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Category: News

Published: 25 January 2020

Author: Dan Satherley

An expert advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) has described the coronavirus outbreak as potentially "thermonuclear pandemic level bad".

Dozens have been killed by the virus 2019-nCoV since it was first detected in early December, and as of Sunday morning (NZ time) there were 1441 confirmed cases. 

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Read more: Harvard expert calls coronavirus outbreak 'thermonuclear pandemic level bad'

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/01/harvard-expert-calls-coronavirus-outbreak-thermonuclear-pandemic-level-bad.html

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Category: Defence

Published: 25 January 2020

Author: George Block

The Defence Force is battling to find a buyer for 30 unwanted armoured vehicles which cost about $186 million.

It is another chapter in the long running saga of one of the army's most expensive, and most controversial, purchases.

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Read more: Defence Force struggling to find a buyer for 30 unwanted armoured vehicles

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/119010120/defence-force-struggling-to-find-a-buyer-for-30-unwanted-armoured-vehicles

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Published: 25 January 2020

Author: Daniel Rutledge

Taika Waititi has confessed to being a time traveller after a fan noticed his likeness in an 1862 oil painting by Édouard Manet.

A man resembling the Thor: Ragnarok filmmaker with a grey beard appears in Manet's 'The Old Musician', which was pointed out on Twitter.

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Read more: Taika Waititi admits he's a time traveller

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2018/05/taika-waititi-admits-he-s-a-time-traveller-after-mysterious-manet-painting-discovery.html

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Published: 25 January 2020

Author: Jamie Ensor

New Zealand's Ministry of Health is stressing the risk to Kiwis from the case of coronavirus confirmed in Australia is "very low".

On Saturday, Australian authorities confirmed a Chinese National in Melbourne was infected with the mystery illness that has so far killed at least 41 and infected nearly 1300.

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Read more: New Zealanders shouldn't be alarmed by Australia's confirmed illness

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/01/coronavirus-new-zealanders-shouldn-t-be-alarmed-by-australia-s-confirmed-illness-moh.html

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