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1: New
Reports on U.S. Planting WMDs in
Iraq
BASRA - Fifty days after the first reports that the U.S. forces were unloading weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in southern Iraq, new reports about the movement of these weapons have been disclosed.
2:
Colin
L. Powell On Release of Japanese
Hostages
MR. KANEHIRA: Thank you so much, Secretary. We just received the good news from Baghdad that three Japanese civilian hostages have been released in Baghdad.
3:
Ramallah:
Israeli Troops Take it Out on
Children
RAMALLAH - - The Israeli occupying forces (IOF) violently confronted with the demonstrations that erupted after the extrajudicial execution of Hamas leader Dr. Abdel Aziz Al Rantisi, shooting three children and wounding them, two of them critically.
4:
Govt
Held High Powered Secret Meeting On Spy
Cas
Scoop understands that a high-powered New Zealand Government crisis meeting was held in the last week of March after the Prime Minister was informed that two suspected Mossad connectives had been arrested in Auckland.
5:
Why
Not Just Genetically Engineer Women For
Milk?
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.
6:
Michael
King's Last Interview -
Transcript
Long live the King The following is a transcript of the last interview Michael King gave before his untimely passing. It aired March 22, 2004 on 95bFM . Interviewer is Simon Pound, transcriber Matt Nippert. From: http://fightingtalk.blogspot.com
7:
Images:
Lord Of The Rings Exhibition At Te
Papa
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 ...
8:
Security
Council Ready To Implement Cyprus
Plan
Security Council Ready To Help Implement Cyprus Plan If It Is Approved - President Members of the United Nations Security Council today said they were ready to help Cyprus implement a plan to reunify the island nation ahead of its entry into the ...
9:
A
Chance To Meet Mary-Kate And Ashley In
LA
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 ...
10:
The
most anti-Israeli American president
ever
Another assassination [translation of Hebrew Gush Shalom Avnery on Sharon and the most anti-Israeli American president ever
11:
PM
responds to passport case
Prime Minister Helen Clark said today she was aware of a case in the Auckland District Court related to an attempt to fraudulently obtain a New Zealand passport.
12:
Removal
Of Equipment, Buildings From Iraq
Concerns
UN Nuclear Watchdog Concerned By Removal Of Equipment, Buildings From Iraq The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency says it is concerned that equipment - even entire buildings - and contaminated scrap have been removed from sites in ...
13:
Bush
Blair Comments Pre-empt Israel
Assassination
Remarks by the President and United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair in Press Availability Rose Garden
14:
Stateside:
Liar, Liar, Tie's On Fire!
I missed the president's press conference on Tuesday night - it was on at 5.30 on the West Coast and I was on my way to night class - but I got the gist of it as I passed by the newspaper vending machines the next morning. Most of the headlines ...
15:
OpEd:
Is Economic Growth a Turn-on, or a
Turn-off?
There was a time when being small and distant from international markets was seen as a burden New Zealand had to bear. Although partially offset by the fact that grass grows well here and the scenery is superb, the wisdom was that a small, remote, agriculture-based ...
16:
Kiwis
say 'show us a different
ladder'
Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says a new survey confirming New Zealanders question the value of conventional economic growth shows the Government should abandon its obsession with climbing the OECD 'ladder'.
17:
The
Letter Monday 19 April 2004
The signing of a Free Trade Agreement with China may prove to be the Clark Government's most significant achievement.
18:
IOF
Statement: Abdel Aziz Rantisi
Killed
Leader of Hamas, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, killed during a security forces operation in the northern Gaza Strip
19:
Environment
In For Close Scrutiny At Intl.
Conf.
Scientists from 21 countries will gather at Te Papa today for a week-long conference on using isotopes to study the environment. Participants will discuss the latest developments in isotope research in areas such as studies of animal nutrition and ...
20:
Treaty
of Waitangi website launched
State Services Minister Trevor Mallard today officially launched - www.treatyofwaitangi.govt.nz - a website which will play a key role in the government's Treaty of Waitangi Information Programme.
21:
Child
Used as Human Shield after Beating
1) Child Used as Human Shield after Beating 2) Palestinian prisoner solidarity _TAKE ACTION 3) 'Picking their battles'_Aviv Lavie, Haaretz
22:
Cyprus:
Security Council Pledge To Help All
Sides
Cyprus: Annan Hails Security Council Pledge To Help All Parties United Nations Secretary-General this evening welcomed the willingness of the Security Council to help all parties fully meet their commitments under the proposed comprehensive settlement of the Cyprus ...
23:
Launch
of Treaty of Waitangi website -
Speech
I extend my greetings to the tangata whenua, whose ancestors signed the Treaty of Waitangi here in Wellington, in fact 164 years ago in ten days time - on 29 April 1840.
24:
Public
Address 19/04/04 - Auckland
Weekend
A police pipe band, footfalls locked to the spare beat of a snare, bisects a line of happy Asians, who clutch long incense sticks as they wait to pay tribute to the giant Buddha whose stage fills one side of Aotea Square...
25:
Pinocchio
And Pacific Patsy’s Double Act at the
UN
This year it’s Honduras’ turn to ‘pass-the-parcel’. That we might just be able to understand, but word is out that it is co-sponsored by New Zealand?!!! Que Linda! Whose dumb idea was this?
26:
The
Real Deal: 9-11 Profiteering
A Framework for Building the ''Cui Bono?'' UnAnswered Questions - Much has transpired since September 11, 2001. Something does not add up. Someone has something to hide.
27:
Ariel
Sharon: A Man Without A
Conscience
Ariel Sharon was born in Palestine in 1928, grandson of a Russian migrant family and the son of farmers. When he was 13, his father gave him a knife. Sharon remembers, "The knife was symbolic, to
28:
Kiwis
will Support Growth if it Supports
Kiwiness
Kiwis do not scare easily when it comes to threats of impending economic doom or of a slide down the OECD ratings. They have heard these threats too often and they have lost impact, according to research undertaken by the Government-sponsored Growth ...
29:
Make
NZ known the world over for design -
speech
If you draw a 2200-mile circle around Wellington, it will take in a lot of fish and some penguins.
30:
GPJA
Condemns Israel and Calls for NZ Govt
Action
Global Peace and Justice Auckland is calling on the government to cut all diplomatic links with Israel in protest against yesterday’s assassination of yet another Palestinian leader – Hamas political leader Rantisi.
ENDS

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Franklin Lamb: What happened to the Palestinian refugees at Masnaa this Eid al Fitr weekend?
Sherwood Ross: U.S., Russia, China, All Torture Prisoners
Franklin Lamb: Seven of Syria’s Palestinian Camps Controlled By Salafi-Jihadists
David Swanson: Her Name Is Jody Williams


