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Backlash in Indonesia against Corby clemency
23 May 12 | A backlash has begun in Indonesia against the granting of clemency to Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby.
23 May 12 | Three former executives of Rupert Murdoch's scandal-ridden British arm, News International, are to face Parliament's watchdog over claims they lied when giving evidence over phone-hacking.
Murdoch asked Blair to call me off, says MP
23 May 12 | LONDON: The Labour MP Tom Watson last night told the Leveson Inquiry he had heard Rupert Murdoch had asked Tony Blair to ''call him [Watson] off'' the phone-hacking inquiry.
23 May 12 | China's Maoists rally behind Bo Xilai, accusing authorities of fabricating a case against him and exposing China to the risk of disintegration.
23 May 12 | Tom Watson tells Leveson inquiry he was told that Rupert Murdoch had asked Tony Blair to 'call him [Watson] off' the phone hacking inquiry.
22 May 12 | Australia's $300 million commitment to Afghanistan's defence forces is beginning to look spectacularly generous, as far larger key NATO allies leave the Chicago summit having made smaller pledges, or none at all.
22 May 12 | THE Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud, who was very close with his mother, once remarked that "people who know that they are preferred or favoured by their mother give evidence in their lives of a peculiar self-reliance and an unshakeable optimism which often seem like heroic attributes and bring actual success to their possessors".
'Messy process': NATO backs Afghanistan withdrawal
22 May 12 | 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.
22 May 12 | 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.
22 May 12 | Indonesian prosecutors have demanded a life sentence for an alleged terrorist.
22 May 12 | 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.
22 May 12 | 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.
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