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...landslides and caused rivers to overflow their banks. More than 3.6 million hectares of farmland have been inundated in the flooding. NEW ZEALAND Snap Election Prime Minister Helen Clark called an election for 27 July, two months before the end of her government's three-year term. Despite the Labour Party's long lead in opinion polls Clark said that the recent breakup of Labour's coalition partner, the center-left Alliance party, had had an impact on the day-to-day running of parliament. She blamed opposition parties for time wasting, which she said was delaying the passage...
...empire - which includes 33% of Britain's readership plus Sky Broadcasting - to send a message of "vote no" on a euro referendum. "The central issue," said Murdoch, "is one of sovereignty," which must be precisely what Prime Minister Blair is thinking as he evaluates this new challenge to his Labour government's control by an Australian-born U.S. citizen. Labour has long courted Murdoch, winning endorsements from some of his papers before the last two elections. A new bill that freed Murdoch to buy terrestrial television station Channel 5 was seen by some as a sweetener to get Murdoch...
Ever since Labour won power in 1997, its backbenchers have been baying for the blood of those red-coated, high-horsed huntsfolk and seeking to ban their centuries-old sport. The Conservatives have tried every counterattack, but Labour's huge majority has meant their arguments have been flicked aside. No matter that hunting attracts 1.3 million followers to meets every year, that it supports thousands of jobs, and is a focus of rural social life, fox hunting is close to a death sentence...
...hundred thirty-five M.P.s have put their names on a motion "that this House is aware of the deep unease among honourable Members on all sides of the House at the prospect that Her Majesty's Government might support United States military action against Iraq." Among them is a Labour former junior defense minister and other backbenchers beyond the usual clutch of antiwar activists. The negative mood is washing back on the government's Afghan policy too, evident in the agitation that greeted the announcement last week that 1,700 more Marines were being committed to the fight against...
...lackadaisical about wmds for too long." Finally, the Prime Minister will point to the benefits to the Middle East if Iraq were under more benign leadership, including an end to sanctions that hurt Iraqi civilians and less incentive for Iran to counter Iraq with wmds of its own. One Labour official predicts that once Blair is through with this sales pitch, public support for action to curb Iraq's wmds will climb toward...