US Vice-President Kamala Harris has pressured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to help reach a Gaza ceasefire deal that would ease the suffering of Palestinian civilians, striking a tougher tone than President Joe Biden. “It is time for this war to end,” Harris said in a televised statement after she held face-to-face talks with Netanyahu. Netanyahu will meet Harris’ Republican rival, Donald Trump, at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. “There has been hopeful movement in the talks to secure an agreement on this deal, and as I just told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it is time to get this deal done,” Harris said. Later, she did not rule out “consequences” for Israel if it launched a full-scale invasion of refugee-packed Rafah in southern Gaza.

Despite being promised a full-time construction worker position at $29.66 per hour, Van’s pay and hours never matched the agreement. This forced her to borrow from loan sharks in Vietnam to extend the loan, with her family home listed as collateral. I don’t even want to call them because I don’t want them to stress about the money,” Van said. Liu did not provide payslips or details confirming Van’s work hours and rate, nor did he respond to queries about the construction sites she worked on. “All the people who come here just want to work, pay tax, and earn money to bring back to their families,” she said.

The cost of living for the average New Zealand household rose 5.4% in the year to the June quarter, according to Statistics NZ. Each quarter, the HLPIs track how inflation impacts 13 different household groups, as well as an all-households group, also known as the average household. “Mortgage interest payments remain high and continue to make a significant contribution to living costs for many households,” Statistics NZ consumer prices manager James Mitchell says. Property rates and related services make up 7.7% of expenditure for superannuitant households compared with 4.6% for the average household. The most recent high in average household living costs was the 8.2% rise recorded in the 12 months to the December 2022 quarter.

They spoke out about the case to ensure parents and the wider community were aware of Miller’s offending. Photo / NZMEHe said Miller’s offending has had “an unquantifiable effect” on the victim and her family, who were “very close” to his own family. “You would regularly stay overnight at (the victim’s family home). He said the nature of Miller’s offending was “highly unusual” but pre-sentence reports offered somewhat of an explanation. “I understand that this factor and many others will be of little solace to (the victim’s) family,” he said.

Whitney Greene takes us through her life in television, including the TV character she’d like to plan a funeral for and her cow lung catastrophe on The Traitors NZ. “If the phone rings, I have to answer it,” Whitney Greene from The Traitors NZ warns as we begin our My

But another problem has also pushed restaurants and cafés over the edge, according to the Restaurant Association, and that is increased construction work in the central city. From construction on earthquake-prone buildings, to fixing the city's ageing water infrastructure, Egan said new eateries were being put off trying their luck in Wellington. With all these pressures popping up in the capital's food scene, Stuff takes a look at the popular restaurants and cafés that have waved goodbye to Wellington over the past few years. HiakaiWellington fine dining Māori restaurant Hiakai closed its doors in March, after putting "indigenous cuisine" on the map. "We spent 14 years working towards building that project and had a series of small restaurants, and an incredible small group of partners and people that have worked with us, that helped recognise that dream," he said.

The science group set up to monitor earthquakes and volcanoes said Whakaari has been emitting “an almost continuous stream and gas plume” in recent weeks. “A steam and gas plume is about 80% steam and water vapour [H2O]. This image captured on July 12 shows a plume of gas and steam emitting from a vent from Whakaari/White Island. To help GeoNet communicate the current status of the active volcanoes in New Zealand, the organisation uses the New Zealand Volcanic Alert Level System. GeoNet uses Volcano Activity Bulletins to communicate in-depth and important information about the activity and trends occurring at the volcano.

Source: China State Council Information OfficeLocking China all down on the artificial intelligence (AI) technology is “really wrong,” Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and co-founder of Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, said Wednesday. On the question of how the United States should approach the AI competition with China, there’s one strain of thought that we need to lock it all down, and “I think that’s really wrong,” said Zuckerberg in an interview with Bloomberg. The United States thrives on open and de-centralized innovation, he said. “That’s the way our economy works, that how we build awesome stuff.”The Facebook co-founder also said that keeping the United States five or 10 years ahead of China in AI technology is not a “reasonable goal” that can be maintained. “What I do think is a reasonable goal is maintaining a perpetual, like six-month or eight-month lead, by making sure that the American companies continue producing the best AI systems,” he said, adding, “If the U.S. can maintain that advantage over time, that’s a very big advantage.”MIL OSI China News –

“The All Blacks don’t currently have a set media window on Friday morning, but players are available for interviews the day before a test match. During the two matches against England, New Zealand media attended events and interviewed players on both Fridays, and also did media interviews at events in San Diego the day before the match. It would also be hard for a media relations person to not become embedded or overawed by the stars, especially if players believe media are being unreasonable. On Monday, he held a press conference for Pasifika media and journalism students following confirmation of his move to Moana Pasifika from the Hurricanes. Campbell wrote for TVNZ: “The only reporters there were from Pasifika media outlets and programmes, along with some Pasifika journalism students.

In 1863, the Crown started a war – known as the Invasion of Waikato – to destroy the Kiingitanga and access Waikato land. For us here, it’s Taupiri te maunga – Taupiri is the mountain; Waikato te awa – Waikato is the river; and Te Wherowhero te tangata - Te Wherowhero is the man [we descend from],” Papa said. It included familiar allegations against Waikato Māori while declaring the lives and property of all “well-disposed people” would be protected. Waikato Māori built elaborate pā as a form of defence during the Waikato Invasion. The Mangatāwhiri Stream was considered an 'aukati' - a line not to be crossed and the boundary between Kiingitanga and Crown lands.

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Apple decided a few years ago it was just too unsafe to have third-party developers poke at things, deep in the operating system. It also improves system security as malicious code is harder to hide deep in the operating system. Microsoft is no doubt aware of the problem, and it has devised mitigations to stop buggy code from taking down the Windows kernel. Even then, it only took one mistake that mysteriously enough wasn't caught early on (it should've been - see below), and a very extensive and expensive disaster struck. Btw the report mentions testing over 20 times, but for those who didn’t catch it - none of the channel tests involve actually putting the updates on a CrowdStrike system.

Photo: RNZ / Jimmy EllinghamFor more than 15 years Jasmine Taare was a meth addict. Now, she's stopped using it and is part of a groundbreaking Tairāwhiti study into how people's brains and hearts recover from damage caused by its long-term use. "When you think about meth users and you ask people here they immediately think you're out the gate - you can't trust them. Photo: RNZ / Jimmy EllinghamSoon after, she joined Mātai Medical Research Institute's study into the effects of meth on users' brains and hearts. They highlighted the damage meth had done, but also more recent signs of improvement.

Source: Federated FarmersFederated Farmers are calling for transparency from the Otago Regional Council about the potential impacts and costs of proposed new freshwater rules. In particular Federated Farmers want to know how the new principle of Te Mana o te Wai will be applied under the new regulations. “The regional council needs to urgently confirm whether these cost projections are accurate. Instead, every regional council must engage with communities and tangata whenua to determine how the concept should be applied locally. “The consultation from Otago Regional Council has been woefully insufficient given the serious implications potential costs of these regulations,” Kane says.

The past 18 months has brought increasing hostility towards the queer community across Aotearoa. Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull’s anti-trans rally in Tamaki Makaurau last MarchDespite having no bars or other designated spaces for lesbians, Auckland boasts a small but mighty lesbian museum. So how did it get here? led to a ...