en-nz News Headlines from Scoop Scoop Media Ltd and/or its contributors http://www.scoop.co.nz/ http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html editor@scoop.co.nz webmaster@scoop.co.nz 30 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00701.htm Another 43 mainly Territorial Force (TF) personnel will head to the Solomon Islands on Sunday for a four month tour of duty. The contingent, drawn largely from the 4th Otago Southland and 2nd Canterbury Nelson Marlborough West Coast Battalions, will ... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:54:00 +1300 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00701.htm http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00700.htm MR. KELLY: Okay. Good afternoon. The Secretary had a full day in Kabul today. She met with, of course, the Afghan leadership, with international partners and allies. She had breakfast with foreign ministers, met with U.S. and international troops ... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:07:00 +1300 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00700.htm http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00699.htm Nine million more people in Latin America will fall into poverty this year due to the global economic crisis, bringing the total number of poor in the region to 189 million, or 34 per cent of the population, according to a United Nations report released ... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:32:00 +1300 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00699.htm http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00698.htm Washington - To establish a global foundation for growth and avert future economic crises, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says, the major advanced economies must rebalance global demand. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:28:00 +1300 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00698.htm http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00697.htm Washington - The North Africa-based terrorist group al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) continues to be a menace to parts of the Maghreb and the Sahel, but the Muslim populations there generally reject AQIM, and the group is less likely to expand operations ... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:27:00 +1300 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00697.htm http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00696.htm Washington, D.C.-Women will bear the greatest burden of a changing climate but so far have received little attention from negotiators working toward a new global climate deal, according to the 2009 edition of the United Nations Population Fund's State ... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:25:00 +1300 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00696.htm http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00695.htm "The Prime Minister should be subject to a Senate Inquiry over his handling of the various asylum boat debacles of the last month, which include reports that the Oceanic Viking was directed away from Australian waters after rescuing asylum seekers in ... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:20:00 +1300 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00695.htm http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00694.htm HMAS Toowoomba is heading home after a highly successful tour of duty in the Middle East conducting operations under Operation SLIPPER. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:17:00 +1300 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00694.htm http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00693.htm ABC TV is doing an outside broadcast of this event . The ABC will be providing head on feed pool of VIP speeches to all networks at 1530 through Parliament House. If other media outlets wish to record the broadcast they can do so off air between 1400 ... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:16:00 +1300 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00693.htm http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00692.htm Six weeks after sailing for the earthquake affected region of Padang, Indonesia, Royal Australian Navy ship HMAS Kanimbla has returned to her home port of Garden Island, Sydney. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:16:00 +1300 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00692.htm http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00691.htm Slamming decades of failure by Australian governments to address the dire living conditions, disempowerment and discrimination faced by many of the country’s Indigenous peoples, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Irene Khan warned that the government ... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:15:00 +1300 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00691.htm http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00690.htm The top United Nations humanitarian official has welcomed the recent releases of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from camps in northern Sri Lanka, and underscored the need to ensure full freedom of movement for those remaining. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:09:00 +1300 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00690.htm http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00689.htm Under-nutrition is both a consequence and a cause of poverty. Childhood under-nutrition makes learning more difficult and ill health more likely, which hinders a child’s capacity to secure a job as an adult, and the cycle of generational poverty and under-nutrition ... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:02:00 +1300 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00689.htm http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00688.htm In comparison to other countries in Latin America, Chile boasts relatively stable political institutions, particularly free and fair elections, and a substantial middle class. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:01:00 +1300 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00688.htm http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00687.htm With just 17 days left before the United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen, a top UN official today predicted success for a framework accord including specific reduction targets from the United States, the only hold-out among industrialized ... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:59:00 +1300 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00687.htm