TODAY is expected to mark the seventh day of bloody battles in the southern Phillippines after fighting resumed following a...

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15th Sept. 2013 2:09 PM

THE United States and Russia overcame their differences yesterday and agreed to put Syria on a short leash.

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15th Sept. 2013 10:09 AM

IT WILL likely be another week before America makes its decision on whether to respond to Syria’s apparent use of chemical...

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01st Sept. 2013 4:09 PM

THE United States is on a clear path to military intervention in Syria.

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31st Aug. 2013 7:08 AM

OPINION: IT’S so easy to sit back in our armchairs, watching newscasts of a brutal civil war miles away...

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30th Aug. 2013 12:08 PM

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd will divert his campaign to Canberra to receive briefings on the situation in Syria.

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24th Aug. 2013 1:08 PM

MORE than 750 people have been killed in Egypt as successive violent clashes unravelled in the capital, Cairo on Sunday.

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19th Aug. 2013 7:08 AM

CAIRO is convulsed by deadly gun battles this evening as the consequences of Wednesday’s mass killings reverberated around...

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17th Aug. 2013 11:08 AM

FOREIGN Minister Bob Carr has condemned two rocket strikes in Beirut which injured five people on Sunday.

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27th May 2013 5:05 PM

PRESSURE is mounting on Russia to support the removal of Syria's ruthless leader President Bashar al-Assad.

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16th July 2012 8:07 AM