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[title] => Indian army chief heads to Kashmir as Pakistan tensions rise
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[description] => Indian security personnel near the site of the a suspected militant attack on tourists Kashmir. Photo: Reuters India's army chief will review security arrangements on Friday and visit the site of a deadly attack on tourists in Indian Kashmir earlier this week, with fears of fresh tensions with long-time rival and neighbour Pakistan spooking markets.
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[title] => Fewer than 50 families to get National's full tax package, says CTU
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[description] => Last year Finance Minister Nicola Willis said about 21,000 families would receive the $75 a week. The number is much lower. Photo: RNZ By Russell Palmer of RNZ
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[description] => Kyle Whorrall and his father John Whorrall. Photo: Supplied By Sam Sherwood of RNZ
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[description] => Otago from the air. PHOTO: NASA The Otago Regional Council gospel according to Gerrard Eckhoff demands a response, Tim Mepham writes.
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[description] => Photo: NZ Herald Air New Zealand's Chief Financial Officer Richard Thomson has blamed cost of inflation since the Covid-19 pandemic for a rise in the airline's airfares.
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[description] => Christchurch Hospital. Photo: ODT files Christchurch Hospital staff who have been left with life-long health effects after being exposed to toxic fumes at work have been let down by their employer, their union said.
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[description] => Pharmac says there has been an increase in supply chain issues for the medicines it funds in recent months.
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[title] => New memorial to mark Canterbury settlement’s first Anzac service
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[description] => Kirwee’s war memorial has been installed just in time for what is believed to be the settlement’s first Anzac Day service.
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[description] => Dominique McShain. Photo: Facebook A brave Christchurch woman who documented her battle with incurable cancer on social media over the past year has died aged just 21.
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[description] => Selwyn District councillor Shane Epiha says the rising tide of online abuse has solidified his decision not to seek a third term. PHOTO JONATHAN LEASK/LDR “Woke barrel-hugging piece of scum.”
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[title] => Selwyn ratepayers won’t have to fork out to keep Christchurch stadium running
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[description] => HAVE YOUR SAY - What is your view on paying a ticket levy to go to events at Christchurch’s new stadium? Email your responses in 200 words or less to daniel.alvey@starmedia.kiwi. Photo: Christchurch City Council Selwyn ratepayers will not have to contribute to the running costs of Christchurch’s new stadium.
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[description] => Photo: Getty Images An Owaka apprentice mechanic has been paid $17,000 after he was illegally sacked for losing his driver’s licence.
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[description] => Emergency services at the scene of the Warrender St crash which left a person critically hurt. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY A Dunedin crash which left a person critically hurt was caused by a possibly impaired driver "coasting" his car down a steep Dunedin street in the wrong lane, police say.
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[description] => Kyle Whorrall was attacked at a bus stop on St Johns Rd in Auckland on Saturday night. Photo: Supplied Former professors of a US PhD student who died after an Auckland bus stop attack have described him as "soft-spoken, polite, and enthusiastic".
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[description] => NZ First leader Winston Peters. Photo: RNZ By Craig McCulloch of RNZ New Zealand First is pushing for the term "woman" to be defined in law as "an adult human biological female" as the party vows to fight "cancerous social engineering" and "woke ideology".
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[description] => Photo: ODT files By Susan Edmunds of RNZ Tauranga man Scott Koster says it's "tone deaf" for Air New Zealand to be showing off its new uniforms at the same time that many travellers are facing particularly high airfares.
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[description] => John Beckenridge’s car is recovered from Curio Bay in 2015. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY The inquiry into the disappearance of Mike Zhao-Beckenridge in the Catlins a decade ago resumes today.
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[title] => Raise the Woof: How Finnegan 'changed our lives for the better'
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[description] => Nina Romain and her dog Finnegan are taking part in the Dogwatch Sanctuary Trust’s Raise the Woof fundraiser during May. Photo: Supplied Before Nina Romain adopted her american staffordshire, Finnegan, she was into cats.
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[title] => Social media, algorithmic engagement and their role in societal division
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[description] => Checking social media with a smartphone. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES Max Williamson contemplates the perils of algorithmic curation.
