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Read more: This is not a drill
- Article: https://www.noted.co.nz/planet/planet-planet/australia-bushfires-this-is-not-a-drill
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Iran says it unintentionally shot down the Ukrainian plane that crashed outside of Tehran on Wednesday killing 176 people "at [a] time of crisis" caused by the United States.
In a statement from Iran's Armed Forces General Staff, it is said that the Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing plane was "accidentally hit by a human error" just after setting out from Tehran. The statement said that the plane had flown close to a sensitive military complex.
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Read more: Iran admits shooting down Ukrainian plane
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/01/iran-admits-shooting-down-ukrainian-flight.html
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On the ground and getting established. New Zealand Army engineers join Defence Australia personnel at Kangaroo Island to assist with the Australian bushfire efforts.
Our personnel have been completing various tasks including creating firebreaks using heavy machinery.
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OPINION: Wow! It's a word I've uttered more than a few times over the past two weeks and sometimes the language used has been much stronger.
Roading tripping around the South Island over the silly season has been an eye-opening experience and at times, nothing short of dangerous. When we were handed the keys to our rental car in Nelson, the gentleman passing them to me said, "good luck".
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Read more: Tourist drivers on a wheel and a prayer on Kiwi roads
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/118703915/tourist-drivers-on-a-wheel-and-a-prayer-on-kiwi-roads
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A sibling spat has seen a woman's will "depleted by continual litigation", with more than $300,000 being spent on legal fees.
Valerie Geard died in March 2006 after appointing her brother Graeme and sister-in-law Adrienne Harrison to be the executors and trustees of her will. She also made specific bequests in favour of her husband David Geard and her sister Pauline Harrison.
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Read more: Siblings spend $300k in legal fees in spat over dead sister's will
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/118638416/siblings-spend-300k-in-legal-fees-in-spat-over-dead-sisters-will
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Taiwan is on the front lines of a battle with the Chinese Communist Party. And few people understand that like DPP Legislator Wang Ting-Yu. He’s Chairman of the legislature’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee. I sat down with him in Tainan to discuss the tactics the Communist Party is using to destroy democracy, and how Taiwan can save the Indo-Pacific region from a dangerous authoritarian state.
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Read more: Can Taiwan Save the Indo-Pacific from China?
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Decades before Lord of the Rings and Avatar, Hollywood came to New Zealand. CHARLIE GATES reports.
In the summer of 1957, a Hollywood film crew came to Christchurch and Wellington to film a major studio production starring Paul Newman, Jean Simmons and Sandra Dee called Until They Sail.
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Read more: Hollywood film shot in Christchurch in 1950s – and in a fake NZ in a US studio
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/117594470/hollywood-film-shot-in-christchurch-in-1950s--and-in-a-fake-nz-in-a-us-studio
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He has created illegal rubbish and tyre dumps around Canterbury.
Now he is filling a warehouse in central Christchurch with used tyres and is behind on his rent.
A community leader calls him an environmental menace and says he must be stopped.
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Read more: Is Canterbury's illegal tyre dumper an environmental menace?
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