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Claims of spying cloud start to G8 summit
The British Government has been battered by claims over spying and Syria as the G8 summit begins in Northern Ireland.
The British Government has been battered by claims over spying and Syria as the G8 summit begins in Northern Ireland.
The surprise victory of reformist candidate Hassan Rowhani in the Iranian presidential elections triggered a predictably harsh reaction yesterday.
Australia's Parliament resumed yesterday for its final eight days before the September 14 election, with Prime Minister Julia Gillard fending off attacks.
This mayoral hopeful in Mexico promises to eat, sleep most of the day and donate his leftover litter to fill potholes.
British Prime Minister David Cameron will support American plans to impose a no-fly zone over parts of Syria.
Hassan Rowhani, the portly cleric who set Iran's presidential election alight, was never meant to be the standard-bearer of the country's battered reform movement.
Foreign Minister Murray McCully will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on their home ground this week.
Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee has extended the date for submissions on the controversial GCSB spy agency bill by eight days.
Short of a last-minute bloodbath that would almost certainly destroy whatever slim chance remains of Labor's survival.
Iran's clerical authorities are taking no chances in this week's election for a successor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Revelations of snooping into private data and communications on a massive scale by the Obama Administration has shed a little dayligh.
A former spy boss says New Zealand is a democratic and free country because of our relationship with the United States and other large powers.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's leadership again hangs by a thread as Labor MPs in fear of their seats increasingly swing to ousted predecessor Kevin Rudd.
On May 29, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told Democracy Now! that the Obama Administration's bid to convict Bradley Manning was a "show trial".
Chinese and US Presidents Xi Jinping and Barack Obama's first summit appears to have been successful with accords reached on cyber security and military-to-military communication.
Australia's parliamentary human rights watchdog has expressed concerns over the exclusion of expatriate New Zealanders from the new national disability insurance scheme, despite having to help fund it.
The defence for Bradley Manning sought to score early points at his trial yesterday.
Revelations that a convicted terrorist passed scrutiny as an asylum seeker and was held in a low-security detention centre has sharpened criticism of the Government's failure to control boat arrivals from Indonesia.
Editorial: For 90 years, the modern secular state forged by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire has, by and large, served Turkey well.
Peers from all parties have warned the House of Lords it would exceed its powers if it derailed plans to legalise gay marriage.
Egypt depends utterly on irrigation water from the Nile to grow its food. Even now there is not enough and Egypt's population is still growing fast, writes Gwynne Dyer.
Labor MPs are becoming increasingly nervous about the September 14 Australian election as polls continue to turn against Prime Minister Julia Gillard and her minority Government.
A 22-year-old man died in hospital after being shot during anti-government protests in southern Turkey, as trade unions prepare to strike in support of those on the streets.
A visit by a foreign minister of Japan would not normally attract more than polite interest in this country, writes the Herald in an editorial.