Fire and Emergency NZ and LandSAR are assisting police in the search.

Australia will continue to advocate for Melbourne teacher Oscar Jenkins who was reportedly charged with fighting in defence of Ukraine against Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion.

Russian puppet authorities said on Friday Jenkins would be tried for his alleged role with Ukrainian forces, according to a report in the UK's Telegraph newspaper.

The development comes four months after the former Victorian school teacher's capture was revealed in December.

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"The Prosecutor's Office of the Luhansk People's Republic approved the indictment in the criminal case against 33-year-old citizen of the Commonwealth of Australia Oscar Charles Augustus Jenkins," the authorities reportedly said in a statement.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said this morning Australia had not abandoned Jenkins and would continue to advocate for him.

"We'll continue to make representations to the reprehensible regime of Vladimir Putin on behalf of Mr Jenkins," Albanese said.

"We will stand up and use whatever avenues we have at our disposal to continue to make those representations.

"The Russian war against the people of Ukraine is a war against international law, it's against international sovereignty.

"The people of Ukraine are fighting for a democratic nation for their own sovereignty, but they're also fighting for the international rule of law, which is why we do want to see peace but we do want to see it on the terms that are acceptable to Ukraine.

"It's why I have clearly said we're prepared to be a part of a coalition of the willing peacekeeping force."

More to come…

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Vegemite has returned to the menu at a cafe in Toronto after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency ruled the product could be sold in the short term.

Australian-Canadian cafe owner Leighton Walters was ordered to stop selling the spread due to the added vitamin B in the product, which goes against Canada's food regulations.

The food authority has since decided to allow the cafe to sell the product in the short-term.

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"The CFIA has requested a health risk assessment from Health Canada," the food authority said in a statement.

"This science-based assessment has determined that the level of risk to human health from the added vitamins present in the product is low when consumed in suggested serving sizes.

"As such, the CFIA will work with the importer to allow the product to be sold in the short-term, including revised labelling, while we collaborate with Health Canada, the manufacturer, and the importer, to find a longer-term plan for Vegemite sales across Canada.

"The Government of Canada remains committed to food safety while supporting fair and reasonable access to culturally significant products."

The development comes after a campaign to get Vegemite back on the menu, which was supported by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who described the food authority's latest decision as "a win for Australian industry".

"It's also a win for those people in Canada who get to enjoy this wonderful product that is so much a part of Australian culture and indeed, Australian pride as well," Albanese said.

"I can report after the discussions that my government has had with the Government of Canada, and I want to thank (Canadian Prime Minister) Mark Carney and his office and his team for ensuring that the Australian cafe owner Leighton Walters can once again have Vegemite back in his cafe, back on the agenda.

"Happy Easter to all those happy little Vegemites out there."

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The church was divided over the use of millions of dollars in donations.

At its peak, about 20,000 Auckland homes were without electricity.

One desperate owner stood by himself in the dark trying to stop a creek from flooding.

A Whakatāne dairy farm owner has been fined $48, 750 for effluent discharge.

He thought it was a small puddle. Then his engine died.

A boy living with autism has been reunited with his family after he went missing in the Dandenong Ranges in Victoria.

Parsa, aged 6 is non-verbal. He was at a family Easter gathering at the play space on Olinda Monbulk Road when he wandered off at 4pm.

Friends and family searched frantically for him however, he could not be found, so they reported him as missing to Victoria Police.

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A large-scale search operation was launched immediately to locate him.

The search had been called off the day when a local 18-year-old boy heard about the missing child.

He decided to hop onto his mountain bike and help look for the 6-year-old.

The teenager was riding along a trail when he came across Parsa at 8.15pm.

Victoria Police said the boy "looked sleep deprived" but was in otherwise good health.

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"Searches for lost children with autism can be particularly challenging as often they are unable to communicate with searchers," Knox Acting Senior Sergeant Mel Gostimir said.

"After speaking with Parsa's family, our members found out that his favourite song was Hickory Dickory Dock and a song about learning the alphabet so they began playing that on their phones and through the PA systems on their police cars.

"We are so grateful for the support from the local volunteer services and community members who attended to assist in the search."

He has since been reunited with his family.

Police are trying to piece together the final moments of a Queensland woman before her body was found in a river.

Crystal Beale was found in the Brisbane River by a member of the public at 5.40am on February 22.

Police have established a timeline in the few hours leading up to her suspected murder.

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At 8.30pm on February 21, Beale left a family dinner in Sunnybank in a car with her son and former partner to an address in Annerley.

Beale and her partner then continued travelling to Ryan Street in West End.

Her former partner was the last person to see her alive when she exited the car at 9.30pm on Ryan Street.

The next day her body was found in the Brisbane River.

One of her shoes was found in bushes on Ryan Street, with several other personal items found at Orleigh Park, near the river.

Homicide investigators do not know how she ended up there, 1km away from her last known location.

Detectives have combed through 1000 hours of CCTV with no luck.

"The piece of the puzzle we are trying to understand is how Crystal got from Ryan Street into the Brisbane River," Detective Acting Inspector Rod Watts said.

"This incident happened on Friday evening in West End. It is 1km from her last confirmed sighting to where we located her personal belongings at Orleigh Park.

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"If Crystal had taken this route on foot, part of her journey should have been captured on CCTV, but we are yet to receive any eyewitness accounts or CCTV footage to confirm this.

"From everything that we have been told, Crystal was a loving mother of two, she was well known in the Sunshine Coast community and there is no reason why this has happened to her.

"We know people, who are not suspects, were in this area that evening, and we continue to ask them to come forward.

"Even if the information you have seems small, it may be the crucial piece of the puzzle we need to solve what happened to Crystal that night."

Anyone with any information is urged to come forward.