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Two weeks after polls deadlock:
Labour ready to govern
AustraliaAustralian Prime Minister Julia Gillard
Tuesday said her centre-left Labour party was ready to govern after
cobbling together a fragile coalition Government in a rare hung
Parliament.
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Volcano re-erupts in Indonesia
A volcano in Sumatra, island of Indonesia
erupted again Tuesday, strongest in the five eruptions in the last
two weeks, shooting ashes 5,000 meters into the air, but there is no
casualty, officials said.
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Aftershocks rattle Christchurch
Violent aftershocks rattled Christchurch Tuesday
as parts of the city re-opened for the first time since New
Zealand’s biggest quake in nearly 80 years. The official geological
monitoring service GeoNet reported more than a dozen aftershocks
overnight, two measuring magnitude 5.4, prompting authorities to
evacuate 70 people sheltering in temporary accommodation in a high
school.
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