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Britain plans six new weapons factories
1 Jun 2025Britain will build at least six new factories producing weapons and explosives as part of a major review of its defence capabilities.
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Bee alert: Warning after 250 million insects escape truck crash
31 May 2025A truck crash that set 250 million bees free has sparked warnings in the western US.
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Google pushes to keep Chrome browser
1 Jun 2025Google has urged a US judge to reject the notion of making it spin off its Chrome browser to weaken its dominance in online search.
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Guatemalan ex-paramilitaries sentenced in Maya Achi rape trial
1 Jun 2025Three members of the Civil Self-Defense Patrol were given 40 years each, after being found guilty of raping six Indigenous women between 1981 and 1983.
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From TACO to FAFO, investors love parodies of Trump acronyms
31 May 2025Traders are using snappy acronyms like TACO ('Trump Always Chickens Out') to make sense of the US President's second-term market chaos. Audio
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Possible dwarf planet spotted near the edge of our solar system
A 700km-wide object, 2017 OF201, has been found orbiting far beyond Neptune. It could reshape our understanding of our solar system's edge. Audio
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Loretta Swit, 'Hot Lips' Houlihan on M*A*S*H, dies at 87
31 May 2025Loretta Swit, who played no-nonsense US Army combat nurse Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the hit TV series M*A*S*H, has died at the age of 87.
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Taylor Swift buys back own music to gain control
31 May 2025The pop superstar shared a heartfelt message on her website announcing she has regained full ownership of her master recordings.
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'Hungriest place on Earth': UN warns entire population of Gaza at risk of famine
31 May 2025It came as as Israel vowed to build a "Jewish Israeli state" in the occupied West Bank.
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Russell Brand pleads not guilty to rape and sexual assault charges
31 May 2025The alleged assaults took place between 1999 and 2005. He has previously denied all the allegations.
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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.
![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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