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Hundreds of pets are coming through the border each month, serving their time in quarantine like their humans, but without having to take a compulsory Covid-19 test.
Most recent figures from July show 518 cats and dogs were imported to New Zealand, just below the figure from a year earlier.
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Read more: Hundreds of pets coming through New Zealand border being quarantined
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To be fair, we have also had quarantine for animals coming in to the country.
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To misquote Shakespeare, our Brexit negotiating revels now are ended. The tempestuous talks did not lead to a dramatic walkout, even if at times the UK government gave the impression this was a feud worthy of the Montagues against the Capulets. The negotiators ignored the background noise and succeeded in drafting a dense legal document on which the future of UK-EU relations now hangs.
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Read more: Brexit deal done: what's in it and where next for the UK and EU?
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Up to 3000 Australian soldiers could be stripped of accolades amid the fallout from a horrific Afghan war crimes report released on Thursday.
The report found evidence of 39 murders by Australian special forces, recommending 19 troops be investigated by the Australian Federal Police.
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Read more: Up to 3000 Australian troops could lose awards after damning Afghan war crimes report
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A new strain of COVID-19 has New Zealand public health experts calling for stricter border controls, as the UK faces Christmas in lockdown.
Preparing for Christmas in New Zealand is very different to the preparations happening overseas with even more parts of England given notice that they're going back into a strict lockdown.
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Read more: New Zealand public health experts call for stricter border controls as COVID-19 mutates
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New South Wales authorities are warning COVID-19 could be spreading through Sydney's CBD after a man contracted the virus with no links to a known cluster.
NSW recorded nine new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday - seven of the cases are directly linked to a current cluster, and two are under investigation.
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Huge swathes of England will be placed under stringent COVID-19 restrictions, the British government announced on Wednesday (local time), as a highly infectious virus variant sweeps the country and pushes case numbers to a record level.
Britain has reported almost 40,000 new infections as the mutated variant of the coronavirus - which could be up to 70 percent more transmissible than the original strain - causes case numbers and hospital admissions to soar.
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Read more: Latest on COVID-19 from around the world - Thursday, December 24
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Beijing's monster fishing fleet has long since stripped its own waters bare. Now it is aggressively prowling the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans for a catch. And it is coming to Australia.
It grabs as much as it can. As fast as it can. Wherever it can. Not that there is anything entirely unusual about this.
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Read more: China's fishing fleet heading for Australia amid trade war
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Sweden's government is rushing to put forward a temporary pandemic Bill that would give it powers to shut shops, private museums and by law limit the number of people in gatherings, news agency TT reported on Tuesday.
Sweden has shunned lockdowns throughout the pandemic and has preferred to work with voluntary measures aimed at promoting social distancing and good hygiene. The government has lacked powers to enforce many of the recommendations by sanctions.
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