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By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific The Labour Party is promising visa-free travel to Aotearoa New Zealand for Pacific Islanders. Deputy Leader Carmel Sepuloni said Pacific Island Forum countries would be allowed in on an NZeTA for three months at a time — like 61 other countries, if the government changes. She told RNZ Pacific
Russia’s 2026 parliamentary elections will take place over three days, starting Sept. 18.
A public opinion researcher explains why this group’s declining faith goes beyond partisanship and reflects a fundamental question about its sense of belonging.
Parents concerned about vaccine overload may not get the outcome they expect from Trump’s recent vaccine executive order.
Because Trump picked this fight due to his concerns about Brazilian politics, that country’s presidential elections might quell it soon.
Decades of pollution at Pittsburgh brownfields left bacteria that evolved to survive it – and maybe help clean up contaminated soil.
Laws against surreptitiously recording someone extend to home devices like robot vacuums, but those recordings can still be used against you in court.
Facing an increasingly aggressive Russia and with equivocal commitment from the US, Nato faces a number of important challenges.
Having to move home and school can mean disrupting trusted adult relationships and the loss of access to established support.
From Hardy’s Wessex to Brontë country, literary tourists may be chasing places that never quite existed as they imagine them.
It might appear featureless, but one of the world’s largest limestone regions hides a remarkable underground world.
Ideally, experts should guide this debate. Unfortunately, they disagree too.