The federal government is set to boost assistance to two key international refugee
agencies to meet the challenge of a surge in asylum seekers across the region.

The kookaburra sits in the old gum tree ... or so the song goes.
But with research showing more than 80 species of birds are in decline in Victoria,

SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- The following is the weather forecast for South
Korea's 12 major cities at 9:00 a.m. Sunday.

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SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has urged Japanese Prime Minister Yukio
Hatoyama to officially apologize and compensate for Japan's past colonization of

(LEAD) N. Korean leader encourages silk production
(ATTN: UPDATES with another visit to mountain resort at bottom)

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HANOI, October 25 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian film "Zvezda" (the Star)
directed by Nikolai Lebedev opened a week of Russian cinema in Vietnam

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SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will notify the North this week that it
will provide small-scale corn aid to the impoverished country, responding to