Melania Trump counting down the minutes to divorce Donald Trump, sources claim
25 Jan, 2021 03:57 AM
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Melania Trump walked away from her husband, leaving him to wave at the cameras by himself. Video / ABC News
Melania Trump walked away from her husband, leaving him to wave at the cameras by himself. Video / ABC News
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By: Natalie Brown
Nearly a week on from their White House exit, Melania Trump is reportedly counting down the minutes until she can divorce the former president.
In a new interview, Donald Trump s niece, Mary Trump – who last year wrote a scathing memoir of her uncle in which she deemed him the world s most dangerous man – claimed he doesn t understand affection or intimacy .
US inauguration: Joe Biden sworn in as 46th president of the United States
20 Jan, 2021 11:07 PM
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Joe Biden being sworn in as the 46th President of the USA. Video / PBS
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Key points:
• Joe Biden has been sworn in as the new US president.
• Donald Trump avoided his successor s inauguration, the first US president to do so in more than a century.
• In his final speech as president, Trump declared we will be back in some form .
• Before leaving office, President Trump released a list of final pardons but did not pardon himself.
• People around the world have been counting days and hours until this moment when voices of integrity and reason return to the White House, writes Dawn Picken here.
Hokitika councillor s brush with death after freak lawnmower accident
15 Jan, 2021 09:11 PM
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Westland district councillor Latham Martin, of Hokitika, is recovering from emergency surgery after an accident while cutting grass. Photo / Hokitika Guardian
Westland district councillor Latham Martin, of Hokitika, is recovering from emergency surgery after an accident while cutting grass. Photo / Hokitika Guardian
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By: Helen Murdoch
A Hokitika councillor who needed 31 blood transfusions, whose partner and parents were told he might not survive, and who had surgeons flown from Wellington to Te Nikau Hospital in Greymouth to support local doctors treating him after a freak lawnmower incident is counting his lucky stars. Helen Murdoch reports.