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Winston Peters says New Zealand has formally notified World Health Organization (WHO) that it has rejected the proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations. · In a statement made today on social media, Peters said New Zealand informed the WHO Director-General through New Zealand’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, invoking Article 61 of the International Health Regulations to officially decline the amendments. ·…

Part I... Part 2... · If Part 2 described the repositioning of New Zealand inside global financial architecture, Part 3 shows what that repositioning produced. · The hollowing out becomes visible here. · Not in theory. In productivity. In industry. In money flow. · From High Productivity to Stagnation · In the 1950s and early 1960s, New Zealand ranked among the highest-income nations in the developed world. Its productivity performance…

New Zealand politics just got personal. On Sunday evening, Labour leader Chris Hipkins’ ex-wife Jade Paul posted a series of claims about him on her private Facebook page. The post was deleted. Hipkins issued a five-word denial: “I reject the allegations entirely.” He’s seeking legal advice. And just like that, we’re having a national conversation about the oldest and most uncomfortable question in political life: when does a politician’s…

Ursula von der Leyen suddenly says the EU can no longer count on the old reliable unwritten rules for me, but not for thee By Rachel Marsden, a columnist, political strategist, and host of independently produced talk-shows in French and English. https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/rachel-marsden/rachelmarsden.com · ©  Omar Havana/Getty Images · When European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had to come up with a …

The PM’s statement followed a presidential veto that blocked Warsaw from tapping billions in defense loans from the bloc  · Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, February 26, 2026, Warsaw, Poland ©  Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images · [RT] There is “a real threat” that Poland could leave the EU, Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said, after the country’s president vetoed a bill that would have allowed Warsaw to tap…

Hungarian PM has accused the EU of taking “the war upon itself” · Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban addresses supporters in Budapest, Hungary, March 15, 2026. ©  Janos Kummer / Getty Images · [RT] Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has accused Brussels of dragging the EU into a direct war with Russia through potential troop deployments to Ukraine. · Speaking at the ‘Peace March’ in Budapest on Sunday, which drew…

The rebuke has followed the European Commission’s proposal of a fact-finding mission to inspect damage to the Druzhba pipeline · ©  Thierry Monasse/Getty Images · [RT] Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has ridiculed an initiative launched by Kiev’s EU backers to restart Russian oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline, calling it “blackmail.” · The accusations came after the European Commission last week proposed a fact-finding…

The Middle East escalation has cut off a number of American allies from the vital Strait of Hormuz · FILE PHOTO. © Getty Images / MAGNIFIER · Oil producers in the Gulf region have lost an estimated $15.1 billion in energy revenues since the launch of the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing estimates by analytics firm Kpler. · The US and Israel conducted coordinated strikes on the…

The LIABLE Act would trigger a historic legal reckoning — unleashing a tsunami of lawsuits from millions of vaccine-injured Americans against Pfizer and Moderna. · by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH · Representative Chip Roy has introduced the Let Injured Americans Be Legally Empowered (LIABLE) Act, a bill that would strip COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers of the federal legal immunity granted during the pandemic and allow millions of injured …

Kiev has intensified attacks on Russian civilian sites recently, backed by Western arms supplies · RT- FILE PHOTO. ©  Mikhail Voskresensky/RIA Novosti · European leaders are not interested in a diplomatic settlement to the Ukraine conflict, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. He stressed that the only recent diplomatic outreach by EU states – a visit by a French presidential envoy last month – did not bring “any…