News

News

General News from around the world

Details
Category: News
Category : News
Author: Finlay Dunseath

Military light armoured vehicles seen travelling through Wellington on Friday are being transported to a large scale training exercise in Australia.

Hits: 753

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300923530/military-vehicles-spotted-on-wellington-roads-off-to-australia-for-large-exercise
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Parent Category: News
Category: World
Category : News
Author: Lisette Reymer & Reuters

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday that the mutinous chief of the Wagner group was still in Russia with thousands of fighters but dismissed speculation Vladimir Putin would have Yevgeny Prigozhin killed.

Hits: 817

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2023/07/wagner-chief-yevgeny-prigozhin-back-in-russia-belarus-alexander-lukashenko-says.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Parent Category: News
Category: Politics
Category : News
Author: Rt Hon Chris Hipkins

E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā rau rangatira mā.

Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa.

Dr Richard Grant, Chair of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs - thank you for your welcome.

Hits: 700

Article: https://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/prime-ministers-foreign-policy-speech-nziia
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Parent Category: News
Category: Defence
Category : News
Author: Geoffrey Miller

ANALYSIS: Is New Zealand about to join 'NATO+'?

That seems to be the effective endgame, if reports ahead of New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins' attendance at the NATO summit in Lithuania are anything to go by.

Hits: 1225

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/07/geoffrey-miller-new-zealand-gets-ready-to-embrace-nato.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

The headline of this article is a but dumb... NZ can not join NATO+ on any level...? NATO stands "North Atlantic Treaty Organization." Adding the + makes no difference and there is no NATO+. New Zealand is however a Major non-NATO ally or MNNA. There is a difference.

Details
Parent Category: News
Category: Defence
Category : Defence
Author: KEN MORIYASU and TAKASHI TSUJI, Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO/BRUSSELS -- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization will deepen collaboration with its four major partners in the Indo-Pacific region, simultaneously preparing bilateral cooperation documents with Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea, Nikkei Asia has learned.

Hits: 1076

Article: https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Indo-Pacific/NATO-to-upgrade-ties-with-Australia-New-Zealand-South-Korea
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Parent Category: News
Category: Defence
Category : Defence
Author: Nick Lee-Frampton

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — You fight with what you have, and the New Zealand Defence Force’s firepower is limited.

There are insufficient personnel to operate all the weapon systems in its inventory. Ships are mothballed, and although the first batch of new Bushmaster armored vehicles were delivered May 25 to Trentham Military Camp, Maj. Paul Napier of the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps told Defense News that the Army lacks drivers.

Hits: 1014

Article: https://www.c4isrnet.com/interviews/2023/07/06/new-zealands-military-chief-talks-recruitment-drones-and-ukraine
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Parent Category: News
Category: World
Category : News
Author: CNN

China's top diplomat has urged Japan and South Korea to foster a sense of "strategic autonomy" from the West and cooperate with Beijing to "revitalize Asia," amid rising tensions between China and the two neighboring American allies.

Hits: 802

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2023/07/china-s-top-diplomat-wang-yi-urges-japan-south-korea-to-align-with-beijing-and-revitalise-asia.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Parent Category: News
Category: Science
Category : Short article
Author: Reuters

Twitter is limiting how many tweets per day various accounts can read, to discourage "extreme levels" of data scraping and system manipulation, Executive Chair Elon Musk said in a post on the social media platform on Saturday.

Hits: 939

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/technology/2023/07/elon-musk-says-twitter-will-limit-how-many-tweets-users-can-read.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

  1. Ukraine invasion: Armed mutiny in Russia shows damage Putin has done to country
  2. Air Force's new fleet of Poseidon aircraft present and ready for duty
  3. Hipkins earns China's praise - but he won't want it all
  4. How Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's mutiny will resonate in Russia

Subcategories

Politics Article Count:  328

General Politics

Defence Article Count:  1149

General Defence Articles

Science Article Count:  76

Sciencey stuff

 

World Article Count:  591

World News

Instagram