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The new $4.9 million Mt Roskill fire station was opened in Auckland on Friday. Yet at the opening ceremony Prime Minister John Key was drowned out with shouts of “One, Two, Three, A Wage Rise Mr Key”, as 200 fire fighters protested outside holding...
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A methane gas explosion at a coal mine in western Turkey killed 19 miners, federal officials said Friday.
Three survivors were pulled from the mine after the explosion...
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So Nicolas Sarkozy, responding to the minaret ban in Switzerland, admonishes us to practise our faiths with “humble discretion”. To be recommended humble...
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Two weeks today is Christmas Day - and whilst it may not be celebrated completely around the world, it is the day that we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son...
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A healthy man in blockaded Gaza faked cancer, hoping the deadly disease would be his ticket out of the territory that has become an open-air prison for its 1.4 million...
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The public option may be dead, but Democrats have a stronger proposal on the table, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said at a press conference...
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An Israeli soldier snatches some sleep after live-fire drills yesterday on the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war. Syria warned Israel that it...
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There will be no “precipitous drawdown” of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and U.S. troops could still be in the country for years to come, President Barack...
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PARLIAMENT yesterday passed a Bill prohibiting female genital mutilation (FGM).
The object of the Bill is to provide for legislation necessary for criminalising the...
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Today is a glorious day. Or a wretched day but it is a day like any other day from dawn to dusk. Consider her plight. Her name is UZMA. An abandoned lady of Muslim...
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Welcoming 30,000 troops coupled with at least 7000 NATO forces, Afghanistan doesn’t appear at all ready for taking up the security responsibilities nor is the...
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Telengana, Bundelkhand, Gurkhaland, Bodoland, Kutch, there seems to be no end to the aspirations for statehood.
I have a simple formula which will solve all such...
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Great Britain is reasonable for giving the world that awful state of Israel. It was British colonialism that sponsored a “Jewish homeland” in the early 20th...
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Very recently, Anjali Sinha, a columnist with the Navbharat Times and a women’s rights activist wrote a column in Hindi, translated as “Is the Dowry law being...
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It is not like the Noble has any credibility left. The prize has been awarded to terrorists in the past, including two in Israel: Begin and Rabin. And, yes,...
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Okay, first of all lets get one thing straight: banning Minaret’s is NOT banning Islam. It’s not as if Switzerland placed a ban on mosques or Muslims...
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Is ‘inflation’ the policy to solve the problem like population growth and poverty? You know why I am asking such a silly question; this is because of our...
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So it was the Russians after all.
Yesterday, the entire world was taken in by the incredibly Norway Spiral. A blue spiral in the sky giving way to a spinning white...
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As long as they are fit to be mothers, children belong with their mums, not with some relative who doesn’t have the child’s interests at heart. Obviously...
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Meet Mini-Hariri (or Sa’ad Hariri), the prime minister of Lebanon who inherited his position after his late father was killed (probably by the Syrians) in 2005....
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None knows what we are looking after the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change. It seems to be a serious political gambling. Hackers look haggard. Press plays...
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Prime Minister John Key has told the new politics TV programme Q+A that he only knows of two businesses so far that may take part in the Government’s nine-day...
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In what New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has described as sending “a strong message” Pacific Forum leaders have voted to suspend Fiji from the Forum unless the...
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