Fears gale-force winds will whip up Australian wildfires (AFP)

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AFP - Australian firefighters warned Sunday that gale-force winds forecast for this week threaten to fan wildfires that have killed 210 people in the country's scorched southeast.

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ASEAN vows to stand firm against protectionism (AP)

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AP - Southeast Asian leaders vowed Sunday to stand firm against protectionism and knit the diverse region into a European Union-style community by 2015 despite the global economic crisis.

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Bangladesh says 72 still missing after mutiny (AP)

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AP - Bangladesh's military said 72 officers were still missing Saturday after a two-day mutiny by border guards in which at least 76 people died. The government pledged a full investigation as it swiftly moved to restore confidence and reassert control.

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Investigators looking at turbulence in Dutch crash (AP)

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AP - Investigators are examining turbulence as one of the possible causes of the Turkish Airlines crash that killed nine people and injured more than 100 near Amsterdam's main airport, a spokesman said Saturday.

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Shark injures teen off popular Australian beach (Reuters)

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Reuters - A shark badly injured a teenage boy while he was surfing with his father at a popular Sydney beach Sunday, police said, the third shark attack in Australia's largest city in a month.

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Australia warns ‘big gorilla’ Telstra to back off (AFP)

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AFP - Australia's finance minister on Sunday told the country's biggest telecoms firm Telstra to stop acting like a "big gorilla" and adopt a less aggressive stance towards the government.

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Ogilvy books PGA Match Play showdown with Casey (AFP)

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AFP - Geoff Ogilvy rolled to his third final in four starts in the WGC Accenture Match Play Championship with an emphatic 4 and 2 semi-final victory over Stewart Cink.

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Afghan president seeks to move up August election (AP)

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AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has backed off plans for an August election and asked the country's electoral commission to set an earlier date.

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Emergency plane landing in Romania; all 51 safe (AP)

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AP - A Romanian plane carrying 51 people made a safe emergency landing in western Romania and all the occupants escaped injury, officials said.

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Panamanian lawmaker killed in car crash (AP)

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AP - Panamanian authorities say a prominent ruling party lawmaker and son of a former vice president has died in a traffic accident.

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