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Full Coverage: Black Caps Zimbabwe Cricket Tour

Full Coverage: Black Caps Zimbabwe Cricket Tour

New Zealand Must Not Compromise Values Over Zimbabwe Tour - PM


Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, NZ Cricket's Martin
Snedden, NZ PM Helen Clark.
Scoop Report: Kevin List Reports From Parliament: “For Parliament to legislate in this area really raises a number of very unfortunate precedents. I think that it is important in a democracy that when we try and deal with a problem you don’t end up compromising your own values in seeking to deal with that problem,” the Prime Minister explained today, at her regular Monday post-cabinet press conference. See... PM's Presser: Zimbabwe Cricket Tour Special
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  • NZ First - New Zealand First to take up Cricket Briefing

  • United - Greens demonstrate (again) their utter irrelevance
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Zimbabwe?. Zimbabwe: Amnesty International (NZ) Cites Deaths At Harare Settlement As New Zealand continues to debate whether the Black Caps go to Zimbabwe, Amnesty International has cited reports that at least three have died -- including a pregnant woman and a four-year-old child. “Over the last 48 hours, Porta Farm – a settlement of at least 10,000 people -- has been obliterated. People have watched their lives being completely destroyed – and many are now being forcibly removed in trucks by police. At the moment we are not sure where they are being taken,” said spokesperson Kolawole Olaniyan. See... Zimbabwe: Deaths as mass evictions continue

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