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KOSOVO: Italian foreign minister says the table has been turned in Kosovo and Serbs are now being oppressed and terrorised as much as the Albanians were.
EAST TIMOR: Opening day of campaigning in East Timor begins with both sides promising a peaceful campaign. The vote will take place on August 30th.
GREAT BARRIER MYSTERY: Police searching suspected murder victim Colin Good’s property on Great Barrier Island have finished their search without finding the missing hand.
OLD PEOPLE AND DRUGS: Health professionals are being warned that drug and alcohol abuse among pensioners will be a problem in the future.
PINOCHET: Delegation of Chilean military officials is visiting Augusto Pinochet in London to discuss his estradition.
NORTH KOREAN SPORTS-WOMAN: North Korean woman
soldier has broken the world record for grenade throwing.
She through a grenade 55
metres.
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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