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Author: New Zealand Defence Force

Huddled in a small, cold, concrete room, open to the elements on the top floor of an abandoned building in the dead of night, held captive with four others by a terror group, we waited for help. New Zealand’s Special Operations Forces’ Counter Terrorist Team (CTT) was on their way, so our captors laid trip wires and watched the stairwells, armed with guns. When help arrived, it was swift and precise.

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Article: https://medium.com/@nzdefenceforce/special-operations-forces-practicing-counter-terrorist-support-2e2982fc699d
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Category: Defence
Author: New Zealand Defence Force

It’s too soon to know what Midshipman Gloria Lee’s second year at Auckland University of Technology will be like. It was her first day back when she picked up the phone for her interview.

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Article: https://medium.com/@nzdefenceforce/midshipman-embraces-engineering-76c825451778
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Author: Thomas Coughlan

Labour's popularity has fallen in the latest Newshub Reid Research poll. 

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/116547348/labour-pm-down-in-latest-poll
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Author: Tova O'Brien

The age of Jacindamania is over. Brand Ardern has taken its biggest knock yet - and when Labour's magic weapon loses its power, the party does too.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/10/jacinda-ardern-labour-take-massive-tumble-in-new-newshub-reid-research-poll.html
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Health officials in Samoa are waiting for confirmation of a suspected measles case thought to have been transmitted from the Auckland outbreak.

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Article: https://www.newsie.co.nz/news/164141-suspected-measles-outbreak-samoa.html
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Author: Melissa Davey

Vatican treasurer, the third most senior Catholic in the world, convicted on five charges in Australian court case.

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Article: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/26/cardinal-george-pell-vatican-treasurer-found-guilty-of-child-sexual-assault
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Cardinal George Pell, the former third most powerful Vatican official and Australia’s most senior Catholic official, has been convicted of child sexual abuse in a Melbourne court trial. The verdict was delivered on December 11 but is subject to a suppression order until now, while a previous trial on the same five charges resulted in a hung jury – leading to a retrial.
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Article: https://www.bigperspectives.com/2019/08/third-most-powerful-vatican-official.html
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Author: Amnesty International

The Indonesian Government has imposed a total internet access shut down for mobile cellular networks in the Papua and West Papua provinces until further notice. This is an appalling attack on people’s right to freedom of expression.

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Article: https://www.amnesty.org.nz/indonesia-end-internet-shutdown-papua-and-west-papua-provinces
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