The head of an Auckland drug rehabilitation clinic says its not going to be easy for convicted heroin smugglers Lorrain and Aaron Cohen to re adjust to life outside jail and also to remain drug free.x Karlum Lattimore
The Fire Service is launching an education and information campaign targetting Bay of Plenty Māori, after a spate of fatal house fires in the region, all involving Māori.x Mark Henderson
The weekend Labour Party congress in Wellington saw the party moving to re-position itself for the election, only four months away. Michael Hirschfeld LIVE
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Half a million North Koreans are facing famine this year unless the country can fill a one-point-two million tonne shortfall in rice production.x bryan Crump
[illegible] programme which teaches pre-schoolers and their parents to read and write is proving a success in South Auckland. Home Instruction Programme for Preschool Youngsters - known as HIPPY A wintry blast of cold southerlies has continued to lash the capital this afternoon.x eileen cameron
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Russia's president Boris Yeltsin is due to meet in a few hours time with the leader of Chechnya's rebel movement. Yeltsin is currently well ahead of his main communist rival in the opinion polls, with the election now just three weeks away.x clare pasley
The Fijian Goverment has backtracked over its decision to ban controversial Australian columnist Dr Ron Gatty from writing in the Fiji times. This case highlights the increasing difficulties journalists in the South Pacific Island nations are facing. It seems largely as a result of Government pressure x bruce hill
[illegible] to our earlier story - Lorraine and Aaron cohen are to be released from prison in Malaysia on June 29 Karpal singh LIVE
In Israel's May 29 election some twenty parties are competing. Five of them represent the Arabs of Israel - that is, those who stayed in 1948 within the borders of the newly-created Israeli state.x bbc
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Some arms control researchers think it's time to look at the importance of light weapons in conflicts around the world, x Judy Lessing
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