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Author: Mark Quinlivan

New Zealand could offer quarantine-free travel or shorter stays in managed isolation for people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 from low-risk countries - but it shouldn't start until at least early next year, a new report suggests.

Research commissioned by Associate Health Minister Ayesha Verrall, led by prominent epidemiologist Sir David Skegg, says when New Zealand starts to re-open its borders, infection outbreaks will be inevitable.

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Author: Reuters

A Chinese court upheld on Tuesday a Canadian man's death sentence for drug smuggling, prompting condemnation from Ottawa, a day before another court is due to rule on the case of a Canadian accused of spying.

The court proceedings for the two Canadians come as lawyers in Canada representing the detained chief financial officer of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei make a final push to persuade a court there not to extradite her to the United States.

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Author: RocketLab

Scheduled to lift-off from Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula in late August, the ‘Love At First Insight’ mission will be Rocket Lab’s 22nd Electron launch overall and fifth mission of 2021.

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Author: Matt Burrows

The tide has turned on New Zealand's 'brain drain', a new report says, with more highly skilled Kiwis opting to return home than head away from our shores for the first time in 20 years.

The report - entitled Nau Mai | Welcome Home - was released by The Helen Clark Foundation and WSP on Tuesday morning.

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Author: Reuters

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called out bullying in the South China Sea on Monday and warned the U.N. Security Council that a conflict "would have serious global consequences for security and for commerce," sparking a strong rebuke from China.

The South China Sea has become one of many flashpoints in the testy relationship between China and the United States, with Washington rejecting what it calls unlawful territorial claims by Beijing in the resource-rich waters.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/08/south-china-sea-warning-conflict-would-have-serious-consequences-as-us-china-trade-barbs-over-waters.html
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Author: Rachel Sadler

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg has enraged Kiwis over a tweet targeting New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions.

Thunberg shared an article from The Guardian headlined 'Emissions from cows on New Zealand dairy farms reach record levels'. She also pulled a quote from the story to tweet alongside it that says: "New Zealand is one of the world's worst performers on emission increases. Its emissions rose by 57 percent between 1990 and 2018 - the second greatest increase of all industrialised countries."

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Author: Dan Satherley

Bottled water might taste nicer than tap water, but the cost to the environment is so great it's not worth using it exclusively, a new study has found. 

The environmental impact of extracting it would be 1400 times worse, researchers at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health said, and cost 3500 times more. 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/08/bottled-water-thousands-of-times-worse-for-the-environment-than-tap-study.html
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Author: Reuters

Taliban fighters overran three provincial capitals including the strategic northeastern city of Kunduz on Sunday, local officials said, as the insurgents intensified pressure on the north and threatened further cities.

The insurgents have taken dozens of districts and border crossings in recent months and put pressure on several provincial capitals, including Herat in the west and Kandahar in the south, as foreign troops withdraw. The offensive has gathered momentum in recent days after the US announced it would end its military mission in the country by the end of August.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/08/taliban-fighters-overrun-three-afghan-provincial-capitals-seize-government-buildings.html
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