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Navy divers preparing to head out to area the HMNZS Manawanui now lies, off the Southern Coast of Upulo. Photo: Supplied / New Zealand Defence Force Oil seeping from the wreck of the avy's sunken survey ship is not from the ship's main tanks - but removing them is first on the list for the recovery team, the Defence Force says. About 200,000 litres of fuel has escaped from the HMNZS Manawanui into the sea, one week after the survey ship began listing, caught fire and sank off the southern coast of Upolu, Samoa. The ship contains about 950 tonnes of fuel, and is now lying on its side on the sea floor about 30 metres down, in a marine reserve. Navy deputy chief, Commodore Andrew Brown, said that was considered a small quantity of oil and it was being monitored. "The advice from our exper...

Members of the Nihon Hidankyo and atomic bomb suvivors, assistant secretary general Toshiko Hamanaka (left), co-chair Terumi Tanaka, assistant secretary general Masako Wada and assistant secretary general Jiro Hamasumi. Photo: AFP / YUICHI YAMAZAKI Almost eight decades after an atomic bomb devastated her home town of Hiroshima, Teruko Yahata carries the scar on her forehead from when she was knocked over by the force of the blast. The US bombs that laid waste to Hiroshima on the morning of 6 August 1945, and to Nagasaki three days later, changed the course of history and left Yahata and other survivors with deep scars and a sense of responsibility toward disarmament. The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Nihon Hidankyo group of atomic bomb survivors, for its work warning of the d...

Photo: 123RF Researchers at Cambridge University have called for beer and cider to be served in smaller glasses in the United Kingdom, after a study found it could reduce alcohol consumption and harm. But Alcohol Healthwatch, an organisation that works to reduce and prevent alcohol-related harm in Aotearoa, said doing the same here would be unlikely to have much of an impact. The study, conducted in England, found beer and cider consumption dropped by about 10 percent in pubs, bars and restaurants where customers were offered a 2/3 pint as the largest serving. Unlike in New Zealand, beer glass sizes are standardised. A UK pint equates to 568ml, while a 2/3 pint is 378ml. "Removing the offer of pints in 13 licensed premises for four weeks reduced the volume of beer sold," the study's auth...

JD Vance. Photo: AFP Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said the way he phrased his criticism of "childless cat ladies" - comments that took on new life when Donald Trump tapped the Ohio senator as his running mate - was "dumb". "I certainly wish that I had said it differently," Vance said in an interview with The New York Times published Saturday. But Vance said he stood by the point he made as a US Senate candidate in a 2021 interview with Tucker Carlson discussing leaders of the Democratic Party, including Vice President Kamala Harris. He said he did not intend to criticise those who couldn't have children "for medical reasons, for social reasons - like set that to the side; we're not talking about folks like that". "What I was definitely trying to illustrate ultimately in...