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TODAY'S TOP SCOOP STORIES
SCOOP LEAD STORY
Parliament: MPs Vote Today On Whether To Raise Drinking Age
Questions Of The Day:
NEW ZEALAND
LEAD:
Foreign Affairs: PM Off To Meet Europe
Leaders
Youth Issues: Maxine van der Velden Trust
Gets Boost
More Headlines:
Film News (includes
video): Sponsors Sought For Kiwi Film On Kenyan
Grandmothers
SCOOP INTERNATIONAL LEAD
STORY:
Media: Big Guns Meet To Discuss Arab
Media
Middle East: Israel PM States Israel Killed
300 "Terrorists" In Gaza
UN Audio News:
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SCOOP LEAD
STORY
Parliament: MPs Vote Today On Whether
To Raise Drinking Age
The
Keep-it-18 campaign has pointed to figures from the
Alcohol Liquor Advisory Council (ALAC) to show that the
claims by promoters of raising the drinking age back to 20
that youth drinking is "out of control" are misleading and
don’t focus on the real issues behind New Zealand's
drinking problems. See... Alarmist
Statements on Youth Drinking Misleading [1]
ALSO:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0611/S00099.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00103.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00087.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0611/S00106.htm
QUESTIONS
OF THE DAY:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00113.htm

NEW ZEALAND LEAD:
NEW ZEALAND LEAD:
[1] - Critics of the
MoH's MeNZB vaccination campaign believe it has slandered
three Norwegian pro-vaccine professors of medicine,
including the newly appointed UNESCO Bioethics Chief,
Professor Jan Helge Solbakk. Prior to the New Zealand
screening of a Norwegian documentary on TV1’s Sunday
programme the New Zealand MoH claimed it was made by and
featured rabid anti-immunization zealots. See... MOH
Slanders New UNESCO Bioethics Chief [2]
[1] - Health
News: Has NZ's Health Ministry Defamed This
Man?>http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0611/S00029.htmHealth
News: Has NZ's Health Ministry Defamed This
Man?
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0611/S00029.htm
Foreign
Affairs: PM Off To Meet Europe Leaders
- Prime Minister Helen Clark will meet British Prime
Minister Tony Blair, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French
President Jacques Chirac, and Italian Prime Minister Romano
Prodi during her visit to Europe, which has been timed
around the dedication of the newly-built New Zealand
Memorial in London. See... PM
to visit Europe & attend APEC Leaders’ meeting [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00111.htm
Youth Issues: Maxine van der Velden Trust Gets Boost
"> - On November 11, 2006 the Mount Eden
Village Business Association will gift a donation of $2000
to the newly founded Maxine van der Velden Memorial
Charitable Trust; to help young Aucklanders achieve their
dreams. The Trust has been set up in memory of Maxine van
der Velden, a much loved Mount Eden resident, who was
tragically killed in a hit and run accident in 2004, aged
19. See... Young
Aucklanders given chance to pursue Passions [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0611/S00080.htm
MORE
HEADLINES:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00142.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00138.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0611/S00113.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0611/S00159.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0611/S00083.htm
Film
News (includes video): Sponsors Sought For Kiwi Film On
Kenyan Grandmothers
">
- At a special event hosted by AMP Financial Services,
Qiujing Wong (Q) from Borderless Productions was awarded one
of twelve scholarships to help launch a unique filmmaking
endeavour in Africa. Further Sponsors are sought for this
most excellent project, A Grandmother's Tribe. See... NZ
Filmmaker Wins Scholarship For Africa Project [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0611/S00050.htm
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS:
Media: Big Guns Meet To Discuss Arab
Media
">
- The Prime Minister of Lebanon and international media
personalities including Thomas Friedman of the New York
Times and David Ignatius of the Washington Post will
participate in an international conference in Beirut in
December to draw attention to the threats against Arab
media. See... Arab
Media in Danger [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00100.htm
Middle
East: Israel PM States Israel Killed 300 "Terrorists" In
Gaza
">
- On October 30, Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
reportedly told the Knesset Security and Foreign Affairs
Committee that in the past three months, the Israeli
military has killed 300 "terrorists" in the Gaza Strip in
its war against terror. See... Who
Does Israel's PM Consider To Be A Terrorist? [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00107.htm
UN
AUDIO NEWS:
UN Audio: [1] UN Humanitarian
Chief Demands Immediate Freeze on Use of Cluster Bombs -
Palestinian Envoy Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza Strip - UNRWA
Says There are No Safe Havens in Gaza - Global Warming
Threatens World Heritage Sites - Panama Wins Non-Permanent
Seat on Security Council – SPECIAL FEATURES: A New UNEP
Report Details Threats to World Heritage Sites Posed by
Climate Change - Youth Leadership Summit 2006: Youth Around
the Globe Gather to Share Problems and Solutions.
[1]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00117.htm
MORE
WORLD HEADLINES:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00103.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00099.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00097.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00095.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00094.htm