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Australian authorities urge residents to flee floods
February 05, 2012 11:31 
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Australian authorities on Monday pleaded with hundreds of people, who had chosen to remain in a town in the path of rising flood waters, to vacate their homes.
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China iPad assemblers speak out
February 05, 2012 11:19
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Miss Chen stares curiously at the iPad. Even though she works overtime in a factory in southwestern China that manufactures them, she's never seen the finished product.
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Ministry: Suicide car bomber targets kills 7
February 05, 2012 10:39
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A suicide car bomb exploded Sunday in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar City, killing seven people and wounding at least nine, the interior ministry said.
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Recovery mode in PNG ferry sinking
February 05, 2012 02:23
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Authorities in Papua New Guinea said Sunday it may be time to shift from rescue to recovery mode in their search for 98 people who remain unaccounted for in last week's ferry sinking.
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Report: Civilian deaths rise in Afghanistan
February 04, 2012 08:00
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The rate of civilians killed in the decade-long conflict in Afghanistan rose again in 2011, according to a new United Nations report .
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Thousands stranded by floods in eastern Australia
February 04, 2012 05:39
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Heavy rains left thousands stranded in eastern Australia on Saturday as authorities warned of more flooding and urged several communities to flee to higher ground.
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Charges dismissed in Afghan killing
February 04, 2012 02:43
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Charges have been dismissed against an Army soldier accused in what prosecutors described as a conspiracy to kill Afghan civilians for sport and then cover it up, the military said Friday.
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PNG ferry rescued figure put at 246
February 03, 2012 06:19
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Some 246 survivors have been rescued in the aftermath the sinking of a passenger ferry off the east coast of Papua New Guinea, authorities said Friday.
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Four bodies found off Papua New Guinea
February 03, 2012 06:19
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Some 246 survivors have been rescued in the aftermath the sinking of a passenger ferry off the east coast of Papua New Guinea, authorities said Friday.
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Khmer Rouge prison chief gets life
February 03, 2012 05:43
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Cambodia's war crimes court rejected the appeal a man who ran a Khmer Rouge regime torture prison and instead increased his sentence to life imprisonment.
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