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As New Zealanders head to the coasts for summer holidays, Customs Minister, Rick Barker, is reminding people to keep an eye out for anything that looks “suspicious”.

This last year has been a particularly difficult time for multilateral disarmament. Many of the most sensitive international issues – Iraq, the Middle East, North Korea, and India/Pakistan – have had as a common element the possession and possible use of weapons of mass destruction. But perversely there seems to be little public clamour for governments to dispose of their weapons of mass destruction.

Foreign Minister Phil Goff has announced NZ is giving $70,000 as an initial contribution for relief aid to the cyclone

NZ Foreign Minister Phil Goff has asked New Zealand Cricket to request the ICC consider moving scheduled Cricket World Cup games out of Zimbabwe.

Health Minister Annette King says nearly half a million New Zealanders will get a broader range of primary health care services, many of them more cheaply, from January 1.