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There is extreme risk to your safety due to the escalating tension between Lebanon and Israel and we advise against all
travel to Lebanon. Israel has launched a military offensive against Lebanon following a 12 July Hizbollah cross-border
incursion during ...
In a joint statement, the Salvation Army and Prison Fellowship New Zealand called for a structured public debate on the
issues of crime and punishment. Spokespersons Major Campbell Roberts and Kim Workman, joined in the call for a more
informed and ...
Formthotics foam foot insoles are significantly more cost effective than hard plastic orthotics, a landmark Australian
study has found.
Thistle Hall is a vibrant community centre in the heart of New Zealand's cultural capital. We provide a community hall,
meeting room and Wellington's only community gallery showcasing a range of artists and crafts people, from the
established to ...
The appointment of Karen Sewell to the position of chief executive of the Ministry of Education is good news for New
Zealand education, PPTA president Debbie Te Whaiti said today.
Senator Nettle, today, called on the Federal Government to suspend plans for a new security treaty with Indonesia in
light of continuing revelations of abuses in West Papua.
"In my judgment, the best way to stop the violence is to understand why the violence occurred in the first place." That
one sentence (a surprisingly rare example of a complete sentence spoken by Cheney spokesman George W. Bush), taken on
its own, would ...
The Tongan government says it has now reduced its public service work force by about a third.
• The Cuba embargo is unpopular and unprofitable for several U.S. private business sectors, and mounting pressure from
the oil, agriculture and export industries is solidifying the pro-engagement front in the current debate over Cuban
policy
1. Living Standards 2004 Report—Health Disparities 2. Taito Phillip Field—Ingram Report Conclusions 3. Police
Numbers—Government Targets 4. Poverty—Government Policy 5. Primary Health Care Strategy—Extension to 45 to 64-Year-olds
6. National ...
Meningococcal Gold Rush III: post-MeNZB™ Vaccine Update The evidence the Ministry of Health does not want you to see.
By Ron Law and Barbara Sumner Burstyn
Mr Bush, chomping on a piece of bread at a world leaders' lunch, also told British Prime Minister Tony Blair that a key
to defusing the violence in the region was for "Hezbollah to stop doing this shit, and it's over".
The fighting between Israel and Lebanon over the course of the last few days presents perhaps the most dangerous moment
since the Cuban Missile Crisis. The leadership of Israel and Hezbollah spend the blood of innocents to prove how very
tough they ...
1. Dr DON BRASH to the Prime Minister: What concerns did the Ingram report she released yesterday outline about work
carried out by four Thai people on Taito Phillip Field's house in Samoa, and does she agree with the statement in the
report "If the ...
An unplanned intrusion by New Zealand media was the only down side to a wonderful and constructive meeting with Senator
John McCain in Washington today, says Foreign Minister Winston Peters. "It was an excellent meeting with Senator McCain
in every ...
United Future leader Peter Dunne today warned New Zealand credit card users may be in for a rude shock if they try to
use their cards in the United Kingdom and France, now that 'smart' cards have been introduced there.
United Nations agencies are offering humanitarian assistance to the Government of Ecuador after Tungurahua Volcano
erupted, spewing out pyroclastic flows, shooting ash six kilometres into the air and forcing more than 3,600 people from
high-risk ...
National's immediate response to the release of the QC's report on Philip Taito Field yesterday was fairly predictable:
it called for a commission of inquiry. The problem is, National always seems to be calling for a commission of
inquiry...
• Bombs strike at hearts of Kiwi Indians • More Asian news needed, says Shanghai journalist • Changing country,
unchanging media • Survey marks slow attitude shift • Getting ready for Diwali • Culturally-embedded in Malaysia •
Return ...
LEBANON Efforts to Assist American Citizens Departing Lebanon Plan to Bus American Citizens from Southern Lebanon to
Evacuation Locations Military in support of DOS / Modes of Previous transportation / Coalition Assistance from United
Kingdom, Spain ...
Merck's top management team reportedly remains un-phased by Vioxx litigation woes. In fact, Prudential Equity Group
analyst, Timothy Anderson, says Merck's Chief Executive, Richard Clark, specifically told him that “Vioxx does not keep
him up at night.”
The following are images of the Microsoft Powerpoint slides from a National Party Address made by National Party General
Manager Greg Sheehan to the Northen Regional Party Conference in April this year.
Apparently not content to let the US do a self-immolation act in the Middle East by itself, Israel decided to set itself
on fire by invading Lebanon. Burn baby burn?
“Family Integrity’s views are extreme and repugnant to all reasonable New Zealanders,” said Murray Edridge, Chief
Executive of Barnardos NZ. “And if Ruby Harrold-Claesson, whose visit to New Zealand is paid for by them, shares their
views, then we don’t ...
"In my judgment, the best way to stop the violence is to understand why the violence occurred in the first place." That
one sentence (a surprisingly rare example of a complete sentence spoken by Cheney spokesman George W. Bush), taken on
its own, would ...
As'ad AbuKhalil, author, believes the recent violence is a symptom of an international conspiracy under way to enforce
UN resolution 1559, which calls for the disarmament of militia groups in Lebanon - a reference to Hezbollah.
Public Services International General Secretary, Hans Engelberts, today expressed the organisation’s extreme concern
about the escalation of violence in Gaza, Lebanon and Israel.
As Israeli planes pound the Lebanese infrastructure to sunder, as the Palestinians spend their days and nights in
inhumane conditions and under siege, as people in 20 Israeli towns sleep in bomb shelters, Israel threatened to widen
the conflict ...
Thank you for inviting me to address your conference today. Thank you also for asking me to address your Engineering and
Plastics sector group meetings over the last few months. After somewhat frosty relations between the Greens and the EPMU
when we were ...
There are urgent and important lessons for New Zealand in a report released in Washington yesterday discrediting the
Mann “hockey stick” graph which has under-pinned most of the claims of anthropogenic (man-made) global warming (AGW),
according to Rear ...
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