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Shane Te Pou: We can't be smug over US woes 15 Feb, 2021 03:46 PM 5 minutes to read John Banks' handling of one talkback call was enough to end his radio role. Photo / Dean Purcell John Banks' handling of one talkback call was enough to end his radio role. Photo / Dean Purcell NZ Herald OPINION: The talkback call that brought down John Banks would have barely raised an eyebrow 20 years ago. Tim Bickerstaff — remember him? Let's review the tape: On January 21, responding to a caller named Richard, who complained he didn't want his kids learning about "Stone Age" Māori cult...

This photo released by the semi-official Fars News Agency shows the scene where Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed in Absard, a small city just east of the capital, Tehran, Iran, Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. Fakhrizadeh, an Iranian scientist that Israel alleged led the Islamic Republic's military nuclear program until its disbanding in the early 2000s was “assassinated” Friday, state television said. (Fars News Agency via AP) The Jewish Chronicle has recently provided enough evidence which incontrovertibly show that the Iranian scientist, Mohsen Fakhrisadeh, was assassinated by none other than the I...

What’s new? In February 2020, South Sudan’s two main belligerents began forming a unity government pursuant to a peace deal inked a year and a half earlier. But the pact is fragile, smaller conflicts are still ablaze and the threat of return to full-blown civil war remains.  Why does it matter? Forthcoming elections could test the peace deal severely. Looking further ahead, conflict will continue to plague South Sudan until its leaders forge a political system that distributes power more widely. The cost of cyclical fighting since 2013 has been steep: hundreds of thousands dead and m...

Pakistan's Military Involvement In The Nagorno-Karabakh War February 9, 2021 | By Tufail Ahmad On October 2, 2020, the government of Pakistan sought to deny media reports that Pakistani soldiers were aiding the Azeri military against Armenia in the Nagorno-Karabakh war (September 27-November 10, 2020). The Pakistani newspapers of the next morning, October 3, quoted Zahid Hafeez Chaudri, the spokesman of the Foreign Office in Islamabad, as saying that such media reports were "speculative and baseless" and "irresponsible."[1] After this official denial of involvement, Pakistani journalists cam...

Puerto Rico's Effective Minimum Wage Would Be $68/Hour Under Biden Plan While a federal $15 dollar minimum wage will help some people, it will hurt many others. Friday, January 29, 2021 Puerto Rico has had a long history of being harmed by Washington overreach. The island was once home to a thriving needlework industry until the federal minimum wage destroyed its competitive advantage. The same unintended consequence happened again in 1974 when increases in the minimum wage cut 32 percent of low wage jobs and triggered a mass migration off the island. Now history threatens to repeat itself on...