[ad_1] Kia ora koutou, and welcome to the first installment of The Guardian’s weekly briefing on the New Zealand elections. am She huntsand I am pleased to keep you posted on this campaign through October 17 with input from my brilliant colleagues. Eleanor Ainge Roy Y Charlotte Graham-McLay. No matter …
Read More »Covid-19: the second group has the potential to be very serious – Professor Skegg
[ad_1] There should be concern about the latest small cluster of Covid-19, say an epidemiologist and Covid-19 modeler. Photo: AFP The country’s second current group, now of six people and 31 close contacts, is connected to a man who turned out to have the disease after completing his period of …
Read More »‘I’ve never seen anything like this’: Shrek 2 found in Gisborne
[ad_1] Supplied Gizzy Shrek from Wairakaia Station. This story was originally posted on RNZ.co.nz and is being republished with permission. First it was the Shrek from the South Island that caught our attention in 2004; now a rival has been found in Gisborne. She was eventually caught at the Wairakaia …
Read More »North Korea accused of shooting South Korean official and burning body in water
[ad_1] North Korean soldiers shot dead a suspected South Korean defector at sea and burned his body as a precaution for the coronavirus after he was questioned in the water for several hours, Seoul military officials said Thursday. It is the first killing of a South Korean by North Korean …
Read More »California bans gasoline cars. Now the electric vehicle race begins
[ad_1] California has just set the clock for a future that would have been unthinkable a few years ago: dealerships filled with nothing but zero-emission cars. On Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, ordered regulators to phase out the internal combustion engine and ban the sale of all new gasoline-powered …
Read More »Rugby: ‘They have been fully consulted’ – Sanzaar responds after NZ Rugby claims about Rugby Championship schedule
[ad_1] Sanzaar CEO Andy Marinos has responded to New Zealand Rugby’s complaint about the newly released Rugby Championship schedule. Sanzaar and the Rugby Australia hosts today announced the full match schedule for the four-team tournament, which will see the All Blacks take on the Wallabies in the final week of …
Read More »Advertising Standards Authority dismisses complaints that National MP billboards are ‘misleading’
[ad_1] “The announcement draws attention to the party’s policy on Hawke’s Bay Hospital. That policy establishes the party’s position for voters to ‘access world-class health care regardless of income, background or zip code,'” he concluded. the ASA. “Voters will be familiar with the political party policy announcement process during an …
Read More »Two cops shot in Kentucky during protests over Breonna Taylor’s grand jury decision
[ad_1] All-day street protests erupted into violence after dark when two police officers who were on duty amid the protests were shot and injured, Robert Schroeder, acting chief of the Louisvile Metropolitan Police Department, told reporters. He said a suspect had been arrested and the two officers were in stable …
Read More »Former Australian cricketer Dean Jones dies at 59
[ad_1] Mark Tantrum / Getty Images Dean Jones on the countdown to the 2015 Cricket World Cup in Wellington. Former Australian cricketer Dean Jones died of a heart attack at age 59. Jones, in Mumbai as part of the Indian Premier League’s official broadcast commentary team, suffered a major heart …
Read More »‘The schedule is not our fault’: Rugby Australia is not responsible for the All Blacks missing Christmas
[ad_1] Rugby Australia says they are not to blame for the Rugby Championship schedule which could leave the All Blacks quarantined in a hotel over Christmas. New Zealand is crying about playing the final game of the six-week tournament, a Bledisloe Cup tryout against the Wallabies in Sydney, on December …
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