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A discussion on the Redacted News podcast featuring veteran broadcaster Rick Sanchez has painted a bleak picture of Ukraine's position in the war with Russia, with Sanchez arguing that Ukraine's military situation continues to deteriorate while Western leaders publicly insist the opposite. An INR Report · The interview came amid renewed tensions following reports from Russia of a drone strike on a civilian bus in the Bryansk region near the…

New maps released by conservation lobby group Forest & Bird have intensified debate over the Government's proposed Conservation Amendment Bill, with critics warning that significant areas of New Zealand's public conservation estate could become easier to sell, exchange or open to expanded economic activity. By eLocal Report · The legislation, which passed its first reading in Parliament last month, is being promoted by the Government as a…

The Beehive could be vacated for up to 18 months in the coming years as Parliament considers a major refurbishment programme for one of New Zealand's most recognisable government buildings. Speaker of the House Gerry Brownlee says the building's ageing infrastructure means significant work can no longer be delayed indefinitely. · Completed in 1981, the Beehive houses government ministers, ministerial staff, Cabinet facilities, and the…

A 23-year-old man has appeared in court charged with murder following the fatal stabbing of a man in central Auckland on Tuesday evening. Report by elocal · Police were called to Wellesley Street East at approximately 6.45pm after reports of a fight involving several people believed to be known to one another. · Emergency services located a critically injured man at the scene. Despite efforts to save him, he died shortly after being transported…

US President Donald Trump used his closing press conference at the G7 Summit in France to declare what he described as a major breakthrough in the Middle East, announcing that Iran has agreed not to pursue nuclear weapons and signalling what he believes could become a wider regional peace framework. Report by INR · US President Donald Trump used his closing press conference at the G7 Summit in France to declare what he described as a major…

A Ukrainian drone strikes a bus full of children in Western Russia. The youth football team from Belarus were on the way to a coastal city on a summer trip. · Top Russian officials react to the deadly UAV attack with Vladimir Putin denouncing Kiev's strike as a terrorist act. · Donald Trump says that the peace agreement with Iran is not set in stone and warns that fighting could resume even with the Geneva signing ceremony just days away.

At least 250,000 British girls suffered sickening sexual abuse by Pakistani gangs, who were enabled by police, social workers, and even Prime Minister Keir Starmer, to commit “child rape on an industrial scale,” British MP Rupert Lowe’s ‘Rape Gang Report’ has detailed. Published on Tuesday, the 218-page report makes for sobering reading. It details the decades-long abuse of hundreds of thousands of white British girls – and smaller numbers of…

Spy agencies in the EU and the US are spending millions of taxpayers’ money to access commercially available personal data, according to findings published on Tuesday by Interface, a European think tank that gathered evidence from 11 intelligence watchdogs. The practice, known as advertising-based intelligence, or AdInt, involves using personal data collected by the advertising industry for intelligence and surveillance purposes. The report…

Israel has accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of anti-Semitism after he compared its actions in Gaza to the horrors of the Holocaust. In a recent interview with Al Arabiya, Lukashenko condemned Israel’s destruction of Gaza and said West Jerusalem should be more careful, given the level of global outrage over its military campaign in the Palestinian enclave. · “They have already received such a rating in the world community that…

Israel couldn’t fulfill any these goals on its own, all of which required US assistance, but the US pulled out of the war after achieving some its goals instead of paying much higher costs to pursue the maximum ones that Israel still wanted. By Andrew Korybko · Israel is the biggest loser of the Third Gulf War as was concluded here, the sentiment of which was earlier expressed by Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid and Israeli media in…