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Kickstart axe 'won't deter savers'
Prime Minister John Key says axing the $1000 kickstart grant to new KiwiSaver members in the Budget "will not make a blind bit of difference to the number of people who join".
Prime Minister John Key says axing the $1000 kickstart grant to new KiwiSaver members in the Budget "will not make a blind bit of difference to the number of people who join".
The Defence Force chief has downplayed a car bomb attack which killed three people near the NZ base on the first day of its deployment in Iraq.
A 200-year-old "golden Koran", which contains pages layered in gold, will be displayed at Auckland's central library next month after some Arabic manuscripts that came with it were....
A former New Zealander now living in Denmark says her son was killed when he travelled to Syria to fight with Isis after authorities failed to stop him.
A local council in Victoria has created controversy by asking non-Islamic women to wear hijabs in a 'social experiment' to increase awareness and education.
Yazidi women released by Isis this week have given distressing accounts of their ordeals.
The mother of Mohammed Emwazi realised seven months ago that her son was the masked killer known as Jihadi John but failed to tell the authorities.
The decision to commit NZ military contingent to Iraq is a case of misguided foreign policy.
Scotland Yard has warned of a growing trend of young women travelling to Syria after launching an urgent appeal to find three teenage schoolgirls.
Mohammed Sabaaneh's 'favourable' depiction of the Prophet saw him suspended from his job and under investigation. He tells Ben Lynfield in Ramallah that he just wanted to make people think.
Last June the US tried a bold rescue mission to gather hostages taken by Isis. It failed. All the hostages have since died. Was the White House to blame?
The Iraqi Government has asked for New Zealand's help to fight the Islamic State by describing the battle as World War III.
They're being lured with promises of reclaiming a lost Islamic empire. But foreign fighters for Isis often in up on the front lines, or as suicide bombers.
Sydney cafe siege survivors and families gathered solemnly as Australia's parliament honoured the victims.
A bank in the United Arab Emirates is trying to lure a rapidly rising number of working women - with a perfumed credit card.
'We were just left there.' Lindt Cafe siege survivor Marcia Mikhael has criticised the police operation, saying the army would've done a better job.
Europe is on high alert following anti-terror raids and arrests of suspected Islamist militants.
Captured Yazidi girls in Iraq are killing themselves to escape rape and torture at the hands of Isis (Islamic State) militants holding them prisoner.
Horrifying pictures have emerged showing the Taliban gun squad who slaughtered 132 innocent children - as a new threat to kill schoolkids was revealed.
A Taliban attack on a school in Pakistan that killed 132 children has been widely condemned as un-Muslim, abhorrent, inhumane and disgusting.
A New Zealand judge has made reference to the Sydney siege as “the elephant in the room” while sentencing a man who shouted jihadist slogans at a Muslim leader.
New Zealand Muslims were brought to tears by a social media display of solidarity in Sydney during the Lindt cafe siege.
Peter Kassig, the American aid worker murdered by Isis (Islamic State) in Syria, may have been killed by a gunshot wound rather than beheading, analysis has suggested.
One or two words can be enough to turn a hostage situation, so language and rapport is everything, a former New Zealand hostage negotiator says.
I was in Normandy, talking to the former neighbours of a French jihadist last seen slitting the throat of a Syrian captive in an Islamic State (Isis) militant video.
It ain't half cold here mum. My iPod has packed up. All I do is the washing-up.