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ADVERTISEMENTEurope is being inundated with fake news about environmental, climate and energy policy, Poland’s environment minister Paulina Hennig-Kloska said on Tuesday as she opened an informal summit of EU climate ministers.Ministers, who met in Warsaw under the auspices of the Polish presidency of the EU Council, arrived with a fresh example following the catastrophic power failure in Spain and Portugal, which triggered a wave of conspiracy theories and false reports.“In recent months we’ve have more targeted disinformation used for political purposes, very often by our political adversaries,” Hennig-Kloska told reporters after the discussion, which was held behind closed doors.There was…
ADVERTISEMENTPolice in Sweden have said that several people in the eastern city of Uppsala have been found with injuries that suggest gunshot wounds after loud bangs were heard in the city.In a statement, police said they had received several calls from members of the public to report noises that sounded like gunfire.”Several people have been found with injuries that indicate gunfire,” police said.They said a large area of the city had been cordoned off and an investigation is under way.Our journalists are working on this story and will update it as soon as more information becomes available.
A Dunedin printing company hopes it will be able to double its output once its planned new factory is completed. The Dunedin City Council has granted resource consent to The Print Room, a Dunedin screen-printing and embroidery business, to establish a redesigned industrial building at 579 Kaikorai Valley Rd. The front portion of the total 6411sqm site had previously been used as a car yard in association with the neighbouring property, a report said. This area would comprise two workshop spaces, a ground floor showroom and upper level office and staff areas. The rest of the building would be used…
A third attempt to set up a bottle shop near three schools in south Auckland is being strongly opposed by the community and advocacy groups.Russell Road Liquor has made an application to the District Licensing Committee (DLC) to operate a new off-licence bottle shop at 70 Russell Road, Manurewa.The site is the old Black Bull Liquor Manurewa, which failed to reestablish a licence twice, the most recent last year.Communities Against Alcohol Harm (CAAH) secretary and lawyer Dr Grant Hewison said they were prepared to do all they could to stop it from opening.“This is the worst place to want to…
ADVERTISEMENTDinosaurs, dolls or dragons – chemicals that pose risks to children’s health and development will now be banned from toys sold in the European Union. The European Parliament and the Council struck a provisional agreement on stricter safety requirements for manufacturers and sellers, including those operating on online platforms. The ban will hit chemicals that can cause cancer, alter DNA or harm reproductive organs.Dangerous products are nearly everywhere in our daily lives – most of them are found in cosmetics (36%), according to data provided by the European Commission. But strikingly, toys are the second largest product category found to be most…
Police are investigating after a man was found critically injured on a Queenstown street with serious head injuries this morning.Senior Sergeant Glenn Wilkinson said the 33-year-old overseas national had been taken to Queenstown Lakes Hospital in a critical condition after he was found on Turner St at around 6am on Tuesday.”Police are making urgent enquiries to determine how the man came to be injured,” he said.The man appeared to be in the vicinity of Turner and Hallenstein streets from around 2am.Wilkinson said: “Police would like to hear from anyone who was in the area at the time who may have…
ADVERTISEMENTWhen Trump won the 2025 US elections, many analysts and outlets saw his victory catalysing a swing to the right among European voters: with right wing leaders and movements across Europe celebrating his win, viewing it as an endorsement of their stances on issues like immigration or climate change, and hoping it would empower their own parties. By contrast, after the announcement on “Liberation Day” of tariffs on European exports, and the abrasive meeting between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Trump, others believed there could be a negative effect on right wing parties and an upswing for the left.However, according to recent research by…
A woman who has been jailed for two years for trying to attack her husband of 50 years with a carving knife was under significant mental stress as his sole caregiver, a court has heard.Warning: This article includes details of self-harm. Helplines are provided at the end of the article.Katherine Mary Hughes pulled a knife on her husband, who was suffering from advanced Parkinson’s disease, in their Christchurch home in 2023 and told him “I’m going to end it for both of us”.After a struggle, Hughes then plunged the knife into her own chest, was critically injured and spent months…
Fonterra has announced a plan to close its canning and packaging facility in Hamilton at the end of July.The closure of the site, referred to as Canpac which blended and packaged milk powders, followed the dairy giant’s decision to focus on “higher value” ingredients such as advanced proteins and medical nutrition.Fonterra chief operating officer Anna Palairet said low product volumes and increasing production complexity has created “challenging economic conditions” for the facility.”It’s been a tough day for all the team at the site. Making decisions like this is never easy. “Our strategy is about creating end-to-end value and growing total…
ADVERTISEMENTMisleading claims and theories have been circulating online after Spain, Portugal and parts of southern France were hit by an unprecedented power outage on Monday.Some of these false claims have been amplified in the mainstream media, causing confusion and unfounded speculation as to the cause of the blackout, which left passengers stranded in trains and elevators, and forced businesses to shutter their doors.Speaking to the country, Spain’s prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said these crisis situations set “the perfect conditions for misinformation and hoaxes,” urging people “not to spread information from dubious sources.”Euroverify fact-checks some of the unfounded reports.No evidence the…