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A car wash business in an east Suffolk town was among premises raided by officers during a clamp down on immigration offences. This newspaper understands that Saxmundham Hand Car Wash in Street ...

File photo supplied Multiple people were hospitalised following a motor vehicle crash in east Auckland last night, March 1. Police, Fire and Emergency NZ and Hato Hone St John paramedics were all ...

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Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, take security measures as they hand over Israeli hostages to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as part of the seventh exchange ...

Hamas was set to hand over the bodies of four hostages late Wednesday night in exchange for Israel's release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, just days before the first phase of the ceasefire ...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon officially opened the Lexus of East Auckland dealership on February 23 alongside owner Rick Armstrong, Lexus New Zealand vice president Andrew Davis, acting chief ...

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Andrew Bayly will stand down as a government minister after an “animated discussion” with a staffer, during which he “placed a hand on their ... reporter in the NZ Herald Press Gallery ...

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A 15-year-old farm hand died while setting up an electric fence after part of the wire touched low-hanging power lines, a coroner has found. Jayden Disher was found in a paddock by his boss in ...

A top Hamas leader says the militant group will release six living Israeli hostages on Saturday and the bodies of four others on Thursday, a surprise increase that apparently comes in return for ...