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Editorial: NZ needs to stand firm on Fiji ban

Brian Rudman: Parliamentary payback too sweet to resist

Tea Party firebrand eyes top job

Tyrants' crude tools of power fail as era of classic security state ends

Oil states are, by their nature, undemocratic.The despots who have ruled the Arab world for half a century are not giving up without a fight.

Rugby World Cup a carrot for Fiji's military

Irfan Yusuf: Witch-hunt has no place in civilised democracy

Sydney lawyer and author of <i>Once Were Radicals: My Years as a Teenage Islamo-facist</i> writes that republican-steered terrorism hearings entirely off the mark.

UN resolution brings hope to Libyan rebels

Libyan city falls to anti-goverment forces - reports

Libya's second largest city, Benghazi, has fallen to anti-government forces after a crack army unit defected to the opposition and clashes spread to the capital, Tripoli, residents and news reports say.

Gaddafi's son warns of civil war

The son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has appeared on that country's state-owned television to make a statement denouncing the current civil unrest.

Abolish Bahrain's monarchy, chant Shia Muslims

Bahrain's Shia Muslims ran in their tens of thousands back into Pearl Square in the centre of Manama.

Uganda goes to the polls - but the majority are too young to vote

Power of brutality and its limits

Lessons from an extraordinary uprising - for protesters and police alike.

Editorial: Egypt's rulers on notice to keep promises

Egyptian military calls for end to strikes, protests

The Egyptian military has reinforced its efforts to try to return the country to normal.

Harawira wins reprieve as panel delays decision