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/ 4 December 2006
Heavily armed Fijian troops put up roadblocks throughout the capital on Monday night as fears of a fourth coup in 20 years gripped the South Pacific nation. Troops cut off several roads entering Suva and began guarding the president’s residence, a Reuters witness said
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/ 6 September 2006
Steve Irwin’s father said on Wednesday he lost his best mate when the TV naturalist known as the ”Crocodile Hunter” died in a freak diving accident, adding that his son would hate the fuss of a state funeral. ”Steve and I weren’t like father and son, we never were,” Bob Irwin told reporters outside Australia Zoo.
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/ 4 September 2006
Steve Irwin, the quirky Australian naturalist who won worldwide acclaim, was killed by a stingray barb through the chest on Monday while diving off Australia’s north-east coast, emergency officials and witnesses said. Irwin (44) was killed while filming an underwater documentary off Port Douglas.
Australian police evacuated and searched a Pacific Blue flight from Fiji to Sydney on Thursday after a threat was made against the plane, but nothing suspicious was found on board. Oficials said 102 passengers and seven crew aboard flight DJ 154 were evacuated from the Boeing 737 after it landed at 5.45pm local time at Sydney’s international terminal.