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AFP's Indonesian people smuggling force cut

The federal government is cutting by 40 per cent the Australian Federal Police contingent in Jakarta which focuses on people smuggling as a record number of refugees continue to leave Indonesia to come to Australia.        

AFP to investigate Thomson claims

FEDERAL police will investigate Craig Thomson's claims he was offered a deal by Labor to be beaten in a pre-selection contest.

AFP cuts in Jakarta 'silly': opposition

THE coalition says the federal government's decision to cut two people-smuggling related federal police positions in Jakarta is "astonishing".

AFP urged to probe Thomson claim

THE Coalition's written to the AFP asking them to investigate Craig Thomson's claim he was offered a deal by Labor to be beaten in a pre-selection contest.

Myanmar leader frees dissidents ahead of US visit

YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar released about 20 political prisoners on Friday, a top official said, hours before its reform-minded leader was due to leave on a landmark visit to the United States to meet President Barack Obama.

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Pakistan mosque bombs kill 13: officials

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - Twin bomb attacks on Friday killed at least 13 people outside mosques in northwest Pakistan, where the party of cricket star Imran Khan is forming a coalition government, officials said.

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Tunisia ups security as Salafists vow to defy ban

KAIROUAN, Tunisia (AFP) - Tunisian security forces deployed in strength on Saturday to head off clashes after Salafist movement Ansar al-Sharia called on its hardline Islamist supporters to defy a government ban on its annual congress.

Nigerians flee town after air raids on Islamists

KANO, Nigeria (AFP) - Residents of an insurgent stronghold in northeast Nigeria fled their homes on Saturday as military fighter jets and helicopters carried out heavy air strikes on Boko Haram Islamist camps.

Gunmen kill Khan party woman politician in Pakistan

KARACHI (AFP) - Gunmen on Saturday killed a Pakistani woman politician from cricket star Imran Khan's Movement for Justice (PTI) party in the southern port city of Karachi on the eve of partial election re-polling.

Muslim religious leaders to visit Auschwitz

WARSAW (AFP) - Fourteen Muslim clerics from across the globe will visit the former Nazi German Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland next week as part of a Holocaust awareness and anti-genocide program, organisers said Friday.