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After the earthquake: Christchurch’s new cardboard cathedral
A revolutionary cardboard cathedral opens in Christchurch, New Zealand, as a temporary replacement for the neo-Gothic building destroyed in the 2011 earthquake.
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‘New door has opened’ with robotic exoskeleton
Channel 4 Paralympics presenter Sophie Morgan describes the thrill of walking using the Rex exoskeleton robot – and asks if one day it will change the way people relate to disability.
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Sporting life: the Channel 4 News London 2012 quiz
Know how many world records were broken at the Games? Answer this and nine other questions in our London 2012 quiz – and a life of pub quiz celebrity surely awaits you.
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New RFU boss promises turnaround in fortunes
Ian Ritchie, the new head of rugby in England, says the RFU needs to learn the lessons of last year’s world cup debacle and tells Keme Nzerem he believes the English game’s problems are “fixable”.
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Tributes to Queen Elizabeth II ring out across the world
From the United States to South Africa, New Zealand to Ukraine, the world has come together to remember the Queen.
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Child remains found in suitcases bought at auction
A family in South Auckland, New Zealand has made headlines around the world after making a shocking discovery.
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Criminalisation approach just isn’t delivering for people’, global drug policy commission chair says
We were joined by the former New Zealand Prime Minister and chair of the global commission on drug policy, Helen Clark.
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Delta down under
For more than a year, Australia and New Zealand were sanctuaries away from the pandemic world. But the Delta variant snuck in.
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Cutting funding for WHO ‘will come back to haunt the US’, says US professor
Lawrence Gostin, a professor of global health law and the director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center on National & Global Health Law and Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand and former administrator of the UN Development Programme, revealed what they thought about President Trump suspending funding to the WHO.
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NZ observes two-minute silences to mark Christchurch attacks
New Zealand stopped to reflect today, a week after the killing of 50 people at mosques in Christchurch. The country’s Prime Minister stood with those affected by the shootings as the Muslim call to prayer was broadcast across the country.
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Challenging the alternative media outlet pumping out anti-immigration stories
Today, New Zealand’s Prime Minister called for a global fight to “weed” out extremism.
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NZ PM ‘resolute and focused’ on combating racism after Christchurch attack
New Zealand’s Prime Minister says she remains “resolute and focused” on confronting racism in her own country following the terrorist attacks at two mosques in the city of Christchurch.
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Grandfather who fled Afghanistan among Christchurch victims
Among the dead in Christchurch was Haji Daud Nabi, a grandfather who fled the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 before eventually settling in New Zealand.
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Gallipoli: remembering one of WWI’s bloodiest campaigns
Prince Charles and Prince Harry, together with leaders from Turkey, Australia and New Zealand, commemorate the bloody, nine-month 1915 Gallipoli campaign, which began 100 years ago.
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NZ rescuers hope to save 66 whales after 100 die
Rescuers manage to refloat 66 pilot whales after nearly 200 were beached on New Zealand’s South Island. More than 100 died on the beach due to dehydration and sunburn, conservation experts say.