Country: New Zealand
capital:
Wellington,
New Zealand
 East
Timor
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 New
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NEW ZEALAND News:
20070629
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 British
-  Police
- New
Zealand -  Iraq
-  Military
-  Politics
- "Stoic
Londoners Shrug at Latest Threat." ... "The headline
of London’s Evening Standard newspaper today said 1,700 people could have
died at “ladies’ night” in the Tiger Tiger night spot. The police gauged
the potential death toll as “significant” if the car had exploded." ...
"But, in the manner of a city that shrugged stoically at the July 7 bombings
two years ago, many people in the streets near Piccadilly Circus seemed
less than troubled here today after police announced that they had defused
an explosive mixture of gasoline, nails and gas canisters in a car abandoned
outside the Tiger Tiger on a thoroughfare called Haymarket." ... "“It’s
something you get used to, living in London,” said Andrew Fowler, a 39-year-old
lawyer who was sipping coffee at an outdoor café near Piccadilly
Circus." ... "“And given the stance our government made on the war in Iraq
and elsewhere, I think we are just getting used to being a target,” he
said. “It’s something we have to live with.”" ... "“It’s only when I got
to work that I realized what was happening,” said Renee Anderson, 32, a
New Zealander from her country’s nearby diplomatic representation." ...
"“I feel surprisingly all right about it,” she said. “We all kind of thought,
well you could be hit by a bus anyway and the English mentality must be
such that they have coped with this for such a long time with all the bombings
so they just get on with it. You can see that.”" -Alan
Cowell with contributions by Pamela Kent and Beth Gardiner
-NYTimes
20051103
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 US
-  Australia
-  Canada
- New
Zealand - Britain
-  Germany
-  Consumer
-  Money
- "U.S.
Health Care Costs Big Money: Survey Says Americans
Pay More, Get Disorganized Care." ... "Americans pay more when they get
sick than people in other Western nations and receive more confused, error-prone
treatment, according to the largest survey to compare U.S. health care
with other nations." ... "The survey of nearly 7,000 sick adults in the
United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Britain and Germany found
Americans were the most likely to pay at least $1,000 in out-of-pocket
expenses. More than half went without needed care because of cost, the
survey found, and more than a third endured mistakes and disorganized care
when they did get treated." ... "While patients in every nation sometimes
run into obstacles to getting care and face deficiencies in treatment,
the United States stood out for having the highest error rates, most disorganized
care and highest costs, the survey found." -By Rob
Stein-WashingtonPost
20050720
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- Animals
- Food
- "WHO
Presses China Over Bird Flu Samples." ... "Chinese
authorities have yet to release samples gathered in the western province
of Qinghai, where at least 6,000 migratory birds have died, Wadia said."
... "Over the last two years, hundreds of millions of birds, including
poultry and wild birds, have died or been slaughtered across Asia because
of the H5N1 bird flu virus, which also has infected some humans, killing
more than 55 people in Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia, which
reported three new human deaths from bird flu Wednesday." ... "Health experts
have warned that migratory geese and gulls in Qinghai could be poised to
spread the virus to India, Australia, New Zealand and eventually Europe
when they fly south this summer." -By Alexa Olesen
-AP via -WashingtonPost
20030430
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- "WHO
lifts warning as Canada halts SARS gains." ... "WHO
Director General Gro Harlem Brundtland, former prime minister of Norway
and a medical doctor, said the magnitude of the SARS outbreak in Toronto
has decreased. Speaking at a press conference in Geneva after meeting with
a delegation of Canadian health officials, Brundtland said: ''It has now
been 20 days since the last cases of community transmission, and there
are no confirmed new export cases out of Toronto or Canada. We will be
lifting the travel advice for Toronto, Canada.''" ... "In Asia, the disease
continued to spread. Hong Kong reported 12 new deaths, China nine, and
Singapore one. The global death toll climbed to at least 355, with more
than 5,300 infections in more than 20 countries, including probable cases
reported for the first time in South Korea, Mongolia, and New Zealand."
-By Colin Nickerson
-Boston/Globe
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