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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1:
Iran
And Venezuela Plan War On Israel
(AP) - According to the minutes of a recent secret meeting, obtained by the Associated Press, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran told President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, "Iran is thinking of flying reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over ...
2:
What
The Mohammed Cartoons Say About The West
I have a lot of sympathy right now for Arabs and Muslims who were offended by the publication of cartoons mocking Mohammed. It’s another example of media irresponsibility: as if the newspaper that published them, Jyllands-Posten, didn’t anticipate this ...
3:
Wellington
Sevens Fans Attempt To Steal The
Show
Today the Wellington Sevens fans did their bit to upstage the colourful parade by the Sevens teams. Yesterday, teams from the Rugby Sevens competition paraded through the streets of Wellington at lunchtime, to the sounds of salsa, pop music and island ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Mark
Drolette: Beware Osama bin Saddam Hugo
Chavez
I read a headline the other day that was enough to make me spit out my early-morning coffee. Or would’ve been, certainly, had I read it in the early morning and been drinking coffee. I actually read it in the afternoon and wasn’t drinking anything ...
5:
Danish
cartoon, free press must fully respect
all
Reacting with concern to the controversy surrounding cartoons first published in a Danish newspaper, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today emphasized that a free press must respect all religions.
6:
Juggernaut
Gathering Momentum, Headed for
Iran
What President George W. Bush, FOX news, and the Washington Times were saying about Iraq three years ago they are now saying about Iran. After Saturday's vote by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to report Iran's suspicious nuclear activities ...
7:
Sikhs
condemn the publication of cartoons
New Zealand Sikh Society (Wellington) strongly condemns the deliberate action of some members of New Zealand Press to publish cartoons, which were known to be objectionable to the Muslim community, as it hurts their religious sentiments.
8:
Punishing
Denmark: Taking on the Wrong
Enemy
Only an irresponsible and intellectually inept individual would sketch such insulting images as those depicting Prophet Mohamed by a cartoonist in the Danish Jyllands-Posten newspaper. And no self-respecting newspaper would allow itself to run such filth. ...
9:
Annan
Speaks On Danish Cartoon
Controversy
Reacting with concern to the controversy surrounding cartoons first published in a Danish newspaper, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today emphasized that a free press must respect all religions.
10:
Jason
Miller: The State of the Empire
Address
Today our nation lost a beloved, graceful, courageous woman who called America to its founding ideals and carried on a noble dream. Tonight we are comforted by the fact that my regime is working vigorously to cause that noble dream to unravel at ...
11:
Transfer
of UN Troops to Côte D’ivoire
Authorized
Expressing “serious concern” at the volatile situation in Côte d’Ivoire, where United Nations offices were looted and destroyed last month, the Security Council today authorized extra troops to boost the strength of the UN peacekeeping mission in the ...
12:
Audio:
Jon Stephenson Reports On Cartoon
Fallout
Pakistan - Scoop's Kevin List IV's correspondent, Jon Stephenson, on fallout in the Middle East after some western media, including Wellington's Dominion Post, published cartoon caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
13:
Remi
Kanazi: What Would Jesus
Do?
Picture this: A cartoon of Jesus, with his pants down, smiling, raping a little boy. The caption above it reads “Got Catholicism?” Or how about a picture of a Rabbi with blood dripping from his mouth after bludgeoning a small Palestinian boy with a knife ...
14:
Chris
Carter comments on publication of
cartoons
Ethnic Affairs Minister Chris Carter expressed disappointment today that some New Zealand media had chosen to publish cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, which had created strife and tension offshore.
15:
Annan
hopes for talks on Iran’s nuclear
ambitions
Annan hopes for talks on Iran’s nuclear ambitions ahead of report to Security Council
16:
US:
Seventeen Sentenced to Prison, Trials
Continue
COLUMBUS, GA – The week after a military jury in Colorado decided not to jail an Army interrogator even after they found him guilty of negligent homicide in the torture and killing of an Iraqi detainee, a federal judge in Columbus, Georgia is sentencing ...
17:
Public
Address 06/02/06 - The
Cartoons
How did a bunch of mostly crappy cartoons published five months ago in an undistinguished newspaper with a smaller circulation that the New Zealand Herald come to this? Have we suddenly lurched into something bad? And what happens next?...
18:
Worldwide
Energy Needed for
Globalization
The rest of the world also would look kindly on this if energy prices would come down from the artificially high levels they currently are at. Lower energy prices would also stimulate economic growth worldwide, to the benefit of all, instead of ...
19:
India:
World's Most Isolated Tribe Kills
Invaders
Members of the world's most isolated tribe, the Sentinelese of the Andaman Islands, killed on 26 January two fishermen who had illegally approached their island. The Sentinelese, who were photographed after the December 2004 tsunami firing an arrow ...
20:
ACT's
The Letter 7 February 2006
Putting the demonstrators in parliament has given us a quiet Waitangi Day. Labour has had its first cabinet meeting. Political parties have given their "State of the Nation" speeches. Are we headed for a recession? Can this minority government hold ...
21:
NZ,
NATO agreement to exchange classified
info
New Zealand and NATO have reached agreement on exchanging classified information on a regular basis, which will help facilitate peacekeeping operations where both are involved. The Exchange of Letters took place today in Brussels when Defence Minister ...
22:
John
R. Bolton: Remarks on
Sudan
AMBASSADOR BOLTON: OK, well, the Security Council has just issued a Presidential Statement concerning the situation in Darfur. The effect of the statement would be to initiate contingency planning by the Secretariat for the possible transition from ...
23:
Sharples:
Reflections on Waitangi Day
"The speculation that the Maori Party is the reason that peace prevailed at Waitangi this year is flattering, but it doesn't paint the whole picture" said Dr Pita Sharples.
24:
Chuckman:
What Did Stephen Harper Actually
Win?
There has been a lot of noise about the victory of Stephen Harper, leader of Canada’s new Conservative party, but just what did he win?
25:
State
Dept. Daily Press Briefing February 6,
2006
DEPARTMENT Statement: Cambodia Pardons Opposition Leader Travel: Secretary Rice to Accompany President Bush to Funeral of Coretta Scott King
26:
Iranians
welcome Bush's State of Union
Speech
Iranians are welcoming President George W. Bush's State of Union Speech, delivered on Tuesday evening, and his public support of the freedom cause in Iran.
27:
'Diplomacy'
as a Launch Pad for Missiles To
Iran
The current flurry of Western diplomacy will probably turn out to be groundwork for launching missiles at Iran. Air attacks on targets in Iran are very likely. Yet many anti-war Americans seem eager to believe that won't happen.
28:
Goff
inspects Navy's new MRV at Dutch
shipyard
Defence Minister Phil Goff visited the Merwede shipyard in Rotterdam today to inspect the Royal New Zealand Navy's new Multi Role Vessel (MRV), which is due to be launched next weekend. The 9000-tonne MRV is the first of seven ships being built under the ...
29:
96%
of parents can’t be wrong
A survey showing that 96% of parents want to choose which schools their children attend shows Labour is out of step with the aspirations of New Zealand families, says National’s Education spokesman, Bill English. He is commenting on the release ...
30:
Fitzgerald
Focuses on Missing White House Emails
More than two dozen emails sent to various senior Bush administration officials between May 2003 and early July 2003 related to covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, are missing, and the special prosecutor ...
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