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15 Apr 09 | The violence was much worse in Bangkok in 1992, writes Lindsay Murdoch.
15 Apr 09 | SRI LANKA'S Tamil Tiger rebels say they are ready to negotiate a ceasefire with government forces and restart peace talks to halt decades of ethnic bloodshed.
15 Apr 09 | FIJI'S military regime has criticised Australia for being "obsessed" with elections and rejected Kevin Rudd's description of the Fijian leadership as a virtual military dictatorship.
15 Apr 09 | AN AFGHAN man who allegedly organised the passage of several boatloads of his fellow countrymen to Australia last year has been arrested by Indonesian authorities and will be extradited to Australia.
14 Apr 09 | COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's President has ordered government troops to halt their offensive against cornered Tamil rebels for two days to give tens of thousands of civilians a chance to escape the fighting.
14 Apr 09 | THE aunt of David Keohane, the 29-year-old Irishman who was beaten beyond recognition while walking home from Coogee last year, has said her nephew faces a long road to recovery.
14 Apr 09 | THE British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, will be told by senior Labour figures this week that he must clean up Downing Street if Labour is to have a chance of winning the next election.
14 Apr 09 | AUSTRALIA is leading a regional push to oust Fiji from the Commonwealth and the Pacific Islands Forum after the military regime dissolved the constitution and sacked the judiciary.
14 Apr 09 | THE seductive magic of cover drives and leg spin have won cricket fans around the world and now organisers behind a new initiative close to the Gaza border hope the sport can transcend the boundaries on what is perhaps the world's stickiest wicket.
14 Apr 09 | AFTER days of tense negotiations, the US Navy rescue of an American sea captain came in a matter of seconds on Easter Sunday when a few sniper bullets killed three Somali pirates who authorities feared were about to kill him.
13 Apr 09 | THE embattled Thai Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, announced a state of emergency in Bangkok and surrounding regions yesterday as anti-Government demonstrators tried to storm the Interior Ministry and police began arresting the protest leaders who shut down the weekend ASEAN summit.
13 Apr 09 | WASHINGTON: Somali elders have begun a fresh attempt to resolve the stand-off between the United States Navy and pirates holding an American captain hostage in a lifeboat.
13 Apr 09 | THE Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has put British overseas tax havens under renewed pressure to end their culture of secrecy within six months or face sanctions.
13 Apr 09 | A CULTURAL shift appears to be under way in the US in favour of same-sex marriages, with two landmark legal decisions this month and eight states set to vote on bills later this year.
13 Apr 09 | A NATIONAL scandal has erupted in Italy just hours after the mass funeral of 205 of the 293 victims of Abruzzo's deadly earthquake, amid allegations that rubble and debris have revealed the use of second-rate materials, including a deadly mix of beach sand in the manufacture of concrete.
13 Apr 09 | TANKS and armoured vehicles rumbled across Bangkok yesterday after the Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, cracked down on protesters leading the most serious challenge yet to his four-month rule.
13 Apr 09 | PAKISTAN could collapse within months, one of the more influential counter-insurgency voices in Washington says.
13 Apr 09 | THE chief of Fiji's armed forces tightened his grip on the country yesterday, posting censors in newsrooms and roadblocks on the capital's streets as critics accused him of establishing a military dictatorship.
12 Apr 09 | FIJI was plunged deeper into chaos yesterday after military chief Commodore Frank Bainimarama was reappointed Prime Minister just 24 hours after its President scrapped the constitution and assumed executive power.
12 Apr 09 | TORNADOES in the United States have killed at least five people, injured dozens and left hundreds homeless.