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Rocket Lab’s centre of gravity has shifted further away from New Zealand and towards North America after it announced it would buy United States space solar tech company SolAero for US$80 million (NZ$118 million).
Rocket Lab will take on 425 staff as a result of the acquisition, which is expected to be complete by the end of March.
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Read more: Most Rocket Lab staff set to be based outside NZ by early next year
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/127276549/most-rocket-lab-staff-set-to-be-based-outside-nz-by-early-next-year
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Same number of staff that it always has been will be in NZ... it is just that Rocketlab has acquired various assests and tech companies in the the US. The latest is a solar tech company "SolAero" ... No one is moving off shore... while not lying the title of the article is misguiding you in to thinking they are moving off shore... but no one is moving...
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At least one person has died in the UK after contracting the Omicron coronavirus variant, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday, the first publicly confirmed death globally from the swiftly spreading strain.
Since the first Omicron cases were detected on November 27 in the United Kingdom, Johnson has imposed tougher restrictions and on Sunday cautioned the variant could overcome the immune defences of those inoculated with two shots of vaccines.
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Read more: First Omicron variant death confirmed in UK
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/12/covid-19-first-omicron-variant-death-confirmed-in-uk.html
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“Judge me in a year,” said Swedish public health boss, Dr Anders Tegnell, in July 2020.
The Covid-19 crisis was still in its infancy, but the Nordic nation normally lauded for its social safety net had already emerged as a global pandemic pariah.
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Read more: Whatever happened to pandemic pariah Sweden?
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/explained/127230714/covid19-whatever-happened-to-pandemic-pariah-sweden
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As hundreds of people started to gather at an anti-lockdown protest in Auckland, authorities sent text messages to Destiny Church's Brian Tamaki telling him to tell the crowd to social distance.
Deputy Police Commissioner Wally Haumaha sent a series of texts to Tamaki on the morning of Saturday, October 2, as crowds started arriving at the Auckland Domain and nearby Auckland War Memorial Museum.
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Read more: Top cop's texts to Brian Tamaki - 'Tell the people to social distance'
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Thousands of people are still without vaccine passes, waiting for their overseas vaccination records to be added to the New Zealand register.
When the Ministry of Health was swamped in the weeks leading up to the traffic light system, it gave out last-minute temporary exemptions, but they expire tomorrow and many businesses are not accepting them.
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Read more: Thousands of returnees vaccinated abroad still stuck without vaccine pass
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/12/covid-19-thousands-of-returnees-vaccinated-abroad-still-stuck-without-vaccine-pass.html
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A Republican Senator in the US state of Arizona has come under fire for calling New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern "Lenin with hair".
Wendy Rogers shared a video on Twitter of Ardern speaking virtually to world leaders as part of the Summit for Democracy last week, where the Prime Minister talked about COVID-19 misinformation and why her Government had introduced New Zealand's public interest journalism fund.
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Read more: Republican Senator Wendy Rogers under fire for calling Jacinda Ardern 'Lenin with hair'
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Read more: Rheinmetall completes handover of heavy recovery vehicles to NZDF
- Article: https://www.australiandefence.com.au/news/rheinmetall-completes-handover-of-heavy-recovery-vehicles-to-nzdf
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US President Joe Biden on Saturday said he told Russian President Vladimir Putin that Russia would pay "a terrible price" and face devastating economic consequences if it invaded Ukraine.
Biden told reporters the possibility of sending US ground combat troops to Ukraine in the event of a Russian invasion was "never on the table," although the United States and NATO would be required to send in more forces to eastern flank NATO countries to beef up their defenses.
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