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Wellington  - New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters was facing the battle of his political life on Wednesday after an expatriate billionaire benefactor gave damning testimony to Parliament's powerful privileges committee.

Owen Glenn, who lives in Monaco, flew home to tell the committee on Tuesday that Peters personally asked him for money to help pay legal fees after the 2005 general election and he donated 100,000 New Zealand dollars (about 66,000 US dollars).

Wellington - New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters' political future was on the line Tuesday after an expatriate billionaire donor to his political party gave damning testimony to Parliament's powerful privileges committee.

Owen Glenn, who lives in Monaco, flew home to tell the committee that Peters personally asked him for money to help pay legal fees after the 2005 general election and he donated 100,000 New Zealand dollars (66,000 US dollars).

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Wellington - A New Zealand town council wants to dig up the grave of a dog that was sentenced to be destroyed for killing a protected fur seal to prove it is dead, a newspaper reported on Friday.

Peter Ray, 44, told the Greymouth District Court that his Alaskan Malamute called Hercules, which killed the seal after getting away from him on a beach walk, had subsequently died of a kidney infection and been buried in his garden.