A Napier mother-of-four says her complaints about living in a leaking and mouldy state home that has made her children sick have been mostly ignored for the six years she has lived there. Kāinga Ora recently had a new roof…
Read MoreHawke’s Bay’s housing crisis: Would you rent a sleepout with no running water for $200 a week?
A sleepout at a house in Napier with no running water advertised for rent for $200 a week has been described as a symbol of Hawke’s Bay’s housing crisis. What appears to be a converted garage or shed at a…
Read MoreLebanese Christian cleric to Hariri: avoid 'secret deals' in forming cabinet
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s top Christian cleric urged Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri on Sunday to avoid back-door deals and to quickly form a new government that will start lifting the country out of financial crisis.FILE PHOTO: Lebanese Maronite Patriarch Bechara…
Read MoreLebanon's biggest Christian party says won't back Hariri for PM
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s largest Christian political party said on Saturday it would not back the nomination of former Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri to lead a government to tackle a deep economic crisis, further complicating efforts to agree a new…
Read MoreHow to deal with a crisis of misinformation
False news is on the rise. We can fight the spread with a simple exercise: Slow down and be sceptical. There’s a disease that has been spreading for years now. Like any resilient virus, it evolves to find new ways…
Read MoreLebanon's Bassil criticises Hariri efforts to form government
FILE PHOTO: Gebran Bassil, a Lebanese politician and head of the Free Patriotic movement, talks during an interview with Reuters in Sin-el-fil, Lebanon July 7, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File PhotoBEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese Christian politician Gebran Bassil criticised Sunni former prime…
Read MoreFrance still pushing for new Lebanese cabinet after missed deadline
PARIS/BEIRUT (Reuters) – France is pressing Lebanese politicians to form a new government in a “reasonable timeframe” to lift the nation out of a deep crisis but has not fixed a new deadline after the last one in mid-September was…
Read MoreLebanese PM-designate to hold more talks in faltering bid to appoint cabinet
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Mustapha Adib said on Thursday he would give more time for talks on forming a new government, after faltering efforts so far have raised doubts about prospects for a French push to lift the…
Read MoreJobs ‘crisis’ twice as bad as previous recession
Employers in Britain are planning more than twice as many redundancies than they did at the height of the last recession, new figures show. About 180,000 job cuts were planned from January to March 2009, while 380,000 were planned from…
Read MoreRelatives of MH17 crash to seek damages from suspects, lawyers say
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – More than 300 relatives of victims who died when a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane was shot down in 2014 will seek unspecified damages from four suspects being tried in the Netherlands, lawyers representing family members said…
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