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Ukraine saw little hope of pulling any more survivors from the rubble of an apartment block in the city of Dnipro on Sunday, a day after the building was hit during a major Russian missile attack, with dozens of people expected to have died.
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Read more: Russian missile hits Ukraine apartment block: 'The number of dead will be in the dozens'
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/482501/russian-missile-hits-ukraine-apartment-block-the-number-of-dead-will-be-in-the-dozens
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A Navy sailor is facing a court-martial for allegedly indecently assaulting three of her shipmates while on board HMNZS Canterbury.
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Read more: Navy sailor facing court-martial over alleged groping
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/482523/navy-sailor-facing-court-martial-over-alleged-groping
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A third of Royal New Zealand Navy ships are docked due to a shortage of sailors, causing a loss of “significant flexibility,” the service’s top officer told Defense News.
Last month, the 279-foot offshore patrol vessel HMNZS Wellington became the third ship to enter a period of idleness, joining the Navy’s other offshore patrol vessel HMNZS Otago and one of the two remaining 180-foot inshore patrol vessels, HMNZS Hawea.
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Read more: How the New Zealand Navy plans to fix its sailor and ship shortfalls
- Article: https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2023/01/04/how-the-new-zealand-navy-plans-to-fix-its-sailor-and-ship-shortfalls/
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The Royal Navy’s pursuit of capability adaptability should re-assure our own defence policy makers that modularity is worth investigating, writes maritime capability specialist and former Royal New Zealand Navy Officer Andrew Watts.
Historically, navies have attempted to acquire combatant ships permanently equipped and trained to defeat threats in all dimensions. The escalating cost of such platforms is now forcing even the largest and most advanced navies to consider alternatives. As discussed in an earlier article (Modularity and the Shape of New Zealand’s Next Naval Fleet) published in Issue 22 of Line of Defence, the most promising of these alternatives is ‘capability modularity’.
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Read more: What our partners are doing to build future-focused navies
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2023/01/04/capability-adaptability-future-focused-navies/
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China renewed its threats today to attack Taiwan and warned that foreign politicians who interact with the self-governing island are "playing with fire".
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Read more: China renews threat against Taiwan as island holds drills
- Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/01/11/china-renews-threat-against-taiwan-as-island-holds-drills/
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A new strain of COVID-19 dubbed the Kraken variant is spreading rapidly across the world and health officials have released a list of 12 symptoms that may signal infection.
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Read more: Twelve symptoms of the new intensely transmissible COVID-19 Kraken variant
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2023/01/twelve-symptoms-of-the-new-intensely-transmissible-covid-19-kraken-variant.html
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Iran could be contributing to war crimes in Ukraine by providing drones to Russia, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Monday.
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Read more: US claims Iran could be contributing to war crimes by providing drones to Russia
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2023/01/us-claims-iran-could-be-contributing-to-war-crimes-by-providing-drones-to-russia.html
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Ukraine says Russia plans new mobilisation to 'turn tide of war', insists 'the terrorists must lose'
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia was planning to call up more troops for a major new offensive, even as Moscow was facing some of its biggest internal criticism of the war over a strike that killed scores of fresh conscripts.
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