Новости за 30.04.2016

Tags: General Debate

News.com.au reports: FIVE people, including two little girls, were pepper-sprayed during a heated clash between Trump demonstrators in California on Tuesday. Backers waving US flags and pro-Trump signs were met by opponents leading to a shouting match between about 50 people outside City Hall in the Orange County community. At one point, an opponent unleashed […]

SYDNEY (The Australian/Pacific Media Watch): Timor-Leste Prime Minister Rui de Araujo has lashed out at Western critics, saying their nations had “acquiesced” to the 24 years of Indonesian occupation.

Stuff reports: It works for cats and it works for cows, so should cyclists also be required to have a bell so you can hear them coming? That could soon be the case in Wellington, after the city council proposed changing its rules to “strongly encourage” every cyclist to have a bell for warning pedestrians when they are about to whizz past. I’m not […]

CNN reports: Australia has ordered 12 new submarines at a cost of $39 billion, becoming the latest nation to upgrade its fleet in a region where the seas are getting crowded. French defense contractor DCNS beat competitors from Japan and Germany to the massive contract, which Australia described as the “largest and most complex” in […]

The herald today has pulled the veil back on some of the key opponents battling Skypath in the Environment court and how they’re not at all representative of the views of the communities they claim to serve.

News from NZ Police Police are investigating two suspicious fires in Monmouth Street, Feilding. AT about 4.55am this morning, the Fire Service were called to a fire in Monmouth Street. On arrival they discovered a vacant house ablaze. Shortly afterwards, a further call was received with regard to another vacant property on the same street […]

Stuff reports: Labour leader Andrew Little has ended a secret trip to Iraq where he says he wanted to see first hand the work of Kiwi troops. The invitation to visit troops at Iraq’s Camp Taji was issued by Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee, after Labour opposed the deployment. Little’s trip was not announced till after […]

The Herald reports: One of TV3’s biggest and most popular stars, newsreader Hilary Barry, has quit the network. Her departure is the second high-profile casualty at TV3 in the past year after John Campbell left in May when his show Campbell Live was dumped. The Weekend Herald can reveal Ms Barry, who has been with […]

News from NZ Police A search and rescue operation for two missing women has been started after their rental car was found last night at the entrance of the Kapakapanui Track, in the Tararua Forest Park near Waikanae. Police are appealing to anyone who may have recently seen mother and daughter Carolyn and Rachel LLoyd, […]