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April 13, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand A fixed-wing aircraft is used to drop fertiliser on a field. New Zealand Agricultural Aviation Association Rural retailers are reporting the supply chain crunch due to impacts of war in the Middle East is flowing down to key agricultural goods. Farming customers at major rural retailers Farmlands and PGG Wrightson are ... <a title="Supply chain crunch raising price of agricultural goods, rural retailers says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/13/supply-chain-crunch-raising-price-of-agricultural-goods-rural-retailers-says/" aria-label="Read more about Supply chain crunch raising price of agricultural goods, rural retailers says">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Oscar award-winning documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin is a classic story of “a very regular person finding his power and finding his voice”, director David Borenstein says. Pavel “Pasha” Talankin is the film’s main character – a videographer and events coordinator at Karabash Primary School near Russia’s Ural mountains. Talankin was uncomfortable ... <a title="‘Mr Nobody Against Putin’ warns of Russia’s slide into militarisation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/13/mr-nobody-against-putin-warns-of-russias-slide-into-militarisation/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Mr Nobody Against Putin’ warns of Russia’s slide into militarisation">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Griffiths, Democracy Deputy Program Director, Grattan Institute Around the world, democracy as a system of government is backsliding. After more than 50 years of liberal democracy in ascendancy, democratic progress plateaued around the turn of the century and is now going backwards. In 2025, there were ... <a title="To stop Australian democracy going the way of the US, here’s what we need to do" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/13/to-stop-australian-democracy-going-the-way-of-the-us-heres-what-we-need-to-do-280353/" aria-label="Read more about To stop Australian democracy going the way of the US, here’s what we need to do">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand File photo. Hungary’s veteran nationalist leader Viktor Orban conceded defeat. AFP Hungary’s veteran nationalist leader Viktor Orban conceded defeat after a landslide election victory by the upstart opposition Tisza party, in a setback for his allies in Russia and US President Donald Trump’s White House. Results based on 46 percent of ... <a title="Hungary’s Viktor Orban concedes landmark defeat to centre-right opposition" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/13/hungarys-viktor-orban-concedes-landmark-defeat-to-centre-right-opposition/" aria-label="Read more about Hungary’s Viktor Orban concedes landmark defeat to centre-right opposition">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Sam Ruthe Photosport Teenage running phenomenon Sam Ruthe has cast doubt over his immediate racing future after suffering a stress fracture to his lower leg. Ruthe, who turned 17 on Sunday, posted that he’ll be “off the radar for a while”, although there was no indication whether time out will affect ... <a title="Athletics: Sam Ruthe ‘off radar’ after suffering leg fracture" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/13/athletics-sam-ruthe-off-radar-after-suffering-leg-fracture/" aria-label="Read more about Athletics: Sam Ruthe ‘off radar’ after suffering leg fracture">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand It’s unrealistic to expect kids to suddenly be thinking critically, says Maree Davies, an academic researcher on critical thinking and dialogic. “Learning is emotional, and in particular learning is emotional for teenagers. And so, the first part for teenagers in critical thinking is to have the opportunity to just think, well, ... <a title="How to foster critical thinking for teens in online world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/13/how-to-foster-critical-thinking-for-teens-in-online-world/" aria-label="Read more about How to foster critical thinking for teens in online world">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeffrey Taliaferro, Professor of Political Science, Tufts University “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” Napoleon Bonaparte’s maxim may well have been in the minds of policymakers in Moscow and Beijing these past weeks, as the U.S. war in Iran dragged on. And now ... <a title="4 ways the war in Iran has weakened the United States in the great power game" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/13/4-ways-the-war-in-iran-has-weakened-the-united-states-in-the-great-power-game-279069/" aria-label="Read more about 4 ways the war in Iran has weakened the United States in the great power game">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne While stopped in heavy Melbourne traffic recently, I noticed that what looked like a shadow under a row of spotted gums (Corymbia maculata) along a major road was actually a stain ... <a title="From river stain to your cup of tea: the secret world of tannins" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/13/from-river-stain-to-your-cup-of-tea-the-secret-world-of-tannins-271730/" aria-label="Read more about From river stain to your cup of tea: the secret world of tannins">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giuseppe Carabetta, Associate Professor of Workplace and Business Law, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney ANZAC Day is commemorated on 25 April each year as a tribute to more than 2 million Australians who’ve served in war and peacekeeping operations. That date is always the same. ... <a title="This Anzac Day falls on a Saturday – and these states will be getting an extra public holiday" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/13/this-anzac-day-falls-on-a-saturday-and-these-states-will-be-getting-an-extra-public-holiday-279858/" aria-label="Read more about This Anzac Day falls on a Saturday – and these states will be getting an extra public holiday">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand File photo. A pathologist found a bloody ornamental dolphin at the scene was the probable weapon. RNZ A Wellington woman, murdered by her son in 2023, died from a blow to the head with a heavy dolphin ornament, a coroner’s report has revealed. Irene Katsougiannis, 62, was killed in her Miramar ... <a title="Wellington woman Irene Katsougiannis died from blow with heavy ornament – coroner" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/13/wellington-woman-irene-katsougiannis-died-from-blow-with-heavy-ornament-coroner/" aria-label="Read more about Wellington woman Irene Katsougiannis died from blow with heavy ornament – coroner">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Craig Costello, Professor, School of Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world’s supercomputers, working together ... <a title="Quantum computers are coming to break our codes faster than anyone expected" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/13/quantum-computers-are-coming-to-break-our-codes-faster-than-anyone-expected-280303/" aria-label="Read more about Quantum computers are coming to break our codes faster than anyone expected">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melanie O’Brien, Professor of International Law, The University of Western Australia Warzones are full of danger. But that’s never stopped humanitarian workers from living and working in such places, with the aim of keeping civilians safe. Humanitarian workers are deployed to locations ravaged by conflict or natural ... <a title="Health-care workers risk their lives in warzones. Are we protecting them enough?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/13/health-care-workers-risk-their-lives-in-warzones-are-we-protecting-them-enough-280256/" aria-label="Read more about Health-care workers risk their lives in warzones. Are we protecting them enough?">Read more</a>
