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Australia's East Coast braces for 'major rain event'
4 Apr 2024Sydney is on flood watch alongside at least 30 rivers across NSW and Queensland, as torrential rain is expected to pummel eastern Australia over the next 48 hours.
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Senior US diplomat suggests AUKUS will deter any China moves against Taiwan
The US Deputy Secretary of State has made an unusual linkage between the AUKUS security pact and deterring any Chinese move against Taiwan.
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Taiwan earthquake injuries top 1000, missing hotel workers found
4 Apr 2024A magnitude 6 earthquake struck off the east coast of Japan on Thursday.
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China sends "security delegation" to Tonga
4 Apr 2024Critics say the visit is another sign that China wants to embed officers in police forces across the Pacific, but the Tongan prime minister is playing down the significance of China's offer.
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50 workers missing in Taiwan quake that killed 9, injured 900
4 Apr 2024Taiwan's biggest earthquake in at least 25 years killed nine people and injured more than 900, while 50 workers travelling in minibuses to a hotel in a national park are missing.
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French couple who kept 159 cats banned from having pets
4 Apr 2024A woman, 68, has been diagnosed as having Noah syndrome, a condition associated with animal hoarding.
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Israel targeted aid workers 'systematically, car by car', chef says
"This was not just a bad luck situation where 'oops', we dropped the bomb in the wrong place," Andres says.
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Ministers to mark 75 years of NATO, discuss more support for Ukraine
4 Apr 2024NATO began with 12 members from North America and Europe, founded in response to growing fears that the Soviet Union posed a military threat to European democracies.
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Outage hits Apple services, including App Store and Apple TV+
4 Apr 2024Some of computing giant Apple's services went offline on Thursday, including in New Zealand.
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South African footballer shot dead in car hijacking
5 Apr 2024Police say South African footballer Luke Fleurs was shot dead in a car hijacking at a Johannesburg petrol station.
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Trump sues Truth Social partners who 'failed spectacularly'
Donald Trump is seeking the two ex-Apprentice contestants lose shares in the now public company.
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British conservatives set for heavy defeat to Labour - survey
4 Apr 2024YouGov projects Rishi Sunak's Conservatives would win just 155 seats and Labour would win 403.
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Ukraine lowers conscription age after drop in volunteers to fight Russian invasion
4 Apr 2024Volodymyr Zelensky has signed into law a bill lowering the military mobilisation age by two years from 27 to 25.
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UN suspends aid movements at night in Gaza
4 Apr 2024The World Food Programme will continue operations during the day following the deaths of seven aid workers in Gaza.
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Finnish police say bullying was motive for school shooting
4 Apr 2024Finnish Police say the 12-year old who shot three fellow students claims he was bullied.
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Death toll rises in Taiwan's strongest earthquake in 25 years
4 Apr 2024The quake, which hit duing rush hour in Taiwan, set off a tsunami warning for southern Japan and the Philippines that was later lifted. Video
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Taiwan quake: 711 injured, 77 trapped
3 Apr 2024There have been more than 100 aftershocks since the 7.2 magnitude rush-hour quake in Taiwan.
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Musician to sue over Kenyan April Fool's joke
3 Apr 2024The prank story alleged that the Afrobeats singer had been arrested in Kenya after cocaine was found on his private jet.
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Lunar time: NASA to create standard time for the moon
3 Apr 2024The White House directed NASA to establish a standard of time for the moon and other celestial bodies as it aims to set international norms in space.
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Double drowning death in Gold Coast pool 'unusual'
3 Apr 2024The drowning of two men who jumped into a Gold Coast pool to save a toddler is being described as "extremely tragic" and "unusual".
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Australians outraged, PM tells Netanyahu after citizen killed in Israeli strike
3 Apr 2024Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has admitted it was an Israel Defense Forces air strike that killed Australian aid worker Lalzawmi Frankcom and six others.
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Taylor Swift officially a billionaire - but who is the world's richest person?
3 Apr 2024But the musician is still nowhere near the top of Forbes' latest billionaires list.
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Kiwis caught in magnitude 7.7 Taiwan quake: 'Really, really terrifying'
3 Apr 2024Delphine Herbert - who was also in Christchurch for the 2011 disaster - was on her first full day in Taiwan when the quake hit. Audio
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Friends of Kiwi who died in Australia trying to bring body home
3 Apr 2024A friend of Danielle Whittaker says she was "larger than life" and would want her body returned to New Zealand.
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