Новости за 04.08.2018

Tags: General Debate

Press Release HAMAS Hamas leader Rafat Morra reiterated his Movement’s willingness to resume dialogue and achieve the national reconciliation as part of its bid to best serve the Palestinian people’s interests and manage the Palestinian situation based on national partnership. In a press release on Thursday, Morra noted that the visit of Hamas’ delegation to […]

Press Release HAMAS “The Palestinian people want the siege imposed on Gaza to be broken immediately and unconditionally,” the member of Hamas Political Bureau Husam Badran said. During his participation in the Great March of Return on Friday, Badran confirmed that his Movement, alongside the concerned parties, will exert great effort to achieve the Palestinian […]

Stuff reports: Scenes of protest and defiance gave way to tears and disappointment on Parliament’s forecourt, as iwi groups clashed at the signing of the Hauraki treaty settlement.  The Government has chosen to go ahead with the signing of the Pare Hauraki collective redress deed, despite deep division between a number of iwi which make […]

Dr Swee Ang Medical doctor on board the al-Awda, 4 August 2018 The last leg of the journey of al-Awda (the boat of return) was scheduled to reach Gaza on 29 July 2018. We were on target to reach Gaza that evening. There are 22 on board including crew with USD 15,000 of antibiotics and […]

News from Kapiti Coast District COuncil The Kāpiti Coast welcomed over 4,300 visitors to today’s Open Day at Kapiti Coast Airport in Paraparaumu. Mayor K Gurunathan said welcoming and hosting Air Chathams’ aircraft on the Coast for the first time was a great occasion, following the time Kāpiti has been without a direct flight service […]

News from NZ Police Three men armed with a baseball bat and a hammer robbed the Top Cook Dairy and Takeaways near the corner of College and Cook Streets in Palmerston North at 8.20pm last night. After stealing tobacco from the shop, the three left the dairy and were seen getting into a white station […]

David Robie, editor of Pacific Journalism Review, reviews two new books about the repression of West Papua and the prognosis for the future.

AUCKLAND (Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): An Australian-based doctoral media researcher says she has been “blacklisted” by Indonesian authorities and refused entry to the country while embarking on a holiday in Bali.

“Attempting to control rural areas in Afghanistan always eventually ends up boiling down to personal survival.” Evan McAllister, former Marine staff sergeant, New York Times , July 28, 2018

Police are appealing for witnesses after the fatal crash yesterday evening, Friday 3 August, on State Highway 2, Maramarua.

Minister of Education Chris Hipkins’ has today revealed that our export education sector could take yet another hit with suggested closures and mergers on the way for our polytechs and ITP’s, Nationals associate spokesperson for Tertiary Education, ...

Police are appealing to the public for information after shots were fired in the vicinity of Te Araroa Police Station around 10.30pm on Thursday 2 August.

Police can now release the names of the two people who died in the crash on Sandy Road, Meeanee, on Thursday 2 August.

Response to inaccurate reports of the Law Society’s actions regarding a breach of privacy.

Stuff reports: Public health money wasted on a High Court challenge against a supermarket’s shelving arrangement for alcohol should have been spent helping ill patients, critics say. Fourteen health boards throughout the country collectively paid nearly $90,000 in legal fees to try to stop Dannevirke New World changing the angle of shelves inside its already licensed alcohol area. They lost the case.  Their case was preposterous. It got […]

When Steve Glassey left Wellington SPCA as CEO last year after leading the rescue of over 1,000 animals from the flooded township of Edgecumbe, he knew that the animals that suffered and drowned because of the disaster, deserved better. The animal rescue ...

The response to the unparalleled damage caused by Cyclone Winston and the Canterbury Earthquakes have taken away two prestigious awards at engineering’s equivalent of the Oscars, the 2018 ACENZ Innovate Awards.

Early childhood establishments in New Zealand tend to have different leadership models. Many of these are based around a hierarchical model, where there is possibly a centre manager, assistant centre manager, head teachers in each room, assistant head teachers, ...

The family of the Australian climber rescued on Mt Aspiring are asking the media for privacy while he recuperates in hospital.

Hamilton CIB are investigating two indecent assaults that occurred in the staff carpark at Waikato Hospital.

"Serious crash, Huka Falls" One person is seriously injured after a crash on Huka Falls Road this morning. Emergency services were called around 10:30am after a car and cyclist collided. The male cyclist has been taken to hospital in a serious ...

We have received the updated Heavy Rain Warning & Watch for the District. The warning and watch periods have now both increased from Sunday into Monday. The rain warning expected totals have also increased. Having a quick look at the rainfall ...

• New Kiwibank CEO Steve Jurkovich says Kiwibank's past performance issues - including a $100m computer blowout and a disagreement with the Reserve Bank over the quality of its capital - have left Kiwibank "bruised" but ready to "do better". ...

Phil Quin writes: In the event that the Supreme Court upholds the lower court ruling on Kim Dotcom’s extradition, the scalding hot potato lands in the lap of New Zealand’s political leaders. In weighing next steps on this matter, I would urge them to take into account the state of the Trump administration in general, […]