Truck crash kills 500 sheep in Australia
Sydney - More than 500 sheep were killed when a truck carrying them to an abattoir overturned on a bend in Australia's south-east. Victoria Police Sergeant Nick Buenin said Friday that the truck with 750 sheep on board hit a guard rail and slid on it...
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2009-11-20 ] Category : [
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Three Chinese arrested for forging university degrees
Wellington - Three Chinese citizens have been arrested in New Zealand and charged with forging university degrees, diplomas and other academic records, police announced on Thursday. They are believed to have produced more than 100 false qualification...
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2009-11-19 ] Category : [
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New Zealand air force man dies in explosion
Wellington - A Royal New Zealand Air Force sergeant died Thursday when an artillery shell exploded at the North Island military camp at Waiouru. Flight Sergeant Andrew Bruce Forster, a father of three, was killed instantly when the unexploded shell w...
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Pacific sailors survive two months adrift
Sydney - Five villagers from Papua New Guinea were being treated for malnutrition and exposure in a Marshall Islands hospital Wednesday after being rescued following two months adrift in the Pacific Ocean. A party of eight men set out from the mainla...
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2009-11-18 ] Category : [
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New Zealand leader will not meet Dalai Lama
Wellington - New Zealand Prime Minister John Key will not meet the Dalai Lama during his scheduled visit to Auckland next month, a spokesman for the trust organising the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader's programme, said on Wednesday. There can be on...
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2009-11-18 ] Category : [
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Drunk driver blamed mouthwash for alcohol breath
Wellington - A New Zealand mother caught driving her 5-year- old child with a breath-alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit blamed mouthwash when stopped by police, a court was told, according to a news report Wednesday. Shona Ann Connor, 4...
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2009-11-18 ] Category : [
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Four arrested in New Zealand coal-mine protest
Wellington - Four activists from the Greenpeace environmental organization were arrested Tuesday as they tried to shut down a New Zealand coal mine supplying the world's biggest milk processing plant. Three women and a man from Greenpeace blockaded g...
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2009-11-16 ] Category : [
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New Zealand will not apologize to child immigrants
Wellington - The New Zealand government will not make a formal apology to victims of Britain's past child migrant programme, according to Social Development Minister Paula Bennett. She was quoted Tuesday in news reports as saying that the 549 immigra...
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2009-11-16 ] Category : [
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