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Canada will play host to the world's most powerful military figures this weekend in Halifax, Nova Scotia. They will discuss global security, nuclear weapons and foreign policy.
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New Zealand, Denmark, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland are among the top five least corrupt nations, according to a new survey released by Transparency International. Canada is in the top ten. Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Sudan are the most corrupt.
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Originally, New Zealand was part of the New South Wales colony. When Australia became a Commonwealth, the Kiwis decided to go it alone. Despite a terrible lack of vowels and hopeless addiction to sporting trophies, they’ve done pretty well.
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They portray a folk band from New Zealand trying to make it big in New York City on HBO, but after two seasons, Flight of the Conchords may be coming to an end.
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A tragic crime scene where a two-year-old girl was discovered by a border collie cross called Rusty has arisen in New Zealand.
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The world champion Monopoly player won the final game at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas when his opponent landed on Pacific and North Carolina Avenue and could not afford the rent due.
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It's a good time to be a bunny. A contest in which children toss dead rabbits for distance has been a tradition in Waiau, New Zealand for decades. It has been canceled this year.
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India, home to over one third of the world's hungry, has been criticized in a report by an international anti-poverty agency over its efforts to tackle the problem of hunger within its population.
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The 73 year old Canadian environmental activist was awarded an honorary Right Livelihood Award for "... for his lifetime advocacy of the socially responsible use of science ..."
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An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off Samoa resulted in a tsunami hitting the islands five minutes later. Locals did get warning, but that time span wasn’t enough. The capital of American Samoa, Pago Pago, looks like a bomb site.
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