Category: Radio New Zealand

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand A new displacement camp set up by the Egyptian Committee in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip on 11 November 2025. Photo: AFP / Eyad Baba Resolution authorises transitional authority and international stabilisation force Russia put forward rival resolution Palestinian Authority has backed resolution, Hamas is opposed The UN Security Council has…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand Listening to Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in New York, recorded 32 years ago today, remains a haunting experience. Taped live in November 1993, and released as a Grammy-winning, chart-topping album a year later, the intimate, informal concert was captured just five months before frontman Kurt Cobain’s death by suicide, aged…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand By Simon Lewis, Reuters A new displacement camp set up by the Egyptian Committee in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip on 11 November 2025. Photo: AFP / Eyad Baba Resolution authorises transitional authority and international stabilisation force Russia put forward rival resolution Palestinian Authority has backed resolution, Hamas is opposed The…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand The US president says he could sue the British national broadcaster for as much as $US5 billion after it spliced together two parts of his speech from January 6, 2021. In an email to staff, the BBC’s chair Samir Shah says there is “no basis” for the defamation suit.…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand Investigators examine the railways damaged in an explosion on the rail line in Mika, next to Garwolin, central Poland on 17 November, 2025, after the line presumably was targeted in a sabotage act. Photo: AFP Railway explosion ‘unprecedented act of sabotage’, says PM Tusk Warsaw-Lublin line connects capital to…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand You may have seen people documenting and romanticising their midweek excursions and rituals on social media lately. There are also spoof versions showing people declaring they’re ‘not just living for the weekend’ before quickly jumping into bed or curling up on the couch. Emma Dickeson has recently documented a…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand Were you there the night Amyl and the Sniffers shouted the city of Melbourne thousands of free drinks? Perhaps like Woodstock, the number of people who say they were — who will tell mates they scored a beer from one of Australia’s most thrilling guitar bands — might stretch…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand For most people, eating a wide variety of fruit and vegetables is the cornerstone of a healthy diet. But those with hereditary fructose intolerance can endanger their internal organs by consuming foods containing the natural sugar – including honey, some vegetables, sweetened drinks, and many packaged foods. This rare…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand Trade Minister Todd McClay. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Tariffs have been removed from more than $2 billion worth of New Zealand’s exports to the United States, Trade Minister Todd McClay says. US president Donald Trump on Friday (US time) signed an executive order cancelling tariffs on a wide…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand From text-based chatbots that mimic loved ones to voice avatars that let you “speak” with the deceased, artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used to preserve the voices and stories of the dead. In our research, recently published in Memory, Mind & Media, we explored what happens when remembering…