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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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Australia says sorry to British child migrants
Sydney - The thousands of British children raised in Australian orphanages where neglect, brutality and even sexual abuse were commonplace received a formal apology Monday in the Canberra Parliament. As many as 10,000 children whom Britain didn't wan...
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2009-11-16 ] Category : [
Australasia (World) ]
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