Tony Abbott
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Former Australian PM Tony Abbott to visit India in August
India | Aug 02, 2021, 11:28 AM ISTEx-Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott will visit India in early August to progress the Indo-Australian economic and trade relationship.
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PM Modi speaks to new Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull
National | Sep 17, 2015, 10:33 PM ISTNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today spoke to new Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull and congratulated him on his appointment to the top post."Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and I spoke a short while ago. I
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Tony Abbott ousted as Aus PM in internal party challenge
World | Sep 14, 2015, 07:38 PM ISTCanberra: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was today dramatically ousted from power by challenger Malcolm Turnbull in an internal party vote just two years after his increasingly unpopular conservative government took office.In the hastily-arranged late
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Australia puts tough condition on uranium sale to India
World | Sep 08, 2015, 02:16 PM ISTMelbourne: Australia should not sell uranium to India until it sets up an independent nuclear regulator, separate its civil and military nuclear facilities and allow safety inspections, a multi-party committee recommended today.The Treaties Committee tabled
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Australia to continue MH370 search: Tony Abbott
World | Aug 06, 2015, 06:20 AM ISTCanberra: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Thursday said the search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370 will continue, following Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's announcement that the piece of wreckage which washed up on Reunion
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Delevigne lauds people's changing attitude towards same-sex marriage
Hollywood | Jul 07, 2015, 04:26 PM ISTLos Angeles: Model-actress Cara Delevingne says it's "wonderful" that the world is becoming more accepting of same-sex marriages.The 22-year-old star, who is currently dating female musician St. Vincent, says she has always been "open" about
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Australia PM makes no promise to repatriate ISIS man's family from Middle East
World | Jun 24, 2015, 07:01 AM ISTCanberra: Australia's prime minister said Wednesday he felt for the five children of an Australian man in the Islamic State who became notorious last year for posing for photographs while clutching the severed heads of
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Top 5 'jaadu-ki-jhappi' moments of PM Narendra Modi in last 1 year
National | May 30, 2015, 11:32 PM ISTPrime Minister Narendra Modi seems to mastered the art of developing soulful relations with the world leaders.Be it US President Barack Obama or Australian Premiere Tony Abbott, it took just two meetings for PM Modi
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Australia PM vows 'candid debate' on same-sex marriage
World | May 27, 2015, 02:53 PM ISTCanberra: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday vowed for a "full, frank and candid" debate about legalising same-sex marriage in the country.Momentum for the proposed changes is growing in Australia after the predominately Catholic
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Singaporeans mourn death of founding father Lee Kuan Yew
World | Mar 23, 2015, 07:44 AM ISTSingapore: Singaporeans wept and world leaders paid tribute Monday as the Southeast Asian city-state mourned the death of its founding father Lee Kuan Yew.The government announced that Lee, 91, "passed away peacefully" early Monday at
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Australia marks completion of military operation in Afghanistan
World | Mar 21, 2015, 12:03 PM ISTCanberra: Parades were held all across Australia on Saturday marking the completion of a military operation in Afghanistan, launched against the deadly September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the US.'Operation Slipper' began in 2001 and
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Australian teenager's involvement in IS attack 'horrific': Abbott
World | Mar 12, 2015, 11:32 AM ISTCanberra: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said that the reported involvement of an Australian teenager in an Islamic State (IS) suicide attack in Iraq is an "absolutely horrific situation".Melbourne teenager Jake Bilardi, who was
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Australian PM Tony Abott makes unannounced trip to Iraq
World | Jan 05, 2015, 11:49 AM ISTBaghdad: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott made an unannounced visit Sunday to Baghdad, meeting with top officials to discuss ways his country can aid Iraqi forces in their fight against the Islamic State group.Abbott and
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Australian PM Tony Abbott: I was a good sledger
Cricket | Jan 02, 2015, 12:34 PM ISTSydney: If “sledging” had been the sole criterion to get into a playing XI of a cricket team, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, by his own admission, showed enough expertise in that area to get
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Indian team attends afternoon tea session with Australian PM Tony Abbott
Cricket | Jan 01, 2015, 12:15 PM ISTSydney: The touring Indian cricketers and their home team counterparts were today hosted by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott for an afternoon tea at his official residence on the New Year's Day here today.Players from
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System failed to track Sydney gunman: Abbott
World | Dec 17, 2014, 01:51 PM ISTSydney: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott acknowledged on Wednesday that the nation's security system failed to keep track of a gunman responsible for a deadly siege at a Sydney cafe, and promised a transparent investigation
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Sydney hostages pleaded for sick, elderly, young
World | Dec 16, 2014, 05:14 PM ISTSydney: The Sydney hostages pleaded for help—for those among them who were pregnant, sick and elderly. Also for those who were young and deserved a shot at a decent life.After a gunman took 17 hostages
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Australian PM lays flowers at Sydney makeshift memorial
World | Dec 16, 2014, 11:50 AM ISTSydney: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Tuesday laid flowers at a makeshift memorial here and mourned the death of the victims of the terror attack in which three people, including the gunman, were killed.Accompanied
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Gunman in Sydney hostage crisis was known to police: PM Tony Abbott
World | Dec 16, 2014, 10:59 AM ISTCanberra: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott confirmed on Tuesday that the gunman at the centre of the Sydney siege, in which two hostages were shot dead, was known to the federal police and had an
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Victims killed in Sydney hostage drama identified
World | Dec 16, 2014, 06:51 AM ISTSydney: Two hostages who have been killed in the 17-hour-long hostage drama at a cafeteria here were identified as the manager of the Lindt Chocolate cafe and a lawyer.The 38-year-old lawyer, Katrina Dawson, was a