Morning Edition: 10 May 2025

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Episode Transcript

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From the news talks had been newsroom. This is NEWSFACS.
In this update, the Vatican says Pope Leo the fourteenth
inauguration Mass will take place next Sunday, the eighteenth of May. Overnight,
the new pontiff delivered his first homily in the Sistine Chapel,
where he said the Church must do everything to counter
a lack of faith. In his sermons, sixty nine year

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old Pope Leo issued a warning around people turning to technology, money,
success and power instead of faith. The IPL, the Indian
Premier League, has been suspended for one week because of
the conflict with Pakistan. Pakistani authorities say thirty one people
have been killed and fifty seven injured from Indian air

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strikes since Wednesday. The Indian Defense Ministry says the strikes
were in retaliation for the twenty second of April attack
in Kashmere that killed twenty six people. Food and security
is the worst it's been in a decade, according to
a new report from the Salvation Army. The charity says
one in four children are going hungry. It distributed almost

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one hundred thousand food parcels last year, as funding cuts
forced many other food banks to close their doors. Salvation
Army research director Bonnie Robinson's urging the government to implement
food security strategies in its upcoming budget. We'd like to
see support for low income household so that they can
have the dignity of being able to feed themselves consistently.

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An economics professor says New Zealand could be staring down
the barrel of new taxes. Changes to retirement settings aren't made.
Auckland University's Robert McCulloch says as the population ages, the
government must consider compulsory key we saver to ensure retirees
aren't fully reliant on the government. Without changes, he says,

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the country won't be able to afford an increasing pension bill.
They'll come a time to pay for retirement and to
pay for health. We're going to introduce new taxes like
capital nasaid taxes. That's news to sport and the Blues
are back in Super Rugby's top six after a thirty
four to five at bonus point win over the Fiji

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and drew it in Suva. The Blues skipper Patrick tuo
Palotto says his team still needs to find more consistency.
Would do some good things and then and I lay
ourself down with a handing error or PENALTISA. Really make
sure we stack those moments so we don't let teams in.
And the Queensland Reds have all but ended the Warata's
finals hopes with a twenty eight to twenty one win

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in Sydney. Keep we Golfer Dame Lydia Coe is in
a tie for seventh that the America Is Open in
New Jersey, just three shots off the clubhouse leader after
shooting a second round two under pas seventy. Kazumi Kibori
has just made the cut at the Turkish Open. That
is Sport. I'm Diana Vesich. For more news, listen to

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