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Author: Jamie Ensor

New modelling highlights the significant role booster vaccines have in dampening the transmission of the Omicron variant.

The modelling from Leighton Watson at the University of Canterbury, published as part of a report in the New Zealand Medical Journal, considered the probability of Omicron infection based on the different vaccination statuses of the infecting and infected individuals.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/04/covid-19-new-modelling-reveals-effectiveness-of-boosters-in-preventing-omicron-transmission.html
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Author: Mike Kilpatrick

Hacking collective Anonymous is ramping up its attempts to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine by promising a data dump that's "gonna blow Russia away".

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/technology/2022/03/anonymous-hacking-collective-denies-civil-aviation-hack-teases-giant-data-dump.html
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Author: Associated Press

China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that it had made "stern complaints" to Australia over its deportation of Chinese students for "concealing [their] so-called military training experience".

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Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/03/29/australia-deports-two-chinese-students-with-military-background/
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Author: Geoffrey Miller

Analysis - New Zealand's lock-step response with Australia to a new security deal between Solomon Islands and China shows just how much has changed over the past year.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/464311/new-zealand-s-australia-friendly-response-to-china-solomon-islands-security-deal
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Author: Jon Fraenkel

OPINION: While Russia and the West focus on the conflict in Europe, the Pacific Rim powers are jockeying for influence on the other side of the globe. A leaked draft security agreement between China and the Solomon Islands government is prompting grave concern in Australia and New Zealand.

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Author: Reuters

Russian forces bombarded the outskirts of Kyiv and a besieged city in northern Ukraine on Wednesday (local time), a day after promising to scale down operations there in what the West dismissed as a ploy to regroup by invaders taking heavy losses.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/03/ukraine-invasion-russia-bombs-ukraine-cities-despite-pledge-to-pull-back-from-kyiv.html
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Author: Reuters

Britain is focused on helping protect Ukrainians from the war and is not aiming to remove Russian President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday (local time).

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/03/ukraine-invasion-boris-johnson-says-britain-focused-on-helping-protect-ukrainians-not-seeking-to-remove-vladimir-putin.html
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Author: William Hewett

A new study has found the concerning statistics that New Zealand has the highest melanoma death rate in the world in 2020. 

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