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  Pope ends Australia visit with call to counter 'spiritual desert'
Pope Benedict bade farewell to Australia yesterday with an open-air Mass before hundreds of thousands of pilgrims. The Mass ended a week of World Youth Day festivities marked by a ...
Myanmar official hints at freedom for Suu Kyi
ASEAN Myanmar's junta has indicated to its Southeast Asian neighbours that opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi could be freed from house arrest in about six months, Singapore's foreign ...
Anwar hits road to swear his innocence to voters
MALAYSIA Malaysia's de facto opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim hit the road over the weekend in a bid to convince his countrymen of his innocence of sodomy charges, and to revive his ambitions of ...
Christians fear Muslim land grab after deal with Manila, leader says
PHILIPPINES A Christian leader in the southern Philippines said his people feared a Muslim land grab after the government struck a significant deal with separatists last week to enlarge the ...
Hopes low for talks on temple row
CAMBODIA Talks today between Cambodia and Thailand were unlikely to resolve the military standoff at their disputed border near an ancient temple, a Cambodian commander warned yesterday.

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Gunmen destroy mining equipment
PHILIPPINES Unknown gunmen yesterday set fire to drilling equipment owned by the Philippine unit of Swiss-based mining giant Xstrata, the second such attack against the company this year, the military said.
 
'Friendly fire' gun battle with Nato forces leaves nine Afghan policemen dead
AFGHANISTAN Nine policemen were killed in Afghanistan yesterday in air strikes launched by the Nato-led force after police and troops mistook each other for Taleban insurgents, authorities said.


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