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12:00 AM AEST | THE Organisation of American States has expelled Honduras in reaction to last week's military coup, which ousted the president, Manuel Zelaya.
12:00 AM AEST | MEXICO CITY: Mexicans headed to the polls yesterday in legislative elections that amount to a midterm test for the conservative President, Felipe Calderon, as the country remains mired in drug-fuelled violence.
12:00 AM AEST | SINCE 4000 US marines pushed into Taliban-controlled areas of southern Afghanistan, one company has been in a constant battle with the Taliban, the military says.
12:00 AM AEST | BANGKOK: The Thai Foreign Minister is among 36 protest leaders who will face charges relating to crippling airport blockades in Bangkok last year, police say.
12:00 AM AEST | RANGOON: Burma's opposition party says the failure of the United Nations chief, Ban Ki-moon, to meet its imprisoned leader Aung San Suu Kyi during his visit to the military-ruled nation was a great loss.
12:00 AM AEST | FAR FROM ending interest in her political career by resigning as Alaska's Governor 18 months before her term ends, the former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has provoked a tornado of attention as pundits try to guess her next move.
12:00 AM AEST | MOST of the gains made by the world's poorest countries over the past half a century will be lost unless action is taken on climate change, Oxfam says.
12:00 AM AEST | THE children of Michael Jackson do not know their mother and want to stay with the pop icon's relatives, a family friend, Jesse Jackson, said after reports of a looming custody battle.
12:00 AM AEST | SAN JOSE: Costa Rica is
12:00 AM AEST | AS THE leading opposition candidate in the disputed Iranian election, Mir Hossein Mousavi, released documents detailing a campaign of alleged fraud by supporters of the President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's most important group of religious leaders pronounced the new Government illegitimate, and an adviser to the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, accused Mr Mousavi of treason.
12:00 AM AEST | THE ambitious project to exhume, identify and reinter 400 British and Australian soldiers forgotten for 90 years in a mass grave in a field in France is in crisis after the Department of Defence chose a cut-price, commercial archaeological firm.
12:00 AM AEST | BARACK OBAMA was expected to give an interview to the Russian opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta before his trip to Moscow today in the clearest sign yet that his administration will take a tough approach in its dealings with the Kremlin.
05 Jul 09 | ALASKA Governor Sarah Palin said she is stepping down and will not seek re-election, fuelling swift speculation of a possible 2012 White House bid.
05 Jul 09 | WITNESSES to a fire at a 12-storey block of units in London have given distressing accounts of how those trapped inside screamed as they battled to escape the flames and smoke.
05 Jul 09 | NORTH KOREA fired seven ballistic missiles off its eastern coast yesterday, South Korea said, a violation of UN resolutions and an apparent message of defiance to the US.
05 Jul 09 | SPAIN'S spy chief, Alberto Saiz, has been forced to resign after his own agents turned on him, employing the tricks of the trade to overthrow their boss at the country's National Intelligence Centre, or CNI.
05 Jul 09 | A CRYING Australian toddler is being used by New York health officials to convince smokers in the Big Apple to quit their habit.
03 Jul 09 | The ex-wife of Michael Jackson has said she plans to fight for custody of the two children she had with the tragic pop icon.
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03 Jul 09 | Iran's former president joins ranks with the country's embattled reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.