Wellington, April 13 NZPA - Prime Minister John Key caught up with President Barack Obama in Washington today following other high-level meetings with members of the US administration.

Wellington, April 12 NZPA - Prime Minister John Key was tonight preparing to present New Zealand's case for a free trade agreement at meetings with United States Vice-President Joe Biden and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on the eve of a 47-nation nuclear security summit in Washington.

Wellington, Feb 17 NZPA - Government officials are liaising with sports bodies in light of terror threats targeting sports events in India as the New Zealand hockey team prepares to travel there.

Wellington, Feb 1 NZPA - New Zealand will not contribute to a fund to pay Taliban fighters in Afghanistan to give up their weapons. At an international conference last week countries, including Australia, Britain and Japan, pledged about $200 million to the fund.

Wellington, Sept 22 NZPA - The previous government sent Special Air Service (SAS) troops to Afghanistan three times but Labour opposes the latest deployment.

Last week I was not able to blog due to the fact that I have had a problem in changing over to a new internet service provider and consequently I missed the September 11th anniversary and the chance to blog about my views surrounding it on that very date.

Wellington, Sept 9 NZPA - Prime Minister John Key says he might at some point say where the SAS are operating in Afghanistan, but he will not be divulging anything for now.

Wellington, Sept 8 NZPA - The Foreign Affairs Ministry gave the Government advice about the situation in Afghanistan but did not make a recommendation either way about whether troops should be sent, Parliament was told today.

By Peter Wilson of NZPA Wellington, Aug 18 NZPA - Opposition parties argued in Parliament today that the Government made the wrong call when it decided to send the SAS to Afghanistan.

By Sharon Lundy of NZPA Wellington, Aug 11 NZPA - Prime Minister John Key is urging the Labour Party to put aside politics and support his Government's deployment of Special Air Services (SAS) troops to Afghanistan.