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Fed: Boat people detected near Ashmore Islands
AAP General News (Australia); 10/7/2000; 268 words
; AAP General News (Australia) 10-07-2000 Fed: Boat people detected near Ashmore Islands CANBERRA, Oct 7 AAP - At least 90 boat people have been detected near Ashmore Islands off the northwestern coast of Australia, Justice and Customs Minister Amanda Vanstone said today. Senator Vanstone said ...
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Profile: Oil spill near the Galapagos Islands
All Things Considered (NPR); 1/22/2001; LINDA WERTHEIMER; 626 words
; 00-00-0000 Profile: Oil spill near the Galapagos Islands Host: LINDA WERTHEIMER Time ... WERTHEIMER, host: The Galapagos Islands, 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador ... Cristobal Island, one of the chain of islands where unique birds and animals ...
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Fed: Boat intercepted near Ashmore Islands
AAP General News (Australia); 8/2/2001; 173 words
; AAP General News (Australia) 08-02-2001 Fed: Boat intercepted near Ashmore Islands The federal government says customs officials have intercepted a boat carrying 80 suspected illegal immigrants near Ashmore Islands. The 25-metre Indonesian inter-island ferry was sighted heading towards the ...
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Bubbling up.(complications of oil drilling near Falkland Islands)(Brief Article)
The Economist (US); 5/2/1998; 621 words
; DRILLING for oil near the Falkland Islands began this week-and a poisoned chalice ... Britain, which de facto owns the islands, and Argentina, which claims them ... straddles the median line between the islands and the Argentine mainland. Talks ...
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Fed: Four people rescued from sinking boat near Ashmore Islands
AAP General News (Australia); 12/17/2007; 137 words
; AAP General News (Australia) 12-17-2007 Fed: Four people rescued from sinking boat near Ashmore Islands Immigration Minister CHRIS EVANS says an Australian customs boat has rescued four people whose boat started taking on water near the Ashmore Islands yesterday. The group is now being taken ...
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Fed: Plutonium near Lord Howe and Norfolk islands: opponents
AAP General News (Australia); 7/21/2002; 297 words
; 00-00-0000 Fed: Plutonium near Lord Howe and Norfolk islands: opponents CANBERRA, July 21 AAP - A shipment of plutonium is nearing Lord Howe Island and would attempt to run an anti-nuclear ...
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U.S. troops curb island looters // `Near-anarchy' left by storm on St. Croix
Chicago Sun-Times; 9/22/1989; 610 words
; Federal troops found "chaos and near-anarchy" when they landed Thursday ... St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands but quickly played a key role ... the police authorities on the islands and the governor and will be ... and Coast Guard units to the islands to "restore law and order ...
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Fed: Migrant boat intercepted near Ashmore Islands
AAP General News (Australia); 8/2/2001; 82 words
; AAP General News (Australia) 08-02-2001 Fed: Migrant boat intercepted near Ashmore Islands CANBERRA, Aug 2 AAP - A boat containing 80 suspected illegal immigrants was intercepted today by Customs officials near Ashmore Islands, the federal government said. The 25-metre Indonesian inter-island ...
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Divers clear 60 tons of debris near northwest Hawaiian islands
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 12/16/2001; 242 words
; Divers clear 60 tons of debris near northwest Hawaiian islands Associated Press Sunday, December ... uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands as they try to save marine life ... plying the Pacific. The tiny islands and coral reefs catch the debris ...
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Fed: Plutonium near Lord Howe and Norfolk islands: Opponents
AAP General News (Australia); 7/21/2002; 146 words
; 00-00-0000 Fed: Plutonium near Lord Howe and Norfolk islands: Opponents Opponents of a plutonium shipment say the ships are nearing Lord Howe Island and will attempt to run an anti-nuclear ...
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