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High Court nullifies 'landmark conviction'

Welllington real estate agent Tim Whitehead has won a "discharge without conviction" by appealing to the High Court over his landmark convictions for misleading home buyers.Whitehead complained to the court that legislation passed...
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Ahmadinejad arrives in Afghanistan: govt (AFP)

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flew into Kabul on Wednesday for summit talks on a visit overlapping with US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who was in Afghanistan to review a US troop surge.(AFP/File/Atta Kenare)AFP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Kabul on Wednesday to hold talks with his Afghan counterpart, a spokesman in Hamid Karzai's office said.



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Gates: Some troops could leave Afghanistan early (AP)

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, pictured, has arrived in Kabul to hold talks with his Afghan counterpart, a spokesman in Hamid Karzai's office has said.(AFP/File/Atta Kenare)AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says some of the U.S. forces involved in the Afghanistan surge could leave the country before President Barack Obama's announced July 2011 date to begin withdrawal.



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Law bars Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi from elections (AP)

Members of the detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Party read state-run newspapers carrying military government's announcement on election laws at the party's headquarters in Yangon, Myanmar Tuesday, March. 9, 2010. Myanmar's ruling junta will appoint the commission that will have final say over the country's first elections in two decades, state-run newspapers announced Tuesday as the country's military rulers began unveiling the laws that will govern this year's balloting. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)AP - Myanmar's military rulers have barred pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from running in upcoming elections and may force her own political party to expel her under a new election law unveiled Wednesday.



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Indonesia confirms Bali bomber killed in raid (AFP)

Tourists are seen near the site of the major bomb blast that hit Kuta in Bali in October 2002 in which 202 people were killed.(AFP/File/Darma)AFP - Indonesia's leader Wednesday confirmed that a suspected Bali bombing mastermind was killed in a Jakarta raid and vowed to keep hunting extremists in a landmark address to Australia's parliament.



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Aid Group Attacked in Pakistan

Militants attacked the offices of an international aid group in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing five people working for the organization, police said.
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Aid group attacked in northwest Pakistan; 5 dead (AP)

Mothers of Irfan Khan (L) and Javid Ahmad, two missing Kashmiri youths, cry during a demonstration by the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) in Srinagar March 10, 2010. On the tenth of every month, members of APDP assemble in a park in Srinagar to highlight the issue of missing persons in Kashmir and remember their loved ones. The APDP says that more than 8,000 people have gone missing, most of them after their arrest by Indian security forces in the troubled Kashmir region since a rebellion broke out at the end of 1989. But authorities deny the allegations and say their investigations have revealed that most of the missing people have crossed the heavily militarised Line of Control which separates India and Pakistan into Pakistani Kashmir for arms training. REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)AP - Suspected militants armed with grenades attacked the offices of an international aid group in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing five people working for the organization, police said.



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UK PM Brown warns of bumpy economic road ahead (Reuters)

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown gestures as he bids farewell to Jordan's King Abdullah (not pictured) on the steps of 10 Downing Street central London March 9, 2010. REUTERS/Andrew WinningReuters - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown sees risks to the economic recovery and says it is not the moment to change course as he prepares for an election by June.



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Biden's West Bank tour clouded by settlement plans (AP)

U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, left, and his wife Jill, second from left, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and his wife Sara, second from right, pose for photographers ahead of their joint dinner the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - Israel's new plan to build 1,600 homes for Jews in east Jerusalem is overshadowing Vice President Joe Biden's visit to the West Bank.



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Bali bombing suspect confirmed dead in police raid (AP)

Paramedics carry the body of a suspected militant killed in a police raid in Pamulang on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Anti-terror police hunting a mastermind of Indonesia's worst terror attack killed three suspects on Tuesday, police said. Police were trying to determine whether one of those killed was the alleged terrorist Dulmatin. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)AP - A top-ranked Southeast Asian militant wanted for planning the deadliest terrorist attack in Indonesia's history has been killed in a shootout with police at an Internet cafe, the president confirmed Wednesday.



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The CIA’s Lawyer Problem

Citizens on both sides of the political divide are outraged at the recently released Department of Justice report on the Bush administration’s torture memos and what it shows about the lawyers who compiled those legal weapons and subverted the law. But while debate rages over whether or [...]
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Obama’s Potemkin Afghanistan

In a message to US troops in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates praised the soldiers who fought in the recent Marjah offensive, averring: " “You all have had a very tough time. You came into an area totally controlled by the Taliban. You fought for a critical battle space, you bled for [...]
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Is There a Mideast Solution?

