CHANGES: The prime minister-elect also started work on domestic issues focusing on education and labor and confirmed he would offer an official apology to Aborigines
Signing the Kyoto Protocol on climate change topped the world agenda for incoming Australian leader Kevin Rudd as he knuckled down to work yesterday after sweeping to power at weekend elections.

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About 30,000 demonstrators marched across the Georgian capital to demand that authorities let a top independent television station back on the air.

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More than 8,000 Kenyans have been executed or tortured to death since 2002 when police launched a crackdown on a banned, politically linked sect, a group of Kenyan lawyers said on Sunday.

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South Korea's conservative party candidate Lee Myung-bak remains well ahead of his rivals, one day before campaigning starts for the Dec. 19 presidential election, opinion polls showed yesterday.

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FISHING ZONE: The three-day talks will focus on how to establish a joint fishing area in the West Sea and turn it into a site for cooperation
Defense chiefs from North and South Korea will discuss turning their disputed sea border into a joint fishing zone during their first talks in seven years this week, a South Korean delegate said yesterday.

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CONFLICTING EVIDENCE: The latest suspect in the murder of a British student in Italy told his lawyer he was at the scene on the night of the killing and saw the murderer
The newest suspect in the slaying of a British student in the central Italian city of Perugia admits he was in the woman's room the night she died, but says he didn't kill her and that an Italian who is trying to frame him did, his lawyer said on Sunday.

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FROZEN OUT: The Venezuelan president was responding to Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's decision to end his role as mediator in preliminary talks with FARC rebels
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday he is putting relations with Colombia "in the freezer" after its president ended the Venezuelan leader's role mediating with leftist rebels in the neighboring country.

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Two human rights groups yesterday joined the opposition to government plans to extend the length of time terrorism suspects can be held before being charged.

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Riots convulsed Bolivia's colonial capital on Sunday after allies of Bolivian President Evo Morales approved the framework for a new constitution that would permit his indefinite re-election and radically alter Bolivian politics.

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