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Afghanistan's Taliban government ordered women on Saturday to cover their faces in public, a return to a signature policy of their past hardline rule and an escalation of restrictions causing anger at home and abroad.
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ANALYSIS: Until a week ago, when my family and I dropped like flies, I thought I might just be one of “those” people: the unicorns referred to as “never Covid people”, who test negative despite having been exposed to the virus.
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Read more: Are Covid-resistant people healthier, or is it in their genes?
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300582005/are-covidresistant-people-healthier-or-is-it-in-their-genes
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An estimated six tonnes of rubbish was taken from the bottom of Wellington's harbour yesterday, including more than 2000 bottles and live ammunition.
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Read more: E-scooters, aircraft tyre, trolleys hauled out of Wellington Harbour
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/05/e-scooters-aircraft-tyre-trolleys-hauled-out-of-wellington-harbour.html
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Australian-owned NIOA has acquired Sportways Distributors to expand its presence in New Zealand. Sportways is a firearms and ammunition wholesale distributor and will be renamed as NIOA in New Zealand, building on NIOA’s relationships that already include the New Zealand Defence Force and New Zealand Police.
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Read more: NIOA acquires New Zealand firearms wholesaler
- Article: https://asiapacificdefencereporter.com/nioa-acquires-new-zealand-firearms-wholesaler/
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New Zealand exporters and shipping companies are being hit hard by a shortage of containers and backlogs of ships in global ports.
And with Shanghai's lockdown and the Ukraine conflict both having an impact, exporters say it's the worst it's been since the pandemic started.
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Read more: New Zealand exporters hit hard by global shipping problems
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2022/05/new-zealand-exporters-hit-hard-by-global-shipping-problems.html
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ACT's 'alternative budget' has been released and it includes a proposal to bump up defence spending by $7.5 billion over four years.
"China now has a foothold in the Pacific. Labour agrees that the world is changing but they don't know what to do and they're too busy wasting money on poorly targeted spending," ACT MP James McDowell said on Monday.
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The announcement by the Solomon Islands government that it intends to ‘broaden its security and development cooperation with more countries’ has provoked a rash of commentary from Australian and New Zealand journalists, academics, think-tankers and politicians. Amid the calls to ‘amass an amphibious invasion force’ or offer the Solomons an Australian naval base, is there potential for a ‘Pacific family’ solution?
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- Article: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-and-new-zealand-can-make-solomon-islands-a-pacific-family-offer-china-cant-match/
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Confusion reigns in discussions about the cost of the Department of Defence’s equipment projects. Whether we’re talking about media articles, parliamentary committee hearings, letters to the editor, duelling internet commentators or any other forms of discourse that address Defence acquisitions, the only thing that’s clear is that we’re almost always talking past each other when it comes to the cost of military equipment. Defence doesn’t help when it releases only a bare minimum of information. This sorry state of affairs reached its peak several years ago, when it turned out that when Defence said that the cost of the Attack-class submarine was $50 billion it really meant that the cost was somewhere around $90 billion.
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Read more: Understanding the price of military equipment
- Article: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/understanding-the-price-of-military-equipment/
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