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At least 10 Palestinians killed in major Israeli raids across West Bank

28Aug

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At least 10 Palestinians killed in major Israeli raids across West Bank

By Ali Sawafta A Palestinian woman in a damaged street at the Nur Shams camp near the city of Tulkarem after an Israeli army raid on 28 August 2024. Photo: AFP Hundreds of Israeli troops backed by helicopters, drones and armoured personnel carriers raided the flashpoint cities of Jenin and Tulkarm and other areas in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, killing at least 10 Palestinians. The assault, one of the largest seen in the West Bank for months, followed a series of smaller raids in the area over recent weeks as Israeli forces sought to crush groups of fighters from Palestinian militant groups. With Israeli forces battling Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip and facing a serious escalation of tensions with Iranian-backed Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Wednesday's operation unders...

What do New Zealand’s influencers really earn?

28Aug

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What do New Zealand’s influencers really earn?

Inland Revenue data shows that New Zealand influencers are on average making less than the minimum wage. Photo: 123rf New Zealand influencers are on average making less than the minimum wage, even when it is their main stream of income. New data released by Inland Revenue based on annual tax returns shows what people are making when working as influencers online - often being paid by companies that want to promote products to their followers. The data covers self-employed or "other" income declared in the most recent tax year and does not include people working for an organisation or business. Inland Revenue said there were 181 people who fit the definition. For 36 percent, influencer income was their main income source. This group had an average income of $46,248.01 in the most recent ...

Iceland volcano eruption raises pollution fears, spa evacuated

28Aug

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Iceland volcano eruption raises pollution fears, spa evacuated

By Isabelle Yr Carlsson and Tom Little for Reuters A photo taken during the night from August 22 to 23, 2024 shows lava and smoke erupting from a volcano near Grindavik on the Icelandic peninsula of Reykjanes. Photo: AFP / Public Defence Department of the State Police in Iceland A volcano spewed lava and smoke over southwestern Iceland for a second day last Friday raising fears of spreading pollution hours after its eruption forced the evacuation of a spa resort. Fountains of glowing molten rock shot into the night sky when the volcano first erupted on the Reykjanes peninsula on Thursday. The flow from the volcano has since slowed, Rikke Pedersen, head of the Nordic Volcanological Centre, said. "We have a quite intense fountaining and high output in the beginning and it rapidly decli...

28Aug

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Best farm stays in Europe

Despite being a working farm, Tewinbury doesn’t lean only on its abundance of fresh on-site fruit, veg, wheat and barley to turn your head. With four restaurants, a spa treatment room, cinema, cookery school and weekly live music events, it’s as much a celebratory destination as it is a bucolic unwind. Choose from lakeside cabins with alfresco hot tubs, a shepherd’s hut or homely farmhouse bedrooms accented with wooden beams. When you want to work off the effects of one of their Roots communal supper club nights, pull on wellies from the communal boot room, borrow a map and some of the 700 acres. Source link

Challenge to Meridian’s claim households spending less on power

28Aug

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Challenge to Meridian’s claim households spending less on power

Photo: 123RF A consumer watchdog is challenging Meridian Energy's claim that households are spending proportionally less on their power bills because electricity prices are not rising as fast as other expenses. Meridian released its annual report on Wednesday, showing a net profit more than 4.5 times greater than last year. But while big manufacturing companies like Panpac and Winstones have shut down production to cut costs, most households are yet to see big bumps in their power bills. That is according to the companies that generate and sell electricity - commonly referred to a gentailers. Despite its massive profit, Meridian's chief executive Neal Barclay told RNZ the percentage of household spending being directed at power bills had actually gone down over the past decade. "For most...

