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US inflation accelerates in December

UnderlyingUSconsumerpricesregisteredthebiggestgaininDecember,raisingtheoutlookfortheFederalReservetohikeinterestratesmorequicklyin2018.Thecoreinflation,whichexc

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UK remembers Chinese Labor Corps first time in history

AremembranceceremonywasheldSaturdayinLondontohonortheChineseLaborCorpswhocametoBritain’sassistanceduringWorldWarI.AttheCenotaphwarmemorialonWhitehall,peoplelaid

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German unemployment hits record low since 1990

GermanunemploymentfelltoahistoricallowinOctober,officialfiguresshowedonThursday.TheFederalLaborOfficerecorded2.389millionunemployedGermansinOctober,markingareco

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Aussie gov't minister says same-sex marriage could happen soon on tape

OneoftheAustraliangovernment'sleadingcabinetministershasbeencaughtontapesayingthatthesame-sexmarriage(SSM)willbelegalized"soonerthaneveryonethinks,"goingagainst

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Most MPs and senators want to ditch monarchy, Australian Republican Movement says

​A majority in both the lower and upper houses of federal parliament support Australia becoming a republic, the republican movement has claimed.

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Vietnamese newspaper's editor-in-chief detained for gambling

According to local investigation agencies, the editor-in-chief' s gambling is a serious case, showing the degrade of thought, virtue and lifestyle.

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Support for Aust'n PM Turnbull continues to fall: latest poll

​Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has lost support in all eight states since taking power, with country voters and the elderly among those most fed up, the latest Newspoll revealed on Monday.

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Aussie PM's slim majority gov't exposed after dangerous Parliament stuff up

​ Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been left "humiliated" after his government's slim majority was exposed by the Labor opposition overnight, in a stuff up which almost resulted in an opposition-led endorsement of a banking royal commission.

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Australian electorate decided by just 37 votes month after federal election

Australia's federal election has come to a close 31 days after Australian's headed the polls, after it was revealed the knife's edge seat of Herbert had been won by Labor candidate Cathy O'Toole by just 37 votes.

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Australian PM's conservative coalition claims victory in election

The leader of Australia's Liberal-National Party (LNP) coalition, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, claimed victory in the federal election on Sunday eight days after polls closed.

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Fate of Australian government in hands of indie MPs

As Australia faces the unexpected prospect of a hung Parliament, the fate of the nation is set to rest on an unlikely handful of little-known independent MPs whose support will be vital to propping up a future government.

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Australian election result remains unclear as major parties enter talks with independents

Australia's incumbent Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Labor leader Bill Shorten have entered talks with independent MPs in an attempt to form a minority government, as it looks increasingly unlikely either major party will win enough seats to secure a majority.

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Major parties confident as minor parties pose threat in Australian election

The leaders of Australia's two largest political parties both remain confident that they will win the Federal Election as polls opened on Saturday.

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Last opinion poll before Aust'n election shows result "on a knife's edge"

Australia's federal election is on a knife's edge, with the last opinion poll before Australians head to the voting booths revealing that, after preferences, the coalition and the Labor opposition both have 50 percent support.

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Aussie parties court immigrant voters

At an unusual campaign press conference in Australia last week that went largely unnoticed by the national media, Opposition leader Bill Shorten appeared with his wife Chloe and took questions from a broad range of little-known non-English media outlets.

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Aust'n Opp Leader not open to forming Labor-Greens coalition ahead of election

​Australia's Opposition Leader on Tuesday thwarted calls for a Labor-Greens coalition to secure the 2016 federal election, after the idea was put forward by Greens MP Adam Bandt overnight.

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Aussie gov't falls behind opposition for 1st time in six months: poll

​The coalition Australian government has, for the first time since Malcolm Turnbull took over, fallen behind the opposition as preferred party to lead the nation, just months out from a federal election.