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For more than three decades, very little has disturbed the Chernobyl exclusion zone, the site of the worst nuclear accident in human history - until Russia invaded Ukraine.

Japan and Australia on Friday slapped fresh sanctions on Russian entities as punishment for Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

American Samoa's Covid 19 response is changing as it deals with the community spread of the virus.

They were supposed to be a sanctuary for tamariki taken away from a world of abuse, but for those placed in Social Welfare facilities in the 1970s and '80s, they were houses of pain and fear.

European Union leaders have condemned the "unspeakable suffering" Russia is inflicting on Ukraine, despite refusing Kyiv's appeal for rapid accession to the bloc at a summit in France.

Samoan PM says women need to be heard; on-trial doctor's denial; and four hospitalised in American Samoa

"It's a disaster. These people have nothing, just one bag because they had only three minutes to run and save their lives," a Lviv city official said as thousands arrived from bombed Ukraine cities.

A report obtained by RNZ has laid bare a litany of failures during the escape of two offenders from a youth justice residence in 2020.

A discarded part of a rocket is believed to have crashed into the Moon's far side by now, say scientists who were expecting the impact at 1.25am this morning (12:25 GMT).

Opinion - Social support is badly failing women trying to escape abuse, and often retraumatising them, says a founder of Backbone Collective.

The NSW premier says "things will get worse before they get better" with up to 200mm of rain expected.

When a firefighter abused his young son, many in their small town refused to believe it. Fire and Emergency kept him on, and locals turned on the boy's mum, saying she'd made up the allegations.

Kiribati govt relaxes travel between islands; French Polynesia records over 1000 Covid cases; Two more people die of Covid in CNMI, and more.

Black Caps pace bowler Matt Henry has described it as surreal to match a benchmark of New Zealand great Sir Richard Hadlee in taking seven wickets to put the home side in charge of the first test…

A Palmerston North woman says a relative in her 80s waited almost a day in the city hospital's overcrowded emergency department until she was moved to a ward.

The Cook Islands Health Ministry Te Marae Ora tested 371 people for Covid-19 yesterday, in the wake of the first positive result in the country on Monday.

The family of a man who died after falling two storeys out of a Palmerston North Hospital window say urgent changes are needed to avoid a repeat.

In today's sports news - IPL auction halted for medical event, Phoenix bag more A-League points, Maori All Stars dedicated win to Olsen Filipaina.

The Ministry of Health has listed more Covid-19 locations of interest in Queenstown, including a gym, a supermarket and a bar.

The Chief Ombudsman is formally investigating Masterton District Council's civic centre process, it has been revealed.

Washington is under pressure to address the issue, with the US central bank expected to raise interest rates.

There are 306 new community cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand today - a new record high - with 216 cases in Auckland alone.

A survivor of abuse at Marylands School in Christchurch in the 1970s has outlined deviant behaviour from some of the Catholic brothers who ran the place.

An advocate for sexual abuse survivors at Marylands School says the sexual and physical abuse was known about by many, but they all failed to act on it.