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Australia's most decorated living soldier will spend the night in police custody after being charged with multiple ...

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Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of the Kuomintang (KMT), Taiwan's largest opposition party, is travelling at a time of increased ...

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A state leader concedes stubbornly high crime rates have pushed up insurance premiums as police blitz an inner city to curb ...

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About 40,000 people were killed, tortured or imprisoned for political reasons before the end of his ruthless reign in 1990. Rivas is accused of being a member of a Direccion de Inteligencia Nacional ...