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Author: Michael Peck

At this point, it is worth noting that the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia also had a habit of "acquiring" Western technology without the consent of the owners, for everything from the atomic bomb, to the Space Shuttle and video games. It's actually a dubious accomplishment, an admission that a nation lacks the capacity to really innovate its own technology.

Remember that Russian carrier-based jet that China copied without permission? Those airplanes are crashing, and Russia doesn't seem too broken up about it.

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Article: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/why-russia-doesn%E2%80%99t-care-chinese-j-15-jets-are-crashing-177867
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Author: ASSOCIATED PRESS

A man who led efforts in his Central Texas community against mask wearing and other preventative measures during the coronavirus pandemic has died from Covid-19, one month after being admitted to the emergency room. 

Caleb Wallace died on Saturday, his wife Jessica Wallace said on a GoFundMe page where she had been posting updates on his condition, the San Angelo Standard-Times reported Saturday.

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Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/texas-man-protested-mask-wearing-and-lockdowns-dies-covid-19
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So you start a GoFundMe page... tell me why would people want to support it...? it has been proven over and over that Masks help slow the spread... not from you getting but from you giving to others...
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Author: George Block

An Auckland Naval barracks accommodating personnel working in managed isolation facilities is in full lockdown after Covid-19 was found in its wastewater, Stuff has learned

The facility is next to Devonport, where the first positive case emerged in the current community outbreak of the Delta strain.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300394255/military-accommodation-for-miq-staff-in-lockdown-after-positive-wastewater-result
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Author: Susan Edmunds

A woman who tried to send $30,000 to a fake boyfriend in the United States refused to believe bank staff who told her she had been scammed.

The woman tried to make the transfer via BNZ earlier this year.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/300394272/bank-fails-to-stop-woman-sending-30k-to-fake-boyfriend
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Author: Reuters

US forces launched a drone strike in Kabul on Sunday that killed a suicide car bomber suspected of preparing to attack the airport, United States officials said, as the country nears the end of its military presence in the city.

The strike, first reported by Reuters, is the second carried out by US forces in Afghanistan since an Islamic State suicide bomber struck the airport on Thursday, killing 13 United States troops and scores of Afghan civilians trying to flee the country.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/08/afghanistan-us-hits-islamic-state-with-another-drone-strike-kills-suspected-suicide-bomber.html
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Author: Mark Quinlivan, Hannah Kronast, Lana Andelane

New Zealand is preparing to split into two different COVID-19 alert levels, with most of the country moving to level 3 at 11:59pm on Tuesday - except for Auckland and Northland, which will remain under a stringent lockdown.

Eighty-three new community cases of COVID-19 were reported on Sunday, the largest daily increase since the outbreak began almost two weeks ago.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/08/coronavirus-live-updates-latest-on-covid-19-community-outbreak-monday-august-30.html
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Author: Mark Quinlivan

Warnings New Zealanders face the possibility of spending Christmas in lockdown are being described as "doom and gloom" and not helpful by a leading medical professor.

There are now 511 cases of COVID-19 in the community since an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant unfolded about a fortnight ago.

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Author: Kevan Jones

The Ministry of Defence have confirmed that the Queen Elizabeth class carriers might be fitted with catapults ‘in the coming years’ in order to launch certain types of aircraft.

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  1. A US elementary school teacher took off her mask for a read-aloud. Within days, half her class was positive for Delta
  2. ‘Total betrayal’: Afghan interpreters shocked as New Zealand ends Kabul evacuation
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  4. The Biggest Threat to Aircraft Carriers is Not Russia or China

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