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Author: Daniel Rutledge

Facebook is now allowing comments to be turned off on public posts for the first time since the social media platform launched in 2004.

Users will also be offered more insight into and control over what content appears in their News Feed as a part of what the company calls a "significant shift" in how it operates its algorithms, which have been widely criticised in recent years.

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Author: Jamie Ensor

New Zealand has explained its absence from a list of nations which have jointly expressed concern a World Health Organization (WHO) study into COVID-19's origins was impeded.

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Author: RocketLAB

Rocket Lab is excited to be launching CAPSTONE this year for @NASA in support of #Artemis​. Electron and Photon will deploy this pathfinding satellite to a never-before-used cislunar orbit near the Moon.

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Author: Royal New Zealand Navy
From topside to inside. Following the installation of her new superstructure, HMNZS Te Mana recently moved across Canada’s Esquimalt Harbour from Victoria Shipyards to the Fleet Maintenance Facility for the next stage of her frigate systems upgrade.
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Author: Reuters

Data was withheld from World Health Organization investigators who travelled to China to research the origins of the coronavirus epidemic, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday.

He made the comments to the agency's member states as a WHO-led team that spent four weeks in and around Wuhan, China, in January and February released its final report to the public.

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Author: Jamie Ensor

New Zealand has joined a group of countries advocating for media freedom, something it describes as increasingly under threat by governments using the COVID-19 pandemic as a pretext to restrict free expression.

The Media Freedom Coalition was formed in July 2019 with the purpose of supporting journalists, ensuring the free exchange of information and combating restrictions placed on media. Among the group's 46 member nations is Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Author: Priscilla Dickinson

Mortgage borrowers should be prepared for interest rates to go slightly higher over the next couple of years, a bank economist says.

Interest rates are already at record lows and economists don't expect interest rates to drop further.  In ASB's February quarterly economic forecast, the bank forecast interest rates to start rising in August 2022.

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Author: Rachel Sadler

Several Dr Seuss books that were pulled from further publication over their "racist imagery" are selling for hundreds of dollars on Trade Me.

Dr Seuss Enterprises, which represents the late author and illustrator, made the announcement earlier in March to discontinue some titles. The stories were pulled from print because of the way characters of Asian and African ethnicity are depicted.

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