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SkyCity has filed legal proceedings against Fletcher Building and The Fletcher Construction Company, seeking compensation of $330 million for “ongoing delays” to its new convention centre.Intended to open in 2020, the project was delayed after a devastating fire hit the construction site the year before the opening date.In a statement this morning, SkyCity said it had incurred losses due to the delays, including as a result of the fire. Fletcher Building said it would “vigorously defend itself” against the claim. SkyCity said the project was nearly six and a half years behind the contractually agreed delivery date of January 2019.Parliament…
By Inês Trindade Pereira & video by Maud Zaba Published on 06/06/2025 – 15:05 GMT+2•Updated 16:48ADVERTISEMENTA new YouGov study shows that the favourability towards Israel in Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, Spain and Italy is at or near its lowest level in Western Europe since 2016. The research interviewed 8,625 people from these six key Western European countries between November 2016 and May 2025. Net favourability towards Israel in Germany (-44), France (-48), and Denmark (-54) has reached its lowest level since YouGov started tracking in 2016, while public sentiment in Italy (-52) and Spain (-55) are likewise at their lowest or joint lowest…
One person has died in a house fire in Waitara, near New Plymouth, this morning.Emergency services were alerted to the fire on Browne St, Waitara, at around 7.30am on Friday.Police said the person found dead was believed to have been the sole occupant of the house at the time of the fire.”Inquiries are under way to determine the cause of the fire and at this stage there is no further information available.”Fire and Emergency NZ said crews attended the blaze from Waitara, New Plymouth and Inglewood.”On arrival, it was well involved. The fire is contained and we are dampening down…
ADVERTISEMENTThe very public fallout between Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk, once among the US president’s closest advisors, has rippled across the Atlantic, drawing fascination as well as anxiety from Europe’s right-wing and far-right political circles.The collapse of the Trump-Musk alliance, marked by bitter exchanges over government contracts and personal insults, has left many on Europe’s right politically adrift. Online, the moment has already spawned memes comparing European parties to children caught in a bitter divorce.Yet beyond the humour, the European right woke up in shock.For many of its leaders, Trump had served as proof that a nationalist ‘wave’ was…
Police are working to locate the driver of a red ute involved in an alleged hit and run crash that left a woman seriously injured in Rotorua last night.The crash happened about 9pm near the intersection of Haupapa St and Tuanekai St.Detective Sergeant Philip Wilkinson said after allegedly striking the victim the vehicle drove east on Haupapa St towards Fenton St.”This incident easily could have been fatal, and it’s important we hear from anyone who saw it happen, and anyone who witnessed an interaction between a woman and the driver of a red ute immediately prior.”Parliament punishment, free money?, getting…
ADVERTISEMENTFrench President Emmanuel Macron allegedly claimed that African countries would be unable to “thrive without French involvement”, according to a series of posts circulating on social media.”Africa remains the least developed continent, and history shows we have a role to play in supporting its growth. A complete withdrawal could halt progress”, states a post supposedly quoting Macron, which has been viewed almost 700k times. A number of the posts which relay the claim feature the same press shot of Macron.By conducting a reverse image search and checking that results matched with the picture shared on social media, EuroVerify was able…
Telecommunications infrastructure company Chorus said this morning’s massive internet outage across the lower North Island was caused by human error.DownDetector showed a large spike in outages across telecommunications companies Spark, One NZ, Skinny and 2Degrees from around 10.45am this morning.The outage lasted more than an hour and was fixed by 12.30pm. One telecommunications company said around 90% of connections in the region were offline.In a statement to 1News, Chorus said the outage was “the result of human error during planned works, which resulted in one of our core ethernet routers for the Wellington region being isolated from our network”.”The error…
An Auckland-based foreign exchange and money remittance company has been convicted and fined $1.125 million for failing to report suspicious activities and to submit prescribed transaction reports.An investigation by the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) found that Qian DuoDuo Limited, which traded under the name Lidong Foreign Exchange, found it failed to report 197 international transactions to China between June 2018 and September 2019.The transactions, which totalled over $19.14 million, included 26 “objectively suspicious” activities with a value of $4.72 million and 171 involved prescribed transactions with a value of $14.42 million. The value of the nearly 200 transactions represented…
A man has been charged with murder after a woman was struck by a vehicle in Hamilton last month.Hamilton woman Jayde Gilbert was critically injured after she was hit by a ute on the corner of Ohaupo Rd and Kahikatea Dr on May 15.Police at the time said the 30-year-old was injured after a vehicle drove into a power pole she was standing next to.Gilbert was taken to Waikato Hospital, where she died of her injuries.A 38-year-old man was arrested today, Detective Senior Sergeant Scott Neilson said.He will appear in the Hamilton District Court this afternoon charged with her murder.…
Published on 06/06/2025 – 12:28 GMT+2ADVERTISEMENTGlobal police organisation Interpol says that 20 people have been arrested as part of a major international operation against the production and distribution of child sexual abuse material. The arrests were made between March and May in an operation that spanned 12 countries. It was led by the Spanish National Police in collaboration with Interpol and Europol.”The operation was initiated by Spain in late 2024, when specialised officers carried out online patrols and identified instant messaging groups dedicated to the circulation of child sexual exploitation images,” Interpol said in a statement.Through Interpol and Europol, Spanish…