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The Beehive could be vacated for up to 18 months in the coming years as Parliament considers a major refurbishment programme for one of New Zealand's most recognisable government buildings. Speaker of the House Gerry Brownlee says the building's ageing infrastructure means significant work can no longer be delayed indefinitely. · Completed in 1981, the Beehive houses government ministers, ministerial staff, Cabinet facilities, and the…

A 23-year-old man has appeared in court charged with murder following the fatal stabbing of a man in central Auckland on Tuesday evening. Report by elocal · Police were called to Wellesley Street East at approximately 6.45pm after reports of a fight involving several people believed to be known to one another. · Emergency services located a critically injured man at the scene. Despite efforts to save him, he died shortly after being transported…

US President Donald Trump used his closing press conference at the G7 Summit in France to declare what he described as a major breakthrough in the Middle East, announcing that Iran has agreed not to pursue nuclear weapons and signalling what he believes could become a wider regional peace framework. Report by INR · US President Donald Trump used his closing press conference at the G7 Summit in France to declare what he described as a major…

A Ukrainian drone strikes a bus full of children in Western Russia. The youth football team from Belarus were on the way to a coastal city on a summer trip. · Top Russian officials react to the deadly UAV attack with Vladimir Putin denouncing Kiev's strike as a terrorist act. · Donald Trump says that the peace agreement with Iran is not set in stone and warns that fighting could resume even with the Geneva signing ceremony just days away.

At least 250,000 British girls suffered sickening sexual abuse by Pakistani gangs, who were enabled by police, social workers, and even Prime Minister Keir Starmer, to commit “child rape on an industrial scale,” British MP Rupert Lowe’s ‘Rape Gang Report’ has detailed. Published on Tuesday, the 218-page report makes for sobering reading. It details the decades-long abuse of hundreds of thousands of white British girls – and smaller numbers of…

Spy agencies in the EU and the US are spending millions of taxpayers’ money to access commercially available personal data, according to findings published on Tuesday by Interface, a European think tank that gathered evidence from 11 intelligence watchdogs. The practice, known as advertising-based intelligence, or AdInt, involves using personal data collected by the advertising industry for intelligence and surveillance purposes. The report…

Israel has accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of anti-Semitism after he compared its actions in Gaza to the horrors of the Holocaust. In a recent interview with Al Arabiya, Lukashenko condemned Israel’s destruction of Gaza and said West Jerusalem should be more careful, given the level of global outrage over its military campaign in the Palestinian enclave. · “They have already received such a rating in the world community that…

Israel couldn’t fulfill any these goals on its own, all of which required US assistance, but the US pulled out of the war after achieving some its goals instead of paying much higher costs to pursue the maximum ones that Israel still wanted. By Andrew Korybko · Israel is the biggest loser of the Third Gulf War as was concluded here, the sentiment of which was earlier expressed by Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid and Israeli media in…

US President Donald Trump has signaled that Washington will refocus on efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict after peace talks were put on hold by the crisis in the Middle East. The prospect of renewed US engagement has reportedly unsettled EU officials, who fear the bloc could once again be sidelined if Washington resumes direct negotiations with Moscow. Here is RT’s breakdown of where the peace process stands and what could come next. · …

One of the most talked-about moments from UFC Freedom 250 came after heavyweight fighter Josh Hokit scored a dominant victory on the White House South Lawn and delivered a post-fight comment that immediately set social media ablaze. By David Lindfield · After defeating Derrick Lewis by technical knockout on Sunday night, Hokit grabbed the microphone and addressed the crowd gathered for the historic event. · Hokit shouted a claim about former…