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At the very beginning of the pandemic Sweden received huge amounts of attention for its unique approach to COVID-19.
While other countries implemented strict lockdowns in an effort to stop the spread of the virus, Sweden instead relied on voluntary social distancing.
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Read more: Has Sweden's COVID-19 approach paid off?
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One has to remember that New Zealand has a rather high rate of asthma. 600,000 that works out 1 in 7 people. Internationally, New Zealand has a high prevalence of asthma, with one in seven children (13 percent) aged 2–14 years (110,000 children) and one in eight adults (12 percent, 452,000 adults) and that is reporting taking current asthma medication.
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It's the end of an era for one of the oldest web browsers still being used.
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Read more: Microsoft is mercy-killing its 25-year-old browser Internet Explorer
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle/2020/08/microsoft-is-mercy-killing-its-25-year-old-browser-internet-explorer.html?fbclid=IwAR3LIGZFkuGObbKgjlwrwq5Gh2kh7FibQMsr7BK6MPYL_WJOd7Q0GorxdtM
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In Xinjiang, China, more than a million Uighurs and other Muslim minorities are being held in "re-education" camps which the Chinese government claims are benign vocational centres teaching useful career skills. But former camp detainees have described them as de facto prisons implementing mass brainwashing and obedience to the Communist party. As more evidence emerges of torture, forced sterilisation of women and other methods of population reduction, should the situation in Xinjiang be termed a genocide?
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Read more: Why more than a million Uighurs are being held in camps in China
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“New Zealand must stand up for freedom and democracy and build stronger relationships with countries and people who share our values,” according to ACT Leader David Seymour.
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Read more: New Zealand Must Stand With Free, Democratic Nations
- Article: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2008/S00069/new-zealand-must-stand-with-free-democratic-nations.htm
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More than two million companies 'shut down' in China
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Read more: More than two million companies 'shut down' in China
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Writing for the UK publication ConservativeHome, Matt Kilcoyne explains the relentless rise of anti-democratic countries in international diplomacy and why the CANZUK countries have been champions of defending human rights and liberty in the face of Chinese authoritarianism.
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Read more: “China Is Testing The West’s Resolve, And It’s CANZUK That Has Risen To The Occasion”
- Article: https://www.canzukinternational.com/2020/08/china-is-testing-the-wests-resolve-and-its-canzuk-that-has-risen-to-the-occasion.html
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The Government exceeded its powers telling us to stay at home and in our bubbles in the first nine days of the coronavirus lockdown, a court has found.
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Read more: First nine days of lockdown justified but unlawful, court finds
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/122450651/first-nine-days-of-lockdown-justified-but-unlawful-court-finds
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Nations that hoard possible COVID-19 vaccines while excluding others will deepen the pandemic, World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday, issuing a last-ditch call for countries to join a global vaccine pact.
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Read more: World Health Organization blasts 'vaccine nationalism' in push against hoarding
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