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Ukraine is facing increasing pressure along its roughly 1,000-kilometre frontline, analysts have stated. ADVERTISEMENTIn its latest report, the Washington-based think tank the Institute for the Study of War said on Saturday that Russian forces had recently advanced near Kupiansk, in Toretsk, and near Pokrovsk and Velyka Novosilka, a key logistics route for the Ukrainian military.Meanwhile, Ukraine’s air force announced on Saturday that there were ten Russian drone attacks, of which eight were shot down over the Kyiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kherson regions. One drone returned to Russian-occupied territory, while the final drone disappeared from radar, often a sign of…
The number of whooping cough cases this year has surpassed 1000, and the health agency is urging people to get vaccinated against the disease.Officials declared a national whooping cough epidemic last Friday after weeks of consistently high case numbers, hospitalisations and unlinked outbreaks.The latest figures from ESR show 77 cases were reported last week, which includes four hospitalised cases – three of which were under the age of 1.That was down slightly on the two weeks prior – but immunisation leader Nikki Turner said the epidemic would be long and slow, lasting up to 18 months.Last week’s cases brought the…
The Thessaloniki metro was first conceived more than a century ago, and the first tunnel was dug in 1986. ADVERTISEMENTA new metro whose first construction began about 38 years ago has been inaugurated in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city.The 9.6-kilometre inaugural line – using driverless trains and platform screen doors across 13 stations – was officially opened on Saturday by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.The public will be able to use it for four days completely free of charge, and then the ticket price will be 0.60 euros, officials say.The Thessaloniki metro was first conceived more than a century ago, and the…
The rural Tasman community of Upper Moutere is renewing its plea for a shared path to be built in the village after a child was hit by a car on Monday.A $400,000 shared path, linking the centre of the village and the community centre 1.3km away, was originally slated to be constructed in the first quarter of 2025.However, in October Tasman District Council deferred construction until the 2025/26 financial year because assumed funding from the New Zealand Transport Agency wasn’t granted after the Government slashed walking and cycling funding.On Monday, a local child was critically injured in the village centre…
A powerful explosion damaged a water canal and temporarily cut water and power supply to Kosovo’s cities, the prime minister said on Saturday. ADVERTISEMENTPrime Minister Albin Kurti said the explosion on Friday in Vrage, 60 kilometres north of the capital Pristina, disrupted water supply to some cities and main power plants. It followed two other explosions in previous days on police station buildings and local authorities in the same area in the north of the country, mostly populated by the ethnic Serb minority.Kurti blamed “official Belgrade and its criminal structures led by Milan Radoicic, supported by Serb institutions and Serbia’s…
1News weather expert Daniel Corbett looks ahead at the start of the meteorological summer.The start of meteorological summer always gets us excited when we begin to think about fine days and summer holidays.Then the reality sinks in – because of New Zealand’s location, midway between the equator and the poles, we can get a real range of weather even in the summer.This summer the key for your holidays will be to dig out the sunscreen but keep that raincoat handy too because it could be one of those that turns into a smorgasbord selection from the buffet table at the…
Voting to elect a new parliament began in Iceland on Saturday, which opinion polls suggest is likely to unseat the ruling coalition after seven years in power. ADVERTISEMENTThe snap parliamentary election in the North Atlantic island nation was called in October after disagreements over immigration, energy policy, and the cost of living crisis forced Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson to pull the plug on his coalition government. Bjarni Benediktsson came to power in April after his predecessor resigned. He has struggled to hold together the unlikely coalition of his conservative Independence Party, the centrist Progressive Party and the Left-Green Movement. Support…
Labour leader Chris Hipkins is calling on his party to change, in order to win the next election.He made the opening remarks on Friday night, following a whakatau by mana whenua kicking off the annual party conference happening this weekend in Christchurch.Hipkins told the few hundred members, current and former MPs and media gathered that he understood “Kiwis did vote for change last year.”We have to accept that reality as we build to win in 2026. We lost, and now we need to change as well.”He said New Zealanders did not think Labour was focused, and they had lost faith…
After an interim report found the sinking of the HMNS Manawanui was due to human error, Samoans say they are still looking for better answers on the environmental and economic costs of the disaster.The Samoan community in both Samoa and Aotearoa reacted strongly to the report.People of Tafitoala, one of the villages in Safata, have already spoken about their livelihood being affected by the Manawanui disaster on October 5.A meeting was also scheduled to take place last month in Vaiee, another coastal village in the district, to present their case to the Samoan government and suggest that New Zealand should…
Three people across the country were arrested yesterday as police carry out enforcement on the new Gangs Act. Police arrested two people in Auckland who were wearing clothing with gang insignia police Assistant Commissioner Paul Basham said. One man was arrested on Hobson St in the CBD and another on Walsall St in Avondale. “In Customhouse Street, Gisborne, a man was also arrested for wearing clothing bearing gang insignia,” Basham said. “All three will appear before the courts in due course.”