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1:
Ethiopia,
Eritrea agree in principle on UN plan
Military officials from Ethiopia and Eritrea have agreed in principle to a United Nations proposal to improve the handling of border incidents, the UN mission in the area said today.
2:
Scoop
Link: TIME: Notes from Saddam in
Custody
Saddam was asked whether Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. “No, of course not,” he replied, according to the official, “the U.S. dreamed them up itself to have a reason to go to war with us.” The interrogator continued along this line, ...
3:
Saddam
Flushed WMD Stash Down Toilet
Baghdad--Details of the former dictator's arrest reveal that in the final moments before a raid on his hideout, Saddam Hussein likely disposed of valuable evidence that would have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that he possessed weapons of mass ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Saddam
Hussein Captured In Tikrit
British Prime Minister Tony Blair as confirmed Saddam Hussein has been captured in Tikrit, Iraq. Unconfirmed news broke late Sunday night (NZ Time) after Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani was quoted by the official Iranian news agency saying that the former ...
5:
Diebold
Memos Disclose Florida 2000 E-Voting
Fraud
Something very strange happened in Volusia County on election night November 2000, the night that first Gore won Florida, then Bush, and then as everybody can so well remember there was a tie.
6:
Deck
of Cards Helps Identify Regime's Most
Wanted
WASHINGTON, April 12, 2003 – Coalition forces in Iraq are using a specially created deck of 55 playing cards to identify the "most wanted" members of Saddam Hussein's regime.
7:
Images:
Anna Kournikova Lauches the OMEGA
Bijoux
Click for big version Anna Kournikova, styled as Marilyn Monroe, is overwhelmed with diamonds from OMEGA Bijoux collection at the Miljonair Exhibition in Amsterdam on 11 December 2003. The event marked the official launch of the OMEGA Bijoux collection ...
8:
ACT
Caucus Votes To Expel Donna Awatere
Huata
ACT New Zealand Leader Richard Prebble today announced that the ACT Caucus has voted by more than 75 percent to expel Donna Awatere Huata from Parliament.
9:
UQ
Wire: 911 ''Coverup in Progress'' In
Florida
FBI agents harassed and intimidated witnesses to the 9/11 terrorist conspiracy’s activities in Florida, issuing warnings to avoid talking with reporters, say current and former residents in Venice, Florida.
10:
Questions
for Oral Answer - Tuesday, 16 December
1. Dr DON BRASH to the Prime Minister: Do the comments made by the Hon Tariana Turia, in relation to management of the coast and sea, that "... there is no way that tangata whenua will ever give up our rights voluntarily, or allow them to be subject ...
11:
Transport
& Women's Affairs CEOs
Announced
Appointment Of Chief Executives For The Ministry Of Transport And The Ministry Of Women's Affairs
12:
Public
Address 16/12/03 - Reports
This week, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (or LOTR:ROTK as fans refer to it) opens to the public worldwide, but here in Wellington we've been catching tantalising glimpses of it for quite a while...
13:
Sierra
Leone border patrols against
infiltration
The United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) has stepped up around-the-clock air, land and river patrols along the West African country’s borders with Guinea and Liberia to prevent illegal infiltration resulting from efforts to disarm former ...
14:
Bush
Press Conference On Iraq and
Economy
The terrorists in Iraq remain dangerous. The work of our coalition remains difficult, and will require further sacrifice. Yet, it should now be clear to all, Iraq is on the path to freedom. And a free Iraq will serve the peace and security of America ...
15:
UN
Radio Annan Hopes Saddam’s Capture Offers
Peace
There's been reaction at the United Nations to Saturday's capture of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by US forces. Secretary-General Kofi Annan consider the arrest " an important event." In a statement through a UN spokesman, the ...
16:
Inside
A U.S. Election Vote Counting
Program
Publication of this story marks a watershed in American political history. It is offered freely for publication in full or part on any and all internet forums, blogs and noticeboards. All other media are also encouraged to utilise material. Readers ...
17:
UQ
Wire: We Caught The Wrong
Guy
Saddam Hussein, former employee of the American federal government, was captured near a farmhouse in Tikrit in a raid performed by other employees of the American federal government.
18:
911
Victim Ellen Mariani Open Letter To The
POTUS
This ''open letter'' is coming from my heart. I want you to know that I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat and that this is not an attempt to ''bash the Government''.
19:
Molesworth
a steal for the Government
The National Party is attacking the Government's plan to put the Department of Conservation in charge of New Zealand's largest farm - Molesworth Station.
20:
911
Victim’s Wife Files RICO Case Against GW
Bush
Philip J. Berg, Esquire, announced today that he, attorney for Ellen Mariani, wife of Louis Neil Mariani, who died when United Air Lines flight 175 was flown into the South Tower of the World Trade Center on 9-11 at a news conference regarding the ...
21:
U.S.
Defense Details Saddam's Capture Near
Tikrit
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2003 — With three words – “We got him” – Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III announced at a press briefing in Baghdad today that U.S. forces had captured Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein near his hometown of Tikrit.
22:
Stateside
with Rosalea: I Really Think
So
What did the Japanese know, and when did they know it? That's my question.
23:
Scoop
Link: Bush Misunderstood Military
Doctrine
Read this unprecedented, penetrating analysis of the failures of U.S. Military Strategy the reasons for those failures.
24:
Court
victory sparks call for
resignations
National MP Murray McCully is calling for the resignations of the Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres and the chairperson of the Human Rights Commission Roslyn Noonan, following a High Court decision today ruling that Mr de Bres cannot claim ...
25:
GM
Crops Increase Pesticide Use
On the eve of the decision on field trial of GE Onions in New Zealand more proof has emerged of increased use of sprays with GE crops rather than the claimed reduction.
26:
Would
You Choose To Live In A Same Sex
Family?
The Government plans to introduce legislation to recognise same sex relationships in a few months. Two bills are to be introduced and will extend to same sex and opposite sex couples.
27:
Woman
elected to Afghanistan's tribal
council
One woman was named a Vice-Chair of Afghanistan's Constitutional Loya Jirga tribal council, which on its second day of work finished electing its bureau, the United Nations mission in the country reported today.
28:
Progress'
made at EU enlargement talks:
Blair
The Prime Minister has briefed MPs on last week's European Council discussions over the draft constitutional treaty. Mr Blair began his statement to Parliament by updating the house on the capture of Saddam Hussein.
29:
UQ
Wire: Bush Bribes Max Cleland To Shut
Up?
A month has passed since former Senator Max Cleland, member of the National Commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks (the Kean Commission), told the New York Times that the White House and President Bush's re-election campaign had reason to fear ...
30:
Rules
in place, Russia must join Kyoto now
Milan At the close of the climate negotiations in Milan, Greenpeace called upon Russia to do the right thing, and join the 120 other nations that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol. Russia's ratification is required for the Kyoto Protocol to enter into ...
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