All articles

Three police staff have been charged following investigations triggered by the discovery of objectionable material on former Deputy Commissioner Jevon McSkimming's work devices Photo: RNZ · Three Officers Charged · Three New Zealand Police staff members are facing criminal charges relating to the alleged possession of objectionable publications following an internal review of staff internet activity. · According to court documents obtained by…

US President Donald Trump has cancelled planned strikes on Iran, saying talks with the Islamic Republic are moving forward with the country’s top leadership. The announcement came just hours after he again threatened to hit Iran “very hard.” Tensions between Washington and Tehran have surged in recent days despite a nominal ceasefire agreed in April. The US launched strikes on Iran on Wednesday after a US AH-64 Apache helicopter was lost near…

The European Commission should have revealed the details of its Covid-19 vaccine contracts with drugmakers to the public, an adviser to the EU’s highest court has declared. Among the contracts was a deal with Pfizer that Commission President Ursula von der Leyen negotiated via text message. In an opinion published on Thursday, Advocate General Athanasios Rantos argued that the Commission’s insistence on secrecy made it impossible to know…

The strait of Hormuz is closed to any and all ships. That's announced by Iran's Persian Gulf authority as salvos of bombs and missiles start dropping once again across the region. · As Tehran responds to the US bombardment, Trump says he's doubling down, pledging more strikes tonight, and plans for boots on the ground, while the Pentagon insists America's attacks can continue even during so-called peacetalks. · Outrage on the streets of Kenya…

By Andrew Korybko · Zelensky published a highly incendiary open letter to Putin last week requesting a bilateral meeting for ending the Ukrainian conflict by freezing the frontlines with no Ukrainian concessions whatsoever. Putin rejected this request, but not before explaining that it had already been discreetly conveyed to him through a member of Russia’s business community who had visited Kiev. Zelensky later confirmed that individual was…

By Tyler Durden · Source: ZeroHedge · !These Are The Jobs With The Highest And Lowest Divorce Rates · Image: Visual Capitalist / FlowingData analysis of U.S. divorce rates by occupation. · Actuaries have America’s lowest divorce rate at 14.2%. · At the other extreme, several occupations report divorce rates near 48%, highlighting a striking divide across the U.S. workforce. · Using American Community Survey data compiled by FlowingData,…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE · On 5 September last year, Barry Soper stumbled over a departing Green MP’s pronouns on Newstalk ZB. His co-host pulled him up on air within seconds: “You are literally just being a boomer right now.” Later in the segment, Soper described the MP’s successor as “quite a normal fellow”. · Nine months on, the Broadcasting Standards Authority has ruled the segment breached broadcasting standards and ordered NZME to broadcast…

Across the Tasman, anger has propelled Pauline Hanson’s One Nation from a fringe outfit to the most popular party, on 31 percent in a recent poll, ahead of both Labor and the Coalition. Yet Australia’s preferential voting, which redistributes losing candidates’ votes, could still return a Labor government. By Dr Oliver Hartwich · The same anger is loose across the democratic world, the product of a decade of crises that squeezed household…

Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will run for office again in the election later this year, his Likud party has announced. On Tuesday, ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl claimed that US President Donald Trump told him he was not sure if Netanyahu should seek another term. · “He’s had an amazing career. Does he want to continue?” the president said as cited by Karl. · According to the journalist,…

The congressional inquest into Jeffrey Epstein’s network of influential associates has heard testimony from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Epstein’s longtime executive assistant, Lesley Groff, as House investigators examine how the convicted sex offender maintained ties to prominent figures after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor. In his closed-door testimony on Wednesday, Gates told the House Oversight and…