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'Tough guy', cybertrucks and a snub: Trump's the Middle East visit so far
15 May 2025The US President's visit to the Middle East is certainly sending shockwaves across the region.
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Te Pāti Māori co-leaders to be suspended from Parliament for three weeks
15 May 2025MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke faces a seven-day suspension for her actions.
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Brooke van Velden drops C-word in Parliament
15 May 2025Act leader David Seymour says he is proud of his deputy: 'She's a star'.
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Sausage used as secret weapon in war against feral cats
15 May 2025Recent trials of sausage baits to control feral cat numbers are producing exciting results.
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Camera captures Swiss repeat offender speeding duck
14 May 2025The bird was caught going 52km/h an hour in a 30km/h zone.
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'Sign of the times': Charities losing funding, face job cuts
14 May 2025One Auckland-based charity says it has lost a fifth of its annual budget but demand for its services keeps increasing.
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Converting luxury jet gifted to Trump into Air Force One may cost hundreds of millions
15 May 2025In a process that could take years, US agencies would need to strip the aircraft down to its frame and rebuild it with the necessary communications and security equipment.
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What went wrong for Flick?
14 May 2025It set out to "disrupt Aotearoa's outdated, self-serving" electricity industry, but is now being folded into one of the country's big gentailers. What happened?
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Warnings about surgery outsourcing blanked out by minister's office
14 May 2025Simeon Brown was told of serious risks in outsourcing surgeries to private hospitals, but his office withheld most of the information.
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Kiwi writer Graci Kim on getting cancelled
Kim writes fantasy books for kids, but the real world forces sometimes working against her aren't imaginary.
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Could you make $20 last a week?
The aim of the challenge is to avoid all those things you don't actually need.
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'They got it wrong': Nearly quarter of FamilyBoost money spent on admin
14 May 2025National talked down the administration burden of its flagship policy during the election.
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Why award-winning author Catherine Chidgey keeps hustling
The novelist has published four books in five years, but went 13 years without publishing anything.
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Arrest at airport as IR takes tougher stance on student loan debts
14 May 2025There are more than 150 overseas-based borrowers with a combined default of $15m on Inland Revenue's radar.
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'Destroyed so many lives': 12-year-old started fire that killed woman
14 May 2025A shopping list in his mother's handwriting is all a grieving son could salvage from the remains of her burnt-down house.
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New Caledonia riots one year on: 'Like the country was at war'
13 May 2025A journalist caught up in the New Caledonia riots a year ago recounts some of the frightening realities of covering the deadly unrest.
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Family mourn death of 10-year-old boy in ATV crash
14 May 2025The Schick family says it is trying to come to terms with the devastating loss of Jimmy on Sunday.
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Health NZ to outsource thousands of cases to private hospitals
13 May 2025And it also plans to ask surgeons to work longer hours in a bid to cut the waitlist.
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How much protein you need during perimenopause, and why
During perimenopause oestrogen levels begin to drop, which decreases bone density and muscle mass.
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Porn found on police computer of former deputy commissioner
13 May 2025McSkimming resigned as the country's second most powerful police officer.
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US and China reach deal to slash tariffs, officials say
Announcement comes after a weekend of marathon trade negotiations in Geneva.
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'We're just doing our best': Cultural backlash hits kava business
12 May 2025Vibes Kava has found itself at the heart of a cultural debate, with critics raising concerns about appropriation.
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Veteran activist unlawfully pepper-sprayed and arrested - IPCA
13 May 2025Police unlawfully pepper-sprayed and arrested veteran activist John Minto at a pro-Palestinian protest in Christchurch in February 2024, the Independent Police Conduct Authority has found.
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Animal welfare laws questioned after abandoned dogs euthanised
13 May 2025SPCA and the Auckland Council were apparently powerless to remove the dogs without police on hand.
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