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Author: Reuters

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called out bullying in the South China Sea on Monday and warned the U.N. Security Council that a conflict "would have serious global consequences for security and for commerce," sparking a strong rebuke from China.

The South China Sea has become one of many flashpoints in the testy relationship between China and the United States, with Washington rejecting what it calls unlawful territorial claims by Beijing in the resource-rich waters.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/08/south-china-sea-warning-conflict-would-have-serious-consequences-as-us-china-trade-barbs-over-waters.html
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Author: Rachel Sadler

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg has enraged Kiwis over a tweet targeting New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions.

Thunberg shared an article from The Guardian headlined 'Emissions from cows on New Zealand dairy farms reach record levels'. She also pulled a quote from the story to tweet alongside it that says: "New Zealand is one of the world's worst performers on emission increases. Its emissions rose by 57 percent between 1990 and 2018 - the second greatest increase of all industrialised countries."

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Author: Dan Satherley

Bottled water might taste nicer than tap water, but the cost to the environment is so great it's not worth using it exclusively, a new study has found. 

The environmental impact of extracting it would be 1400 times worse, researchers at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health said, and cost 3500 times more. 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/08/bottled-water-thousands-of-times-worse-for-the-environment-than-tap-study.html
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Author: Reuters

Taliban fighters overran three provincial capitals including the strategic northeastern city of Kunduz on Sunday, local officials said, as the insurgents intensified pressure on the north and threatened further cities.

The insurgents have taken dozens of districts and border crossings in recent months and put pressure on several provincial capitals, including Herat in the west and Kandahar in the south, as foreign troops withdraw. The offensive has gathered momentum in recent days after the US announced it would end its military mission in the country by the end of August.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/08/taliban-fighters-overrun-three-afghan-provincial-capitals-seize-government-buildings.html
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Author: Jordan Bond

A public health expert says the highly transmissible Delta variant of COVID-19 could prompt a local lockdown with even one community case in New Zealand.

Otago University Professor Nick Wilson said of the 25 COVID-19 cases currently in managed isolation and quarantine, "most" are likely Delta.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/08/just-one-delta-covid-19-community-case-could-force-a-lockdown-expert.html
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Author: Debra Werner

SAN FRANCISCO – LeoLabs and the New Zealand Space Agency (NZSA) are working together to develop a cloud-based software platform for monitoring space activity. New Zealand’s Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment announced the multiyear deal Aug. 5, saying it would lead to “the world’s most advanced Space Regulatory and Sustainability Platform.”

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Author: Kelly Dennett

Decades after the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, more details have emerged about how a French spy “crucial” to the attack fled from New Zealand police.

Christine Cabon fled Interpol while amidst a long-running archaeological dig in Israel, after apparently being tipped off by two shadowy Israeli figures.

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Author: RNZ

ACT party leader David Seymour says the hundreds of MIQ spots saved for attendees to an expo in Dubai is the latest in a string of Government failures in pandemic management.

It has been revealed the Government has ring-fenced 401 MIQ spots for people attending the Dubai Expo from October.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/08/david-seymour-enraged-government-putting-aside-400-managed-isolation-rooms-for-expo-attendees-as-kiwis-struggle-to-get-home.html
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