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Knife Attack In Northern Ireland

6 items · 5 aliases · peaked week of 7 Jun 2026 · first seen 10 Jun 2026

A Newstalk ZB podcast discussing the fallout from Ben Stokes' curfew breach, pharmacy prescription locker changes, Uber Eats' profit concerns, a knife attack in Northern Ireland, potential anti-asylum seeker protests, and NASA's Artemis 3 lunar mission.

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

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How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 5 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

12-week press volume 5 articles
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Heard on radio

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  • Heather du Plessis-Allan mike-hosking-breakfast Full Show Podcast: 10 June 2026 9 Jun · 79s
    And finally, we may have unfortunately found another version of Australia's infamous mushroom chef. A man in Indonesia has been arrested for allegedly murdering his mother-in-law using SATA, which is laced with rap poison. Police reckon he ordered the chicken skewers and then dipped them in the toxic cheminal chemicals and then had them delivered to his mother-in-law. He then tried to frame his sister-in-law for the killing. That's news of the world in 90 seconds. Okay, situation in the Middle East is I mean, I feel like it goes from one position to the other every day, but we're back to it looking shaky again this morning. What's happened is it's been confirmed that Iran has shot down a helicopter, a US helicopter in Apache near the Strait of Humus on Monday. They did manage to get the crew members. It was a race again, which probably explains why there's a little bit of a delay in finding out about it. They they rescued these guys with a drone boat. It's the first of its kind operation at sea. But the trouble now is what happens next. Trump says he has to respond. He's hit the truth social. He says, I have just been confirmed, or informed rather, by our great military, that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Humuz. There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured, nevertheless, and here's the key bit. Nevertheless, the United States must of necessity respond to this attack. 13 past six.
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Sample framings

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mike-hosking-breakfast Government / N-A

community safety under threat

Full Show Podcast: 10 June 2026
9 Jun
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