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Author: Geoffrey Miller

International analyst Geoffrey Miller reads between the lines of Jacinda Ardern's speech to this week's US business summit in Auckland.

Jacinda Ardern is slowly but surely shifting New Zealand's foreign policy towards the West.

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Author: Emile Donovan

New Zealand and Australia have expressed concern over a new security deal between China and Solomon Islands. The Detail takes a closer look at whether that concern is warranted, or whether it's geopolitical business as usual.

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The Solomon Islands Prime Minister has launched a tirade in parliament, suggesting Australia and its allies are deliberately trying to undermine his government, criticising the Western response to Russia's invasion and praising China's treatment of Christians.

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A new round of sanctions imposed by the government on Russian politicians and defence entities target 170 members of the upper house of Russia's parliament, known as the Federation Council, as well as six companies and organisations in the defence sector.

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Author: Maddy Lloyd

Luke Lambert has been sentenced to 13 years in prison on four counts of attempted murder over the stabbing attack inside Dunedin’s central city Countdown store.

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Author: Mark Quinlivan

Winston Peters thinks the move to trespass him from Parliament is "unlawful, unreasonable and it cannot stand".

The former Deputy Prime Minister was slapped with a trespass notice from the Beehive for two years after an order from House Speaker Trevor Mallard. It came after Peters attended the 23-day anti-mandate protests on Parliament's grounds earlier this year. 

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Author: Molly Swift

A Russian state broadcaster has threatened to "drown" the United Kingdom using an underwater nuclear strike for assisting Ukraine.

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Ukraine on Tuesday (local time) he believed it would defeat Russia and expose the "gigantic error" of the Kremlin's invasion as he invoked Britain's wartime leader Winston Churchill to underline his support for Kyiv.

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