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[description] => The International Maritime Organisation will adopt the landmark deal in October. Photo: RNZ Pacific / Kelvin Anthony By Eloise Gibson of RNZ The world's maritime watchdog has agreed to a landmark deal for shipping companies to pay for their carbon dioxide emissions - but New Zealand abstained from the vote.
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[description] => Thomas Aerepo-Morgan delivers a Matariki karakia during the national hautapu ceremony at Treble Cone, near Wanaka, last year. PHOTO: SUPPLIED What do you do when someone prays to a god you don’t believe in? It is something I encourage my social work students to consider as they are all expected to be able to work cross-culturally.
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[description] => Labour leader Chris Hipkins. Photo: RNZ Former Covid-19 Response minister Chris Hipkins has admitted there were a number of things the former government got wrong about the pandemic, but has stood by the initial response.
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[title] => Heavy rain for parts of South Island after north gets drenched
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[description] => Jeremy Norbury died while kayaking in the Turnbull River in 2023. Photo: Supplied A skilled Queenstown kayaker drowned after becoming caught in a river hazard resembling a ‘‘washing machine’’, a coroner says.
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[description] => One of the cancellations investigated was the Kaiārahi ferry which had to undergo repairs for a heat exhanger in the funnel. Photo: Interislander via RNZ By Keiller MacDuff of RNZ Tens of thousands of people could be in line for compensation from KiwiRail, after a Commerce Commission investigation found it misled customers and may have breached the Consumer Guarantees Act in the aftermath of 2023's catastrophic ferry cancellations.
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[description] => The Waitaki. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including DCC's arts policy, taking note of history and time for a Waitaki River review?
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[description] => Photo: Getty Images A patient was left with PTSD, depression and felt demoralised and demeaned after they got pregnant and had an abortion when a doctor failed to re-insert their contraceptive device.
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[description] => Photo: RNZ By Susan Edmunds of RNZ Air New Zealand is expecting to make $20 million in six months from travel credits that customers won't use.
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[description] => Facial recognition technology has become a valuable tool to prevent retail crime, despite fears it is an invasion of privacy and can be used to track people without their consent.
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[description] => The coroner has recommended the structure of cots be regularly checked. File photo: Getty Images The failure of a cot’s structural integrity has been identified as the sole cause of a young baby’s tragic death after he became trapped between the mattress and a dislodged sliding side.
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[description] => Contractors return from clearing a Bluff track covered from head to toe in dog excrement thrown about by scrub-cutters. Photo: Department of Conservation Contractors clearing a popular Bluff walking track are returning covered "from head to toe in excrement" as dog faeces reach "obscene" levels.
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[description] => Joshua Bowles fell 6m from a roof. Photo: Open Justice/NZME By Catherine Hutton, Open Justice reporter Prowash employee Joshua Bowles had only been on the job for two months and was yet to receive safety training on harness use when he fell six metres from a roof he was cleaning with his boss.
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[description] => Photo: File image / Getty By Monique Steele A new study co-written by authors from Canterbury University has found rates of bacterial infection campylobacteriosis are twice as likely for people living in rural areas on private water supplies than for their urban counterparts on treated water supplies.
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[description] => Fiona Bakulich has been jailed for just over two years. Photo: Lucy Xia The co-owner of a company which employed a funeral director sentenced for interfering with human remains and obtaining money by deception says it has been an "incredibly painful chapter" for the business.
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[description] => Police formally identified the body found near Waiinu Beach on June 7, 2022 as that of the young fisherman who went missing after being washed off Snapper Rock. Photo: Bevan Conley A fisherman who slipped into rough seas while jumping between rocks in his gumboots has prompted a coroner to remind people of the dangers of rock fishing in rugged and unpredictable conditions.
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[description] => The Christchurch Bus Interchange. Photo: RNZ / Nate McKinnon By Jean Edwards Dramatic orchestral symphonies, soaring operatic solos and piano sonatas have been blasting from speakers at Christchurch's bus interchange in a council trial aimed at driving trouble away.
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