News

News

General News from around the world

Details
Category: News
Category : News
Author: Lucy Craymer

Small Pacific nations are accruing ever greater amounts of debt to China. The US and its friends – including New Zealand – are anxious about what might happen if it can’t be repaid. National Correspondent Lucy Craymer reports in the second of a new five-part series, Pawns of the Pacific.

Hits: 1260

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/china-and-nz/300508301/china-rejects-accusations-it-is-setting-debt-traps-all-around-the-pacific
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Category: News
Category : News
Author: Reuters

The "biggest war in Europe since 1945" is being planned by Russia, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says, as the US warns Ukraine could be attacked at any moment.

Johnson's comments come after Russia's strategic nuclear forces held exercises overseen by President Vladimir Putin on Saturday.

Hits: 840

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/02/boris-johnson-says-russia-planning-biggest-war-in-europe-since-1945.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Category: News
Category : News
Author: Kaysha Brownlie

Weeks of rain have caused widespread damage to crops all over the country but it's particularly bad in Canterbury where 88 percent of our wheat is produced.

Now there are fears it could cause a flour and bread shortage.

Hits: 1134

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/02/fears-of-flour-and-bread-shortage-after-weeks-of-rain-damages-wheat-crops.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Parent Category: News
Category: World
Category : News
Author: Lisette Reymer

Two Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and four injured by shelling in eastern Ukraine. 

A dramatic rise in attacks in the country's Russian-backed breakaway territories is adding to the unwavering fear that Russia will soon invade. 

Hits: 840

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/02/civilian-ukrainian-troops-meet-in-secret-location-to-prepare-for-uprising-if-russia-invades.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Category: News
Category : News
Author: Reuters

Russian-backed separatists packed civilians onto buses out of breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine on Friday, a shock turn in a conflict the West believes Moscow plans to use as justification for all-out invasion of its neighbour.

Warning sirens blared in Donetsk after it and the other self-proclaimed region, Luhansk, announced an evacuation to Russia, with women, children and the elderly going first.

Hits: 805

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/02/ukraine-conflict-russian-backed-separatists-evacuate-eastern-ukraine-as-shelling-intensifies.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Category: News
Category : News
Author: RNZ

The line between home and work has blurred, with so many forced into their living rooms to work from home during the pandemic.

AUT Business School human resources management professor Jarrod Haar said a culture change could be looming, with the home doubling as the workplace for many.

Hits: 840

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/02/covid-19-working-from-home-likely-to-last-beyond-pandemic-expert.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Category: News
Category : News
Author: Jamie Ensor

New Zealand's partnership with the United States is "vitally important" and has seen "tremendous growth" over the last decade, a top US official says, as the superpower attempts to strengthen its position within the Indo-Pacific.

The US late last week released its Indo-Pacific Strategy, detailing its intent to modernise its relationships in the region, which it says is facing "urgent challenges" such as the growing influence of China, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Hits: 1434

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/02/how-the-united-states-views-new-zealand-as-indo-pacific-faces-urgent-challenges.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Category: News
Category : News
Author: Juliet Speedy

Thursday's clean-up of Dunedin's Castle St carnage came after news University of Otago students have been partying with an uninvited guest.

That guest was Omicron, which they say they had a bouncer for.

Hits: 796

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/02/omicron-on-castle-street-dunedin-students-confused-after-some-refused-covid-19-tests.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

  1. Pay options for workers self-isolating during the Omicron outbreak
  2. US, NATO says Russia building up troops around Ukraine not pulling back
  3. HMNZS Aotearoa in Antarctica
  4. United States warns Russia could invade Ukraine 'any day now', might create surprise pretext for attack

Subcategories

Politics Article Count:  323

General Politics

Defence Article Count:  1133

General Defence Articles

Science Article Count:  76

Sciencey stuff

 

World Article Count:  591

World News

Instagram