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Category: Science
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Author: Logan Church

It shows a small Earth in the centre, surrounded by countless moving dots. That is the space junk in orbit around the Earth – not all of it, only the stuff big enough to track.

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Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/08/28/could-earths-orbit-become-unusable-maybe/
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Author: Sian Troath

ANALYSIS: Australia’s recently announced defence review, intended to be the most thorough in almost four decades, will give us a good idea of how Australia sees its role in an increasingly tense strategic environment.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300673110/australias-pursuit-of-killer-robots-could-put-the-transtasman-alliance-with-new-zealand-on-shaky-ground
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Author: Larissa Howie

The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) has started contacting all 94 personnel on unpaid leave reminding them they cannot go to Ukraine, but said it does not know how many staff are already there.

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Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/08/27/nzdf-remind-on-leave-soldiers-they-cannot-go-to-ukraine/
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Author: Associated Press

The US Navy is sailing two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, in the first such transit publicised since US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan earlier in August, at a time when tensions have kept the waterway particularly busy.

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Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/08/28/us-sails-warships-through-taiwan-strait-in-1st-since-pelosi/
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Category: World
Category : Analysis
Author: The Conversation

Now entering its seventh month, Vladimir Putin's war against Ukraine shows no sign of resolution.

It has become a grim battle over territory between dug-in forces, resembling the conflicts of last century instead of the complex melange of covert operations and hybrid warfare that supposedly characterise contemporary "grey zone" contests.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/08/analysis-how-russia-is-fighting-three-undeclared-wars-and-why-a-fourth-might-be-looming.html
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Author: Reuters

A US lawmaker on the Senate Commerce and Armed Services committees arrived in Taiwan on Thursday (local time) on the third such visit this month, defying pressure from Beijing to halt the trips.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/08/us-senator-arrives-in-taiwan-defying-angry-beijing.html
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Category: Defence
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Author: NZDF

The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) has received reports that a soldier who was on leave has been killed in Ukraine.

The soldier was on a period of leave without pay at the time and was not on active duty with the NZDF.

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Author: Nicola Smith

A high-tech Chinese survey vessel bristling with surveillance equipment has docked in Sri Lanka, despite concerns from neighbouring India that the ship could be used to spy on its ports and military installations.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/300663988/china-spy-ship-docks-in-sri-lanka-despite-india-and-us-concerns
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