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December 23, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Analysis by Aaron Blake, CNN US Vice President JD Vance. (File photo) AFP/JIM WATSON Analysis – Vice President JD Vance has never looked more like the presumptive 2028 Republican presidential nominee. We learned last week that perhaps his most formidable would-be foe, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, had said he would ... <a title="JD Vance tries to have it both ways on Nick Fuentes and antisemitism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/23/jd-vance-tries-to-have-it-both-ways-on-nick-fuentes-and-antisemitism/" aria-label="Read more about JD Vance tries to have it both ways on Nick Fuentes and antisemitism">Read more</a>
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December 23, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand By Kang Jin-kyu, AFP Firefighters and rescue personnel work near the scene where a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 series aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport. (File photo) AFP / Jung Yeon-Je Grieving mother Lee Hyo-eun returns every weekend to the airport where her daughter and 178 others ... <a title="Families want answers a year after South Korea’s deadliest plane crash" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/23/families-want-answers-a-year-after-south-koreas-deadliest-plane-crash/" aria-label="Read more about Families want answers a year after South Korea’s deadliest plane crash">Read more</a>
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December 23, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Vince Zampella, the acclaimed co-creator of the video gaming juggernaut Call of Duty, has died in a car crash, US media reported. According to local broadcaster NBC4, the developer and executive died on Sunday (local time) while driving his Ferrari on a scenic road north of Los Angeles. His studios created ... <a title="‘Call of Duty’ co-creator killed in car crash: US media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/23/call-of-duty-co-creator-killed-in-car-crash-us-media/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Call of Duty’ co-creator killed in car crash: US media">Read more</a>
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December 23, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The year’s biggest trend was barely there. It crested Margot Robbie in slim strands of beads and rhinestones; it draped Julia Fox, Sandro Botticelli-style, in little more than strands of brunette curls; and, through an empire waisted layer of sheer white mesh, it revealed Sienna Miller’s new pregnancy to the world. ... <a title="2025: The year of the naked dress?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/23/2025-the-year-of-the-naked-dress/" aria-label="Read more about 2025: The year of the naked dress?">Read more</a>
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December 23, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand British singer-songwriter Chris Rea, best known for the 1980s festive hit ‘Driving Home for Christmas’, has died at the age of 74, his family announced on Monday (local time). “It is with immense sadness that we announce the death of our beloved Chris,” a spokesperson for his wife and two children ... <a title="UK singer Chris Rea dies at 74, days before Christmas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/23/uk-singer-chris-rea-dies-at-74-days-before-christmas/" aria-label="Read more about UK singer Chris Rea dies at 74, days before Christmas">Read more</a>
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December 23, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand By Jamie Tahana for RNZ Pacific Vishal Prasad (Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change) speaks to the press before the International Court of Justice following the conclusion of an advisory opinion on countries’ obligations to protect the climate. AFP / Lina Selg 2025 was a big year for Vishal Prasad. From ... <a title="How a Fiji man took on the world’s biggest polluters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/23/how-a-fiji-man-took-on-the-worlds-biggest-polluters/" aria-label="Read more about How a Fiji man took on the world’s biggest polluters">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand James Ransone, an actor best known for playing Ziggy Sobotka in The Wire and also starring in It: Chapter Two, has died at age 46, according to LA medical authorities. The actor took his own life, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. Ransone played the dock worker-turned-petty criminal Zibby ... <a title="James Ransone, star of ‘The Wire’ and ‘It: Chapter Two’, dies at 46" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/22/james-ransone-star-of-the-wire-and-it-chapter-two-dies-at-46/" aria-label="Read more about James Ransone, star of ‘The Wire’ and ‘It: Chapter Two’, dies at 46">Read more</a>
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December 19, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The HMNZS Manawanui, aground in Samoa. Profile Boats / supplied More than a year after the New Zealand navy vessel HMNZS Manawanui sank off the south coast of Samoa’s island of Upolu, affected locals have yet to be compensated. Information showing a compensation payment from the New Zealand government to the ... <a title="Villagers who watched Manawanui sink still waiting for compensation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/19/villagers-who-watched-manawanui-sink-still-waiting-for-compensation/" aria-label="Read more about Villagers who watched Manawanui sink still waiting for compensation">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Australian director-writer team Dave Michôd and Mirrah Foulkes teamed up with Hollywood star Sydney Sweeney to produce one of the most intense cinematic experiences of the year. Their biopic Christy begins as a familiar story of the gutsy underdog athlete, Christy Martin – America’s first breakthrough female boxing champion – but ... <a title="How Sydney Sweeney transformed to play boxing champion Christy Martin" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/18/how-sydney-sweeney-transformed-to-play-boxing-champion-christy-martin/" aria-label="Read more about How Sydney Sweeney transformed to play boxing champion Christy Martin">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The Oscars telecast will move from broadcasting to streaming in 2029, switching from ABC to YouTube — a watershed moment for the entertainment business. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Wednesday that YouTube signed a “multi-year deal” for the “exclusive global rights to the Oscars.” The deal will ... <a title="The Oscars will abandon broadcast TV for YouTube starting in 2029" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/18/the-oscars-will-abandon-broadcast-tv-for-youtube-starting-in-2029/" aria-label="Read more about The Oscars will abandon broadcast TV for YouTube starting in 2029">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Kazzi Beach Greek displays Israel flags to support the victims, but has had both positive and negative feedback. Charlotte Cook Bondi businesses say they will feel the effects of Sunday’s attack for a long time, but they are determined to return to normal. The community is defiant to not let the ... <a title="Bondi community returning to new normal, after shooting tragedy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/18/bondi-community-returning-to-new-normal-after-shooting-tragedy/" aria-label="Read more about Bondi community returning to new normal, after shooting tragedy">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand One of the gunmen who police believe carried out a mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach that killed 15 people at the weekend has woken from a coma. Naveed Akram, 24, remains in a Sydney hospital under police guard. His 50-year-old father Sajid was killed by police during the shooting. Police ... <a title="Live: Bondi terror attack gunman wakes from coma" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/17/live-bondi-terror-attack-gunman-wakes-from-coma/" aria-label="Read more about Live: Bondi terror attack gunman wakes from coma">Read more</a>
