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In order to resolve the current impasse between Ethiopia and Eritrea, the United Nations Security Council today urged
the two parties to sit down with the commission charged with setting a permanent border between the two countries and to
abide by ...
Kurt Volker, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Remarks at Howard University's Model
NATO Conference Washington, DC February 23, 2006
Two top Bush administration officials who played an active role in the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson,
have been removing from their jobs, career State Deptartment weapons experts who have spoken to investigators during the
past two ...
An article by the pastor of a Wanganui church sent widely around New Zealand has alleged that Green MP Sue Bradford is
"under the control of Satan" because she is advocating the repeal of section 59 of the Crimes Act.
I will leave to Jon Stewart the rich threads of humor to pluck from the hunting incident in Texas. All of us are
relieved that the Vice President's friend has survived. I can accept Dick Cheney's word that the accident was one of the
worst moments of ...
Radio Ructions – The Story You Probably Won't Hear On Mediawatch - Air NZ Boss Leaves Potentially Departing Staff
Inspiring Recorded Message - Andrew Little discusses Air NZ lay offs - National's Foreign Affairs dude lashes Out At Ex
U.S. President...
Eric John, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs Remarks at Harvard University, Asia
Center Cambridge, Massachusetts February 17, 2006
The most important question to ask regarding the bombings of the Golden Mosque in Samarra on the 22nd is: who benefits?
Prior to asking this question, let us note the timing of the bombing. The last weeks in Iraq have been a PR disaster for
the ...
Scoop Audio: It's official – there is no other story the New Zealand media is more interested in than David Benson-Pope
and his ill-fated teaching exploits at Bayfield High. Today the Prime Minister of New Zealand faced a barrage of
questions regarding ...
I consider the allegations being made by Investigate Magazine a nonsense.
Thursday night's CBS News included a segment that had me hopping mad by the end of it, so you can imagine my surprise
when it was repeated on Friday night because it had garnered such a lot of feedback--presumably positive--from the
public.
SECRETARY RICE: Last night's GCC meeting was, of course, the last in a series of consultations with our allies and
friends in the region about multiple challenges that the region currently faces. We talked last night, as I talked with
others, about ...
"It's time to get real about the crisis facing many of our families in confronting violent crime" stated Dr Pita
Sharples today in response to the media release describing a dramatic increase in number of youths caught for grievous
or serious assaults.
Helen Clark and Michael Cullen have been reading the reports of the think tank, 'The New Zealand Institute'. David
Skilling's paper showing most Kiwis have no savings and home ownership is in decline is the motivation behind the Kiwi
Savings scheme. ...
Dubbed "Kiddie Coke," Adderall is being abused by increasing numbers of high school and college students all across
America. It's difficult to quantify the extent of the abuse among students due the availability of the drug through
legal prescriptions ...
For all that we've been deluged lately with pronouncements about speech, free and otherwise, this clip might actually be
the best thing I've seen all year. The late Frank Zappa deadpans his way through a 1986 episode of CNN's Crossfire
dedicated ...
"We were standing in the alley way, everything was quite when suddenly without warning we heard a big explosion and
heard gun shots. I then saw Jarar and Ihab liying on the floor. Ihab wasn't moving." Wounded Dutch medical volunteer
National Party Housing spokesman Phil Heatley has released two letters (see PDF file at bottom of story) from Taito
Phillip Field to Housing New Zealand relating to a property dispute in South Auckland.
In a famous passage at the end of his major economic work, the economist John Maynard Keynes wrote: “The ideas of
economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is
commonly understood ...
Dun’s shorter works have been heard by NZSO concertgoers and his score for the soundtrack of Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon has familiarised a huge audience worldwide with his work. So it was pleasing but hardly surprising to see the
Michael Fowler centre ...
Anderton today praised New Zealand farmers and their innovation at the UK National Farmers' Union Annual conference in
Birmingham.
Dear President Bush, I write this even as you are, so to speak, packing your bags for your 'historic' visit to India and
Pakistan in the near future. As you most certainly are aware, your diplomatic mission to South Asia will take place in
an environment ...
"Refugees don't sink damned boats, Mr Howard!," says WA Rights group Project SafeCom this morning, after The Australian
reported today that the Prime Minister John Howard in the book "The Howard factor", sponsored by The Australian, ...
When I was a kid, I used to read the Andy Capp comic strip - he was a sort of everyman whose thoughts of politics and
life transcended the world around him. He would be slouched over a bar stool with a pool cue in his hand from which he
would parry the ...
The standard line about Iraq right now is that the country is on the verge of civil war . That “simmering hatreds” are
boiling to the surface. That “sectarianism” is to blame. All those regurgitated clichés of the Orientalist canon may
well be true.
Tariana Turia, Co-leader of the Maori Party, told a Marae documentary into Te Kohanga Reo National Trust, that the
"practices at a national level are highly questionable".
Twenty people arrested by the Forces Nouvelles armed opposition in Côte d’Ivoire, on charges of spying or being disloyal
to the movement, have been released after human rights officers from the United Nations mission in the West African
country ...
The Environmental Defence Society (EDS) has sharply criticised the Ministry for the Environment for allowing big
business to capture the climate change policy process.
New Zealanders interested in the definitive science on climate change and its effect on the Pacific should register now
for one of the most important conferences of its kind ever held in New Zealand.
Events within the Occupied Territories following Hamas’s victory in Palestinian legislative council elections last month
have again demonstrated Israel’s and Washington’s blatant disregard for international law.
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