New Zealand threatens to ban foreign crews after rise in ship jumpers
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A large increase in the number of foreign seamen jumping ship in New Zealand has been blamed on an immigration racket and prompted a government threat to ban overseas fishing crews, according to a report.
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The US is threatening to withhold military technology considered crucial to the health of the UK defence industry as the row over European moves to lift the arms embargo on Beijing intensifies.
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South Africa should be worried by the huge numbers of skilled white people leaving the country, the opposition says.
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Cornwall-based surfers are calling on British Airways to reverse a ban on carrying boards.
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New Zealand plans to seek urgent clarification from Australia about a new maritime security zone which it says stretches into its own territorial waters and even onto its coastline.
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New Zealand has pressed Japan to move a crippled and burning whaling ship away from the Antarctic coast, fearing an ecological disaster if it remains there.
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FURTHER sexual abuse charges involving Britain&#39;s remote Pacific colony of Pitcairn Island were expected to be laid against people in Australia and New Zealand, the lead prosecutor said today.
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An Australian customs ship could be used to pick up two anti-whaling activists detained after boarding a Japanese whaler in Antarctic waters, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Thursday.
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A campaign is being launched warning businesses about the penalties for employing illegal migrant workers.
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Britain will oppose European commission moves to impose permanent curbs on Turkish workers migrating to other areas of the EU as a key part of any agreement to admit the country to the union, a foreign office minister said yesterday.
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An Aboriginal town threatened to ban tourists from scaling giant Ayers Rock in central Australia to protest a heavy-handed government crackdown on child abuse in Aboriginal areas, a local leader said Tuesday.
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New Zealand is to amend its laws so that babies born there to non-resident parents do not automatically receive citizenship. Internal Affairs Minister George Hawkins says of the 57,000 babies born each year
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A top Chinese health official warned on Saturday of the increased risk of infectious diseases such as SARS and bird flu jumping the border to Hong Kong in 2005 as
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PORTAGE, Ind. - A coalition of environmental groups worried about the spread of invasive species into the Great Lakes from ballast water discharged by foreign vessels is calling for a moratorium on international shipping.
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Australia said that it would send a ship to pick up two anti-whaling activists who jumped on a Japanese vessel.
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New Zealand's PM Helen Clark says the country is preparing  sanctions after Fiji expelled its top diplomat.
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A JAPANESE hostage threatened with execution in Iraq was an English language student in New Zealand just weeks ago and was warned against travel to the war torn country, local media reported today.