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5 days ago | 
wrvo.org | Ruth Sherlock |Scott Detrow |Mary Kelly |Greg Dixon
Ruth Sherlock is an International Correspondent with National Public Radio. She's based in Beirut and reports on Syria and other countries around the Middle East. She was previously the United States Editor for the Daily Telegraph, covering the 2016 US election. Before moving to the US in the spring of 2015, she was the Telegraph's Middle East correspondent. Scott Detrow is a White House correspondent for NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.
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1 week ago | 
wrvo.org | Daniel Estrin |Anas Baba |Greg Dixon
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Greg Dixon
Lovely weather at the moment but is it enough to sustain a conversation? Photo / Greg Dixon Lovely weather at the moment. Pity about the weather at the moment. What’s this weather up to at the moment? That ought to be enough small talk to break the ice – or provoke a groan – whatever the weather happens to be doing wherever you happen to be reading this.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Greg Dixon
The scene of the crime: Detectives leave the Bassett Rd home where two men were gunned down early December, 1963. Photo / suppliedOnline exclusiveScene of the Crime: On December 5, 1963, one of the most notorious crimes NZ has seen took place in Remuera, the Bassett Road machine-gun murders. This is the first in a new monthly series looking at NZ’s most infamous cases of murder, mayhem and the missing. The first of the horrors was the smell.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Greg Dixon
David Seymour, Christopher Luxon and Winston Peters have marked one-year of their coalition government. Greg Dixon’s Another kind of politics: The coalition’s first year in sixAs any married person will tell you, it’s bloody important to remember anniversaries.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
kuow.org | Emily Feng |Greg Dixon
An aerial view taken on March 9, 2023 shows Thitu Island in the South China Sea. - As a Philippine Coast Guard plane carrying journalists flew over the Spratly Islands in the hotly disputed South China Sea, a Chinese voice issued a stern command over the radio: "Leave immediately." AFP via Getty Images In an episode we first brought you in April, we go to southeast Asia and the Spratly Islands. Ownership of those island are in dispute.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Greg Dixon
Do not pass go, do not collect $200. Photo / Greg Dixon The thievery took place after dark. I had not long gone to bed to read – ironically, a book about terrible crimes – when a villain crept into the dining room and brazenly pilfered 200 of my hard-won dollars. She then quietly added this swag to her own small pile of cash before making her escape. Monopoly really does bring out the worst in people.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Greg Dixon
Hīkoi goers make their feelings known. Photo / Getty ImagesOnline exclusiveGreg Dixon’s Another Kind of Politics is a weekly column that appears on listener.co.nz on Friday mornings. If you enjoy a “serious laugh” - and complaining about politics and politicians - you’ll enjoy reading Greg’s latest grievances. What do you reckon Act leader David Seymour spent the most time doing on Tuesday?
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Greg Dixon
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon chats with US President elect Donald Trump. Photo / FacebookOnline exclusiveGreg Dixon’s Another Kind of Politics is a weekly column that appears on listener.co.nz on Friday mornings. If you enjoy a “serious laugh” - and complaining about politics and politicians - you’ll enjoy reading Greg’s latest grievances. Wonderful news, New Zealand.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Greg Dixon
Bugger the lawns, let's race. Photo / Greg DixonIt wasn’t hard to find them. You just headed past the sideshows, past the shed where three fat spuds had won first prize in the vege-growing competition and past the two fatheads manning the NZ First stall, toward the almighty roar of engines.
