UN envoy sees real progress in Cyprus peace talks

The leaders of Cyprus' two rival communities are making "real progress" at reunification talks after months of complex negotiations, U.N. envoy Alexander Downer said Friday.

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Former Australia foreign minister quits politics

Alexander Downer announced Thursday he is quitting Australian politics following a career as the country's longest-serving foreign minister and one of its highest-profile leaders of the past decade.

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If you're too dumb or idle to read the travel advisories and too mean to take out travel insurance when you go overseas then you ought to take responsibility for your own behaviour.

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FORMER Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has joined Kevin Rudd's infrastructure chief, businessman Sir Rod Eddington, in advising a secretive British firm that sells intelligence on government policy intentions - including those in Australia - to big business.

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Former foreign minister Alexander Downer has officially announced his retirement from federal politics. He will end his time in Parliament on July 14, to work at an Adelaide consultancy firm.

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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has endorsed former foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer for a job with the United Nations in Cyprus.

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The new federal president of the Liberal Party has criticised the former foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer for skipping Question Time in Parliament to go to lunch.

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Outgoing foreign minister Alexander Downer has given a firm indication that he will not be seeking a leadership role in the defeated coalition.

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Former foreign minister Alexander Downer has admitted that he thought all year that the Coalition would lose the federal election.

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Downer's French-in-Mouth Syndrome

Poor Alexander Downer has put his French in it. Australia's Foreign Affairs Minister could hold off no longer from pesky journalists asking him about his linguistic abilities and finally conceded at the National Press Club during a debate with Labor's Robert McClelland.

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The debates are coming thick and fast. So is the increasingly strident rhetoric. Sadly, the policies are pretty thin on the ground.

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South Australian Transport Minister Patrick Conlon says a debate with Foreign Minister Alexander Downer will be an opportunity to present a case that SA has been shortchanged on road funding.

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Pacific Rim countries agreed Thursday that climate change was of "vital interest," but officials squabbled over whether their leaders should include energy efficiency targets in a statement at their annual summit.

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KEVIN has done it, not just once but twice, as he confessed last night. Brendan Nelson has done it, when he was 20. Alexander Downer says he has never done it when on official business. Tony Abbott won't talk about whether he's done it, because he doesn't want to fib.

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Federal Labor leader Kevin Rudd says he does not know if Government sources are behind revelations that he visited a New York strip club four years ago.

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Australia says it will deport eight Zimbabwean university students whose parents are senior members of the government of President Robert Mugabe. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said the move was an extension of sanctions against Zimbabwe.

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Australia may sell uranium to India if the federal cabinet approves a submission from Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer. The move would allow the deal despite India not being a signatory to the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has accused Labor of trying to undermine the Australian Federal Police (AFP) for political purposes. Queensland Premier Peter Beattie has compared the police handling of the Mohamed Haneef terrorism investigation to the "Keystone Cops".

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A LEGAL bid to repatriate Australian terror suspect David Hicks should be abandoned as it had "no reasonable prospects of success", the Federal Court heard yesterday. Lawyers for 31-year-old Hicks, who has spent the past five years in detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are seeki …

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Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer says he has been told Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks is showing no sign of mental illness. Speaking in New York, Mr Downer says Mr Hicks has been visited within the last week by a person from another country.

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Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer has criticised Fiji's coup leaders for using Australian conman Peter Foster to investigate allegations the deposed government was corrupt.

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Labor leader Kim Beazley has come out firing at criticism he has an identity crisis, rejecting suggestions Australians don't know what he stands for.

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The Federal Opposition has questioned the Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, over a shipment of Iraqi oil to Fremantle in 2000, which it says could be in breach of United Nations sanctions.

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The Federal Opposition has accused the Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer of grossly mismanaging Australia's relationship with Papua New Guinea (PNG).

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The Solomon Islands Government has threatened to kick Australians out of the country if Federal Police continue to push for the extradition of the suspended Attorney-General, Julian Moti.

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The Government yesterday savaged Pacific island governments which take aid worth more than $500 million a year but sabotage pursuit of an alleged child molester.

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ALL Australians – whether Muslim, Christian, Jewish or atheist – should renounce terrorism, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today.

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