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A bomb has killed up to 80 people and wounded more than 200 in a busy market area in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.

The blast came several hours after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Pakistan pledging a fresh start in relations with an increasingly embattled and sceptical partner in the struggle against Islamic militancy. Clintonwas in Islamabad, three hours drive away, when the blast hit. North West Frontier Province Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain says 200 were wounded in Wednesday’s attack in Peshawar city.

A government official says the death toll has risen to at least 80 people.

Pakistan is on high alert amid fears of retaliatory strikes by Pakistani Taliban militants as the army attacks their strongholds in South Waziristan on the Afghan border.

The bomb went off in the busy Peepal Mandi market street in Peshawar’s old city, sparking a fire that engulfed several buildings.

The offensive came after a series of brazen attacks on the United Nations, army headquarters, police and general public, in which more than 150 people were killed.

The army launched the offensive on October 17 and says it is making steady progress as soldiers push towards the al Qaeda-linked militants’ bases in the region’s rocky mountains and patchy forests.

There have been several bomb attacks since the offensive began.

“Several buildings and a mosque have been badly damaged while a fire has engulfed a building,” witness Aqueel-ur-Rehman told from the scene.

Wednesday’s blast caused serious damage in the neighbourhood of old wood and brick buildings, busy streets and narrow lanes.

CLINTON: WE’RE TURNING THE PAGE

Clinton told reporters the United States was “turning the page” as she began her first visit to Islamabad as the the top US diplomat on Wednesday amid rising anti-American sentiment in Pakistan and an expanding US-led war in neighbouring Afghanistan.

“I can see three bodies lying under the debris,” he said.

Clinton acknowledged that misunderstandings dogged US ties with Pakistan and pledged to refocus the relationship on the “needs of the people” including strengthened economic assistance and development of democratic institutions.

Clinton acknowledged that misunderstandings dogged US ties with Pakistan and pledged to refocus the relationship on the “needs of the people” including strengthened economic assistance and development of democratic institutions.

Clinton’s three-day visit, kept secret out of security concerns, comes amid a surge of anti-US feeling in Pakistan, which is increasingly bloodied in a campaign against Islamic fundamentalists that is being closely followed by the United States and other Western powers already embroiled in the conflict in neighbouring Afghanistan.58 billion) over the next five years.

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Police have released the names of two teenagers killed in a head-on accident in Paremata in which one car flipped on to its roof.

Udo Fourie and Nathan John Laurenson, both 18, died in the crash on Grays Rd on Sunday evening.

The Impreza flipped on to its roof, landing in water in Pauatahanui Inlet.

Detective Sergeant Glenn Barnett said an eastbound Subaru Impreza driven by a 22-year-old lost control on a corner and crossed the centre line into the path of a Subaru Legacy. The 22-year-old driver is in hospital with serious injuries.

The deceased pair were passengers in the Impreza. Her three-year-old daughter suffered bruising.

A teenager from the Legacy was also in hospital with serious injuries, and a 19-year-old mother was in a critical condition.

“At this point in time, it is too early to comment on any of the factors to the crash or whether any charges will be laid”.

Mr Barnett said police were examining the scene and both vehicles. .

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A popular author whose work focuses on the challenges faced by migrants is fighting a real-life battle to gain New Zealand residency.

Marina Lewycka, who wrote the international bestseller A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian and Two Caravans, wants to join her husband of 22 years, Dave Feickert, in Wanganui. .

Mr Feickert said the Immigration Service had told the couple they had to prove they were in a relationship by providing copies of their email correspondence, and by living together for an unspecified amount of time in New Zealand. “I thought New Zealand was a ‘can do’ society.

“How utterly ridiculous,” Lewycka said.

Lewycka lives in Sheffield, England, where she is preparing for the publication of her third book, We Are All Made of Glue, in July.”

Because of her promotional obligations as an author, and Mr Feickert’s job as an international coalmine safety adviser, the couple are rarely in New Zealand at the same time for a long period.

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, which has sold millions of copies, tells of two Ukrainian sisters who grew up in England.

She has spent the last five summers in Wanganui and writes her books at the house she shares with Mr Feickert while in New Zealand.

Lewycka was born in a displaced persons camp in Germany to Ukrainian parents after World War II and was taken to England when she was three months old. Two Caravans details the lives of migrant strawberry pickers.

“To me it’s just completely absurd.

Mr Feickert described the situation as Kafkaesque.. I know they have rules they have to follow . but why go through all the rigmarole of rejecting someone like Marina?”

He did not think the couple’s situation was unusual in the modern world, and said his wife wanted to become a Kiwi..”

After inquiries from The yesterday, a senior Immigration Service official in Palmerston North told Mr Feickert the couple no longer had to live together in New Zealand for a set period, and said they had to provide only an email heading rather than full copies of their correspondence.

“She loves New Zealand and it’s as simple as that.

By SIMON WOOD, The

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The ACT Party is pushing the Government to immediately review bail laws following yesterday’s sentencing of Haiden Davis for the murder of Augustine Borrell.

Davis was found guilty of murder by a jury and sentenced to life in prison with a minimum non-parole period of 10 years.
He also had a list of previous convictions, many of them for violence.
The jury was not told during the trial that when he murdered the Auckland Grammar School student he was on bail for other violent offending and had twice breached his bail conditions.
“This case highlights the myriad serious failures that exist with our bail laws,” he said.
ACT’s law and order spokesman, David Garrett, said today bail laws were a disgrace.
“This has denied the Borrell family the right to make victim impact statements before sentencing. .”
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