DOHA, Qatar – Internationally speaking, there are only two subjects to talk about in the Middle East. These are Israel, the Palestinians, and the Americans; and Iran and Israel. The two subjects dominated the annual meeting here of the Institute for Mediterranean Political Studies, a group of senior or [...]
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The Truth Blurts

Individuals in the upper level of the Pentagon and media polloi are beginning to commit a cardinal sin. They’re blurting the truth – sort of. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the military’s senior spin surgeon (his father was a Hollywood publicity agent), says [...]
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On Guantánamo, Symbolism Trumps Substance

President Obama has been so chastened by his failure to meet the pledge of closing Guantánamo prison within a year that Rahm Emanuel, his chief of staff, is trying to negotiate with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to gain Republican support for doing so. In exchange, Graham wants Khalid Sheikh [...]
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Report: NKorea to replace top diplomat in Geneva (AP)

In this photo taken Monday, Dec. 7, 2009, North Korean Ambassador to the U.N. Ri Tcheul delivers a speech during a meeting about North Korea's human rights in Geneva, Switzerland. North Korea plans to replace its top diplomat in Switzerland, Ri, who is believed to be a key manager of leader Kim Jong Il's alleged secret funds stashed overseas, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Ri is to step down as early as late March following about 30 years of service in Switzerland, citing an unidentified diplomat in Bern. (AP Photo/Yonhap)AP - North Korea plans to replace its top diplomat in Switzerland who is believed to be a key manager of leader Kim Jong Il's alleged secret funds stashed overseas, a news report said Wednesday.



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Former MI5 boss accuses US of hiding torture (AFP)

File picture shows Britain's director general of the security service (MI5) Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller in 2006. The former head of MI5 has accused the US of concealing its abuse of terror suspects, stepping up a fightback by the security service over accusations that it colluded in torture.(AFP/File/Andrew Stuart)AFP - A former head of MI5 has accused the US of concealing its abuse of terror suspects, stepping up a fightback by the security service over accusations that it colluded in torture.



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Myanmar Bars Democracy Advocate From Election

The ruling military junta announced a new election law that would likely prevent Daw Aung San Suu Kyi from participating in coming elections.
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Australia's reputation damaged by violence: FM (AFP)

Violence against Indian students has damaged Australia's reputation and will lead to a drop in the number of foreign students, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said.(AFP/File/Manpreet Romana)AFP - Violence against Indian students has damaged Australia's reputation and will lead to a drop in the number of foreign students, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said.



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Accused says she didn't hurt toddler

A woman who is on trial for murdering a three-year-old boy in her care told police she never laid a hand on him, a court was told today.Patricia Angela Pickering, 38, has pleaded not guilty in the High Court at Auckland to murdering...
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East Africa new frontier for oil exploration (AFP)

An oil exploration tower is pictured in Tonya on the Ugandan shore of Lake Albert. East Africa has become a promising new frontier for oil exploration and major multinationals are jostling for the rights to search for black gold, industry experts said(AFP/File/Walter Astrada)AFP - East Africa has become a promising new frontier for oil exploration and major multinationals are jostling for the rights to search for black gold, industry experts said.



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Dalai Lama: China aims to annihilate Buddhism (AP)

AP - The Dalai Lama said Wednesday that Chinese authorities had rebuffed all his efforts to reach a compromise over Tibet and had instead engaged in systematic repression as part of a plan to "annihilate Buddhism" there.
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Irish arrests for 'cartoonist plot'

Seven people held over alleged plan to kill Swede over Prophet Muhammad cartoons.
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Yudhoyono calls for end of stereotypes

Indonesia's partnership with Australia is now "solid and strong", but challenges remain, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has told federal parliament.
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Food Aid Bypasses Somalia’s Needy, U.N. Study Finds

As much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted to a web of corrupt contractors, Islamist militants and local U.N. staff, according to a report.
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NZers kicked out of Morocco not missionaries

A New Zealand family kicked out of Morocco say that although they are Christians, they were not trying to convert Muslim orphans they looked after.Aucklanders Chris and Tina Broadbent and their two young children were given an...
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Poore on edge for clash with Dragons

Parramatta skipper Nathan Cayless says front row partner Justin Poore has been on edge for weeks as he prepares to face his former Dragons teammates.
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Bali bomb-maker killed in raid

Indonesia's president confirms death of top fugitive in Jakarta police raid.
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Cycling gold medallist Lionel Cox dies

Lionel Cox, described as one of "Australia's finest Olympians", has died.
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Greek PM meets Obama over crisis

Papandreou urges US president to crack down on speculators damaging Greece's economy.
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SA govt inaction killing Murray: ACF

The SA government's inaction is killing the River Murray despite its deal for an extra 70 billion litres of floodwaters, an environmental expert says.
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Cazaly says Rhodes Ridge battle to go on

Cazaly Resources says its ongoing battle for control of the huge Rhodes Ridge iron ore deposit is unaffected by a court ruling that ousted a mining heavyweight.
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Film festival a bridge between India and Australia

The director of the Indian Film Festival, which opened in Melbourne on Wednesday, says she hopes the event will be a cultural bridge between the Australian and Indian communities.
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Much to lose if friendship falters: SBY

Indonesian president tells Parliament his country and Australia are stakeholders in a common future, with much to lose if the relationship falters.
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi faces new law: spokesman (AFP)

Protesters hold portraits of detained Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest in New Delhi. Myanmar's new election laws mean that Suu Kyi's party, the opposition National League for Democracy, must expel the detained leader from its ranks ahead of polls this year, a party spokesman said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Manan Vatsyayana)AFP - Myanmar's new election laws mean the opposition National League for Democracy must expel detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi from its ranks ahead of polls this year, a spokesman said Wednesday.



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