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News March 12, 2026

Global energy markets were jolted again overnight after reports emerged of fresh attacks on oil infrastructure across the Gulf, with at least two tankers...

NZ Outdoors & Freedom Party demands criminal investigation into COVID vaccine harm suppression

Aly Cook, board member of the New Zealand Outdoors & Freedom Party (NZOFP), says the time for inquiries and "lessons learned" is over. Following the release...

Air New Zealand to cancel 1,100 flights as fuel crisis hits schedules

Air New Zealand will cancel about 1,100 flights between now and early May, disrupting travel plans for roughly 44,000 passengers out of the 1.9...

IEA orders record oil release after Strait of Hormuz disruption

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has approved the largest emergency oil release in its history, with 32 member nations unanimously backing the release of...

Positive lines of enquiry into threat against school – police

Police are making enquiries after a threat was made towards a Timaru school, however there is no information to suggest it is credible. Aoraki Area...

Auckland teacher struck off after filming porn videos in school classroom

A former Auckland teacher has been struck off after a disciplinary tribunal found she filmed and posted pornographic videos of herself urinating inside school...

EU admits nuclear blunder

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has acknowledged that the bloc’s nuclear phase-out was a “strategic mistake”. The EU’s decades-long retreat from nuclear energy...

NZ First calls for Select Committee inquiry into Covid jab injuries

New Zealand First is calling for a select committee inquiry into the injuries that the mandated double-dose of the COVID-19 vaccine may have caused...

Mongrel Mob raids in Canterbury uncover meth, guns and stolen vehicle ‘chop shop’

Police have arrested two men and seized amounts cash, methamphetamine, firearms, and ammunition, in Canterbury. "Over the past two weeks, Police executed search warrants at...

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Spain removes ambassador from Israel

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Madrid has permanently terminated the diplomatic position as the rift with West Jerusalem deepens over the attack against Iran. Spain...

UK behind deadly Storm Shadow missile attack on Russian city – Kremlin

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Seven people were killed and dozens injured after British-made weapons hit Bryansk, according to local officials. A Ukrainian strike on...

Six killed in Swiss bus fire after suspected self-immolation

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Five others were injured after a blaze destroyed a postal bus, as police investigate a suspected deliberate act. Six people...

UK schools warned kids’ drawings could be blasphemous under Islam

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Dance lessons may also offend Muslims due to potential male-female contact, according to guidance. Schools in parts of northern England...

Growing backlash in US over Covid jab deaths

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A growing backlash over Covid-19 'vaccines' has intensified in the United States after epidemiologist Nicholas Hulscher claimed that more...

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