3 d. ago 'A wonderful student': Tributes for man killed in bus stop attack

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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2 w. ago Israel changes account of paramedic killings after video found

The Israeli military has provided new details that changed its initial account of the killing of 15 emergency workers near the southern Gaza city of Rafah last month but said investigators were still examining the evidence.

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3 w. ago Police name man killed while crossing the road near Canterbury pie shop

World Famous Sheffield Pie Shop.customer Robert Alexander McKinley was killed while crossing the road near the shop. Photo: Facebook The man who was killed while walking across the road near a Canterbury bakery on Tuesday has been named by police.

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3 w. ago Pedestrian killed outside Canterbury pie shop 'a personal friend to many'

Police have released the name of the man who died after being hit by a vehicle while crossing the road outside a Canterbury pie shop this week. 

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3 w. ago 'We put down 25 dogs that day': Puppies killed as owners reject desexing

Some adoption puppies are euthanised to make room for strays. File photo: Getty Images Dozens of puppies are being killed because some New Zealand dog owners are not desexing their pets.

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3 w. ago Israel accused of killing paramedics after 'mass grave' found

Red Crescent workers mourn their colleagues, who came under Israeli fire while on a rescue mission, after their bodies were recovered in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Photo: Reuters Fifteen emergency and aid workers from the Red Crescent, Palestinian Civil Defense and the United Nations have been recovered from a grave in the sand in the south of the Gaza Strip, UN officials said on Monday.

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3 w. ago Myanmar quake: Signs of life in skyscraper, death toll tops 2000

Flattened buildings and one damaged following the quake on March 28 in Mandalay region, Myanmar.  Image: Myanmar Fire Services Department via Facebook/ via Reuters Signs of life have been detected in the ruins of a skyscraper in Bangkok, as efforts intensified to find people trapped three days after a massive earthquake in Southeast Asia that killed at least 2000.

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3 w. ago Stranger accused of following drunk woman home, abducting and raping her

WARNING: This story contains allegations of rape and sexual assaultBy Al Williams, Open Justice reporter

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