[ad_1] This story was originally posted on RNZ.co.nz and is being republished with permission. A Christchurch couple locked in an ongoing legal battle with state earthquake insurer Southern Response says it is sobering that a Court of Appeals decision goes their way, a decade after the heartbreaking earthquakes. An earlier …
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[ad_1] Every Monday until the election, The Front Bench will address the most important talking points of the election campaign. Heather du Plessis-Allan, Newstalk political editor ZB Barry Soper, former Act Party press secretary Trish Sherson and former Labor Minister Chris Carter have the floor and the briefing. On the …
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[ad_1] A gender reveal party is blamed for starting a wildfire that has since spread across 7000 acres in California. US officials say the fire at El Dorado Ranch Park in Southern California was started by a “smoke-generating pyrotechnic device” during a gender reveal party. Ringo HW Chiu / AP …
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[ad_1] A box heralded as the latest from McDonald’s Georgie Pies will be auctioned for more than Trade Me and is already attracting four-figure bids. Fans of the discontinued classic have been bidding for 42 frozen meat and cheese pies since Sunday. With six more days to go, the listing …
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[ad_1] NEWS FROM THE COOK ISLANDS / Provided Dr. Joe Williams and his wife Jill, who was by his side at the hospital. The grieving whanau of the former Cook Islands prime minister, who died of coronavirus in Auckland, still does not know how he contracted the disease. Dr. Joseph …
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[ad_1] As a woman in politics, Jacinda Ardern has endured her fair share of insults. Your playlist will load after this announcement. Maori leader Ngahihi Bidois compared Ardern to the character from Looney Tunes during a campaign stop in Rotorua. Source: 1 NEWS But today in Rotorua, the Labor leader …
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[ad_1] An elderly woman who was assaulted and robbed at her Levin home described one of the assailants accused of having “pure evil in his eyes.” Photo: RNZ / Dan Cook Grace Virtue, who was 90, died of a brain injury weeks after being assaulted and robbed during her home …
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[ad_1] The growing number of coronavirus cases in India made the Asian giant the second most affected country by the pandemic behind the United States on Monday, as its efforts to avoid economic disaster take on urgency. The 90,802 cases added in the last 24 hours pushed India’s total beyond …
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[ad_1] The captain of Gulf Livestock 1 texted his partner saying he was praying in the moments leading up to the ship capsizing, after it entered a powerful typhoon. Only two of the ship’s 43 crew have been rescued so far after it sank in the East China Sea last …
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[ad_1] It is a tiny little room, at the back and above the main meeting room in Tamaki Māori Village. “Hello, Prime Minister.” It’s a bit strange not to shake the prime minister’s hand when you meet her, but this is 2020. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was in town on …
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