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The leaders of New Zealand and the UK couldn't resist dropping a few rugby jokes as they celebrated their historic free trade agreement (FTA) during a video call.
"Jacinda, I just want to say this is a big moment for the UK and for our partnership with New Zealand, and we're absolutely thrilled that we seem to have driven for the line," British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said from Downing St in London.
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Turkey's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday summoned the ambassadors of the United States, New Zealand and eight other countries to protest a statement they issued that called for the release of imprisoned philanthropist and civil rights activist Osman Kavala in line with a European Court of Human Rights decision.
The statement angered government officials who accused the countries of meddling in the Turkish judiciary.
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Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state and top military officer, died on Monday at the age of 84 due to complications from COVID-19. He was fully vaccinated, his family said in a statement on Facebook.
"We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American," his family said, thanking the staff of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center near Washington who treated Powell, but providing few details about his illness.
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Read more: Former US secretary of state Colin Powell dies of COVID-19 complications
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The virus had lurked for years, lacking only one thing it needed to inflict widespread human death: a perfect opportunity.
In late 1998, it got it.
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Read more: How the hunt for this deadly virus shaped the search for Covid-19 origin
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300430973/how-the-hunt-for-this-deadly-virus-shaped-the-search-for-covid19-origin
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Three crewmembers of a Royal Australian Navy MH-60R Seahawk helicopter are safe after ditching their helicopter in the Philippine Sea during a routine flight overnight.
The aircraft was operating from HMAS Brisbane as part of a Regional Presence Deployment with HMAS Warramunga, when the crew conducted an emergency landing in the water.
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Read more: RAN MH-60R Seahawk helicopter ditches in the Philippine Sea
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Chinese government-controlled media has threatened Australia with further trade strikes after former prime minister Tony Abbott accused Beijing of bullying Taiwan and claimed China could “lash out disastrously” if it was not stopped.
China Daily, which is managed by China’s State Council Information Office and is seen as a forward indicator of Chinese government international positioning, said in an editorial that Abbott’s visit to Taiwan last week was a provocation that had smeared the mainland and risked “dragging Australia deeper into the mess of its own making”.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday its newly formed advisory group on dangerous pathogens may be "our last chance" to determine the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and called for cooperation from China.
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Read more: Coronavirus: China tells WHO to look in 'other places' for origin of COVID-19
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OPINION: The political temperature is rising in the South China Sea, and its effects will be felt in the South Pacific before long.
Recent incursions by the Chinese air force into Taiwan’s air defence zone have ratcheted up already tense relations, with the US and Australia both warning China about undermining regional peace and stability.
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