News

News

General News from around the world

Details
Category: News
Category : News
Author: Reuters

The coronavirus pandemic has weakened China's power in the Indo-Pacific, and the region's deepening security uncertainties present a "significant" risk of war, the Lowy Institute said in a report on Sunday.

U.S. allies in the region and key balancing powers such as India have never been more dependent on American capacity and willingness to sustain a military and strategic counterweight in response to China's rise, said the Sydney-based foreign policy think tank.

Hits: 864

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/12/concerning-report-released-into-indo-pacific-conflict-says-risk-of-war-is-significant.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Category: News
Category : News
Author: Sunday Morning

Can you find pain relief in the kitchen? Jim Mora spoke with Rowena Field from the Pain Management Research Institute at Sydney University, who has been writing about their research into how patients at her clinic and in overseas studies respond to dietary changes.  

Field is a physiotherapist with more than 25 years experience, and this research is part of her PhD studies at the Faculty of Health and Medicine at the University of Sydney.

Hits: 1033

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018823298/how-to-manage-pain-better-through-diet
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Well I can tell you now from my personal experience, I was pre-diabetic. So I started eating low carbohydrates, low sugar diet and for the last year, best thing I have done;

  • Lost 30kg
  • I sleep a lot better
  • I have more energy
  • Less head aches
  • Have attention/focus better
  • Less aches and pains
  • Haven't had an anxiety attacks in this time

Details
Category: News
Category : News
Author: James Halpin

There was no bounce in Abdullah’s Afghan dust track.

The university cricket oval in Afghanistan’s east was Abdullah’s home ground, where he would play with students after a hot day of teaching law – until the Taliban took over.

Hits: 1100

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300464492/death-threats-hangings-and-jewelry-afghan-familys-incredible-escape-story
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Category: News
Category : News
Author: Emma Hatton

A new report taking stock of the country's shipping sector reports an uneven playing field for domestic and international providers, and major problems that need to be fixed if resilience and environmental goals are to be met.

Commissioned by Waka Kotahi, the report found New Zealand shippers were being short-changed on a number of fronts compared with their overseas counterparts.

Hits: 1042

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/457263/nz-shipping-faces-uneven-playing-field-in-nz-waters-report
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Category: News
Category : News
Author: RNZ

The latest members of New Zealand's Defence Force and police contingent have arrived in Honiara after days of unrest in the Solomons capital.

Hits: 810

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/457232/more-nz-personnel-arrive-to-help-defuse-tensions-in-solomons-islands
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Category: News
Category : News
Author: Dan Lake

Almost 500 Afghan nationals and their families who served with New Zealand soldiers are hiding from the Taliban unable to get out of the country.

They've been granted New Zealand visas but can't escape. Now, an interpreter is pleading for the Government to do more before "they're found and killed" by the Taliban.

Hits: 1099

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/travel/2021/11/everything-you-need-to-know-about-new-zealand-s-borders-reopening-in-2022.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Category: News
Category : News
Author: Lana Andelane

A bomb disposal squad was deployed to a British hospital after receiving reports that a man had an anti-tank shell lodged in his rectum, officials confirmed to local media.

A team from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment attended the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in Gloucester, a county town in South West England, after being notified by police "that a patient had presented with a munition in his rectum".

Hits: 1120

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/12/uk-bomb-squad-called-to-gloucester-hospital-after-man-gets-wwii-anti-tank-shell-stuck-up-in-his-rectum.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Rectum you say... bloody near killed him...

Details
Category: News
Category : News
Author: James Gallagher,

The first real world data showing the coronavirus variant Omicron may evade some of our immunity has been reported by scientists in South Africa.

Scientists have detected a surge in the number of people catching Covid-19 multiple times.

Hits: 785

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/457166/covid-19-first-data-points-to-omicron-re-infection-risk
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

  1. Duty Call or Booty Call?
  2. NZDF, police depart for Solomon Islands
  3. The US and Japan MUST Defend Taiwan: Shinzo Abe
  4. Global pandemic treaty taking too long, Helen Clark-led panel says

Subcategories

Politics Article Count:  324

General Politics

Defence Article Count:  1139

General Defence Articles

Science Article Count:  76

Sciencey stuff

 

World Article Count:  591

World News

Instagram