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• Australian behind new Titanic plans political bid

  A wealthy Australian who is rebuilding the Titanic plans to do the political equivalent. Clive Palmer said Friday he intends to refloat the United ... 

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  NZealand is 13th country to legalize gay marriage

  Hundreds of jubilant gay-rights advocates celebrated at New Zealand's Parliament as the country became the 13th in the world and the first in the ... 

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  Australian PM apologizes for forced adoptions

  Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivered a historic national apology in Parliament to the thousands of unwed mothers who were forced by ... 

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  Australian minister quits over party ballot fiasco

  Another Australian government minister quit Friday in the fallout from a bungled leadership ballot that reinforced perceptions of a crisis in Prime ... 

• Australia gets first Aboriginal government leader

  Australia has its first Aboriginal leader of a provincial government, a development welcomed by the prime minister as a historic moment for the ... 

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  Israeli premier defends Israel in prisoner scandal

  Israel's prime minister on Sunday defended the actions of his country's security forces following a public uproar over the mysterious death of a man ... 

• Israeli-Australian Prisoner X's death strains ties

  He was known as Prisoner X, his crimes unknown. For months he languished in an Israeli prison until he was he was found dead in his cell in an ... 

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  Aftershocks hamper relief in tsunami-hit Solomons

  Strong aftershocks rattled the Solomon Islands on Friday, hampering relief efforts to tsunami-ravaged villages and forcing the South Pacific nation's ... 

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  Bulgaria links Hezbollah to bombing of Israelis

  Hezbollah was behind a bus attack that killed five Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year, investigators said Tuesday, describing a sophisticated ... 

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  Australian PM announces Sept. 14 elections

  Prime Minister Julia Gillard surprised Australians on Wednesday by announcing that elections will be held Sept. 14, in a country where governments ...