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Author: Lisette Reymer & Reuters

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday that the mutinous chief of the Wagner group was still in Russia with thousands of fighters but dismissed speculation Vladimir Putin would have Yevgeny Prigozhin killed.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2023/07/wagner-chief-yevgeny-prigozhin-back-in-russia-belarus-alexander-lukashenko-says.html
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Category: Politics
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Author: Rt Hon Chris Hipkins

E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā rau rangatira mā.

Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa.

Dr Richard Grant, Chair of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs - thank you for your welcome.

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Article: https://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/prime-ministers-foreign-policy-speech-nziia
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Category: Defence
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Author: Geoffrey Miller

ANALYSIS: Is New Zealand about to join 'NATO+'?

That seems to be the effective endgame, if reports ahead of New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins' attendance at the NATO summit in Lithuania are anything to go by.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/07/geoffrey-miller-new-zealand-gets-ready-to-embrace-nato.html
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The headline of this article is a but dumb... NZ can not join NATO+ on any level...? NATO stands "North Atlantic Treaty Organization." Adding the + makes no difference and there is no NATO+. New Zealand is however a Major non-NATO ally or MNNA. There is a difference.
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Category: Defence
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Author: KEN MORIYASU and TAKASHI TSUJI, Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO/BRUSSELS -- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization will deepen collaboration with its four major partners in the Indo-Pacific region, simultaneously preparing bilateral cooperation documents with Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea, Nikkei Asia has learned.

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Article: https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Indo-Pacific/NATO-to-upgrade-ties-with-Australia-New-Zealand-South-Korea
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Category: Defence
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Author: Nick Lee-Frampton

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — You fight with what you have, and the New Zealand Defence Force’s firepower is limited.

There are insufficient personnel to operate all the weapon systems in its inventory. Ships are mothballed, and although the first batch of new Bushmaster armored vehicles were delivered May 25 to Trentham Military Camp, Maj. Paul Napier of the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps told Defense News that the Army lacks drivers.

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Article: https://www.c4isrnet.com/interviews/2023/07/06/new-zealands-military-chief-talks-recruitment-drones-and-ukraine
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Author: CNN

China's top diplomat has urged Japan and South Korea to foster a sense of "strategic autonomy" from the West and cooperate with Beijing to "revitalize Asia," amid rising tensions between China and the two neighboring American allies.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2023/07/china-s-top-diplomat-wang-yi-urges-japan-south-korea-to-align-with-beijing-and-revitalise-asia.html
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Category: Science
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Author: Reuters

Twitter is limiting how many tweets per day various accounts can read, to discourage "extreme levels" of data scraping and system manipulation, Executive Chair Elon Musk said in a post on the social media platform on Saturday.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/technology/2023/07/elon-musk-says-twitter-will-limit-how-many-tweets-users-can-read.html
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Author: Reuters

US CIA Director William Burns said on Saturday that the armed mutiny by mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was a challenge to the Russian state that had shown the corrosive effect of President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2023/07/ukraine-invasion-armed-mutiny-in-russia-shows-damage-putin-has-done-to-country-cia.html
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