The UN’s main human rights body will launch an investigation into “systematic discrimination and repression” in Israel and Palestine, with the aim of identifying what it said were the root causes of recent Gaza bloodshed. The proposal for unprecedented levels of scrutiny of alleged abuses, called at the request of Muslim states, was passed by the 47-member UN human rights council on Thursday. Opening the session in Geneva, the UN rights chief,.
Prominent businessman jailed for indecent assaults and corruption Jean Bell
A prominent businessman has been jailed for two years and four months after indecently assaulting three men and attempting to bribe one of them to drop his complaint.
After a four-week trial in March, the rich-lister was found guilty of three charges of indecent assault relating to three men, and two charges of attempting to dissuade a witness.
The businessman s manager along with well-known entertainer Mika X have been sentenced to home detention for their individual part in a plan to get a witness to drop his complaint.
In the High Court at Auckland today, Justice Geoffrey Venning sentenced the man to jail and gave him a first strike under the three strikes law.
Chilly start to the day in the South Island, more cold weather on the way
People in parts of the South Island woke to one of the coldest mornings of the year, with sub-zero temperatures in the centre and south.
Tekapo dropped to a chilly - 8.2C at 7am, MetService said.
Dunedin Airport was -7.1C, Timaru was at - 5.9C and Lewis Pass recorded - 4.6C. Feeling the cold?
A frosty morning across the South Island with single digit temperatures for almost all regions.
Central North Island areas are also feeling the freeze this morning with Taumarunui at -3.1°C.
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