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12:07 AM AEST | HONDURAN coup leaders faced further isolation yesterday after blocking the ousted President, Manuel Zelaya, from flying into the capital's airport.
12:07 AM AEST | THE US Vice-President, Joe Biden, says America will not stand in the way of an Israeli strike against Iranian nuclear facilities.
12:07 AM AEST | THE cartels battling for control of Mexico's multibillion-dollar narcotics trade are as notorious for their drug use as their violence. But the fastest growing faction is a quasi-religious sect that celebrates family values and insists on teetotalism.
12:07 AM AEST | SEOUL: Lee Myung-bak, who rose from childhood poverty to the South Korean presidency, has donated 33.1 billion won ($32.8 million) - most of his personal fortune - to a fund for students.
12:07 AM AEST | THE Obama Administration - with many economists - misread how serious the downturn was in the US economy, the US Vice-President, Joe Biden, said, raising new questions about whether a second stimulus package will be needed.
12:07 AM AEST | THE US President, Barack Obama, and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, are attempting to break a deadlock on a vital nuclear arms control treaty at a summit under way in Moscow.
12:07 AM AEST | THE Xinjiang riots appear to have begun as a protest against the violent mob attacks last week on Uygur workers at a toy factory in southern China.
12:07 AM AEST | SEOUL: Impoverished North Korea has spent an estimated $US700 million ($885 million) this year on nuclear and missile tests, enough to solve its food shortage for at least two years, South Korean news reports say.
12:07 AM AEST | XINJIANG, in the north-west of China, has been rocked by bloody riots that have left at least 140 people dead, according to Chinese state media.
12:07 AM AEST | THE Malaysian Government has admitted its borders are "very porous" and called for international help to secure them and curb the rampant people-trafficking industry in the country.
12:07 AM AEST | AS PULKIT PALTA'S parents watched report after report on Indian television about attacks on Indian students in Australia they became increasingly nervous about their decision to send their son to study at Melbourne's Swinburne University.
12:07 AM AEST | WASHINGTON: The cerebral secretary of defence, Robert McNamara, who was vilified for prosecuting the Vietnam War, and then devoted himself to helping the world's poorest nations, died yesterday. He was 93.
12:07 AM AEST | THE Federal Government has cast doubt on reports that the project to recover the remains of Australian and British soldiers from the World War I battlefield at Fromelles is in crisis.
06 Jul 09 | BARACK OBAMA was expected to give an interview to the Russian opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta before his trip to Moscow today in the clearest sign yet that his administration will take a tough approach in its dealings with the Kremlin.
06 Jul 09 | FAR FROM ending interest in her political career by resigning as Alaska's Governor 18 months before her term ends, the former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has provoked a tornado of attention as pundits try to guess her next move.
06 Jul 09 | MOST of the gains made by the world's poorest countries over the past half a century will be lost unless action is taken on climate change, Oxfam says.
06 Jul 09 | THE children of Michael Jackson do not know their mother and want to stay with the pop icon's relatives, a family friend, Jesse Jackson, said after reports of a looming custody battle.
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06 Jul 09 | AS THE leading opposition candidate in the disputed Iranian election, Mir Hossein Mousavi, released documents detailing a campaign of alleged fraud by supporters of the President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's most important group of religious leaders pronounced the new Government illegitimate, and an adviser to the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, accused Mr Mousavi of treason.
06 Jul 09 | THE ambitious project to exhume, identify and reinter 400 British and Australian soldiers forgotten for 90 years in a mass grave in a field in France is in crisis after the Department of Defence chose a cut-price, commercial archaeological firm.