1A two-day emergency session of the East Timorese Parliament has begun in Dili as violence continues in the streets.

2A team working to stop young people joining violent gangs in south Auckland is rapidly running out of funding.

3The Bay of Plenty's Kiwifruit industry is now under a police investigation into the mystery of the injured Indonesian man.

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5The Prison Fellowship organisation says it's unrealistic to expect prisons to deal with drug and alcohol addiction.

6From tomorrow, the speed limit in the Lambton Quay area will be lowered to thirty kilometres an hour.

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8Canada has announced it had foiled an alleged Islamist bomb plot, arresting 17 men and youths.

9The Greens wound up their annual conference today in Silverstream with a new male co-leader - Russell Norman - and a new policy on working with Labour and National.

10600 homes on Nuie have electricity again - almost a week after the island's main generator was destroyed by fire.

11A slowdown in the tourism industry is having dire effects on the traditional backpackers holiday.

12Waatea News: The Latest In Maori News.

13Peru's former President Alan Garcia is set to make a political comeback.

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15The Food Safety Authority and a Christchurch scientist discuss the safety of a genetically modified corn.

16In South Auckland, crime levels are rising, the police are busier than ever and gang violence looks out of control.

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19Four Indonesian men are helping Police with their inquiry into what happened to a man dumped at Tauranga Hospital.

20Can a room make you happy? Yes and no is the answer from writer and philosopher Alain de Botton, who's been in New Zealand recently.

21Waatea News: The Latest In Maori News including two dozen Maori making the Queen's Birthday Honours List. Plus the new male co-leader of The Green Party has confirmed the party's commitment to the Treaty of Waitangi.

22NATO peacekeepers are due to take over in the south of Afghanistan by the end of July, replacing US-led units.

23Nepal's Supreme Court has issued an order to free three former Ministers who served in the Cabinet.

24Scientists have discovered why men are so keen to ask their date in for a coffee after a night out, as apparently caffeine makes the drinker more likely to be agreeable to persuasive arguments.