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Watch NZ Herald Focus: Who's behind kidnapping?
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Watch NZ Herald Focus: Who's behind kidnapping?

A New Zealander and at least two Australians have been kidnapped in southern Nigeria by gunmen who killed their local driver. Former All Black Byron Kelleher has been arrested in France for "destruction and violence". Paris Jackson has defended her father Michael after police reports painted him as a "sex-crazed predator".

Watch: NZ Herald Focus 18th May
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Watch: NZ Herald Focus 18th May

Today - An award-winning journalist in who moved into a house of addicts to research drug abuse ended up an addict himself and wild weather across the is battering the country. Also a major doping crackdown in sport, 31 athletes in 6 sports could be barred from the Rio Olympics.