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Scoop Link: Bolton May Not Return as UN Envoy

Monday, 13 November 2006, 12:36 am | Scoop Link

Key lawmakers said yesterday they would block the nomination of John R. Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations, all but killing chances for him to remain in the post past December. More >>

Link: Muslim Cleric Details CIA Abduction, Torture

Monday, 13 November 2006, 12:36 am | Scoop Link

Milan - In an account smuggled out of prison, a radical Muslim cleric has detailed how he was kidnapped by the CIA from this northern Italian city and flown to Cairo, where he was tortured for months with electric shocks and shackled to an iron rack ... More >>

Scoop Link: Massive Budget Request For Iraq War

Monday, 13 November 2006, 12:36 am | Scoop Link

The U.S. armed services have requested a $160 billion supplemental appropriation to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the remainder of fiscal year 2007 - a staggering amount that, if approved by the Defense Department, may hasten the showdown ... More >>

Jazz Festival: William Yu & Tanya Li, Greg Malcolm

Monday, 13 November 2006, 12:32 am | Scoop Review

William Yu & Tanya Li Greg Malcolm The Frontroom November 9 - Talk about muscle memory – what a master of movement! William Yu plays the Chinese Dulcimer: it’s like a piano in the fact that it’s a stringed percussive instrument, but it has more ... More >>

Today's Scoop Just Politics News Summary

Friday, 10 November 2006, 4:08 pm | The Scoop Team

Scoop In London: Clark Meets Blair's Most Likely Successor ; QUESTIONS OF THE DAY; Sport News: Govt Details Why It Prefers Waterfront Stadium; Health: 10 Days Of Strikes, Call For Restrictions On Unions; Treasury: Crown Financial Statements Released; MORE ... More >>

Video: Animation Of Proposed Waterfront Stadium

Friday, 10 November 2006, 3:46 pm | Scoop Video

Video: The government has announced it has a strong preference for a national stadium on Auckland’s CBD waterfront. Here is an animation video of the proposed stadium courtesy of Warren and Mahoney architects. More >>

Audio: Today's News Update From The United Nations

Friday, 10 November 2006, 1:43 pm | Scoop Audio

Audio: High-Level Panel Urges UN To Streamline Operations - Annan to Push for Early Implementation of Panel Recommendations - Dirty Water Claims More Lives than AIDS: UN Report - UN Official Calls for a Return to Dialogue between Israelis, Palestinians ... More >>

Kurt Nimmo: Rumsfeld Dumped, Bush Suggests a Spook

Friday, 10 November 2006, 11:22 am | Scoop Blogwatch

It is all smoke and mirrors, as usual. “Robert Gates, the 63-year-old career intelligence officer chosen to replace Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon, takes over with the clearest of missions: get American troops out of Iraq as quickly and cleanly as possible,” ... More >>

Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 9 November 2006

Friday, 10 November 2006, 9:01 am | Scoop Daily Ratings

Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were... More >>

Today's Scoop Just Politics News Summary

Thursday, 9 November 2006, 3:18 pm | The Scoop Team

QUESTIONS OF THE DAY; Parliament: MPs Vote 72 to 49 Against Bill To Raise Drinking Age; Education: TXT-In-Exams Debate Brings Out Creativity In Press Secretaries; MORE POLITICAL HEADLINES More >>

Audio: Today's News Update From The United Nations

Thursday, 9 November 2006, 3:05 pm | Scoop Audio

Audio: UNRWA Condemns Israeli Military Operations in Beit Hanoun - Palestinian Observer Calls for Urgent Meeting of Security Council - Annan Expreses Shock Over Israeli Operations in Gaza - UN Envoy Warns Against Using Somalia for Proxy War - Indigenous ... More >>

Link: Times NP's PJ Taylor IVs Shona Laing

Thursday, 9 November 2006, 2:46 pm | Scoop Link

HIGHLY distinctive in sound, attention grabbing lyrically, her work endures as music making listeners stop and think. As a consistent observer of the world around her – that’s been in many places with a greater variation of people than most come ... More >>

Manning n Pound: Israel Hits While US Diverted

Thursday, 9 November 2006, 2:16 pm | Scoop Audio

Audio: Selwyn Manning and 95bFM's Simon Pound discuss: How Israel has taken advantage of the US elections to wage a HUGE offensive against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Also, discussed is how significant is the Donald Rumsfeld sacking. More >>

Jazz Festival Review: Billy Boy Arnold

Thursday, 9 November 2006, 1:11 pm | Scoop Review

Billy Boy Arnold The Frontroom November 7, 8pm : Why are the blues so universal in appeal? How did a genre of music derived from the hardships faced by post-sharecropping African-Americans in the first half of the 20th century become one of the most enduring ... More >>

Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 8 November 2006

Thursday, 9 November 2006, 9:39 am | Scoop Daily Ratings

Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were... More >>

Audio: Kevin List Reports On The London Memorial

Thursday, 9 November 2006, 8:22 am | Scoop Audio

Scoop Audio: Scoop's Kevin List is on assignment in London, he talks to Selwyn Manning about the London Memorial event and who Helen Clark will be meeting. More >>

Scoop Link: Hamas Chief - Truce With Israel Over

Thursday, 9 November 2006, 12:27 am | Scoop Link

Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal says that a truce with Israel is finished and is appealing to all Palestinian factions to resume attacks. Israeli tank shells ripped through a residential neighborhood in the northern Gaza Strip early Wednesday, killing at ... More >>