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With a fresh attack on an Indian in Melbourne, the targeting of Indian students in Australia is set to dominate proceedings when Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd comes to India on a two-day visit on Wednesday with an agenda to broaden the scope of bilateral ties.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today said his government is committed to taking every "physically possible" step to ensure that all international students in his country remain safe.

Australian Prime Minister (PM) Kevin Rudd will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday evening and will discuss issues of bilateral and international importance.

A huge car bomb tore through a congested market of narrow alleys and crowded stalls in Peshawar’s old town on Wednesday, killing at least 80 people, many of them women, while scores were seriously injured.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/world/asia/29pstan.html?hp

The Indonesian city of Padang was in chaos on Thursday fires burning, sirens blaring, dazed residents wandering the streets, thousands of people reportedly trapped beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings after a powerful earthquake struck the island of Sumatra.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/world/asia/02quake.html

Avigdor Lieberman, the new foreign minister of Israel, was questioned by the national fraud squad for hours on Thursday and again on Friday, according to a police spokesman, as part of a longstanding investigation into suspicions of bribery, money laundering and breach of trust. Read at
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/world/middleeast/04mideast.html?hpw

Violence erupted across Iraq on Monday in attacks that left at least 32 people dead and scores wounded, including a suicide bombing at a crowded wake that killed at least 19 mourners.Read at
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/world/middleeast/24iraq.html

New Delhi’s highest court decriminalized homosexuality.The law, known as Section 377 , has long been viewed as an archaic holdover from colonialism by its detractors.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/world/asia/03india.html

At least 45 people were killed and 300 wounded in a series of truck-bomb and other attacks on Wednesday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/world/middleeast/20iraq.html?hp