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A motorcyclist has died following a crash near Feilding. Police were advised that a motorcycle had crashed on Kawakawa Rd shortly before 8pm yesterday. “The motorcyclist was located deceased at the scene,” a police spokesperson said. No other vehicles were involved.Inquiries into the circumstances of the crash were underway.
Climate activists from the Dutch branch of Extinction Rebellion blocked traffic at a major entry and exit point to the city of The Hague. ADVERTISEMENTClimate activists from Extinction Rebellion blocked a major road in the Dutch city The Hague on Saturday.Authorities had banned the protest and police erected screens and fences on the A12 highway to try to stop protesters reaching the road on foot.However, several hundred demonstrators in smaller groups managed to reach the highway and the blockage prevented city traffic from entering or leaving via that stretch of road.Some protesters were detained but police didn’t say how many.…
Fire and Emergency New Zealand is continuing to battle a scrub fire this morning which broke out in Kūaotunu on the Coromandel Peninsula yesterday afternoon. Firefighters were called to the scene on Black Jack Rd shortly before 4pm Saturday. FENZ Incident Controller Shane Bromley said three helicopters and four ground crews would continue work on the blaze today. “There have been no evacuations due to the fire and it’s estimated the fire is approximately 600m x 600m,” he said. A strong southerly wind was blowing smoke from the fire out to sea.He said Black Jack Rd would be closed all…
Four Lotto players have each won a share of $1 million in last night’s draw, and Powerball has rolled over to $5 million. Players from Whangārei, Te Aroha, Hawkes Bay and Wellington each won $250,000 with Lotto First Division last night. The winning numbers were 10,40,7,13,22, 37. The bonus was 17 and Powerball was 6.The winning tickets were sold at Pak N Save Whangārei in Whangārei, Four Square Te Aroha in Te Aroha, Gorgeous Goose Cakes & Lotto in Wellington and on MyLotto to a player from Hawke’s Bay.Powerball was not struck and has rolled over to Wednesday night, where…
Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, party confirms Alice Weidel as its candidate for chancellor. ADVERTISEMENTThe AfD announced the confirmation at the start of a two-day gathering in Riesa, in the eastern state of Saxony, which is one of its strongholds.It is the first time in the party’s history that it is claiming a possible chancellorship by electing an official candidate for the role.Polls show AfD in second place ahead of the election on 23 February, with about 20% support. AfD co-leader Tino Chrupalla clearly formulated his party’s goals at the party conference in Riesa, saying “now we have…
As a precaution animal transportation has been banned in Brandenburg state after the disease was detected in a buffalo herd just outside Berlin. ADVERTISEMENTA 72-hour ban on transporting cows, pigs, sheep, goats and other animals such as camels and llamas in Brandenburg went into force on Saturday and Berlin’s two zoos also closed.It came after authorities in Brandenburg state, which surrounds Berlin, said on Friday that a farmer found three of a 14-strong herd of water buffalo dead in Hoenow, just outside the city limits. Germany’s national animal health institute confirmed that foot-and-mouth disease had been detected in samples from…
The polls suggest Croatia’s left-leaning president Zoran Milanovic, who is an outspoken critic of Western military support for Ukraine, will win. ADVERTISEMENTOn Sunday President Zoran Milanovic will be running against Dragan Primorac, who is backed by the prime minister and his government.In the first round, held on 29 December, Milanovic won 49.7% of the vote against seven other candidates, just shy of half of the ballots needed to secure an outright victory.He was a long-time leader of the Social Democrats and spent most of his career in opposition. Milanovic was then the country’s prime minister from late 2011 to early…
Both countries exchanged drone attacks early on Saturday morning, injuring two in Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine and at least seven in Russia’s Tambov region. ADVERTISEMENTTwo people were wounded in Russian drone attacks in Ukraine’s southern city of Zaporizhzhia, according to the head of the regional military administration there, Ivan Fedorov.The attacks damaged 20 houses and caused three fires and debris from the drones damaged a trade kiosk, private houses and a low-pressure gas pipe, the State Emergency Service of Zaporizhzhia region reported.”We were sitting in the room, watching TV, and then suddenly this explosion went off, and everyone went numb and…
The massacre of around 100,000 Polish civilians by a Ukrainian paramilitary force had long soured diplomatic relations between the otherwise close allies. ADVERTISEMENTA decision to exhume the bodies of the victims of the Volhynia Massacre has been made, according to Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk. “Finally, a breakthrough. A decision has been made on the first exhumations of Polish victims of the UPA. I would like to thank the ministers of culture of Poland and Ukraine for their good cooperation. We are waiting for further decisions,” Tusk wrote in a post on X. In 1943 the Ukrainian Insurgent Army…
Fire and Emergency New Zealand is at the scene of a scrub fire in Kūaotunu on the Coromandel Peninsula this evening.FENZ told 1News it was called to the scene at 3.54pm.”We have seven appliances at two helicopters on scene,” said a FENZ spokesperson.”The fire is 300 metres by 600 metres and is mainly fuelled by pine flash and regrowth.”Photos from the scene show smoke billowing from the blaze.(Source: Emily Clarke)