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(AP) - According to the minutes of a recent secret meeting, obtained by the Associated Press, President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad of Iran told President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, "Iran is thinking of flying reconnaissance aircraft with
fighter cover over ...
I have a lot of sympathy right now for Arabs and Muslims who were offended by the publication of cartoons mocking
Mohammed. It’s another example of media irresponsibility: as if the newspaper that published them, Jyllands-Posten,
didn’t anticipate this ...
Today the Wellington Sevens fans did their bit to upstage the colourful parade by the Sevens teams. Yesterday, teams
from the Rugby Sevens competition paraded through the streets of Wellington at lunchtime, to the sounds of salsa, pop
music and island ...
I read a headline the other day that was enough to make me spit out my early-morning coffee. Or would’ve been,
certainly, had I read it in the early morning and been drinking coffee. I actually read it in the afternoon and wasn’t
drinking anything ...
Reacting with concern to the controversy surrounding cartoons first published in a Danish newspaper, United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today emphasized that a free press must respect all religions.
What President George W. Bush, FOX news, and the Washington Times were saying about Iraq three years ago they are now
saying about Iran. After Saturday's vote by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to report Iran's suspicious
nuclear activities ...
New Zealand Sikh Society (Wellington) strongly condemns the deliberate action of some members of New Zealand Press to
publish cartoons, which were known to be objectionable to the Muslim community, as it hurts their religious sentiments.
Only an irresponsible and intellectually inept individual would sketch such insulting images as those depicting Prophet
Mohamed by a cartoonist in the Danish Jyllands-Posten newspaper. And no self-respecting newspaper would allow itself to
run such filth. ...
Reacting with concern to the controversy surrounding cartoons first published in a Danish newspaper, United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today emphasized that a free press must respect all religions.
Today our nation lost a beloved, graceful, courageous woman who called America to its founding ideals and carried on a
noble dream. Tonight we are comforted by the fact that my regime is working vigorously to cause that noble dream to
unravel at ...
Expressing “serious concern” at the volatile situation in Côte d’Ivoire, where United Nations offices were looted and
destroyed last month, the Security Council today authorized extra troops to boost the strength of the UN peacekeeping
mission in the ...
Pakistan - Scoop's Kevin List IV's correspondent, Jon Stephenson, on fallout in the Middle East after some western
media, including Wellington's Dominion Post, published cartoon caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
Picture this: A cartoon of Jesus, with his pants down, smiling, raping a little boy. The caption above it reads “Got
Catholicism?” Or how about a picture of a Rabbi with blood dripping from his mouth after bludgeoning a small Palestinian
boy with a knife ...
Ethnic Affairs Minister Chris Carter expressed disappointment today that some New Zealand media had chosen to publish
cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, which had created strife and tension offshore.
Annan hopes for talks on Iran’s nuclear ambitions ahead of report to Security Council
COLUMBUS, GA – The week after a military jury in Colorado decided not to jail an Army interrogator even after they found
him guilty of negligent homicide in the torture and killing of an Iraqi detainee, a federal judge in Columbus, Georgia
is sentencing ...
How did a bunch of mostly crappy cartoons published five months ago in an undistinguished newspaper with a smaller
circulation that the New Zealand Herald come to this? Have we suddenly lurched into something bad? And what happens
next?...
The rest of the world also would look kindly on this if energy prices would come down from the artificially high levels
they currently are at. Lower energy prices would also stimulate economic growth worldwide, to the benefit of all,
instead of ...
Members of the world's most isolated tribe, the Sentinelese of the Andaman Islands, killed on 26 January two fishermen
who had illegally approached their island. The Sentinelese, who were photographed after the December 2004 tsunami firing
an arrow ...
Putting the demonstrators in parliament has given us a quiet Waitangi Day. Labour has had its first cabinet meeting.
Political parties have given their "State of the Nation" speeches. Are we headed for a recession? Can this minority
government hold ...
New Zealand and NATO have reached agreement on exchanging classified information on a regular basis, which will help
facilitate peacekeeping operations where both are involved. The Exchange of Letters took place today in Brussels when
Defence Minister ...
AMBASSADOR BOLTON: OK, well, the Security Council has just issued a Presidential Statement concerning the situation in
Darfur. The effect of the statement would be to initiate contingency planning by the Secretariat for the possible
transition from ...
"The speculation that the Maori Party is the reason that peace prevailed at Waitangi this year is flattering, but it
doesn't paint the whole picture" said Dr Pita Sharples.
There has been a lot of noise about the victory of Stephen Harper, leader of Canada’s new Conservative party, but just
what did he win?
DEPARTMENT Statement: Cambodia Pardons Opposition Leader Travel: Secretary Rice to Accompany President Bush to Funeral
of Coretta Scott King
Iranians are welcoming President George W. Bush's State of Union Speech, delivered on Tuesday evening, and his public
support of the freedom cause in Iran.
The current flurry of Western diplomacy will probably turn out to be groundwork for launching missiles at Iran. Air
attacks on targets in Iran are very likely. Yet many anti-war Americans seem eager to believe that won't happen.
Defence Minister Phil Goff visited the Merwede shipyard in Rotterdam today to inspect the Royal New Zealand Navy's new
Multi Role Vessel (MRV), which is due to be launched next weekend. The 9000-tonne MRV is the first of seven ships being
built under the ...
A survey showing that 96% of parents want to choose which schools their children attend shows Labour is out of step with
the aspirations of New Zealand families, says National’s Education spokesman, Bill English. He is commenting on the
release ...
More than two dozen emails sent to various senior Bush administration officials between May 2003 and early July 2003
related to covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, are missing, and the
special prosecutor ...
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