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We have started to collect the most important news related to Aruba in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
ZambiaZambia's tourism minister offers to bungee-jump with the Australian woman who plunged into the Zambezi River after her cord snapped in two.
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Peru, 
United StatesA suspect in the disappearance of US teenager Natalee Holloway on the Caribbean island of Aruba pleads guilty to killing a young woman in Peru.
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Hundreds of people attend memorial services in the Australian state of Queensland to mark the anniversary of devastating floods.
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JapanThree anti-whaling activists who boarded a Japanese ship will be handed over to Australian officials and are not being charged, officials say.
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Venus Williams is forced to pull out of the Australian Open, which starts on Monday, through illness.
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Australia, JapanAustralia has urged Japanese authorities to hand over three Australian anti-whaling activists detained on a Japanese ship
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UkraineAndy Murray beats Ukraine's Alexandr Dolgopolov 6-1 6-3 in the Brisbane International final to prepare for the Australian Open in perfect style.
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A car reported as stolen from an Australian car park has been reunited with its owner, after apparently parking itself in the closed garage of a nearby home.
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PhilippinesKidnappers holding an Australian man in the southern Philippines demand $2m (£1.3m) in ransom for his release, in a video message sent to his wife.
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An Australian surfer has survived an attack by a shark in the city of Gosford, north of Sydney.
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Serena Williams suffers an injury scare ahead of the Australian Open as an ankle injury forces her to withdraw from the Brisbane International.
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Australian officials warn of a possible outbreak of Murray Valley encephalitis, a potentially deadly disease, after it is found in chickens in New South Wales.
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World number two Rafael Nadal plans to take several weeks off after the Australian Open to recover from a nagging shoulder injury.
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Elvis the Australian crocodile steals, drowns and guards a noisy lawnmower - forcing park keepers to make a daring rescue.
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AustraliaGreg Fisher is a train manager on a line which crosses Australia from Sydney to Perth
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Maria Sharapova is confident of being fit for January's Australian Open despite pulling out of the Brisbane International with an ankle injury.
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IndiaAn Australian teenager who stabbed an Indian student to death in an attack that sparked a diplomatic row with India is jailed for 13 years.
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Three Australian Muslims are jailed for 18 years each for plotting an "evil but amateurish" suicide attack on a Sydney army base.
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A court martial jails an Australian naval commander for 18 months for sexually abusing a female subordinate by spanking her.
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A senior Australian health official is arrested after allegedly embezzling $11m in just one week, prompting the government to abolish his department.
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Australia, 
New ZealandNew Zealand beat Australia by seven runs in Hobart, to record their first victory over them on Australian soil since 1985 and draw the Test series 1-1.
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Australian police are offering a substantial reward to help catch one of the country's most wanted men.
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Australian police have stepped up their hunt for a fugitive, Malcolm Naden, who has been on the run since 2005 after allegedly killing a woman.
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AustraliaAustralian police step up their search for a fugitive, Malcolm Naden, who has been on the run for seven years after allegedly killing a woman.
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Australia, 
Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabian judges sentence an Australian man to 500 lashes and a year in prison after convicting him of blasphemy, Canberra officials say.
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ChinaAn Australian Chinese businessman is jailed for 13 years for bribery and embezzlement in China's southern city of Guangzhou.
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An Australian state court approves the sale of Foster's to SABMiller, meaning the deal worth $9.9bn Australian dollars can now go ahead.
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Australia, 
United Kingdom, United StatesTobacco firm British American Tobacco begins a legal challenge to stop the Australian government from making plain packaging mandatory for cigarettes.
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Sydney's Bondi Beach saw a glowing start of the Australian summer with glowing surfers braving the waves at night.
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Shareholders in brewer Foster's give the go ahead to a takeover by SABMiller worth $9.9bn Australian dollars.
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Samsung wins a major battle in its tussle with Apple after an Australian court overturns a ban on the sale of its Galaxy tab.
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Australian air-safety officials are investigating an iPhone which apparently caught fire during a flight, emitting dense smoke.
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AustraliaNearly two thousand people in the small town of Wee Waa, in south-eastern Australia have been cut off by flooding.
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United StatesA judge on the Caribbean island of Aruba orders the release of a man held since August over the vanishing and presumed death of a US woman.
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The Australian government announces plans to establish the world's largest marine reserve in the Coral Sea, home to sharks, reefs and shipwrecks.
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IndonesiaIndonesia jails an Australian teenager for two months for cannabis possession in Bali, after a trial that caused huge controversy in his home nation.
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The Australian government backs brewer SABMiller's 9.9bn Australian dollars ($10.2bn; £6.5bn) takeover of Foster's.
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AustraliaAn investigation is under way at an Australian hospital after staff treating a woman carrying twin boys accidentally terminated the wrong foetus.
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A Twitter competition draws thousands of angry responses after Australian airline Qantas launches it in the middle of a major labour dispute.
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A teenager from Scunthorpe, who won the Australian version of The X Factor, says he wants to return to the town to perform.
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The Australian government's plan to impose a 30% tax on big mining companies has cleared a major hurdle, passing through parliament's lower house.
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An Australian man is paid thousands of dollars in compensation after being wrongly accused of smuggling ecstasy in shampoo bottles.
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Australian airline Qantas fails to reach a deal with pilots and ground staff, meaning their dispute will now go to forced arbitration.
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A male nurse is charged with murder following a fire at a Sydney nursing home that killed five elderly residents, Australian officials say.
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A nurse has been charged with murder following Friday's fire at a Sydney nursing home that killed five elderly residents, Australian police have confirmed.
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Three elderly people have died in a nursing home fire in Sydney, Australian officials have confirmed.
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China, United StatesAustralian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd dismisses concerns that deepening military ties with the US could anger China.
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Three people died and 50 were injured when a fire ripped through a nursing home in Sydney, Australian officials say.
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