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Analysis - Hamas has prepared for a drawn-out war in the Gaza Strip and believes it will be able to force Israel to agree to a ceasefire, two sources close to the organisation's leadership say.

Israeli airstrikes have hit a densely populated refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 50 Palestinians and a Hamas commander.

Hamas says its militants in Gaza fired anti-tank missiles at Israel's invading forces, whilst Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed calls for a halt to fighting.

Stats NZ said the number of residential building consents issued in September was 20 percent lower than the previous year.

The Samoa Parliament has approved a recommendation to revisit Samoa's Constitution to clarify the wording of the 10 per cent quota for women's seats and how it is calculated.

While on screen he was making millions laugh on TV's biggest show, Matthew Perry was locked in a painful cycle of addiction, and a battle with demons that stemmed from a damaged childhood.

Residents are used to the smell, the fumes and the trembling but have been rocked by two quakes.

Community initiatives are helping reduce suspected death by suicide stats among Aotearoa New Zealand's Pacific communities.

Israel is preparing for "unrelenting attacks" to dismantle Hamas but former US president Barack Obama is warning any action that ignores human costs could "ultimately backfire".

The government says it has no plans to amend the legislation that prohibits migrants from working in the sex industry, despite recommendations made by the United Nations.

On his visit to Israel, the US President told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, "I don't believe you have to be a Jew to be a Zionist."

Analysis - Labour holds 35 seats in Parliament and of those only 17 are electorate seats. How could it lose so badly and give up so many seats to National?

Egypt has agreed to reopen its border crossing with the Gaza Strip to allow aid to reach Palestinians, the US says.

The change of government will have no impact on the country's top-level credit rating, according to a global agency.

Opinion - Regardless of the election result, a form of austerity was always going to win, Toby Boraman writes.

The 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Herat province which has been hit by a series of recent tremors.

Opinion - With the window of time for transformational emissions reductions closing, we cannot afford to remain in a state of defeat for long, writes councillor Sophie Handford.

Te Pāti Māori have secured four of the seven Māori electorates and will return to Parliament, which will be fronted by a National-led government.

In an influential cli-fi novel, a desperate government ignores international consensus and pumps aerosols into the atmosphere to cool the world. Could it happen for real?

Israel was preparing on Saturday to launch a ground assault in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, after telling Palestinians living in the densely populated territory to flee south towards a closed…

A war between Islamist group Hamas and Israel poses one of the most significant geopolitical risks to oil markets since Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year.

Israel said its infantry and tanks had carried out raids inside the Gaza Strip on Friday, its first announcement of a shift from an air war to ground operations to root out Hamas fighters.