1. ISRAEL - Israel's PM has pledged to move toward peace on
all fronts after reaching an agreement with Palestine.
2.
EAST TIMOR - Portugal has told the UN that the international
community the has responsibility to prevent violence in East
Timor. Eight of the ten NZ police in East Timor have now
returned home.
3. RIDER HURT - Blythe Tait is undergoing
surgery after being injured at a horse trial in Britain.
Another ride was killed at the event.
5. DISEASE - An
outbreak of a mosquito-borne viral disease has hit New
York.
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.
There is no better example of Australia’s politicised public service than its Home Affairs Secretary, Mike Pezzullo. In most other countries, he would have been the ideal conspirator in a coup, a tittletattler in the ranks, and bound to brief against those he did not like. Give him a dagger, and he was bound to use it. More
Once upon a time, the ‘Arab-Israeli Conflict’ was between Arabs & Israelis. Over the course of many years, however, it has been rebranded. The media is now telling us it is a ‘Hamas-Israeli Conflict.’ But what went wrong? Israel simply became too powerful. More