Kiwi pop star Lorde has cancelled plans to perform in Israel amid a backlash from Palestinian rights campaigners. Israeli concert organisers announced the cancellation on Sunday afternoon (local time), The Jerusalem Post reports.
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Complacency, inept officials – a Government inquiry paints a frightening picture of the state of New Zealand’s drinking water, with at least 750,000 of us drinking from supplies that are “not demonstrably safe” – a figure described as likely to be a “significant underestimate”. The inquiry was sparked by the […]
New Zealand’s first refugee MP, Golriz Ghahraman, has come under scrutiny for her role in the in trials of war criminals following the Rwandan genocide. On the Green Party website, Ms Ghahraman is described as having put on trial world leaders for abusing their power, and restoring communities after […]
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The Beast is back. The seismic blaster, the Amazon Warrior, left New Caledonia yesterday. Next stop: AOTEAROA, NEW ZEALAND. Its mission: To carry out seismic blasting for oil right in the middle of a blue whale habitat, looking for oil that we cannot afford to burn. But there’s good news. It doesn’t yet […]
A newly seated government stalling on election promises? Hardly news really, is it? The butt of political jokes for decades. But it’s not so funny when lost lives and family closure and justice are involved, as is the case with the Pike River tragedy. A promise of re-entry to the […]
A group fighting the fluoridation of drinking water supplies in the south Taranaki towns of Waverley and Patea has taken its legal battle to the Supreme Court. It follows earlier hearings in the High Court and Court of Appeal, which ruled against legal arguments raised by New Health New Zealand, […]
Mr Dotcom is currently fighting extradition to the United States on multiple criminal charges related to his former file-sharing website Megaupload, including copyright infringement and money-laundering. In a statement issued earlier today, Mr Dotcom said he believed the raid by armed police was a “Hollywood-style publicity stunt tailored to appease […]
From Jeff Wefferson: This unprecedented naval ‘war game’ in Auckland harbour brought U.S. warships for the first time in over 30 years and with them the ‘next generation’ of geo-physical/planetary weaponization technologies. The entire scenario of this quake bore an uncanny resemblance to the quakes that destroyed Christchurch in February […]
The Turnbull Government has lost its one-seat majority after the High Court ruled Barnaby Joyce’s election invalid because of his New Zealand citizenship. Mr Joyce will now face a by-election. The court also found former Greens senators Scott Ludlam and Larissa Waters were not validly elected, along with One Nation’s […]