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Dame Silvia Cartwright and Peter Cartwright with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in Berlin today. Mr Schroeder welcomed Dame Silvia as part of her official State Visit to Germany. Their talks in the Federal Chancellery focused on the bilateral relationship between Germany and New Zealand.

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Dame Silvia Cartwright and the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, in front of Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Mr Wowereit and Dame Silvia walked through the Brandenburg Gate as part of her official State Visit to Germany. It was the first time a New Zealand Governor-General walked through the gate, which used to be in no-man's land during the cold war and is now a symbol of German reunification.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>