1A senior Housing NZ executive has been stood down following allegations that hush money was offered to an employee who discovered accounting irregularities.

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3International news in brief: including; suicide bomber has detonated a bomb outside a base of Nat-led forces in Afghanistan; Israeli airstrikes have killed more on Gaza Strip; another five dead birds in UK do not carry deadly H5N1 bird flu strain.

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5The Family Court has released a public report detailing its workload.

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7It has been six months since the Kashmir earthquake and most of the dispossessed are preparing to return home to start rebuilding their homes and lives, but most do not want to go.

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