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Obamacare to the rescue
US President Barack Obama helped catch a pregnant woman when she became faint during his speech about the troubled Obamacare website.
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French anger over mass NSA snoop
France wants answers from the US after it was revealed the NSA swept up - and in some cases recorded - 70.3 million French phone calls and emails over a month.
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US whistle-blower enjoys NZ quiet life
He received death threats for blowing the whistle on a multi-million dollar defence scam - now a retired US Air Force officer is living a quiet life in Central Otago.
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Talks to resume over Ross Sea
The world's biggest marine reserve in Antarctica may have to be given an expiry date to get countries with interests in the prized waters to agree to it.
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Nobel Prize laureates lobby Putin on activists
Eleven Nobel Peace Prize laureates have written a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin calling for piracy charges against environmental activists.
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Tea Party Republicans betrayed US: Obama
President Barack Obama launched a ferocious political attack on hardline Tea Party Republicans yesterday.