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Thursday 30th March - Leigh Sawmill Cafe (Dinner + Show) Friday 31st March - Sky City Theatre Auckland Saturday 1st
April - Ilott Theatre Wellington
Millions of Iranians stayed home or used their vacation day in order to stay afar from official gatherings despite the
Islamic republic regime's intensive propaganda and calls for massive participation. Iranians intended, once again, to
show their ...
• Gauging the autonomy of Haitian president-elect Rene Preval. • Preval in Washington seeking aid and help in retraining
Haiti’s unprofessional police force. • Obtaining the immediate release of political prisoners jailed under the rump
regime of Gerard ...
Prime Minister Helen Clark today welcomed the announcement that the Queen has approved the appointment of Judge Anand
Satyanand to succeed Dame Silvia Cartwright as Governor-General of New Zealand.
I said I'd never do it -- say what I think about that terrible morning of September 11, 2001. I've seen what happens to
those who question the elaborate, tangled explanations the Bush administration offers about what happened, how it
happened, who did it, ...
I was shocked and dismayed beyond words the other day to discover that my own beloved daughter, the filial fruit of my
loins, has been enlisted as a soldier in the vast swarming army of Godless atheists fiendishly plotting to smother the
last dying gasps ...
I shamelessly admit it; I simply cannot “get over” 9/11 and move on. Every time that the images of that day begin to
fade in my mind, something happens or someone says something that brings it all back again. The most recent examples for
me were a CNN ...
Scoop Audio and Images: ICANN's Vint Cerf and Paul Twomey Article and Photos by Lyndon Hood
Prime Minister John Howard's deal with Chinese Premier Wen to sell Australian uranium to China will see Australian
uranium either directly or indirectly support China's nuclear weapons programme, the Australian Greens said today.
SYDNEY: (RSF/Pacific Media Watch): Reporters Without Borders voiced shock today at the methods used by the office of
Australian Prime Minister John Howard to censor parody website johnhowardpm.org, on which political commentator Richard
Neville posted ...
The Green Party is welcoming the announcement by Sealord that its 50 per cent owner Nissui has severed its links with
Japanese whaling.
‘Coaching’ could be the next trend for single professionals, suggests a study conducted by singles lifestyle service
provider, Fast Impressions. A survey of 350 members aged 25-39 years on services used by singles in the past year
indicated that 38% ...
International — A land-grabber who has destroyed untold swaths of forest in the Amazon and a Swiss multinational
illegally growing genetically engineered crops near a protected nature reserve. Both targeted by Greenpeace, both now
facing action by the government ...
Prime Minister Helen Clark and Police Minister Annette King today announced the appointments of Howard Broad as
Commissioner of Police and Rob Pope as Deputy Commissioner of Police (Operations).
In same the week that ETA announced an indefinite ceasefire - after more than 40 years of terrorism and 817 deaths -
Spanish police revealed that between 1000 and 1500 sub-Saharan Africans had died attempting to reach the Canary Islands
in the ...
JAKARTA: (MEAA/Pacific Media Watch): A visitor to Dili who picked up Suara Timor Timur during Indonesian times would
have found a solid 12-page newspaper published in one language: Indonesian.
Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association voiced outrage today at the three-year prison sentences
imposed on journalists U Thaung Sein and Ko Moe Htun for photographing and filming in the new capital, Pyinmana, and
thereby allegedly ...
The current rate of death from the war in northern Uganda is three times higher than in Iraq following the Allied
invasion, finds a new report released today. The release of the report comes as the UN Under-Secretary General Jan
Egeland holds high-level ...
National welcomes the appointment of Judge Anand Satyanand as New Zealand's next Governor-General, says National Party
leader Don Brash.
At 7 am this morning, in a flash flood caused by the annexation barrier near the village of Bil'in two brothers were
washed away. A search party is currently attempting to find Eyad Tahar who is still missing, presumed dead. Raad Tahar
was found unconscious ...
Nettle welcomes West Papuans and calls for remaining asylum seeker to be brought to mainland
The government of Zambia today (1 April) introduced free health care for people living in rural areas, scrapping fees
which for years had made health care inaccessible for millions.
Labour is boasting that as the extension of 'working for families' kicks in and student loans become interest free, the
drop in government polling will turn around. They have just added 350,000 families, around 600,000 voters (20%) to state
dependency. ...
Prime Minister Helen Clark announced today that the Premier of the People’s Republic of China, Wen Jiabao, will visit
New Zealand from 5 to 7 April.
NSW Premier Iemma should have the courage to raise the ongoing human rights abuses committed by the Chinese security
forces when he meets Chinese Premier Wen Jiabo at Sydney Airport tomorrow, according to Greens MLC Lee Rhiannon.
There is an expression in te Ao Maori: 'Me he maonga äwhä' which describes a lull in a storm, like a sudden pause in a
furious debate.
With empty pots - how shall we feed our children? Bil'in protest in the presence of European diplomats
Medicare payments for dialysis, cost the US government $5 billion a year. The global market for chronic dialysis
services is worth approximately $43 billion and the US market is the largest in the world in terms of value.
As the two-week long world summit on biodiversity drew to a close, Greenpeace described the outcome as major failure - a
missed opportunity to stop the global loss of life in the world's forests and oceans.
In a wave of mass protest not seen since the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets to demand
justice for the undocumented. An unprecedented alliance between labor unions, immigrant support groups, churches, and
Spanish-language ...
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