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An 11-year-old boy has been arrested after throwing rocks at an elderly man on Auckland’s North Shore.Police said they were aware of the incident on Anzac Rd in Browns Bay on Wednesday.They had noted the large amount of discussion the original post of the attack had generated on social media.Posted anonymously on a community Facebook page, residents have voiced their outrage at the boy’s actions.One user described it as absolutely disgraceful and disrespectful behaviour.”I wonder how these kids would like to sit anywhere and have stones thrown at them!!” one wrote.”This didn’t happen back in the day because kids were…
Trump’s visit to France, part of a global a celebration of the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral five years after a devastating fire, came as Macron and other European leaders are trying to win Trump’s favour and persuade him to maintain support for Ukraine in its defence against Russia’s invasion. ADVERTISEMENTFrench President Emmanuel Macron welcomed Donald Trump and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Paris on Saturday, holding an impromptu meeting at the Elysee Palace ahead of the opening ceremony of the Notre Dame Cathedral.It is Trump’s first foreign visit since being elected President of the United States, and came as Macron…
Six men have been arrested and more than $250,000 worth of goods seized after police hit the operations of an organised crime group in Wairarapa. Detective Senior Sergeant Philip Skoglund said half a kilogram of methamphetamine and “packaging consistent with dealing methamphetamine” was located and seized, along with thousands of dollars in cash.Four vehicles, a motorcycle, and a jet ski were seized by the police asset recovery unit, believed to be worth more than $250,000. Skoglund said the arrests were the result of an operation targeting an organised criminal group in the Wairarapa area. “The six men arrested were at…
Weidel promises to revive the economy, reduce migration and roll back climate policies. ADVERTISEMENTAlice Weidel has now officially been nominated as the first ever chancellor candidate of the German far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the upcoming election. However, she is unlikely to be able to take the chancellery in practice as other parties have said they will refuse to work with the AfD.Nevertheless, the political movement AfD, which was founded in 2013, has been receiving increasingly strong approval rates and is currently the second-strongest party in the country after the centre-right Christian Democrats.The party has been polling between…
A further 80,000 chickens will be culled at a commercial egg farm in rural Otago impacted by bird flu.It will bring the total number of chickens culled at a Mainland Poultry farm in Hillgrove, Otago, to 160,000.The Ministry for Primary Industries’ chief veterinary officer Dr Mary van Andel said today testing and monitoring shows the high pathogenic subtype of avian influenza, H7N6, remains confined to the farm but has spread within it.”As expected, a third shed on the Hillgrove property has tested positive for HPAI and its 40,000 chickens will be depopulated in the coming days,” van Andel said.”A fourth…
Firefighters have shifted focus to control rather than contain the fire at Bridge Hill as authorities warned people to stay away from the exclusion zone.Members of the public this afternoon were removed from the fringes of the exclusion zone around the fire at Cave Stream with the police’s help, incident commander Colin Russell said.All recreation areas between Castle Hill and Lake Pearson are closed.”This is for the safety of everyone, both the public and our people,” Russell said.”We don’t want to be having to rescue anyone if they find themselves in a dangerous situation.”If everyone can please just avoid this…
Knives, machetes and balaclavas have been recovered by police after four youths allegedly fled from police in Hamilton this afternoon.Detective Inspector Graham Pitkethley said the alleged incident unfolded at about midday when an officer spotted a vehicle driving on Cobbham Dr with a smashed quarterlight window.Its four occupants were allegedly wearing masks and gloves.Police soon established the Toyota Corolla had been reported stolen and a plan was put in place to stop the car once it was found again.The vehicle was seen at about 1.20pm turning into Pukete Rd but Pitkethley said the driver allegedly fled after being signalled to…
A Warkworth transport group working to improve an intersection described as the worst in New Zealand says it’s “appalled and insulted” by the reasons given for shelving the long-promised upgrade.Warkworth’s notoriously complicated Hill St intersection was to have been replaced with two roundabouts in a project starting this year and jointly funded by Auckland Transport and NZTA.However, it was revealed this week that NZTA had removed the project from its 2024-27 road funding plan, because it did not meet the priorities set by the new Government Policy Statement on Land Transport.Transport Minister Simeon Brown said that was because the Northern…
The Green Party caucus room is full of reminders of its history.Rod Donald’s trademark braces and briefcase are framed and hanging on the wall, as are the 2017 confidence and supply agreement and 2020 cooperation agreement that marked the Greens’ six years in government.Surrounded by history, at the end of her first year as co-leader, Chlöe Swarbrick talks up the party’s evolution, her lofty goal of turning the Greens into the largest political force on the left, and reflects on a 2024 that has brought a laundry list of challenges.”I feel incredibly proud of our team and how I think…
An explosion occured on the morning of Saturday 7 December in the Dutch city of The Hague, damaging several apartments and injuring multiple people. ADVERTISEMENTAn explosion has destroyed several apartments and injured multiple people in a neighbourhood in the Dutch city of the Hague on Saturday morning.Residents of the city’s northeastern neighbourhood of Mariahoeve say they heard a huge bang and screams before dawn. One woman told local media that she thought an earthquake had happened.The cause of the explosion is currently unclear, but police have said they are looking for a car that left the scene.Four people have thus…