28Aug

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Entertainment, Movies

Baawre mann ka sapna fulfilled

What would your reaction be if an artiste, whom you’ve admired for years from a distance, recorded a song for you? Joy and disbelief. That’s exactly what Bhuvan Bam felt as the second season of Taaza Khabar enabled him to fulfill his long-cherished dream of collaborating with singer-lyricist Swanand Kirkire. The singer has rendered the track, Bulbul sa, with IP Singh for the Disney+ Hotstar series. Kirkire has long held a special place in the content creator-turned-actor’s life. “I was in the 11th standard when I watched Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi [2003], and was taken aback when Baawra mann played. I had never thought I’d get the honour to witness his magic in person. We recently recorded a track for Taaza Khabar 2 with him, thanks to Faridkot [the band],” he says, before chuckling, “Kasa...

Rameshwaram Café blast survivor regains 80 pct eyesight after complex surgeries

28Aug

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Rameshwaram Café blast survivor regains 80 pct eyesight after complex surgeries

After losing her eyesight due to the unfortunate incident in March, Rameshwaram Café blast survivor has regained her eyesight after complex surgeries by doctors at Bengaluru’s Nethradhama Hospital. The 26-year-old woman from Bengaluru suffered a complete loss of vision in her right eye due to severe injuries sustained in the blast. Over the past four months, Nethradhama’s medical team performed a series of complex and advanced surgeries, ultimately restoring 80 per cent of her vision. Dr Supriya Sriganesh, executive director at Nethradhama, elaborating on Nagashree PR’s challenging journey explains, “When Nagashree presented at Nethradhama four days after the blast, her right eye was severely damaged. The eyeball was ruptured, the cornea torn, the lens damaged, and the retina affected by...

People ‘already moving out of town’ as mills look to close operations

28Aug

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People ‘already moving out of town’ as mills look to close operations

Photo: Alexa Cook/RNZ The proposed closure of two large North Island mills is already hurting the local economy in Raetihi, with people moving away and businesses feeling the pinch. The forest products company Winstone Pulp International is looking at closing its entire operation due to high wholesale power prices, which will result in 230 jobs lost. Raetihi's Coach Cafe and Takeaways owner Angie Robson told RNZ it has been much quieter since the mill announced its plans to close last week. "The first day they mentioned it we stood around for an hour and a half in the evening, and we've never ever stood around and done nothing. "People are just being really careful, they're not spending, some already moving out of town," she said. Raetihi's Coach Cafe and Takeaways has been quiet sinc...

Is housing market rebound waiting to happen?

28Aug

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Is housing market rebound waiting to happen?

ANZ's economists are predicting house prices will rise 4.5 percent next year. Photo: RNZ / Nate McKinnon A stronger-than-expected housing market rebound is a possibility as interest rates fall, the country's biggest bank says. ANZ's economists expect a small fall in house prices over this year, and values to stabilise towards the end. Next year, they expect prices to pick up 4.5 percent - a little less than BNZ's forecast of 7 percent. They earlier said that the recovery from this downturn is harder to predict because it has been a policy-induced recession rather than something caused by external factors. It was not clear how much activity, including the housing market, was simply deferred rather than cancelled, they said. They said were some early signs that the housing market might bo...

Oasis’s official new merch: t-shirts released as 2025reunion tour news rocks UK (and more is promised to come)

28Aug

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Oasis’s official new merch: t-shirts released as 2025reunion tour news rocks UK (and more is promised to come)

The Mancunian brothers announced the band would be back to play 14 gigs (with the promise of more to come) on August 27. Tickets will go on sale on Saturday, August 31, the day after they release a special 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Definitely Maybe, their debut album first released on August 29, 1994. Liam and Noel Gallagher are getting back together for the Oasis Live 25 worldwide tour next year (Simon Emmett/Fear PR/PA)PA MediaBecause this celebration has been long in the works, brand new Oasis merch has already come out this week. Yesterday, Levi’s launched the “Band Tee Collection”: the offering includes t-shirts with the classic Decca Logo, a Maine Road football pitch, as well as the Union Jack logo which has been borrowed from the first Oasis shirts issued. All the t-shirts ...