Headlines: Five men caught near UK army base
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What happened with the five men spotted near the UK army base?
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From The Daily Oz, I'm Lucy Tassel. It's Monday, the 28th of September. Here's what's making headlines this evening. UK police have arrested five men who were seen travelling in, quote, suspicious vehicles towards an army base. Counter-terrorism police are investigating the men who are suspected of offences under the country's Explosives Act.
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The US has used the base, RAF Fairford, to launch bomb-carrying aircraft in strikes against Iran. The men were spotted early on Sunday morning local time by a woman driving home from a party. She called emergency services after seeing three white vans parked on a country road near RAF Fairford and men running away from them through the trees. US President Donald Trump said his government had been monitoring the men for some time. Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Finance Minister Katie Gallagher have announced the final analysis for Australia's economy for the 2025-26 financial year. Government income in 2025-26 was up by $4.6 billion since the May budget forecast, which Chalmers said was due to higher-than-expected tax returns from super funds and investors.
The government said it had spent less than it expected, in part because of decreased spending in the aged and childcare sectors. Defence and health expenses were both more than a billion dollars above projections, however.
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The overall result was an improvement to the underlying deficit, which was previously projected to be $28.3 billion. Instead, the deficit came in $6 billion lower. Chalmers said, despite this very welcome improvement in the budget, we know that pressures are intensifying rather than easing. New Zealand's election campaign is underway six weeks out from the country's November poll. Prime Minister Chris Luxon's coalition faces a fight from Labor under Chris Hipkins to avoid being the first one-term government in half a century. It took Luxon, who leads the National Party, weeks after the last election to negotiate a deal between right-wing parties to form a government. The parties in the coalition are now all running against each other to try to win a majority.
On Sunday, both National and Labor held rallies in Auckland to fire up their bases for the poll push ahead. Labor is promising to introduce a capital gains tax, while National is promising no new taxes. The campaign got off to a tense start with Luxon saying Labor will introduce nine new taxes, a claim that Hipkins called bullshit.
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And today's good news. A team of researchers has developed a new way to help honeybees stay away from pesticides. The worldwide decline in bee populations has been partly driven by exposure to pesticides, which can poison or even kill them before they have a chance to pollinate other plants. To solve that problem, scientists at the University of California developed an AI-based method to create chemical compounds... that will deter bees from plants treated with pesticides without harming them. Lead researcher Professor Ananda Sankar Ray said the chemical compounds smell bad to bees, safely and effectively keeping them away from the plants. That's the latest from the Daily Oars newsroom. If you are looking for something else, you can catch up on this morning's Deep Dive, where we explain what we learned in the first week of Bo Lamar Condon's murder trial.
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What happened with the five men spotted near the UK army base?
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How did Australia’s Treasury explain the 2025‑26 budget surplus?
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What are the key issues shaping New Zealand’s upcoming election?
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How are scientists using AI to protect honeybees from pesticides?
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Where can listeners find more deep‑dive content and upcoming topics?
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