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British PM to apologise over child migrants

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, seen here, is to apologise for the country sending thousands of children to former colonies like Australia, the BBC reported on Sunday, just before Australia's premier is due to say sorry.
AFP - Monday, November 16

LONDON (AFP) - - Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to apologise for Britain sending thousands of children to former colonies, officials said Sunday, shortly before Australia's premier is also due to say sorry. More »

  • China 'pressured' Australia to refuse Uighurs

    China 'pressured' Australia to refuse Uighurs

    AFP - Monday, November 16

    SYDNEY (AFP) - - China may have pressured Australia to refuse to take six Uighur men released from Guantanamo Bay and sent to the Pacific island nation of Palau, President Johnson Toribiong said.

  • Australia urges region to back Asia-Pacific Community

    AFP - Sunday, November 15

    SINGAPORE (AFP) - - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd pressed Asia-Pacific nations Saturday to back his proposal for a more powerful regional group that will embrace political, security and economic issues by 2020.

  • Alleged war criminal to fight extradition from Australia

    Alleged war criminal to fight extradition from Australia

    AFP - Saturday, November 14

    SYDNEY (AFP) - - Relatives of an 88-year-old alleged war criminal on Friday vowed to fight his extradition to Hungary after it was approved by Australian officials.

  • Australian officials to test 'Ned Kelly' skull

    Australian officials to test 'Ned Kelly' skull

    AFP - Friday, November 13

    SYDNEY (AFP) - - Australian officials said they would carry out tests to check whether a skull handed in by a farmer belonged to the country's most infamous outlaw, bushranger Ned Kelly.

  • Australia OKs extradition of accused Nazi criminal

    AP - Friday, November 13

    ADELAIDE, Australia - The Australian government has approved the extradition of an alleged Nazi collaborator accused by Hungary of a World War II killing.

  • Australian bid to 'regrow' breasts after cancer surgery

    Australian bid to 'regrow' breasts after cancer surgery

    AFP - Thursday, November 12

    MELBOURNE (AFP) - - Australian scientists said they were to trial a revolutionary treatment which would allow women to regrow their breasts after cancer surgery.

  • Australia in for 'long haul', says country's PM

    Australia in for 'long haul', says country's PM

    AFP - Thursday, November 12

    KABUL (AFP) - - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gave assurances his troops were in Afghanistan for the long haul as he met the top US and NATO commander during a surprise visit.

  • Australian men undress and soap up at a car wash

    AP - Thursday, November 12

    BRISBANE, Australia - It was just a routine car wash.

  • Australian PM visits Afghanistan en route for India

    Australian PM visits Afghanistan en route for India

    AFP - Thursday, November 12

    NEW DELHI (AFP) - - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd visited Afghanistan en route for India on Wednesday, his office said, as countries paid tribute to their war dead on Armistice Day.

  • Britain's last WWI veteran shuns Remembrance Day

    Britain's last WWI veteran shuns Remembrance Day

    AFP - Thursday, November 12

    SYDNEY (AFP) - - Britain's last surviving World War I veteran shunned Remembrance Day commemorations Wednesday because he was against the glorification of war, his family was reported as saying.

  • Australian dam project shelved to save fish, turtles

    Australian dam project shelved to save fish, turtles

    AFP - Thursday, November 12

    SYDNEY (AFP) - - Australia on Wednesday rejected plans to build a massive new dam, despite pleas it is needed to provide water to residents, because of its feared impact on endangered fish and turtles.

  • Australian territory becomes first to legalise gay unions

    Australian territory becomes first to legalise gay unions

    AFP - Wednesday, November 11

    SYDNEY (AFP) - - An Australian territory became the first to legalise civil partnership ceremonies for same-sex couples, in a move supporters hoped would spark national momentum.

  • NZealand does not want SLankan asylum seekers: govt

    NZealand does not want SLankan asylum seekers: govt

    AFP - Wednesday, November 11

    WELLINGTON (AFP) - - New Zealand does not want to offer a new home to a group of Sri Lankan asylum seekers involved in a stand-off with Australian authorities, the government said.

  • Australia jails 6 Indonesians for people smuggling

    AP - Wednesday, November 11

    PERTH, Australia - Australia has jailed six Indonesian fishermen for five years each for smuggling Afghan asylum seekers into the country.

  • 4 Australian men face charges for nude car wash

    AP - Tuesday, November 10

    BRISBANE, Australia - Four Australian men who stripped down and soaped up at a car wash have been charged with exposure and public nuisance.

  • Australian students 'pro-rape' Facebook scandal

    Australian students 'pro-rape' Facebook scandal

    AFP - Tuesday, November 10

    SYDNEY (AFP) - - Members of an elite Australian college linked to Sydney University provoked outrage Tuesday after it was revealed they had set up a "pro-rape" group on social networking site Facebook.

  • Sri Lanka and Australia to fight human smuggling

    AP - Tuesday, November 10

    COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka and Australia agreed Monday to cooperate to combat human smuggling as an increasing number of people from the Indian ocean island have fled their homeland seeking asylum.

  • Australians want PM to be tougher on boat people

    Reuters - Monday, November 9

    CANBERRA (Reuters) - New opinion polls added pressure on Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Monday to take a tougher stand against asylum-seekers and end a standoff involving 78 boat-people picked up by an Australian ship off Indonesia.

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