army says two Thai soldiers have stepped on landmines along the Cambodian border three days after a brief exchange of fire near the disputed 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200810/s2383834.htm2008-10-07T13:47:19+11:00Australia's defence minister, Joel Fitzgibbon, has raised concerns that the economic meltdown in the United States will inhibit the number of troops the country sends to Afghanistan.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200810/s2383595.htm2008-10-07T01:27:19+11:00A US aircraft carrier group has arrived in South Korean waters for a visit likely to upset North Korea.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200810/s2383561.htm2008-10-07T01:27:18+11:00Australia's Special Operations Task Group in Afghanistan has named the Taliban commander captured in the southern province of Uruzgan last week as Mullah Sakhi Dad.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200810/s2382581.htm2008-10-06T01:42:42+11:00http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200810/s2382372.htm2008-10-05T12:45:02+11:00A French judge has ordered the dismissal without trial of one of France's biggest graft cases involving the 1991 sale of French warships to Taiwan.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200810/s2380043.htm2008-10-02T13:28:32+11:00The Australian Defence Department is investigating a crash in East Timor that's left two Australian soldiers seriously injured.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2375819.htm2008-09-27T07:21:02+11:00An Australian Air Force team will travel to Papua New Guinea next week to search for the remains of four RAAF airmen whose Hudson bomber was lost during World War Two.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2375453.htm2008-09-26T17:17:08+11:00There's been fierce fighting between Philippine government troops and Moro rebels in marshlands on the southern island of Mindanao.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2374221.htm2008-09-25T14:33:16+11:00Australia's opposition is demanding the government release its air combat review to clarify whether the joint strike fighter is the best jet for the Australian Air Force.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2373343.htm2008-09-24T16:00:03+11:00A United States think tank has declared the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft that Australia is set to buy is inferior to the Russian-made Flanker jets used by China and Indonesia.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2372834.htm2008-09-24T11:15:52+11:00A pilotless United States drone aircraft has crashed in the north-western Pakistani region of South Waziristan overnight, but it is not clear why it came down, Pakistani news channels report.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2372828.htm2008-09-24T10:15:47+11:00Russian warships have set sail for Venezuela for a series of exercises off the South American country's coast.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2372075.htm2008-09-23T14:48:49+11:00The main Kanak pro-independence political party in New Caledonia has expressed concern over an agreement being brokered between France and Australia regarding the use of the French military base there.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2368331.htm2008-09-18T17:50:09+11:00A suspected American missile strike has killed five people in a Pakistani village, less than a day after the US military chief reiterated American respect for Pakistan's sovereignty.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2367623.htm2008-09-18T08:08:51+11:00Australia is to have greater access to France's military base in New Caledonia.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2367099.htm2008-09-18T01:20:06+11:00The Australian Air Force has reassured the public that lives won't be put at risk by the grounding of its fleet of C-130 Hercules aircraft.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2366971.htm2008-09-17T12:49:21+11:00A former Papua New Guinea military commander says security at PNG's border with Indonesia must be stepped up.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2366680.htm2008-09-17T09:35:27+11:00America's top military man, Admiral Michael Mullen, has made a sudden visit to Pakistan to discuss US action along the border with Afghanistan.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2366609.htm2008-09-17T08:29:38+11:00Australia's Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon says he is still unable to say when Australia will be able to start lowering its military involvement in East Timor.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2366534.htm2008-09-17T07:31:09+11:00Nepalese Gurkha soldiers who served in the British military have marched on London's High Court to press their campaign for the right to settle in Britain, ahead of a judicial review into their legal challenge.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2366452.htm2008-09-17T04:46:32+11:00The British prime minister, Gordon Brown, says he is happy with Australia's contribution to the war effort in Afghanistan and its decision not to boost troop numbers.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2362694.htm2008-09-12T16:31:50+11:00The United States government has hailed Japan's decision to halt its air mission for Iraq as a sign of progress.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2362691.htm2008-09-12T09:41:52+11:00Three international soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2362548.htm2008-09-12T08:01:29+11:00The United States president, George W Bush, reportedly approved orders in July allowing US forces to operate in Pakistan without that government's prior approval.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2362331.htm2008-09-11T22:42:23+11:00