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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Attorney-General Judith Collins made the assessment. Photo: RNZ New Zealand has designated the Iran-backed armed and political group Hezbollah as a terrorist entity. Israel has been waging war on Hezbollah in its base in Lebanon for weeks, in an extension of the war in Gaza. Read more: What is Hezbollah, the Lebanese group trading fire with Israel? The government has also slapped a similar designation on the Houthi movement known as Ansar Allah. The Houthis in Yemen have been attacking shipping in support of Palestinians in Gaza. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and the Attorney-General Judith Collins made the assessment. "For any organisation [to be designated] ... we have to have evidence and we go through a number of tests under our legislation, t...

By Anna Maria Jakubek for AFP US actor Alec Baldwin hugs a member of his legal team at the conclusion of his trial on involuntary manslaughter at Santa Fe County District Court in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on July 12, 2024. Photo: AFP / RAMSAY DE GIVE The western Rust will get its world premiere on Wednesday at a Polish film festival, three years on from a shock on-set shooting that killed the cinematographer. Hollywood A-lister Alec Baldwin was accused of violating basic gun safety rules in the 2021 death of Halyna Hutchins, but his involuntary manslaughter trial was dismissed over withheld evidence earlier this year. The late cinematographer's mother Olga Solovey said on Tuesday she refused to attend the festival for the film's promotion "especially now when there is still no justice f...

US women's football team. Photo: Photosport Michele Kang will invest $50 million in US Soccer over five years, making the Washington Spirit's owner the biggest contributor ever to girl's and women's football initiatives through the national program. The donation is the largest ever to US Soccer by a woman. Kang not only is the owner of the NWSL's Spirit, she also is the majority owner of women's teams Olympique Lyonnais Feminin in France and London City Lionesses in England. Investments in women's sports are nothing new to Kang, who donated $85 million in July for women's health initiatives in sports, then donated $7 million to the U.S. women's rugby sevens program after the Paris Olympics, while also creating her own sports science nonprofit. Kang originally purchased a 35 percent stak...

Mehmet Oz and Donald Trump in 2022. Photo: US President-elect Donald Trump has said that he has chosen celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz to serve as administrator for the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Oz, known as "Dr. Oz", unsuccessfully ran for the US Senate in 2022. Trump, who endorsed Oz in that race, said he would work closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been nominated to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Trump said the pair would take on "the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake" as well as cutting what he called waste and fraud. "Our broken Healthcare System harms everyday Americans, and crushes our Country's budget," Trump said in a statement. The agency runs Medicare, the federal health insurance prog...