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2Secondary school teachers will hold stop work meetings to discuss their new pay claim this afternoon.

3An inquest into the death of Bridget Nicholls, NZ's Deputy High Commissioner to the Solomon Islands has shown she died accidentally.

4The American Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeldt has warned that the threat from Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq grows every day as Iraq develops weapons of mass destruction. President Bush has given the all-clear for an operation to topple Saddam.

5A suicide bomber has blown himself up near the West Bank city of Takkarim.

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7An American Lawyer is filing a law suit against Swiss Bank for South Africans who suffered under apartheid.

8Australia's latest census figures show its population will top 20 million in the next five years.

9Jim Anderton and three other Alliance MP's are expected to announce they'll stand for the new Progressive Coalition Party later today. Also, parliament was officially dissolved today.

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