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Chavez Protests EU With Oil Threat |
 (CNN) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened not to sell oil to European Union countries. The threat is for those that follow new rules on immigration, but oil analysts... |
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Picasso Prints Stolen From Brazil Museum |
 SÃO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- Three heavily armed robbers stole two Pablo Picasso prints from an art museum in downtown São Paulo on Thursday, the city's second high profile art theft... |
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Aborigines open Canberra session |
Australia's parliament has opened with an Aboriginal welcome, ahead of an apology for past wrongs inflicted on the country's indigenous community.
In a special ceremony, an Aboriginal elder handed a symbolic message stick to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
On Wednesday Mr Rudd is due to deliver a historic apology to Aborigines for past assimilation policies.
Under these policies, in place until the 1960s, thousands of children were forcibly taken from their families.
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Metropolis strives to meet its thirst |
The Australian of the year 2007, environmentalist Tim Flannery, once predicted that Perth in Western Australia.
He could become the world's first ghost metropolis... |
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Australia making Asian friends |
Australia's diplomatic march into Asia is continuing, with its latest achievement being a historic security pact with Japan.
The agreement is seen ... |
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