News: Aruba

We have started to collect the most important news related to Aruba in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Aruba: news

Haneef detention not extended

Friday, July 13th 2007, 8:22
related countries: United Kingdom

Australian police choose not to extend the detention of a man held over failed bomb attacks in the UK.
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Rio Tinto makes $38.1bn Alcan bid

Thursday, July 12th 2007, 20:25
related countries: Canada, United States
related places: Alcan, Alcoa

Anglo-Australian mining group Rio Tinto agrees to buy Canada's Alcan for $38.1bn as US firm Alcoa pulls out of the race.
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Australia terror hearing on hold

Wednesday, July 11th 2007, 14:41
related countries: India, United Kingdom

An Australian court hearing into a police request for more time to hold an Indian doctor is adjourned for two days.
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'Tamil rebel' arrested in Sydney

Tuesday, July 10th 2007, 7:01
related countries: Sri Lanka

The Australian police detain a man on suspicion of fundraising for Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels.
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Australia extends Haneef inquiry

Monday, July 9th 2007, 9:50
related countries: Australia, India, United Kingdom

Australia police are given extra time to investigate an Indian doctor over the suspected UK bomb attempts.
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Australian 'car bomb' searches

Monday, July 9th 2007, 4:30
related countries: Australia, United Kingdom

Police in Australia carry out more searches over the suspected car bomb attempts in the UK.
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Australians extend terror probe

Wednesday, July 4th 2007, 7:40
related countries: India, United Kingdom

Australian police are granted two more days to hold an Indian doctor in connection with failed UK terror plots.
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Australia refloats beached ship

Monday, July 2nd 2007, 15:57

A 40,000-tonne coal ship is finally refloated after more than three weeks stranded on an Australian beach.
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Australia to refloat beached ship

Thursday, June 28th 2007, 13:59

Salvage teams hope to refloat a freighter stranded on the Australian seaboard for almost three weeks.
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Aborigine crackdown under way

Monday, June 25th 2007, 6:56

The Australian government's controversial plans to tackle child abuse in Aboriginal areas get under way.
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Iran 'unable to take Australians'

Thursday, June 21st 2007, 18:06
related countries: Iran

Iranian naval forces in the Gulf tried to capture an Australian Navy team but were repelled, the BBC learns.
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Calm urged in key Aborigine trial

Saturday, June 16th 2007, 1:06

An Australian judge urges calm in the trial of a policeman for manslaughter of an Aboriginal man.
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Aborigine child sex abuse 'rife'

Friday, June 15th 2007, 13:15

An Australian inquiry says it found cases of child sex abuse in every aboriginal community visited.
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Australian PM meets Dalai Lama

Friday, June 15th 2007, 9:44
related countries: China

Australian PM John Howard has met the Dalai Lama in Sydney, amid fierce opposition from China.
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Flooded Australian homes looted

Tuesday, June 12th 2007, 11:24
related countries: Australia

People returning home after storms and flooding in eastern Australia find their properties have been looted.
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Unity call as Sydney cleric quits

Monday, June 11th 2007, 11:39

Australian Muslim leaders urge unity under a new top cleric, after controversial mufti Sheikh Hilali steps down.
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Anger as Australian sheikh quits

Monday, June 11th 2007, 6:52
related countries: Australia

Supporters of Australia's controversial Muslim cleric claim a government conspiracy forced him to quit.
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Australian storms ground tanker

Friday, June 8th 2007, 8:14
related countries: Australia

Environmentalists fear a maritime disaster if a beached coal freighter in eastern Australia breaks up.
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Search for travel writer in Tibet

Tuesday, June 5th 2007, 11:33

A search is under way for an Australian Lonely Planet travel writer missing in a remote mountain region in Tibet.
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Australia rail crash toll rises

Tuesday, June 5th 2007, 10:16
related countries: Australia

The death toll rises to 11 in a train crash in southern Australia, which has left as many as 50 wounded.
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Tennis: Nadal sees off Hewitt

Monday, June 4th 2007, 16:08
related countries: France

Rafael Nadal hits peak form to see off Australian Lleyton Hewitt 6-3 6-1 7-6 and reach the French Open quarter-finals.
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Australia PM pledges climate plan

Sunday, June 3rd 2007, 12:08

Australian Prime Minister John Howard announces a new policy on climate change, pledging pollution limits.
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Australia inquiry angers Jakarta

Wednesday, May 30th 2007, 11:16
related countries: East Timor, Indonesia
related places: Jakarta

Indonesia is angered over an Australian inquiry into the deaths of journalists during the invasion of East Timor.
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Reporters 'murdered' in E Timor

Wednesday, May 30th 2007, 6:30
related countries: East Timor, Indonesia

Indonesian troops murdered five Western journalists during the invasion of East Timor in 1975, an Australian inquiry hears.
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Australian pub bars heterosexuals

Monday, May 28th 2007, 8:20

A gay pub in the Australian city of Melbourne wins the right to ban heterosexuals.
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Australian Big Brother under fire

Friday, May 25th 2007, 10:47
related countries: Australia

Australia's Big Brother is criticised for deciding not to tell a contestant that her father had died.
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Australian Big Brother under fire

Friday, May 25th 2007, 4:14
related countries: Australia

Australia's Big Brother is criticised for deciding not to tell a contestant that her father had died.
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