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As the search for those feared trapped continues, New Zealand Defence Force is among those from several countries being sent to assist. Photo: AFP / NZ Defence Force / Sgt Maria Eves New Zealand emergency workers from both the Defence Force and Fire and Emergency are joining the race to save those trapped under buildings that have collapsed in Port Vila after a 7.3 earthquake hit Vanuatu. There are fears some remain trapped under landslides also. The death toll climbed to 14 on Wednesday while at least 200 are being treated for injuries. Two Chinese nationals were among the fatalities, the Chinese ambassador told Reuters. There were concerns for two New Zealand embassy staff who were unaccounted for overnight but they were safe, Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters announced this mor...

By Maki Shiraki and Norihiko Shirouzu, Reuters A combined Honda and Nissan would create a $54 billion company. Photo: 123RF Honda and Nissan face competition from Tesla and Chinese EV makers. Merger would create $54 billion company, world's number 3 auto group by vehicle sales. Honda, Nissan also exploring ways to cooperate with Mitsubishi - source. Honda and Nissan are in talks to deepen ties, two people said on Wednesday, including a possible merger, the clearest sign yet of how Japan's once seemingly unbeatable auto industry is being reshaped by challenges from Tesla and Chinese rivals. A combined Honda and Nissan would create a $54 billion company with annual output of 7.4 million vehicles, making it the world's third-largest auto group by vehicle sales after Toyota and Volkswa...

By Holly Tregenza and Ethan Rix for ABC Alan Jones arrives at court in Sydney where he faced another eight charges. Photo: ABC / Ethan Rix Alan Jones's lawyer has told a Sydney court the veteran broadcaster will plead not guilty to a total of 34 charges relating to alleged indecent assault and sexual touching incidents spanning two decades. Eight new assault with act of indecency charges relating to a tenth complainant were laid against Jones in court on Wednesday. The charges now include 11 counts of aggravated indecent assault, 19 counts of assault with act of indecency, two counts of sexually touching another person without consent and two counts of common assault. Last month the 83-year-old was charged by the Child Abuse Squad with a total of 26 offences against nine victims. Fac...

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Photo: 123RF The sanctions are being applied to 12 individuals and eight entities by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of the Treasury. Its aim is to protect international trade - both in the United States and abroad - against the threat of terrorist activities and drug and arms trafficking. OFAC also sanctions individuals, companies and organisations and prescribes them as Specially Designated Nationals (SDNs). Of those being sanctioned today, three people and two of the entities have direct ties to New Zealand, OFAC said. It is the first time people connected to New Zealand have appeared on the list, police said. They include Rokas Karpavicius, a Lithuanian national who was charged with conspiracy to import cocaine and conspiracy to supply methamphetamine as par...

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Chris Boyette, Shimon Prokupecz, Hanna Park and Holly Yan, CNN Madison Police chief Shon Barnes speaks to the media about the shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School on 16 December 2024 in Madison, Wisconsin. Photo: AFP / Scott Olson Police are investigating why a teenage girl brought a handgun to her small Christian school in Wisconsin and opened fire, killing two people and wounding several others a week before Christmas. A student and a teacher were killed, and six people were taken to area hospitals, Madison police said. The slain victims have not been publicly identified. Madison police identified the shooter as 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow, a student at Abundant Life Christian School. Evidence suggests the shooter, who also went by the name "Samantha," ...

Photo: CNN Newsource By Artemis Moshtaghian and Caroll Alvarado, CNN Hannah Kobayashi, the Hawaii woman whose disappearance last month sparked a weekslong search complete with grainy surveillance images and tearful family, says she was unaware of "everything that was happening" while she was out of touch. Kobayashi arrived at Los Angeles International Airport from Maui on November 8, but did not board her connecting flight to New York, her sister previously told CNN. The 30-year-old then went radio silent on November 11 after spending four days in Los Angeles at various locations, according to video footage and photos and was later believed to have crossed the border into Mexico. Tragedy struck the family during their search for Hannah Kobayashi when her father Ryan Kobayashi, who had tr...

By Tom Little, Louise Rasmussen and Isabelle Yr Carlsson, Reuters US-Canadian Paul Watson, 74, founder of the Sea Shepherd conservationist group, was released in Greenland. Photo: AFP Denmark released anti-whaling activist Paul Watson from detention and said it had rejected a Japanese request to extradite him over criminal charges dating back more than a decade. US-Canadian Watson, 74, founder of the Sea Shepherd conservationist group and the Captain Paul Watson Foundation, was released in Greenland's capital Nuuk, police in the autonomous Danish territory said. Watson was apprehended when his ship docked in Greenland in July. "I'm certainly relieved, especially since it allows me to get home to my children before Christmas," Paul Watson told Reuters after his release on Tuesday. "I ...

Photo: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters via CNN Newsource Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting dead UnitedHealth Group executive Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street this month, was indicted for murder, New York prosecutors said. Mangione was indicted on 11 counts, including first-degree murder and murder as a crime of terrorism. The indictment accused Mangione of murdering Thompson with the intent to "influence the policy of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion." "This was a frightening, well-planned, targeted murder that was intended to cause shock and attention and intimidation," Bragg told reporters. Mangione's defence lawyer in New York, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, declined to comment. Ivy League-educated Mangione was charged with murder on 9 December for the killing of Thompso...