Afternoon Edition: 26 April 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 26 April 2025, straight from the Newstalk ZB newsroom - bringing you everything you need to know in news, politics, business, entertainment and sport.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the News Talk's edby Newsroom. This is Newsfex. In
this update, Northland's under a heavy rain watch again, about
a week on from Cyclone tam. Much of the region
was recently battered by strong winds and heavy rain, with
flooding and power cuts in many places. Today's alert says
rains likely to become heavier in the far north and
spread southwards later. Fanga A district Mayor Vince Cocarillo says

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places like pie here are still recovering from last weekend.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
A sixtion of Row who has been turned into a
one lane solely because of the water taking out one
of the banks.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
United States President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Voladimir Zelenski
are among the dignitaries arriving in Rome for Pope Francis' funeral.
Our Prime Minister Chris Luxon's also attending. Hundreds of thousands
of mourners are expected to gather for the mass starting
at eight o'clock tonight. The eighty eight year old died
on Easter Monday. The gathering of world leaders follows a

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meeting between President Trump's Special ends and Russian President Vladimir
Putin regarding peace in Ukraine. Cambridge University's Victoria Vooduchenka told
the BBC the funeral may also offer an opportunity for
President Zelenski to lobby for more aid.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
There could be a side event the potential meeting between
some of the leaders, not only Donald Trump himself but
also the leaders of uk France, Germany and Ukraine in
this sense.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Virginia Duffrey, who accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault, has
died at the age of forty one. In a statement
to Sky's US partner network NBC News, her family said
she died at her farm in Western Australia, where she'd
been living for several years. They said the toll of
abuse was so heavy it became unbearable for Virginia to
handle its weight. Three men have been charged following an

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aggravated robbery in Okotere, Palmiston North this morning. They fled
the residential address and police arrested them after using tire
deflation devices. The three Auckland men, aged nineteen to twenty three,
will appear in court on Monday. That's news in Sport
a coup for the New Zealand Warriors, the leading Auckland
based NRL team has signed rising Leeds Rhinos back rower

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Morgan Gannon on a three year NRAL deal to the
end of twenty twenty eight. The twenty one year old
will finish with Leeds at the end of this year's season.
In more good news for the Warriors, forward Maratannukore has
escaped any ban over the high tackle that saw him
sinbind in last night's twenty six twelve win over the
Newcastle Knights. They're underway at North Harbor Stadium in rugby's

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Battle of the Pacific as Moana Pasifica hosts the Fijian Druer. Later,
it's the Southern Derby from just after seven as the
Highlanders host the Crusaders in Dunedin, and later still the
Hurricanes play the Brumbies in Canberra from twenty five to ten.
That's Sport. I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more news, listen to

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