Australia sends more troops to Solomons
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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - Australia sent 100 troops to the Solomon Islands Thursday, after one of its policemen was murdered in the South Pacific archipelago.
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Hundreds of additional Australian troops have landed in Dili to boost an international peacekeeping force sent to quell violence and restore order in East Timor.
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Australia is to send an armed patrol ship and aircraft to monitor the actions of Japan's whaling fleet.
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The African Union plans to send more  troops into Sudan to reinforce its extended Darfur peacekeeping  mission, an AU spokesman said on Sunday.
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The Solomon Islands' PM accuses Australia of "heavy-handed" interference in his country's domestic affairs.
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Australia's foreign ministry said Wednesday it will boost security spending at its embassies by &#36;52 million after a terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Saudi Arabia left nine dead earlier this week.
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Hundreds more international troops landed in East Timor as the poor and tiny nation sought to restore order and avoid slipping into all-out civil war.
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The Socceroos lead the Solomon Islands 4-0 at half-time in their Confederations Cup qualifier in Honiara. A double from midfielder Josip Skoko and strikes to Ante Milicic and the impressive Brett Emerton have
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Australia plans to enforce a maritime security zone more than 1,100 miles out to sea, far beyond its territorial waters, in a move to boost defenses against possible terror attacks on its soil and offshore oil and gas facilities, Prime Minister John Howard said Wednesday.
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Australia will move its Bali consulate-general and upgrade security at embassies worldwide two days after a bomb attack on its Jakarta embassy killed nine people and injured 180.
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Plans by Australia to enforce an extensive new offshore security zone are causing concern among its neighbors. The Maritime Identification Zone announced by Prime Minister John Howard will extend 18-hundred
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Australia qualified for next year&#39;s Confederations Cup when a 6-0 romp over Solomon Islands on Tuesday secured them an 11-1 aggregate victory over the two legs of the playoff.
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Australia announces plans to create a security zone around its coastline, five times larger than its territorial waters.
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Australian troops were due to arrive in the troubled Solomon Islands on Thursday in a show of force after the killing of an Australian peacekeeper, the first casuality under Canberra&#39;s tougher South Pacific security policy.
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Australia and the United States launched their biggest joint war games Monday, with 27,500 troops backed by a U.S. aircraft carrier engaging in exercises aimed at consolidating the allies' military dominance in the Asia Pacific region.
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Nato is to expand its peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan with more troops being sent to western regions.
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Prime Minister John Howard has rejected suggestions Australia was adopting the role of regional &quot;sheriff&quot; in the Pacific by building up its military and police forces.