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New York, June 18, 2004--The National Lawyers Guild calls for the prosecution of President George W. Bush with a
"command responsibility" theory of liability under the War Crimes Act. Bush can be prosecuted under the War Crimes Act
or the ...
MAdGE (Mothers Against Genetic Engineering in Food and the Environment) today launched a highly controversial billboard
campaign in Auckland and Wellington to provoke public debate about the social and cultural ethics of genetic engineering
in New Zealand.
In anticipation of the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the central instalment in
writer/director/producer Peter Jackson's epic trilogy based on the J.R.R. Tolkien masterpiece, Te Papa proudly announces
a world exclusive and a bold ...
The world witnessed the dawn of a new space age today, as investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen and Scaled
Composites launched the first private manned vehicle beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. The successful launch demonstrated
that the final frontier ...
[] Avnery about the crumbling of the "No Partner" mantra [] Creeping annexation contradicts goal of peace (Ha'aretz
editorial June 18)
The ZM radio network in association with the mary-kateandashley brand is searching for New Zealand's biggest Mary-Kate
and Ashley fan! The winner and two companions will get to meet the most famous teenagers on the planet in their home
city, Los ...
1. TIM BARNETT to the Minister of Defence: What decisions has the Government taken to replace the Army's light
operational vehicle fleet?
Matt Robson stands by the words that saw him ejected from the Parliamentary debating chamber this afternoon.
IMAGES TO GO WITH THE LATEST STATESIDE WITH ROSALEA….. We interrupt the previously scheduled travelog to bring you the
Nightmare that is Yosemite National Park on a summer's day.
With mutineer-led insurgent fighters still present in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),
the transitional government has built up its own force of 20,000 troops in the area, the Special Representative of the
United Nations Secretary-General ...
Several new laws and programs enacted by Colombian president Alvaro Uribe are designed to criminalize the progressive
movement. Thousands of religious and human-rights activists, afrodescendants, indigenous, and student and union leaders
have been detained ...
The deployment of a new United Nations mission to Haiti this month represents a major opportunity, and perhaps a last
chance, to break the cycle of violence and impunity that has plagued the Caribbean republic for so many years, Amnesty
International ...
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Zarqawi Be Damned - Nicholas Berg screamed. He screamed when he saw the sword brandished in the
hands of one of his captors. He screamed when he was pushed down on the ground and his held pulled back, ready for the
slaughter. ...
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said the execution in Saudi Arabia of a hostage from the United States
was tragic, and called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.
Alex Kingston might have been complaining recently that she's being shoved off ER for being too old, but she didn't
sound that peeved about it way back in February when I interviewed her...
Green MP Metiria Turei says critics of the Civil Union Bill should "stop the spin" and come clean on why they are
opposing it.
UN warns Caterpillar that sale of bulldozers to Israel may implicate company in human rights violations
New Zealand's Governor-General Dame Silvia Cartwright lays a wreath at the "Neue Wache" Memorial to the Victims of War
and Tyranny in Berlin. Dame Silvia is on an official State Visit to Germany where she is meeting President Johannes Rau
and Chancellor ...
We interrupt the previously scheduled travelog to bring you the Nightmare that is Yosemite National Park on a summer's
day.
Over the past few weeks some fascinating options have been thrown into the political mix in the lead up to the 2005
elections. Some are far fetched and others downright foolish, but they are what keeps politics interesting.
Cartoon by John Chuckman
While the major media screams about the latest beheading in the Middle East, John Ashcroft's destruction of a man in the
middle west -- likely for political purposes -- has gone unnoticed.
A national tyre collection system to manage millions of old and no longer roadworthy tyres, Tyre Track, will be
launched today in Wellington by the Ministry for the Environment and Motor Trade Association (MTA).
Green MP Sue Kedgley today hailed the Advertising Standards Authority's (ASA) ruling that The Warehouse's marketing of
the What A Pig Easter egg was socially irresponsible, saying it was a victory for children's health and a defeat for
petty political point-scorers ...
Iran seizes three British navy vessels: media Tehran, June 21, Kyodo/OANA/IRNA -- Iran detained three British navy
vessels Monday and arrested eight armed crew members, state-run television reported.
Next year will mark the 25th anniversary of that remarkable moment when this country began to turn its back on values
that had sustained it throughout its first two centuries – values that included balancing power and wealth with concern
for, cooperation with, ...
In This Edition: Civil Union Bill - NZ SAS soldiers injured in Afghanistan - New Zealand intelligence services and the
Cold War - Polls and preferred coalition partners.
Rt Hon Winston Peters has described the Government’s open door immigration policy and the wave of newcomers as an
intolerable burden on ordinary New Zealand taxpayers.
Last week Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan opined that inflation was not a threat to US growth, sparking a large rally
in bonds. Market rates have been climbing since June 2003, a fact that is beginning to leave this bear market in bonds
looking a ...
Representatives of nearly all members of the United Nations Security Council have started a 10-day fact-finding mission,
led by British Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry, to seven West African countries, the UN spokesman said today.
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