[ad_1] Andy Jackson / Stuff Police are talking to the driver of a pickup truck after a bicyclist was seriously injured in an accident Monday. (File photo) A bicyclist is in serious condition after being hit by a pickup truck on an Upper Hutt highway. Emergency services were called to …
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[ad_1] Marco Ugarte / AP It’s happening: Mexican military health workers expect to be vaccinated against Covid-19 in Mexico City last week. OPINION: As I write, it has been almost a year since the first reports emerged of the mysterious disease that we now know as Covid-19. Twelve months later, …
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[ad_1] Supplied This artist’s impression shows ‘Oumuamua’, the unique object was discovered in October 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii. A Harvard professor believes that we were visited by an extraterrestrial object in 2017. In his next book, Alien: the first sign of intelligent life beyond Earth, theoretical …
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[ad_1] Teams in Western Australia are fighting three dangerous fires, two in the Perth metropolitan area and one in Geraldton. Large Air Tanker supporting firefighters in the bushfires in the town of Kwinana, Perth, Western Australia. Photo: Facebook / WA Fire and Emergency Services Department Flames are burning south and …
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[ad_1] World January 3, 2021 04:00 pm4 minutes to read Boris Johnson said that Brexit could be a “surprising success” an hour before the country left the European Union in February 2020. Video / Supplied OPINION Blaming the victims is never good. Now that Britain is finally leaving the European …
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[ad_1] New Zealand’s stormy summer continues Monday with a severe thunderstorm watch over much of the central North Island. MetService issued the alert Monday morning for eastern Waikato, the interior of the Bay of Plenty, including Rotorua, Taupō, the interior of Gisborne and north of Hawke’s Bay. Thunderstorms could be …
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[ad_1] “Kind and gentle” Myka died a month before her seventh birthday. Photo / Supplied On New Year’s Day, a Wellington parent was knocked on the door and greeted by two police officers with “news that no parent should have to receive.” His son, who loved dinosaurs and was just …
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[ad_1] The Ministry of Health has published new guidelines for evaluating and treating babies born with a frenulum. Tongue tie surgery involves cutting a thin piece of skin that connects the lower part of the tongue to the lower jaw. Photo: 123RF It arises from concerns raised by some healthcare …
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[ad_1] AP PHOTOS Brad Raffensperger rebuffed Trump’s pressure to annul the election results, telling him that “the data he has is incorrect.” US President Donald Trump harassed and reprimanded Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in a call Sunday (NZT), repeating falsehoods about his election defeat in Georgia, the latest …
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[ad_1] A kaitiaki from the far north has described her horror after a historic fire on Manawatāwhi Island / Big Island threatened the rarest tree in the world. Two Skyworks helicopters dumped 55,000 liters of water into the 15-by-25-meter fire that was sighted on the island, about 60 kilometers northwest …
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