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Disaster prompts president to lift moratorium on death penalty, a move human rights groups say is ‘a retreat into barbarism’
SOME 1,000 pro-democracy protesters rallied against the signing of an anti-worker and anti-democratic trade agreement in New Zealand yesterday.
The peaceful march obstructed traffic in the centre of Auckland, where the signing was set to take place. A smaller demonstration was held in the capital Wellington.
Representatives of New Zealand, the United States, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Peru, Chile, Vietnam and Brunei gathered to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
MIKE MARTIN surveys the regional opposition to US attempts to force the region into a military confrontation with China
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Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON