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New drugs targeting weight loss and diabetes management, such as Ozempic or Wegovy, can help lower the number of young people impacted by type 2 diabetes, a paediatrician says.Diabetes NZ is warning this Diabetes Action Month that more young people are being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and the country is potentially facing a “major health crisis”.Starship Children’s Hospital paediatric endocrinologist Dr Craig Jefferies told RNZ’s Morning Report a recent trial suggested that these new weight loss and diabetes drugs were looking “very, very promising”.While the drugs were currently not government-funded, they would be “life-changing” for those with diabetes, Jefferies…
Tonight’s Lotto Powerball draw is worth an eye-watering $36 million and for one lucky New Zealander, it could prove to be a life-changer.But what does it really feel like to win big?Lotto NZ’s Winners Booklet provides a peek into the emotions that follow a major win.”I stood there crying with a bloody great smile on my face,” one winner said.Another admitted: “I didn’t let the ticket leave my sight. I slept with it!”Some winners kept their tickets in glove boxes, drawers, or even tucked inside a Bible.”It’s not every day you have thousands of dollars sitting in your glove box,”…
Published on 05/11/2025 – 22:17 GMT+1 Above is the first ever episode of Euronews’ brand new debating show “The Ring” that aspires to bring a flavour of the European Parliament chamber to your couch. As you know, 720 elected members of the European Parliament meet regularly in the Chambers of Strasbourg and Brussels and debates can often get heated. In our first episode, we are joined by centre right German MEP David McAllister and the Belgian Left MEP Marc Botenga. They touched on topics from workers rights to the geopolitics of EU enlargement and debated live in front of a…
A forestry company must invest in forestry road safety research after a truck driver was killed when his vehicle and trailer rolled while navigating a Coromandel forestry road. Greg Stevens, 59, died after his logging truck rolled as he tried to negotiate a tight bend on a road that was part of a wood lot harvest operation run by Forest360 Limited on May 27, 2023. Stevens was subcontracting for the company when his nine-axle truck-and-trailer unit, fully loaded with logs, left the road and rolled down a bank. Stevens was fatally injured. A WorkSafe investigation found that Forest360’s design, maintenance,…
Published on 05/11/2025 – 11:50 GMT+1 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has dismissed accusations from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that he is showing “specific support for Putin” by obstructing Ukraine’s EU membership talks. In an interview with Euronews on Tuesday, Zelenskyy said he had no intention of offering concessions to Budapest, arguing that Hungary should instead support Ukraine’s defence of Europe. “I don’t think that I have to offer something to Viktor Orbán,” Zelenskyy said. “I think that Viktor Orbán has to offer something for Ukraine, which is protecting the whole Europe from Russia, and even now, during this war,…
A central Wellington street has reopened after being closed by armed police who couldn’t locate a person with a warrant for their arrest.Officers arrived at an apartment block on Hopper St in the suburb of Mount Cook to execute an arrest warrant at around 10.30am.Wellington City area commander Inspector Dean Silvester said attending officers were led to believe a firearm might be present.”They withdrew from the immediate area and cordoned and contained the address.”A drone was used to clear the apartment at around 12.50pm, prior to the Armed Offenders Squad going in, he said.”The subject of the warrant was not…
After years of stalled progress in the enlargement of the European Union, several countries are now back on track to join the bloc within the next few years. Leaders from EU hopefuls gathered in Brussels for the Euronews Enlargement Summit on Tuesday, as the European Commission presented its latest progress report. “Unfortunately, it was needed an aggression in the European soil, a military aggression, to make Brussels wake up,” said Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama during his address at the summit, referring to the acceleration in accession talks since the start of Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine. Rama expressed hope…
Buyer confidence is picking up in Dunedin’s steady property market on the back of lower interest rates, sales agents say. The market has typically been described as stable after the latest valuations were released by Quotable Value, showing little movement overall since 2022. Nidd Realty owner Joe Nidd said some buyers in Dunedin had been cautious in recent years, but confidence was returning. He had noticed much more competition among house buyers around the middle of the market, and more unconditional offers. “And the upper end of the market has shown a real invigoration in the past two to three…
Locations for six new average speed safety cameras have been confirmed by the New Zealand Transport Agency. The new cameras, which calculate a vehicle’s average speed along a length of road between them, will be set up at six locations in the South Island and the lower North Island. It means drivers will be ticketed if their average speed between the two cameras is over the limit. They will join 11 other sets previously announced by the agency to be installed in the upper North Island.The new locations announced today were: Southland – SH6 Kingston to SH97 Five RiversCanterbury -…
Published on 05/11/2025 – 18:15 GMT+1 •Updated 18:20 Albania is committed to joining the European Union by 2030, Prime Minister Edi Rama told Euronews, labelling his country as “the most Euro-optimistic nation in Europe”. “2030 is not a date that I saw in a dream, but it’s a deadline that is the result of a very simple calculation,” he said during his interview at Euronews’ EU Enlargement Summit on Tuesday. He expects to conclude talks in the next two years, giving national parliaments across the EU another two years to ratify the decision, he added. The timeline is considered assertive…