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MONDAY Hutt Little Theatre, 2 Queen’s Drive, 11am, $15, family pass $50 Come and learn fun things with the Gltterbugs by dancing and singing along to all of their favourite songs. They are seriously sparkly and twinkly-toed and they would love to see you. bookings eventfinda Circus Performance: Fool Steam Ahead Amokura Gallery, Level 4, Te Papa, 10.30am-11.30am, free Colossal Productions are back at Te Papa with a daredevil circus performance with incredible acrobatics and loads of belly ...

The Daily 202: DACA decision highlights chasm between Trump’s compassionate rhetoric and realityby wpjljron Tuesday, September 5th, 2017.The Daily 202: DACA decision highlights chasm between Trump’s compassionate rhetoric and realityTHE BIG IDEA: By their fruits you will know them. At the Republican National Convention last summer, Donald Trump said he’d “do everything in my power to protect our LGBT citizens.” Then he rescinded protections for trans students in public schools and is...

Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 11:01 am John Braddock New Zealand’s Labour-Green coalition government is under increasing pressure, from sections of the NZ ruling elite and from the country’s allies, over its apparent reluctance to fully endorse the escalating build-up to war against China. As the Biden administration ramps up Washington’s diplomatic and military offensive, every country is being forced into line. The furore over the Jacinda Ardern-led government’s less than full-throated supp...

While the Labour government has adopted a more explicit anti-Chinese stance, demands are growing that Wellington do more to put the country on a war footing.

Baker became a trusted household figure from the moment the pandemic took hold in New Zealand and helped inform the Government’s Covid-19 response. He also won the science and technology category. The award is just another to add to the trophy cabinet for the public health physician, who was previously awarded the Prime Minister’s Science Prize as a member of HHRP and was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit. In accepting the award, Baker said given the competition he had thou...

Despite talk of a military strike, Trump’s ‘armada’ actually sailed away from Korea – Washington Postby wpjljron Wednesday, April 19th, 2017.Despite talk of a military strike, Trump’s ‘armada’ actually sailed away from Korea – Washington PostBEIJING — As tensions mounted on the Korean Peninsula, Adm. Harry Harris made a dramatic announcement: An aircraft carrier had been ordered to sail north from Singapore on April 8 toward the Western Pacific. A spokesman for the U.S. Pacifi...

US wants more UN sanctions over North Korea’s nuclear arms, warns time is short – Washington Postby wpjljron Saturday, April 29th, 2017.US wants more UN sanctions over North Korea’s nuclear arms, warns time is short – Washington PostUNITED NATIONS — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Friday for new economic sanctions on North Korea and other “painful” measures over its nuclear weapons program, as the Trump administration warned that it would take military action if diplomacy ...

North Korean defector: A very small spark could topple Kim Jong Un 12 minutes to read By: Edward White The former North Korean diplomat on life under the Kims — and how the world should counter the regime. Tae Yong-ho says he was 14 years old when he first began to comprehend the true cruelty of the songbun, Kim Il Sungs class system. It was August 1976, and the Great Leader was expelling people whose loyalty might not be guaranteed. Taes parents, members of the "core class"...

Advertisement How do you start a story about the public political assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s half-brother by two women at a Malaysian airport in 2017? Kim Jong-Nam, the oldest successor to Kim Jong Il, was planning to check in at Kuala Lumpur Airport for a flight to Macau, where he and his young family lived in exile after his younger half-brother assumed control of North Korea, when a toxic nerve agent was applied to his eyes. He was dead in an hour. Clearly the fi...

Review: NatGeo’s ‘Inside the Mind of a Dictator’ Looks at the World of Kim Jong Un Inside the Mind of a Dictator, which was originally scheduled to air in January but postponed at the last minute, hinges quite a bit on that tension, between Kim’s occasional gestures toward openness and modernization, and the regime’s character as a dictatorship with little political freedom. Kim Jong-un, the dictator of North Korea for the last decade, has quite a bit in common with Michael Corleone, ...