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Australian insurance excludes Kiwis
Tens of thousands of New Zealanders will be excluded from Australia's new national disability insurance scheme.
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Editorial: NZ must not settle for less than golden deal on TPP
Editorial: Auckland has seldom hosted a more globally important meeting than the negotiations that start today on the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement.
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North Korea to launch rocket
North Korea said it will launch a long-range rocket in mid-December, a provocative move just eight months after a failed attempt violated a United Nations ban.
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Mission of success for Kiwi contingent
There was rioting in the streets and parts of Honiara were burning to the ground in protest at the recent elections.
![Stephen Jacobi: Trade talks about clear rules, investment - jobs](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Stephen Jacobi: Trade talks about clear rules, investment - jobs
TPP negotiators meet in Auckland this week to further a plan to create jobs and growth.
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Gillard denies trying to mislead
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has rejected suggestions that as a lawyer 20 years ago she misled West Australian authorities.
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Stephen Diver: Germany showing way ahead
For the past two years a gleeful band of Eurosceptics in the Anglo-US political establishment have been arguing that the euro cannot survive.
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French right at crossroads
Election stalemate and fraud accusations as centre-right party rips itself apart.
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Republicans in a lather over potential elevation of Rice
Washington can move in mysterious ways, but rarely more strangely than now: just why are Republicans so dead set on scuppering Susan Rice?
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Key in Burma: The Herald interview
As John Key wraps up an important Burma visit, he talks to Herald Political Editor Audrey Young about what he's learned and seen.
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John Key meets with Aung San Suu Kyi at Burma
Prime Minister John Key meets with Aung San Suu Kyi at Naypyitaw which is the capital of the South East Asian nation. Mr Key is the first New Zealand Prime Minister to visit the country.
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Suu Kyi thanks NZ for support
Burma's Democracy leader, Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, has thanked New Zealanders for their support in the democracy movement.
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Burma turns on the dazzle
Burma's capital Naypyidaw turned on an extraordinary welcome for Prime Minister John Key's visit - the first by a New Zealand leader.
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Key makes history barefoot in Burma
John Key began the first visit of a New Zealand Prime Minister to Burma literally walking in Barack Obama's footsteps.