Hosking: If you're afraid of the UN, you're afraid of ghosts
COMMENT: In 36 years in this business have I ever been silenced on anything?
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Comment: NZ taking on complex ethnic crisis in Rakhine
The PM is offering help in a very complex conflict in Myanmar.
Hosking: Money talks in the Pacific and NZ doesn't have the coin
If we think we are a player here, we are dreaming.
WikiLeaks founder hires Kiwi PR guru
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PM removes device from table before talks with Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Supreme Court: Ban on prisoner voting inconsistent with Bill of Rights
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Ocean study's climate change warning
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Dutton's warning on Nauru refugees
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Thomas the Tank Engine's new friend 'homeless' Kenyan train
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$1.5b for climate projects in poor countries
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Niki Bezzant: We need to start eating smarter
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Researchers use AI to predict outbreak of future wars
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At charity dinner, Nikki Haley takes playful jabs at Trump and other political elites
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Yemen facing worst famine in a century
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Editorial: Support participation in sport -- sure. But make it girls AND boys
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Your say: Compelling case to stop seabed mining; virtue-signalling columnists; guilty unless proven innocent
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Tony Blackett: Justice must be done for Rohingya
COMMENT: More must be done to do justice for Rohingya driven from their homes.
US ambassador to UN Nikki Haley quits - Trump sings her praises
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Editorial: Ardern's mothering feat is not unusual
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Hosking: Why should we pay for the PM's ad agency?
COMMENT: Who supplies Labour's Leader's Budget? We do. It's all taxpayer money.
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