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Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe disrupts proceedings as Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla attend a reception at Parliament House, 21 October, 2024. Photo: Lukas Coch / ABC The Australian senator who yelled at King Charles says she did so to raise the world's attention to the "ongoing, sophisticated genocide" of the country's first people. At a royal reception in Parliament House on Monday senator Lidia Thorpe, a Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung woman, shouted "you are not our King" and "this is not your land" at the British monach. Speaking to RNZ, Thorpe says she is loud and proud and calls out injustice where she sees it. "And with that so-called King sitting in all that stolen wealth, he needed to be called out for the injustices that his people, that his ancestors inf...

It is estimated that about 200,000 litres of diesel have leaked from the Manawanui. Photo: Ministry of Works Transport and Infrastructure Samoa The New Zealand Defence Force cannot provide a timeline for the removal of the fuel tanks from the Manawanui. The navy vessel sank after hitting a reef in Samoa in early October. Commodore Andrew Brown told Morning Report although the priority was removing the fuel tanks, the Defence Force (NZDF) cannot comment on when that will happen. The NZDF was in discussions with its insurance company, and it "would be inappropriate for me to comment on on timelines and who's paying," he said. NZDF also could not provide a timeline for the next steps in removing the Manawanui from the reef. "The team are working through the options. Recovering the vessel ...

Gainsborough Care Home in Swanage. Photo: Google Maps Three people were found dead and four others were taken to hospital after a suspected carbon monoxide poisoning at a care home for the elderly in southwest England, police said on Wednesday. Dorset Police said a 60-year-old local woman was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter on Wednesday evening and remains in police custody. "We have made one arrest to enable us to establish whether there have been actions or omissions which are grossly negligent and gather as much information as we can about what has happened," said Detective Chief Inspector Neil Third, of the major crime investigation team. Other residents at the Gainsborough Care Home in Swanage were earlier evacuated from the premises to a nearby church hall before being moved...

By Ece Toksabay and Mert Ozkan for Reuters Turkish police officers gather in Kahramankazan, north of Ankara on October 23, 2024, near the gate of the Turkish Aerospace Industries, after a huge explosion outside the headquarters. Photo: AFP Two attackers killed five people and wounded 22 others in what Ankara called a terrorist attack at the Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters, where witnesses said they heard gunfire and an explosion. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said two attackers were killed in what he called a terrorist attack, adding three of the injured are in critical condition. TV broadcasters earlier showed footage of armed assailants entering the TUSAS building. "Two terrorists were neutralised in the terror attack on the TUSAS Ankara Kahramankazan site," Yerlikaya s...