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Hundreds of students from multiple cities across Serbia began a four-day march on Tuesday to Kragujevac, where a mass protest is set to take place on Saturday. ADVERTISEMENTOn Thursday, Serbian students from multiple cities icluding the capital Belgrade continued to march toward the central city of Kragujevac for a protest rally set for Saturday.The demonstrations led by university students demand accountability and justice for the deaths of 15 people in a train station awning collapse last November, which critics have blamed on government corruption. University and high school students from cities such as Niš, Čačak, Užice, Kraljevo, Gornji Milanovac and Novi…

Best mates Mike Fahey and Jon Kwiatkowski are looking forward to grabbing a few more beers together after retirement. The duo, both 65, are closing their construction outfit Fahey Kwiat Builders Ltd after 35 years of running it together. Mr Kwiatkowski said he was looking forward to working less and socialising more with Mr Fahey — his friend for about 60 years after they met in primary school. “He’s like a brother, he is my best friend.” They were like chalk and cheese, he said. If he was a bit more of a hard-nosed business man, Mr Fahey was the…

Police have arrested a man after a police car was rammed near Auckland Airport and a vehicle was driven off through several Auckland suburbs this afternoon.The incident escalated from an initial report of a man reported to be assaulting a woman in a vehicle while parked in a shopping centre car park at around 12.55pm.Inspector Peter Raynes said airport police arrived as the vehicle concerned was leaving and a traffic stop was conducted on George Bolt Memorial Dr.”The female driver suffered minor injuries after exiting from the vehicle as it rolled back at slow speed,” he said.”The male passenger then…

With the U-turn of Poland’s public funding for IVF treatment, all EU member states now support this fertility treatment. However, the conditions and waiting times vary among the 27. ADVERTISEMENTIn the European Union, 25 million citizens face infertility.  In 2025, Poland welcomed its first baby conceived by in vitro fertilisation (IVF) after President Andrzej Duda signed into law a bill which restored public funding for fertility treatment.Funding was previously slashed by the former conservative government in 2015.This policy change ensured that all EU member states now provide public funding for IVF treatments. However, only five out of the 27 EU countries offer…

Police searching for an Argentinian tramper who fell into a river in Mt Aspiring National Park have found items believed to belong to the man.Hector Gaston Artigau, 21, was reported missing on February 6 after he fell from a rock and failed to resurface on a trip with two friends, Blas Antonelli and Santiago Ponce, who worked with him at an Alexandra cherry orchard.On Thursday, police said they had found a number of “personal items” along the river.”Search efforts in the last two days have been hampered by extreme hazards and limited visibility, resulting in a brief suspension of the…

A West Coast Regional Council contractor has been dismissed from her role for telling Westland Mayor Helen Lash to behave like an adult, at a meeting in Franz Josef on Wednesday.The incident followed a discussion about when work must start on the second stage of stopbank work on the Waiho/Waiau River, to meet government funding conditions.Ratepayers and councillors who oversaw the project as the Franz Josef Joint Committee, wanted clarification on the start and end dates for the multi-million dollar project.Lash – who chaired the committee – said a letter from Kānoa (the government’s Regional Economic and Investment Unit) sent…

From new coordination methods to more transparency over lobbying, here’s how Ursula von der Leyen reshaped the Commission in her own image. ADVERTISEMENTIt might’ve gone unnoticed—quietly announced in early January when many were still nursing their holiday hangovers—but the European Commission has radically changed the way it operates.While she was still recovering in hospital with pneumonia, Ursula von der Leyen signed off on restructuring the executive body into “project groups”.What went under the radar as a bureaucratic word shuffle will have an authentic impact on how decisions are taken, however, and cracking the code of this new structure means understanding…

Christchurch police are investigating major security breaches at two construction sites of large-scale anchor projects in the city with the exploits being filmed and posted online.The creator has this week posted a video from deep inside the Parakiore Metro Sports facility – a $696 million dollar venue under construction and expected to be completed later this year.In the video, they can be seen sitting of the diving boards and trekking down the hydroslides.The same account then posted a night-tour of the under-construction Te Kaha stadium site in January. The $683 million project is scheduled to open in April 2026.Both construction…

EU member states are currently negotiating whether to roll-out a so-called European preference for bloc-level defence spending. ADVERTISEMENTEuropean defence manufacturers are urging the EU to implement a European preference for common EU defence spending as a “strategic imperative”, as member states contend with how to deal with a transactional US leader.no“A strong European defence industrial base is essential to European defence preparedness – it is a defence capability in itself,” a spokesperson for the AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD), told Euronews in an emailed statement on Thursday.”Many European procurement contracts are given to third-country suppliers. This trend must…

NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi is reviewing the automatic speed limit reversal in Rakaia after facing a community backlash in the Mid Canterbury town.The transport agency confirmed it was considering options for consultation with the community, and the locals want to ensure it will be “face-to-face”.It comes after Transport Minister Chris Bishop back-pedalled on some automatic speed limit reversals, including two sections of State highway 6 in the Nelson area where consultation will now be held.Under new Government transport rules, urban connector roads like State Highway 1 through Rakaia were set to automatically revert to higher speed limits. In Rakaia,…