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[ad_1] The lead author of the UNICEF report card, which ranked New Zealand as one of the worst places in the developed world for children, says the report is fair, accurate and transparent. Unicef’s report card series used pre-Covid-19 data to rank EU and OECD countries in a league table …

[ad_1] Baker Daryl Collier was one of the few who was already awake when the 2010 earthquake struck at 4.35am. M. His first thought was that a train had derailed at the back of his property and was heading toward the building. “It was a tremendous jolt, it just went …

[ad_1] Mak Remissa / AP Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, died in a Cambodian hospital early Wednesday morning. (File photo) Rob Hamill is disappointed that he will never be able to sit down with the man responsible for his brother’s torture and death. …

[ad_1] MARK GEE / Stuff The Milky Way over southern Wairarapa taken from an overlook in the Tararua mountain range. Warmer-hued street lighting and restrictions on sports field lights are part of a plan to make Wairarapa the world’s largest dark-sky preserve. Councils in the region are proposing a change …

[ad_1] Three people have been arrested following a lengthy investigation by Counties Manukau CIB into the importation and distribution of opium-based products into New Zealand from India. An investigation was launched after information was received late last year related to the sale and supply of Kamini, which contains the controlled …

[ad_1] Patients in the Auckland group are being hospitalized at twice the rate of other Covid-19 cases in New Zealand, and its specific impact on Maori and Pasifika is likely a major factor. A Herald analysis found that 18 of the 152 cases in the group have resulted in hospitalization, …

[ad_1] Russian scientists have belatedly published the first results of the first trials of the experimental Sputnik V vaccine, which received government approval last month but drew considerable criticism from experts as the injections had only been tested in several dozen people. before being administered more widely. In a report …

[ad_1] Martin Meissner / AP A police officer passes candles and teddy bears at the entrance of a house where five dead children were found in Solingen, Germany. German prosecutors said on Friday (local time) that they will charge a 27-year-old woman with murder after five of her young children …

[ad_1] The government has designated 11,800ha in the Mackenzie basin, near the “drylands” conservation land with the biggest fire this week. Conservation and Land Information Minister Eugenie Sage made the announcement today, saying the area would “fall under the korowai or mantle” of the Tu Te Rakiwhanoa Drylands, a collaborative …

[ad_1] Vaccine development Russia The Russian ‘Sputnik-V’ COVID-19 vaccine produced an antibody response in all participants in the early-stage trials, according to results published on Friday (September 4) by The Lancet medical journal that were hailed by Moscow as an answer to its critics. The results are not surprising, as …