Fiji judge calls for NZ to drop travel ban NZ Herald | Concerns over the way New Zealand officials handled a visa application for a Fijian judge with a sick child have led to a diplomatic tiff in Suva. | Fiji's chief justice Anthony Gates at a press conference today called on New Zealand and Australia to abandon travel restrictions on the country's ju...
Q+A - Japan-U.S. base feud hits nerve ahead of Obama visit The Star | TOKYO (Reuters) - A feud over plans to relocate a military base on Japan's Okinawa island as part of a broad reorganisation of U.S. troops is straining Washington's ties with Tokyo's new government ahead of President Barack Obama's Nov. 12-13 visit. An aerial view shows U.S. Marine's Futenma air s...
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Heir to the tribe: South Pacific tribe who worship the Duke of Edinburgh want to ... The Daily Mail | Prince William, who is due to visit Australia and New Zealand in January, has been asked to make a side trip - to a South Pacific jungle to greet a tribe who worship his grandfather, Prince Philip, as a God. | The second in line to the throne will ...
Hillary Clinton to represent US at Berlin Wall The Examiner Comments WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will lead a U.S. delegation to Germany for next week's 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the White House said Friday. | The White House announced a delegation ...
Wyoming wants a piece of Cougars, and their recruiting turf The Salt Lake Tribune Updated: 11/06/2009 06:44:41 PM MST | Laramie, Wyo. » Aside from their once-a-year meetings on the field, football coaches at Wyoming and BYU don't usually see a lot of each other. But that figures to change, now that former Missouri offen...
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Australia seeks Indonesia asylum-seekers deal-paper The Star | SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is considering trying to stem a flood of would-be asylum-seekers through a new alliance with Indonesia, a report said on S...
New tsunami warning stirs panic in Samoa The Australian | SOME were injured, others grieving, but all were exhausted and terrified as the people of Samoa were again forced to run to the hills yesterday as the sirens and church bells sou...
Typhoon Melor begins move from Northern Marianas Syracuse | (AP) - SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands - A typhoon churning across the western Pacific continued moving away from the Northern Mariana Islands on Sunday as residents began clean...
Fiji embroiled in diplomatic row with Australia and New Zealand The Times | The South Pacific island nation of Fiji is embroiled in another diplomatic row with Australia and New Zealand after expelling their top envoys over a spat about travel visas. | Frank Bainimarama, the self-appointed military leader who has ruled Fij...
New Zealand expels top Fiji envoy Independent online | New Zealand has ordered Fiji's top envoy out of the country in response to a similar move by the Pacific country's military regime, Foreign Minister Murray McCully said on Wednesday. | "New Zealand's (foreign ministry) met with Fiji's acting head o...
Fiji orders Australian, NZ diplomats out The Star | SUVA, Fiji (AP): Australia's prime minister vowed a hard line against Fiji on Wednesday after the island nation's military ruler ordered the expulsion of top diplomats from Australia and New Zealand. | The Tuesday order by Commodore Frank Bainimara...
Q+A - Japan-U.S. base feud hits nerve ahead of Obama visit The Star | TOKYO (Reuters) - A feud over plans to relocate a military base on Japan's Okinawa island as part of a broad reorganisation of U.S. troops is straining Washington's ties with Tokyo's new government ahead of President Barack Obama's Nov. 12-13 visit. An aerial view shows U.S. Marine's Futenma air station is seen between the urban area in Ginowan, ...
Global warming: The nine most affected areas NZ Herald | Bangladesh | People living in the flood-prone delta nation are feeling the full force of climate change. Frequent flooding wipes out crops, spreads disease and destroys homes. | Sudan | Rising temperatures are causing the Sahara Desert to expand, eating into the farmland on the edge of the wastelands and causing immense pressure for food. | Carib...
