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Health officials are meeting now to decide the fate of a critically ill Tuvalu man who is no longer eligible for the life-saving kidney treatment he's been getting since last year. But the overstayer now looks likely to be permitted to stay in New Zealand, after government ministers stepped in. The immigration Minister Lianne Dalziell is expected to comment shortly. Kidney dialysis costs up 50 thousand dollars a year for each patient, and new Health Ministry guidelines say foreign patients who are ineligible for treatment should be stablised first but then have dialysis turned off in favour of palliative care. PRE REC Pacific Island Affairs Under Secretary Taito Philip Field.
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The first of the Bali bombing suspects has gone on trial in Indonesia amid extremely tight security. The 40 year old man who is simply known as Amrozi, is charged with buying the materials for the bomb, which killed more than 200 people including 88 Australians and three New Zealanders last October
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The trial of an on duty police constable accused of causing grievous bodily harm to a teenager in an alleged attack with a torch in Porirua last July has opened in the Wellington District Court. The officer, whose identity is suppressed until verdict, has denied causing grievous bodily harm, as well as an alternative charge of assault with a weapon.
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A parliamentary select comittee has been told that lawyers are concerned about the way that a proposed New Zealand Supreme Court would appoint its judges. The Justice and Electoral Committee is in Auckland hearing submissions on the plan to replace appeals to the Privy Council with a New Zealand Supreme Court.
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The US Secretary of State Colin Powell, has urged the Israeli and Palestinian Leaders to seize what he terms an historical opportunity for peace.
Mr Powell has been holding talks with both leaders seeking backing for an International peace plan known as the road map.
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Health officials have been meeting to decide the fate of a critically ill Tuvalu man who is no longer eligible for the life-saving kidney treatment he's been receiving.
A short time ago the Immigration Minister Lianne Dalziell held a news conference LIVER WITH Julian Robins.
New figures show while the level of crime is stable a small proportion of the population is repeatedly suffering from it. The Ministry of Justice 2001 survey if five -thousand people shows four-percent were repeatedly victims of 5-percent of the crime. PRE REC WITH DR WARREN YOUNG SEC FOR JUSTICE
[illegible] established a firm lead over their male classmates in the first year of he new secondary school qualification, the NCEA. Statistics just released show 3 per cent of last year's fifth form, or Year 11, girls achieved Level One of he NCEA, compared to 52 per cent of boys. CUT Bill Lennos from the NCEA IVER WITH GAEL WOODS
[illegible] review of the liquor advertising and programme codes has heard the original Rules include some obvious unintended consequences and changes are needed. [illegible] began in Wellington this morning, with calls for more controls over he current self-regulation on one hand, and for an easing of some restrictions on the other. PACKAGE ANTONY BYERS
Australia's Prime Minister John Howard has defended a decision to keep private a rape allegation against the country's Governor General Peter Hollingworth. Dr Hollingworth yesterday agreed to temporarily stand aside from his role while the Victorian Supreme Court investigates allegations he raped a woman at a church camp in the mid-1960s. PACKAGE ABC'S MATT BROWN.
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