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Three months later, where are Iran’s fabled nukes?

A technician checks valves at the uranium conversion facility in Isfahan, 450km south of Tehran,...

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Three months later, where are Iran’s fabled nukes?

Three months have passed since Operation Midnight Hammer saw seven American B2 bombers drop 14 "bunker-buster" 14,000kg massive ordnance penetrator bombs on Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities.

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A chance encounter pays rich dividends

CMAT performs on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival earlier this year. PHOTO: REUTERS

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A chance encounter pays rich dividends

I first encountered the singer CMAT at the Wide Awake festival earlier this year.

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Waitati road consumes budget

The main north road from Waitati approaches Dunedin past the peaks of Mt Cargill (top right). —...

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Waitati road consumes budget

The free grants to district councils, as stated in the Estimates, are:

In living memory

In living memory

Aulsebrooks Ltd is pulling out its Christmas cracker factory from Dunedin and transferring it to Auckland.

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Being popular does not make it right when it comes to a vote

Where principles and law-making meet. Photo: ODT files

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Being popular does not make it right when it comes to a vote

Parliament is on holiday now, but that does not mean politics has stopped.

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Don’t know exactly how it works but it does

A local elections ballot box at the University of Otago this week. Photo: Peter McIntosh

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Don’t know exactly how it works but it does

Every local government vote is a stitch in the fabric of our future.

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Two of five tunnellers survive

Gordon Archer (left) and Hugh Daly. — Otago Witness, 13.10.1925    COPIES OF PICTURE...

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Two of five tunnellers survive

Christchurch, October 4: After nearly 40 hours’ feverish work the two men, Hugh Daly and Gordon Archer, who were entombed in the fall of earth in No 2 tunnel at Lake Coleridge on Friday, were...

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The secret diary of . . . the Talley's defamation trial

Justice Pheroze Jagose. Photo: New Zealand Herald

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The secret diary of . . . the Talley's defamation trial

By Steve Braunias

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.

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Letters to the Editor: voting, cenotaph trees, Peters

Fifty-eight native shrubs were planted around Dunedin’s cenotaph without official sign-off and...

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Letters to the Editor: voting, cenotaph trees, Peters

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including importance of voting, tree planting at Cenotaph, Winston Peters and Palestinian statehood.

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Rates pain pips other city concerns

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Rates pain pips other city concerns

A year ago this morning, Dunedin and parts of coastal Otago were starting to tot up the cost of two days of heavy rain which sparked the first red-level severe weather warning issued for the region.

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Silence is golden

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Silence is golden

These days many people feel entitled to state their opinion on absolutely anything. Which is fine: this newspaper fully supports the right to freedom of expression.

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Letters to the Editor: doctors, Gore gallery, box kicks

Less of this please, the dreaded box kick. PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH

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Letters to the Editor: doctors, Gore gallery, box kicks

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including doctors' aspirations, a great gallery in Gore and a plea for no more box kicks.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.

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Trading on past glories on road to weakness and betrayal

Foreign Minister Winston Peters. PHOTO: ODT FILES

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Trading on past glories on road to weakness and betrayal

Like many, I was shocked by the government’s announcement that it would not support a Palestinian state.

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The United States: things to come

A demonstrator in ‘‘war-ravaged’’ Portland, Oregon. PHOTO: REUTERS

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The United States: things to come

A Danish proverb says "predictions are hard, especially about the future", but still we make them, especially when we care about the future.

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Five tunnellers trapped

Tunnellers work at the collapsed face of No 2 tunnel at the Lake Coleridge hydro-electric project...

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Five tunnellers trapped

Christchurch, October 2: Five men were entombed by a fall of earth at the outlet end of a tunnel in the course of excavation work at Lake Coleridge at 6.45am to-day.