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'Messy process': NATO backs Afghanistan withdrawal
8:43 AM | NATO and its partner nations have completed their plans to withdraw from Afghanistan, with President Barack Obama, and the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard both restating their belief that the Afghan army maintain security.
3:00 AM | LONDON: The British politician Tessa Jowell sought an assurance from Tony Blair he had made no deal with Rupert Murdoch on media regulation when she was appointed culture secretary, the Leveson inquiry has heard.
3:00 AM | Indonesian prosecutors have demanded a life sentence for an alleged terrorist.
3:00 AM | They live in stilted shacks on a mudflat above piles of oyster shells, broken glass and rubbish, their nomadic days on the seas of south-east Asia gone forever.
12:40 AM | Lindsay Murdoch
Gillard signs off on millions of dollars of aid for Afghanistan
21 May 12 | The Prime Minister Julia Gillard has committed to increasing Australia’s aid to Afghanistan by $85 million a year to $250 million by 2015 in an agreement signed with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai during a side meeting at the NATO summit.
21 May 12 | Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing in which 270 people were killed, has died, his brother says.
Chen takes off for the US
20 May 12 | The blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng, whose dramatic escape from house arrest last month sparked a diplomatic row between Beijing and Washington, has taken off for the United States.
20 May 12 | AN ''UNPRECEDENTED'' operation to refloat and remove the sunken Costa Concordia cruise ship will be the most ambitious effort of its kind ever attempted and will cost at least $US300 million.
20 May 12 | A GLITTERING lunch to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's diamond jubilee attracted the largest gathering of royals since Prince William's wedding to Catherine Middleton.
Doctor's true account of the human cost of war
20 May 12 | A record of army injuries from the Afghan war could prove valuable - if it sees the light of day, writes C.J. Chivers in Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
Mexicans numbed by carnage
20 May 12 | Couples were walking hand in hand. Children were frolicking. Just down the road in this northern Mexican town, 49 bodies, headless with their hands and feet hacked off, had been discovered.
20 May 12 | THERE will be no magic wands waved at Camp David this weekend. The euro crisis will be as intense tomorrow as it is now and the G8 is extremely limited in what it can do, beyond talk.
20 May 12 | A retired Chinese military officer has come up with a simple answer to a complex question that preoccupies Australian prime ministers, strategists and spooks: how to respond to the rise of China?
Chen embarks on flight to freedom
20 May 12 | The blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng, whose dramatic escape from house arrest last month sparked a diplomatic crisis between China and the United States, was hurriedly taken from a Beijing hospital last night to board a plane for the US.
20 May 12 | The East Timorese political party headed by Prime Minister and former guerilla leader Xanana Gusmao has been accused of corruptly raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in political donations, as Mr Gusmao leads this weekend's celebrations marking the 10th anniversary of his country's independence.
20 May 12 | Outraged by cuts to living standards, more and more people are turning to radical politics and even violence.
19 May 12 | Its three great basins - the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra - are the most densely populated area in the world. The Ganges alone supports half a billion people.
Olympic bill worth it, says Princess Anne
19 May 12 | The Princess Royal said that she sympathises with those who object to the cost of staging the Olympics this year and understands that some people will think the Games ''extravagant'' given Britain's economic climate.
19 May 12 | Tight security and high anxiety underwrote the final sitting of Papua New Guinea's outgoing Parliament this week, with rumours running hot that an 11th-hour power play would derail the looming national election and plunge the troubled nation deeper into uncharted straits.
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