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Fires have been raging across multiple areas of Türkiye. Photo: Supplied / @BekirKaracabeyOGM on Facebook Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has warned of the possibility fires raging towards Gallipoli may reach the graves of Australian soldiers at Anzac Cove. "Our thoughts today are also with our friends in Türkiye. We understand there are efforts underway to control fires that are burning on the Gallipoli Peninsula," Albanese said in a press conference on Friday. "Gallipoli is, of course, sacred ground to both of our countries. "Some 60,000 Australians served at Gallipoli during the eight-month campaign, and 8700 Australians lost their lives," he said, referring to the Gallipoli campaign of World War I. "Eighteen thousand were wounded during the campaign. And there were more t...

Search "bama rush" on TikTok and this is what you get. Photo: TikTok Depending on the corners of TikTok you might inhabit, the curious American cultural phenomena of rush week might be filling your feed. (Not on TikTok? Proceed anyway. This is interesting). Rush week, and specifically rush week at the University of Alabama, is the pinnacle of over-the-top university life in the US that will leave many a New Zealander scratching their head. It's a massive drama that now plays out on social media where girls new to university vie for coveted invitations to a sorority, a house and organisation of female students that often provides a leg up in college social life and the career to follow. "The craziness is quite intense. You can feel down about yourself during rush week and rush week can s...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese have raised the issue that a cyberattack on one country could trigger a joint co-operation under trans-Tasman agreements. The discussion of cyber-warfare was one of the main issues raised by the two leaders at a joint press conference in Canberra on Friday. Luxon said the nature of modern warfare had changed, and while it would require a "pretty severe cyberattack" to trigger Article IV of the ANZUS Treaty, which recognises an "armed attack in the Pacific Area on any parties" would be dangerous to the others, it was now a factor that needed to be considered. Albanese said its military and signals defences were being tested by cyberattacks, which can now have "as great an impact as an attack from traditional me...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese are facing questions after a meeting in Sydney. Luxon is in Australia, with security and defence front and centre, amid concerns over any potential New Zealand involvement in the AUKUS alliance. In a foreign policy speech in Sydney on Thursday, Luxon said New Zealand "must be a participant and a contributor - not an interested bystander" in international affairs. He has been in Canberra on Friday, for a meeting with Albanese. They will address the media together at 12.55pm (NZ time) before Luxon takes questions from the press. Last year, New Zealand and Australia celebrated 40 years of the Closer Economic Relations trade agreement, that allows people to live, work, trade and businesses to grow and invest more easi...

A photo taken on 6 February 2013 shows a crowd watching as a young mother accused of sorcery, is stripped naked, reportedly tortured with a branding iron, tied up, splashed with fuel and set alight on a pile of rubbish topped with car tyres, in Mount Hagen city in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Photo: AFP / Post Courier Papua New Guinea desperately needs stronger laws to protect innocents and deliver justice for victims of sorcery related violence, an advocate says. Activist Evelyn Kunda is currently in Aotearoa to shine a light on the horrors of sorcery related violence in her country. Those accused of sorcery in PNG are frequently beaten, tortured, and murdered, and anyone who manage to survive the attacks are banished from their communities. Kunda told RNZ Pacific authori...