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Fiji coup leader gets signs of support
Dec 8 2006 1:26PM (CT)
SUVA, Fiji (AP) - The leader of Fiji's coup received signs of domestic support from tribal chiefs and a major opposition party Friday, but the British Commonwealth suspended the Pacific island nation in the latest international repudiation of the caretaker government.
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Thousands battle fires in Australia
Dec 8 2006 9:33AM (CT)
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Thousands of firefighters rushed to contain more than a dozen wildfires burning across southern Australia on Friday amid fears that high temperatures and gusty winds forecast this weekend could further stoke the blazes, threatening farms and towns.
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Australia wants its troops out of Iraq
Dec 8 2006 2:22AM (CT)
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Prime Minister John Howard, responding to the Iraq Study Group report, said Friday he would like to see Australian troops out of Iraq but refused to set a deadline for their withdrawal.
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