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Airplanes have been a lot less common in the skies above New Zealand lately and even less common is seeing three of them flying at the same time.
On Wednesday Newshub was contacted by numerous people in Auckland wondering why three mysterious 'military looking' aircraft were circling the city.
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Read more: Mysterious military flights above Auckland explained
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/travel/2021/02/mysterious-military-flights-above-auckland-explained.html
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Every night for more than a week, unregistered planes have been carrying unknown goods and people between China and its conflict-ravaged neighbour Myanmar – and experts believe they might know why.
The southeast Asian nation – which shares a sprawling border with China to its northeast – is currently effectively cut off from the world as a new military regime cracks down hard on those who opposed its takeover from a democratically elected government in a brutal coup three weeks ago.
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Read more: Truth about mystery flights between China and Myanmar during coup d'etat
- Article: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/truth-about-mystery-flights-between-china-and-myanmar-during-coup-detat/CMC3A6JGRKJHVTA6DFKRLKNL7I/
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Buying a home is increasingly out of reach for many New Zealanders as housing affordability plummets to historically low levels.
A report by CoreLogic found average property values surged 6.1 percent in the final three months of last year, while they went up more than 11 percent for the whole of 2020.
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Read more: New Zealand housing affordability plummets to historically low levels
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2021/02/new-zealand-housing-affordability-plummets-to-historically-low-levels.html
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China hit back on Wednesday at growing criticism by western powers of its treatment of ethnic minorities in the regions of Xinjiang and Tibet and of citizens in the former UK colony of Hong Kong.
Hours earlier, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in a wide-ranging speech to the UN Human Rights Council, said that the Joe Biden administration would denounce atrocities in Xinjiang.
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Read more: China hits back at western powers over Uighur atrocities after Canada declares 'genocide'
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/02/china-hits-back-at-western-powers-over-uighur-atrocities-after-canada-declares-genocide.html
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A distress call that led to a wild goose chase in search of a missing yacht later found safe 150km away, is a reminder to all boaties to have two forms of communication on them while out at sea.
The mishap occurred when Rescue Co-ordination Centre NZ received a mayday call from a yacht believed to be sinking on the Coromandel coast on February 17.
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New Zealand has thrown its support behind a British call for a United Nations fact-finding mission to investigate human rights abuses in Xinjiang, China.
International criticism of China over the abuse allegations has ratcheted up in recent weeks, with credible reports emerging of systemic torture, forced labour, and rape of the Uighur Muslim miniority in the northwest province of the country.
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- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/124331802/new-zealand-backs-britains-call-for-a-un-factfinding-mission-into-xinjiang-human-rights-abuse
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ACT calls for NZ Parliament to recognise Uighur atrocities in China after Canada declares 'genocide'
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There are fresh calls for New Zealand to label China's treatment of its Uighur minority as genocide, with the ACT Party now urging Labour to bring a motion in Parliament on the matter.
After a contentious parliamentary vote on Tuesday, Canada became the second Five Eyes nation to declare the atrocities inflicted on the Uighur people as being acts of genocide. It follows a similar declaration from the United States in January on the last full day of the Trump administration.
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There are two new cases of COVID-19 in the community.
These cases were announced by the Ministry of Health on Tuesday night after rumours circulated that there were additional cases.
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Read more: Two new cases of COVID-19 in the community
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/02/coronavirus-two-new-cases-of-covid-19-in-the-community.html
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