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Author: Rosie Gordon

Despite COVID-19, Kiwi scientists are preparing to sail to Antarctica. 

It's one of a few expeditions to the continent since the outbreak of the pandemic - and they are taking a COVID-testing machine with them. 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/01/kiwi-scientists-to-sail-to-antarctica-with-covid-19-testing-machine.html
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Author: China Uncensored

Jack Ma missing?! Mass arrests in Hong Kong target pro-democracy activists and even an American citizen. It happened on January 6, the same day as the US Capitol descended into chaos as protesters broke into the Capitol Building. And the Chinese Communist Party is using it as a propaganda field day to criticize Democracy.

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Author: Dan Satherley

A doctor who appears in a viral social media post claiming doctors have found the COVID-19 vaccine works best for men if it's injected directly into the penis has labelled it a "work of mischief". 

The post, which has been circulating on Facebook since the new year, is clearly fake - but it's fooled many people, including some here in New Zealand, where it's been spread by pages set up by supporters of outgoing US President Donald Trump. 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle/2021/01/coronavirus-doctors-urge-men-not-to-inject-covid-19-vaccine-into-their-penis.html
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Hong Kong police arrested 53 opposition activists and former legislators Wednesday morning, accusing them of "subverting state power." The arrested leaders had been involved in organizing or attending a democratic primary last July, ahead of the fall Legislative Council elections. (Though the full elections were eventually postponed, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 600,000 people voted in the primary.)

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Article: https://reason.com/2021/01/06/beijings-crackdown-53-dissidents-arrested-in-hong-kong/
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Author: Shipyard, Royal Australian Navy (RAN)

Prototyping is underway at the Osborne shipyard in Adelaide in preparation for work to start on Royal Australian Navy’s Hunter-class frigates.

The Australian Department of Defence Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group (CASG)’s first assistant secretary ships Sheryl Lutz said five prototype blocks would be built in the prototyping phase to test the shipyard’s production systems, develop the facilities and ensure the workforce was trained and ready to build the Hunter-class frigates.

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Article: https://defpost.com/preparation-underway-to-build-royal-australian-navys-new-hunter-class-frigates/
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Author: Dan Satherley

Green MP Golriz Ghahraman has been accused of spreading a "disgusting centuries-old anti-Semitic trope" after sharing a social media post accusing Israeli authorities of "medical apartheid" in the fight against COVID-19.

Earlier this week activist group Jewish Voice For Peace shared an edited screenshot of a New York Times article. It originally read, 'How Israel Became a World Leader in Vaccinating Against COVID-19', but the group "fixed it for them" by crossing out 'Vaccinating Against COVID-19' and replacing it with 'MEDICAL APARTHEID' in bright red letters.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/01/green-mp-golriz-ghahraman-accused-of-anti-semitism-over-instagram-post.html
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Author: Barbara Ortutay & David Klepper

Facebook will bar US President Donald Trump from posting on its system at least until the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, the platform said Thursday (Friday morning, NZT).

In a post announcing the unprecedented move, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said the risk of allowing Trump to use the platform is too great following the president's incitement of a mob that touched off a deadly riot in the US Capitol on Wednesday (local time).

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/donald-trumps-america/300200566/facebook-bans-trump-through-biden-inauguration-maybe-longer
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Author: Mark Quinlivan

Four new coronavirus infections have been recorded in New Zealand's managed isolation facilities since the last update on Tuesday, and two more cases of the infectious UK variant have been detected.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/01/covid-19-four-new-coronavirus-cases-in-managed-isolation-two-uk-variant-infections.html
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