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Mikael Colville-Andersen, “Paris’ Day Sans Cars Shows Us What Our Cities Can Be“, WIRED.
Everyone wandering around the streets of Paris yesterday enjoyed it. There were people thinking, “Amazing! If only this was every day!” and others thinking, “Amazing! But as long as it’s just one day”. But the [...]
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Press Statement Hamas First of all Hamas reiterates its rejection of Oslo and the concessions it entails, and renews its call for removing this page from the history of our people. Despite that Abbas consulted none of our people’s acting forces while formulating his speech, and in spite of the fact that Abbas addressed the […]
News.com.au reports: THE gunman who shot dead a police worker in Sydney was a 15-year-old boy of Iraqi-Kurdish background who was born in Iran and his actions were linked to terrorism, police say. “We believe that his actions were politically motivated and therefore linked to terrorism,” NSW Police Commissioner, Andrew Scipione told reporters in Sydney […]
The Herald reports: Two men have appeared in court in connection with an incident in which an Auckland office was stormed and staff forcefully dragged out by a group in an apparent land claim. John Wanoa, 66, and John Murray Monga, 50, both of South Auckland, were arrested on Friday following the the drama at […]
Well thank goodness we’re not in the pool of death, or we may be dead. Three games down, and all pretty scratchy. One against a mid-level country, and two against minnows. And they all scored tries against us, and we never looked dominant. Credit to Georgia for playing so well. I do love how the […]
As part of the works for the City Rail Link, Queen Elizabeth Square will be completely dug up however as we know it won’t be replaced, instead the square has been sold to Precinct Properties and will be developed. In its place the current road area of Queen St between Customs and Quay Streets – with [...]
News.com.au reports: IRAN’S soccer association has been blasted as “unethical” following bombshell reports that eight members of its women’s team are men. “[Eight players] have been playing with Iran’s female team without completing sex change operations,” Mojtabi Sharifi, an official close to the Iranian league, told a local news website. Officials have now ordered gender […]
Doctoral candidate Taberannang Korauaba from AUT’s Pacific Media Centre, who is also editor of the Kiribati Independent, offers some insight into what drove him to research climate change communications in the South Pacific.
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AP reports: The city that hosts next year’s Olympic Games has become the first in Brazil to ban the use of smartphone-based ride-hailing-applications like Uber. Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes on Tuesday signed legislation recently passed by Rio’s city council banning Uber and similar technologies from operating in the city. “Uber is forbidden,” Paes […]