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Seven people have been arrested, six of them aged 15 and under, after two incidents in Palmerston North and Foxton overnight.Manawatū Area Commander Inspector Ross Grantham said police received a report of an aggravated robbery in the Square in Palmerston North at around 8.15pm.”One person received minor injuries and the group of offenders fled on foot with stolen items.”Police located the group on Featherston St but they evaded officers.A police dog team tracked the offenders to Mersey Tce where they were arrested, Grantham said.Four youths aged between 11 and 15 years old are due to appear in the Palmerston North…

With 18 months of war devastating Gaza’s health system, a Waikato doctor is doing all she can to help from afar. GP Dr Ruba Harfeil is part of a telehealth service that aims to take pressure off Gaza’s surviving health workers, by doing remote consults and sending medication to patients. For surviving Gazans, medical treatment is less of a priority than day-to-day survival, and staying in contact with patients comes with huge challenges, said Dr Harfeil.Israeli airstrikes have led to devastation and chaos in the Hamas-run strip.The majority of buildings in Gaza have been destroyed, according to satellite analysis, with…

ADVERTISEMENTRussia and Ukraine have traded accusations of violating a ceasefire on strikes on energy infrastructure.Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha accused each other of attacking energy sites, speaking at different panels at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Turkey.Lavrov said that Russia hasn’t attacked any Ukrainian energy facilities since 18 March, when Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to halt attacks for 30 days in a phone call with US President Donald Trump.Lavrov accused Ukraine of breaking the terms of the US-brokered deal and said he provided the list of energy sites targeted by Ukraine to the…

The United States is “going through a bit of a shakedown” but remains a “reliable security partner,” says Defence Minister Judith Collins, as she stresses the importance of the Government’s new $12 billion defence capability plan.Earlier this week, Collins unveiled the long-awaited strategic plan, which was followed by an announcement the Government would pump billions more into defence.Citing rising global tensions, PM Christopher Luxon said military spending was “simply too low” and that it should rise to more than 2% of GDP within the next eight years. The defence plan suggested New Zealand faced its most dangerous strategic environment in…

A man has been charged after a person with “multiple gunshot wounds” arrived at Waitākere Hospital in the early hours of this morning, police say.Police were called to the West Auckland hospital at about 3.30am, with reports that a man had presented to staff with “serious injuries to his thigh and back”.In an update on the case, police said a 31-year-old man is due in the Waitākere District Court tomorrow, charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.Earlier this morning, Senior Sergeant Matthew Child told 1News that the man who presented themselves at the hospital had multiple gunshot…

A security guard who survived being stabbed at Westfield Bondi Junction is still living with trauma one year on.Sunday marks a year since Australia’s worst mass killing in nearly a decade claimed the lives of six people at a Westfield shopping centre in Sydney’s east.Joel Cauchi, 40, injured at least another 10 people including an infant before being shot dead by NSW Police Inspector Amy Scott minutes later.Ashlee Good, 38, Dawn Singleton, 25, Jade Young, 47, Pikria Darchia, 55, Yixuan Cheng, 27 and security guard Faraz Tahir, 30, were killed in the attack on April 13, 2024. Muhammad Taha, 30,…

ADVERTISEMENTPoles travelled from across the country to the capital, Warsaw, for a patriotic demonstration Saturday celebrating 1,000 years since the coronation of the first Polish king.They danced the Polonaise in historic costumes, sang the national anthem, invoked their Catholic beliefs and chanted slogans in support of a conservative candidate running in next month’s presidential election.The march of thousands was supported by the Law and Justice party, the conservative populists who governed Poland for eight years until 2023, when a centrist, pro-European Prime Minister Donald Tusk took over.Law and Justice is hoping to regain power in the next general election. In…

President Donald Trump’s administration granted exclusions from steep reciprocal tariffs to smartphones, computers and some other electronics imported largely from China, providing a big break to tech companies like Apple that rely on imported products. In a notice to shippers, the US Customs and Border Protection agency published a list of tariff codes excluded from the import taxes. The exclusions are retroactive to 12:01 a.m. EDT (0401 GMT) on April 5. The US CBP listed 20 product categories, including the broad 8471 code for all computers, laptops, disc drives and automatic data processing. It also included semiconductor devices, equipment, memory chips and flat panel displays. The notice did not…

Trust in news has stabilised following five years of sharp decline but remains “substantially lower” than it was before the Covid-19 pandemic, new research suggests.The AUT Research Centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy released its sixth annual Trust in News report this morning following a turbulent year for the media industry.According to the report, trust in news overall fell one point from 33% last year to 32% this year. Since the annual survey began in 2020, general trust in New Zealand has fallen by 21 percentage points.The level of trust in the media in New Zealand is now on par…

Queensland, Fiji, London, the Cook Islands and Sydney are the top destinations Kiwis are travelling to for their holidays, House of Travel says.The travel agency said they also noticed a shift in New Zealanders’ travel itineraries, with Hanoi, Tokyo and Bali gaining popularity.”We have seen a massive 130% year-on-year increase in school holiday bookings to Hanoi,” said House of Travel chief executive David Coombes.”Bali bookings are up 32% year-on-year, with Tokyo rising 11%.”This growth reflects a shift in Kiwi travel appetites, as families grow confident about exploring new destinations, where the New Zealand dollar has strong value on the ground.”Fiji…