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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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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
- Article: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/chinas-fishing-fleet-heading-for-australia-amid-trade-war/S5DVWRRFTB2IPAYSB3S3KWHFLI/
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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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Million-dollar houses are now being sold in one of Auckland's lowest-income suburbs and a local politician says Government failure is allowing the market to drive further inequality and hopelessness.
Last month an unremarkable 1960s weatherboard house on less than a quarter acre section in Ōtara in South Auckland sold for $1.01 million.
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Read more: 'People have given up': Even basic homes in Otara now cost $1 million
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A look at Rocket Lab’s private mission to Earth’s twin and how NASA decides what planets to visit. Mars has been the bell of the planetary ball in the last few decades but that’s not to say other planets in the solar system, like Venus, haven’t had a fair share of attention over the years.
NASA last sent a spacecraft to orbit Earth’s nearest neighbor in 1990. Russia, formerly the Soviet Union, sent a whole slew of mostly successful missions to Venus, and Japan has an orbiter there now.
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Read more: There’s more than 1 way to send a spacecraft to Venus
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The Warehouse Group will repay its $68 million wage subsidy.
The group - which includes retailers such as The Warehouse, The Warehouse Stationery, Noel Leeming and Torpedo 7 - claimed the money back in April as the lockdowns slashed its earnings.
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Read more: Warehouse Group to repay $68 million wage subsidy
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New Zealand's stock exchange (NZX) has admitted its cyber-security wasn't up to scratch when it fell victim to a spate of cyberattacks this year.
The spy agency admitted on Monday it was caught off-guard by the attacks on numerous organisations.
But security experts say that was just the tip of the iceberg of cyber-crime targeting our country and not even our government is immune.
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