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Seven workers at a poultry plant in southern Russia have been infected with a bird flu virus, according to Russian News Agency TASS.
TASS reported on Saturday (local time) that Russia had registered the cases, quoting public health official Anna Popova, the head of Rospotrebnadzor, a consumer health watchdog.
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Facebook Inc is back at the negotiating table, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Saturday after the tech giant this week blocked news on its site in the country.
Facebook's abrupt decision to stop Australians from sharing news on the site and strip the pages of domestic and foreign news outlets also erased several state government and emergency department accounts, causing widespread anger.
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Read more: Facebook 'tentatively' friends Australia again after widely criticised news block
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An Australian woman who's being kept in managed isolation for refusing to get a COVID-19 test says she just wants more information before agreeing.
Lucinda Baulch has been at the Grand Mercure in Wellington for 25 days (on Sat) while she waits for scientific evidence of the PCR tests safety and effectiveness.
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A senior Facebook executive involved in the decision to ban news content in Australia has apologised for accidentally wiping pages operated by charities, government organisations and state health departments at a critical stage of the coronavirus pandemic.
Facebook’s vice-president of public policy for the Asia-Pacific region, Simon Milner, has not ruled out the eventual return of news content to the social media platform but said any decisions were now in the hands of the federal government, which could make a news media bargaining code law by the end of next week.
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Police monitoring a large group of anti-vax protesters on Saturday were forced to step in after a confrontation with a man wearing a 'Be Kind' T-shirt turned physical.
Over 100 protesters clumped around the footpaths near Countdown in Greenlane around 12:30pm in a vocal protest, the same day New Zealand rolled out the COVID-19 vaccine to our border workforce.
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The Ministry of Health reported zero new COVID-19 cases in the community on Saturday, and two in managed isolation and quarantine.
"All close contacts associated with the cases households, school and travel group to New Plymouth have returned negative results," the ministry said in a statement, more good news after Auckland's brief level 3 lockdown earlier this week.
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Read more: Zero new cases reported in community on Saturday, two in MIQ
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It is believed a New Zealand woman and her two children who were detained at the Turkish border while trying to enter from Syria will be deported.
The Turkish Ministry of National Defence alleges the woman - named as Suhayra Aden - is a terrorist belonging to Islamic State.
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Read more: Alleged Kiwi terrorist caught in Turkey set to be deported
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Conspiracy theorist Billy Te Kahika has abandoned his political aspirations and shut down his party, announcing he will focus instead on his activism.
It brings an end to the short-lived New Zealand Public Party, briefly known as the Freedom Party, which campaigned on COVID-19 misinformation.
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