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Illegal cigarettes are getting easier to find - and harder to stop

RNZ ·

The government's anti-black market tobacco group has been flooded with tips, but experts say the supply chain is evolving.

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  1. Festivals Panel: The Evolution of Festivals | Billboard Live Music Summit 2026 Billboard ·

    From the new Daisy Chain Fields music festival to established heavyweights like Coachella, the festival space remains strong, but it is also changing, as genre and artist-focused events continue to grow in popularity. Billboard has gathered several key festival promoters, as well as voices from the…

  2. US and China should stay clear-eyed on AI cooperation and competition, Bessent says Investing.com ·
  3. End of an era as 20-year departmental team is dismantled Nine ·

    Professionals, academics and advocates posted dozens of tributes, with some worried about the future of active transport planning in Queensland.

  4. US midterms put pro-Israel powerhouse AIPAC on defensive Al-Monitor ·

    For years, the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC was a US political juggernaut, but deepening voter disillusion over US-Israeli ties and wins by openly Israel-skeptic candidates in last week's midterm elections have left it reeling. Candidates of all stripes long courted the American Israel Public…

  5. Trinidad and Tobago's ban on gay sex overturned by UK's Privy Council Jerusalem Post ·

    The ruling overturned provisions that criminalized so-called "buggery" and "serious indecency," which carried potential prison sentences of up to five years.

  6. Judge declines to throw out Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against BBC Jerusalem Post ·

    Trump is suing Britain’s publicly funded broadcaster for at least $10 billion over edited clips of a speech that made it appear he directed supporters to storm the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

  7. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent moved to military base after Iranian threats - report Jerusalem Post ·

    The newspaper reported that US officials have noted that Iran's ability to carry out large-scale attacks in the US and other territories overseas is limited.

  8. UK Foreign Secretary calls out Israel for Gaza winter conditions, demands additional aid Jerusalem Post ·

    "The UK government will not stand by," Miliband said, calling Israel an "occupying power," and saying that its behavior and actions in Gaza were "totally unacceptable."

  9. This '60s Japanese Thriller Is One Of The Best Movies Streaming On HBO Max /Film ·

    Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa directed a lot of great movies, but this '60s thriller streaming on HBO Max might just be his magnum opus.

  10. Asian Currencies Soften After U.S. CPI Data Boosts Dollar The Wall Street Journal ·

    Asian currencies were broadly weaker against the dollar. The hotter-than-expected U.S. CPI and Fed officials’ comments rekindled rate-hike expectations, lifting the greenback and Treasury yields.

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