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Fear of Silvio's return makes markets dive
The spectre of another Berlusconi premiership has panicked the financial markets and has Italy and the euro staring into the abyss again.
Editorial: Stalemate in Syria drawing West towards intervention
Editorial: The situation in Syria is "bad and getting worse", according to a joint statement released yesterday after talks in Geneva between the United States, Russia, the United Nations and the Arab League.
Australian insurance excludes Kiwis
Tens of thousands of New Zealanders will be excluded from Australia's new national disability insurance scheme.
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.
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.
Gwynne Dyer: Scotland's bid for independence just a lot of hot air
The Scots, the Catalans and the Basques tend to see themselves as victims, but nobody else does, writes Gwynne Dyer.
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
TPP negotiators meet in Auckland this week to further a plan to create jobs and growth.
Jane Kelsey: Pacific deal masks bigger plan
The 15th round of negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement begins today in the SkyCity Convention Centre.
Gillard denies trying to mislead
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has rejected suggestions that as a lawyer 20 years ago she misled West Australian authorities.
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.
French right at crossroads
Election stalemate and fraud accusations as centre-right party rips itself apart.
Warlord's death 'mix of shock, sadness'
The killing of a senior Taleban warlord, blamed for the deaths of four New Zealand soldiers, has been met with shock and sadness by one grieving mother.
NZ sets TPP signing terms
New Zealand will not sign a Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement unless it removes tariffs on dairy products and allows the state-owned drug-buying agency to stay.
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?
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.
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.