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A soldier has been found guilty of taking intimate images of a woman without consent.Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment Corporal Manu Smith faced a court martial at Burnham Military Camp on one count of “intentionally or recklessly” making an intimate visual recording.A three-person military panel found Smith guilty of taking the images of the woman during sexual activity between August and December 2020.Two other charges against Smith were dropped on the second day of the hearing.During his summing up on Wednesday morning, Justice Tom Gilbert said the case was one of law, not of morals. He said the panel must…
Published on 11/06/2025 – 17:13 GMT+2•Updated 17:17ADVERTISEMENTPoland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk has survived a vote of confidence in the Sejm, the lower house of parliament, with 243 MPs voting in favour with 210 against.There were no abstentions.Tusk requested a vote of confidence in the wake of the loss of Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, a close ally, to conservative Karol Nawrocki in the 1 June presidential runoff.Backed by US President Donald Trump, Nawrocki is set to replace outgoing President Andrzej Duda, another Law and Justice or PiS party-backed conservative who repeatedly blocked Tusk’s reform efforts.”Anyone who is ready to move forward with me, with…
More Qantas planes will fly through New Zealand and Australia skies when the airline shuts its intra-Asia carrier Jetstar Asia within months.The final Jetstar Asia fight would take off on July 31 and 500 Singapore-based workers will lose their jobs as Qantas Group sharpened its focus on Australian and New Zealand markets.There were no changes to any flights connecting Australian airports to destinations in Asia or changes to Jetstar Japan services.Some 13 Jetstar Asia Airbus A320 planes would eventually replace leased aircraft and older planes used in Australia and New Zealand, which the airline claimed would create 100 local jobs.In…
Coastal Taranaki has been hit by wild weather with reports of a tornado near the Cape Egmont lighthouse on Wednesday morning.MetService issued a severe thunderstorm watch for the Taranaki region with scattered thunderstorms forecast to produce “a few small short-lived tornadoes” between noon and 6pm.The national weather authority confirmed the funnel cloud in the video was one of these tornadoes.”If any tornadoes do occur, they are expected be short-lived and very localised, but may cause damage to structures and vegetation. “MetService advises that, should severe weather approach or if you feel threatened, take shelter immediately.”Margaret Bolstad, who lived near the…
Published on 11/06/2025 – 14:03 GMT+2•Updated 15:18ADVERTISEMENTSerbian President Aleksandar Vučić is visiting Ukraine on Wednesday, in what marks his first ever trip to the country.During a one-day trip, Vučić is scheduled to take part in the Ukraine-Southeast Europe Summit in Odesa, Serbia’s Presidential Office announced. According to Euronews’ European political sources, the Serbian president’s participation in the summit signals Serbia’s realignment with the EU regarding Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.Serbia has positioned itself as neutral when it comes to Russia’s war against Ukraine, but Vučić’s recent visit to Moscow for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Victory Day parade drew sharp criticism from…
Police have made a further appeal to the public as it continues its search for Elisabeth Nicholls, the 79-year-old living with dementia who went missing in Christchurch last week. Nicholls was reported missing after 6pm on Wednesday, June 4, after she was admitted to respite care at the Margaret Stoddart Retirement Village on Bartlett St in Riccarton.She was last seen on CCTV at the Chateau on the Park in Riccarton shortly before 8pm.She was wearing blue pants, a dark-coloured long-sleeved top, black shoes, and distinctive long grey hair.”We don’t know where she travelled to after the Chateau, and have not…
Air New Zealand has confirmed it will operate flights from the new Western Sydney International Airport.Major construction at the site, 44km from Sydney’s CBD, is now complete with the terminal unveiled on Wednesday.Western Sydney International chief executive Simon Hickey said the “24-hour international gateway” terminal would create “significant economic opportunities for all of Greater Sydney”.New Zealand’s national carrier planned to begin operations in 2027, contingent on aircraft availability and passenger demand. Qantas, Jetstar, and Singapore Airlines had already signalled their intent to operate from the new airport.At Sydney Airport in Mascot, more than 50 airlines fly in and out, the…
Some regional airlines say they’re just months away from selling more aircraft and cutting flight routes.Both Sounds Air and Air Chathams claim calls for support continue to be ignored despite six years of conversations with ministers.Sounds Air Chief Executive Andrew Crawford told 1News even though passenger demand was up, the cost to run regional airlines had never been higher.“One of the biggest hurts is parts, maintenance parts have skyrocketed.” He said. “A part we used to pay $26,000 for is now $72,000.”Air Chathams chief operating officer Duane Emeny said several service providers that didn’t want to put their prices up…
A 45-year-old man has denied murdering a toddler in a case that rocked their home town of Kaikohe.Drummond Augustine Leaf appeared in the High Court at Whangārei this morning charged with the murder of Catalya Remana Tangimetua-Pepene on May 21 this year.He was also charged with assaulting the three-year-old in a separate incident a month earlier.Leaf pleaded not guilty and elected a trial by jury.He was remanded in custody and was due back in court on July 18.Leaf, who appeared by audio visual link, had earlier been granted name suppression but that lapsed today.His next appearance, for a case review…
By Euronews Published on 11/06/2025 – 9:56 GMT+2ADVERTISEMENTAt least two people were killed and 60 wounded in Kharkiv after Russian forces launched a large-scale drone attack across Ukraine overnight Wednesday, Ukrainian officials said. “Seventeen strikes by enemy UAVs were carried out within just 10 minutes in two districts of the city this night,” Kharkiv’s Mayor Igor Terekhov said. More than 15 apartments were on fire in a five-storey building and several houses were hit. “There may be people trapped under the rubble,” Terekhov added.The strikes caused widespread destruction in the Slobidskyi and Osnovianskyi districts of Kharkiv, hitting apartment buildings, private homes,…