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Photo recall: Peace was just as tough

Harry "Middy" Middleton spoke very few words about the Great War.

Rodney Hide: Let's remember the mums, too

Not many of us have a genuine hero for a big brother, says Rodney Hide. His friend Vince Ashworth has two.

Hugs for their heroes

Private Corey Twamley was fighting to give Afghan children the kind of human rights his daughter was born into.

Bringing war criminals to justice

Tauranga lawyer Belinda Pidwell will never forget a Bosnian man tell how he and his family were lined up and shot.

Anne Penketh: Radical options among the search for solutions

Alexander Gillespie: World's only option to let Kim save face

We are perilously close to stumbling into a war of potentially global proportions.

Blair knew Libya bigger threat than Iraq WMDs

Hitherto unseen evidence given to the Chilcot Inquiry by British intelligence has revealed that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was told that Iraq had, at most, only a trivial amount of weapons of mass destruction.

Robert Ayson: Let's hope threats don't lead to action

If North Korea matches its warlike rhetoric with actions we are all in trouble, writes Robert Ayson. Kim Jong-Un may not have inherited the kind of nuclear warheads from his father that are ready to be put on to long-range missiles.

Bob Jones: Historic apologies just pointless gestures

In India recently, British Prime Minister David Cameron rightly refused to apologise for the 1919 Amritsar massacre.

Blasphemy laws pose risk for minorities

Christian community leaders in Lahore say the violence unleashed on the Pakistani city's Joseph colony erupted after a drinking session involving two friends, one Muslim and the other Christian.

Irfan Yusuf: Pakistan could tear itself apart

Pakistan is ripping itself apart, one minority at a time, says Irfan Yusuf.

Regrets for man who laid Saddam low

Kadom al-Jabouri became the face of the fall of Baghdad but the "sledgehammer man" furiously regrets the symbolism of what he was involved in 10 years ago.

New WWII book tells how Kiwis were murdered after Great Escape

Kim Jong-Un monitors 'actual war' drill

Unknown NZ soldier laid to rest

The remains of an unknown New Zealand soldier killed on the Western Front during World War I were buried last night in a ceremony in Belgium.

Rachel Smalley: Humanity comes first

The first time I encountered Hazara was in Kabul in 2008. I had placed my life in the hands of Khalib, an Afghan translator.