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ADVERTISEMENTMillions of European workers earn just a fraction of their country’s average pay.The latest Eurostat data shows nearly 15% of the EU’s workforce is made up of low-wage earners.Low-wage workers are employees who earn two-thirds or less of the median wage in their respective countries.The report shows a noticeable gender gap: 18.2% among women fall into this category, compared to 12.5% of men. Young people are particularly affected: one in four low-wage earners is under 30. The highest shares of low-paid workers were found in Bulgaria (26.8%), Romania (23.9%), Latvia (23.3%) and Greece (21.7%), while, on the flipside, countries like…

ADVERTISEMENTUS Vice President JD Vance has arrived in Rome for meetings at the Vatican and with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, fresh from her visit to the White House a day earlier.Meloni, who has positioned herself as a bridge between the US and Europe, received praise from President Donald Trump for her crackdown on migration during a meeting in the Oval Office on Thursday.Vance, who attended the meetings, is scheduled to meet with Meloni later on Friday and plans to attend Easter weekend events at the Vatican.He was scheduled to meet with the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the…

A boycott of American booze is underway in Canterbury’s Governor Bay where the publican of over 20 years is showing his opposition to the Trump’s regime’s tariffs.Otoromiro Hotel owner Jeremy Dyer is selling the liquor until the bottles are empty and won’t be ordering more.“The Jack Daniels is going, the Jim Beam is going, and most certainly the Southern Comfort is nearly gone,” he said.“Supposedly a close ally of us has sort of shafted us. Even though it’s a small measure to ban bourbon from our beverage offerings, I hope the message comes back and bites the administration on the…

ADVERTISEMENTA Russian attack on Ukraine’s second-largest city Kharkiv has killed one person and injured at least 60 others, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine has said.Images released by the office show the aftermath of the attack, with injured people being taken to hospitals. An unnamed 79-year-old man has been identified as the fatality. He was reportedly killed in his apartment. Ukrainian media report that several children are among the wounded.Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said that 20 apartment buildings and 30 private houses were damaged in the strike. Terekhov added that the aerial attack was carried out with “ballistic missiles equipped…

The Ministry of Education is consulting on whether consent education should be made compulsory in schools.It released the draft relationships and sexuality framework for consultation this week, outlining the proposed teaching to be covered in relationships and sexuality education each year, from Years 0 to 13.”It aims to ensure the content is age-appropriate, evidence-informed, and detailed about what is taught and when,” Education Minister Erica Stanford said.Research conducted by the Education Review Office last year highlighted significant inconsistencies in the delivery of RSE across the country.It found more than three quarters of recent school leavers said they didn’t learn enough…

ADVERTISEMENTThe US and Ukraine have signed a memorandum of intent with the goal of finalising a “formal agreement on economic partnership and reconstruction investment fund,” concerning mineral exploitation, according to a document seen by Euronews.The one-page document, signed by Ukraine’s first deputy prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko and US Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent on Thursday evening, says that a key round of negotiations will happen in Washington between 21 and 26 April. By that time, it is expected that both sides will have reached a general agreement to finally sign off on the deal. “Without prejudice to any remaining political or…

One person has died in a single-vehicle crash in Northland this afternoon in the first fatality of the preliminary Easter road toll.Police were called to State Highway 12 near Ruawai at around 2pm on Friday.”The sole occupant of the vehicle died at the scene,” a police spokesperson said.St John responded to the crash with two ambulances, while Fire and Emergency NZ responded with one truck from Ruawai.The NZ Transport Agency said the highway was closed between the intersections of Simpson Rd and Te Kowhai Rd.Inspector Peter McKennie of the national road policing team said safety should be top of mind…

ADVERTISEMENTFollowing the news that US President Donald Trump had imposed tariffs on most of the world, markets went into freefall.On so-called ‘liberation day,’ on April 2, Trump announced sweeping taxes on imports that triggered market crashes in the US and Asia. After the US president suspended the tariffs for 90 days, prices bounced back slightly and have been extremely volatile since.Trillions were wiped off the stock market after tariff announcements. The biggest losers were undoubtedly billionaires, who saw billions wiped off their market value, including Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.But…

Double convicted murderer Mark Lundy will be released from prison next month after more than 23 years behind bars, but he will not walk free.Lundy was convicted in 2002 for the killing of his wife Christine and daughter Amber in Palmerston North in 2000 and was sentenced to life with a 20-year non parole period.In 2013, the Privy Council quashed the convictions and ordered a retrial. Two years later, he was convicted again, and the original sentence was reimposed.The double-murderer says once free, he’d like to go to church and make clocks (Source: 1News)He became eligible for parole in 2023…

Households hooked up to reticulated gas are facing average price increases of 10% to their energy bills, according to Consumer New Zealand.Residential users must pay a fixed daily charge for gas as well as electricity, which can make gas uneconomical if a household is not using it for heating, water and the stove.The Eady family from Wellington was paying about $30 a month for the daily line charge but just $5 on actual gas consumption because it was just their stove connected to gas.Ditching gas was a “no brainer”, said Jason Eady.“We were just giving the money for nothing to…