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'Beacon of courage': Abortion pill inventor dies in France
Etienne-Emile Baulieu 'enabled women to win their freedom' with the invention of the abortion pill that became available in 1982.
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Dengue fever cases in Tonga rise to 815
31 May 2025Tonga's Ministry of Health says 22 new cases of dengue fever were picked up in recent tests.
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Biden's policy allowing 532,000 migrants to live in US ended by Trump
31 May 2025More than half a million Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants face being undocumented in the US now the Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to revoke their humanitarian…
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Canada wildfires force province's largest evacuation in 'living memory'
31 May 2025About 17,000 people are under evacuation orders in Manitoba, while around 2000 residents are stranded in Pukatawagan, also known as Mathias Colomb.
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Flood death toll rises to 117 in Nigeria's Niger state, emergency official says
31 May 2025The death toll is a sharp rise from just one day earlier, when 21 people were known to have died.
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'I lost everything': Residents in shock after Swiss village buried
30 May 2025Millions of cubic metres of ice, mud and rock engulfed picturesque Blatten following a glacier collapse.
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US proposes 60-day ceasefire for Gaza
The plan includes sending aid to Gaza as soon as Hamas signs off on agreement.
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The last heroic act of Kiwi killed in drone attack in Ukraine
30 May 2025Shan-Le Kearns, 26, was killed while rescuing wounded comrades . Audio
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Trump tariffs stay in place for now, after appeals court ruling
30 May 2025The ruling came a day after a trade court had ruled the US President had exceeded his authority in imposing the duties.
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Video of Chinese paraglider Peng Yujiang likely manipulated with AI, experts say
3 Jun 2025Video of a Chinese paraglider widely published by news media outlets around the world was at least partly manipulated by generative artificial intelligence tools, experts said.
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Israel accepts new US proposal for ceasefire with Hamas- Israeli official
30 May 2025Meanwhile, Hamas said it "was reviewing the new [US envoy Steve] Witkoff proposal".
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Mistrial ruled in case against Diego Maradona's medical team
30 May 2025Earlier, one of the three judges resigned due to an ethical breach.
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Italian activists face trial for migrant sea rescue in legal first
30 May 2025Crew members of a charity ship have been charged for rescuing 27 migrants and taking them to Italy in 2020.
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UK man charged with 7 offences after Liverpool crash
30 May 2025UK police have charged a 53-year-old man with seven offences for allegedly ramming a car into crowds celebrating Liverpool's Premier League title earlier this week.
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Aid group opens third distribution point in Gaza
But the UN says the amount of aid coming in still remains far below what is required to relieve the risk of famine.
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'Blatantly wrong': White House slams court decision blocking Trump tariffs
30 May 2025The White House called the ruling "blatantly wrong" on social media and expressed confidence it would be overturned.
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Mandatory sex-testing for all boxers introduced
31 May 2025World Boxing will introduce mandatory sex testing for all boxers, adding that Olympics gold medallist Imane Khelif must also undergo such a test.
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NZ-led taskforce seizes $1b in drugs in Arabian Sea
29 May 2025One tonne of heroin and 660kg of hashish were some of the drugs found in the operation.
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Kath & Kim star reveals 'very aggressive' cancer diagnosis
29 May 2025Comedian Magda Szubanski, best known for her acting role in Kath & Kim, has revealed she has stage 4 blood cancer.
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Elon Musk has left the Trump administration, White House confirms
29 May 2025Billionaire Musk was a special government employee as part of the Department of Government Efficiency.
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Thousands urged to evacuate as Canada wildfires spread
29 May 2025"This is the largest evacuation in many Manitobans' living memory," Premier Wab Kinew said.
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Mud and rock buries Swiss village in glacier collapse
29 May 2025An official told Swiss media about 90 percent of the village was covered by the landslide.
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Chaos in Gaza on first day of aid after weeks of hunger
Palestinians have been pushed towards famine after an 11-week blockade on aid.
![A dengue outbreak was declared in Tonga on 19 February. Google translate of caption: While visiting areas confirmed to be infected with the Mofi Tengi virus, outside staff of the Ministry of Health or Health Inspectors are visiting houses to reduce the number of mosquitoes. easily injured by this fokoutua.
During the shooting, [spraying] schools that have already had students infected with Mofi Tengi and schools that are vulnerable to Mofi Tengi.](https://media.rnztools.nz/rnz/image/upload/s--RHveRzn9--/c_crop,h_960,w_1536,x_0,y_731/c_scale,h_960,w_1536/c_scale,f_auto,q_auto,w_288/v1740609642/4KBBYC8_Tonga_dengue_1_jpg?_a=BACCd2AD)
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