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Author: Caroline Kelly

President Donald Trump suggested shooting migrants in the legs in order to slow them down after they crossed the southern border during a March meeting in which he called for a shutdown of the entire US-Mexico border, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

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Article: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/01/politics/new-york-times-trump-shoot-migrants-legs/index.html
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Category: Defence
Author: RT HON WINSTON PETERS & HON RON MARK

New Zealand will contribute five Defence Force personnel to a multinational taskforce based in Bahrain focused on countering terrorist activity, narcotics, smuggling and piracy from December 2019, Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters and Defence Minister Ron Mark have announced.

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Article: https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-zealand-renews-support-maritime-security-middle-east
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Category: Defence
Author: HON RON MARK

Defence Minister Ron Mark has announced the first phase of a project to replace many of the New Zealand Defence Force’s operational vehicles. 

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Article: https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/first-phase-protected-mobility-project-begins
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Category: Defence
Author: Flying Officer Clarice Hurren

A key Five Eyes group of air force advisers is testing interoperability across combat support, aeromedical evacuation and air mobility as part of Exercise Mobility Guardian 19 (MG19).

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Article: https://news.defence.gov.au/international/five-eyes-watching-over-us-exercise
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Category: News
Author: Scott Palmer

Greta Thunberg has been savaged by a Christian private school principal who called her a "little girl" with "mental problems".

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/10/greta-thunberg-savaged-by-australian-christian-school-principal.html
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Note from Nighthawk.NZ: Nighthawk.NZ is neither for nor against what Greta has to say... However, we don't believe the earth is going to be dead due to climate change in 12 years' time and don't think that many ecosystems are suffering due to climate change. Many of these ecosystems are flourishing. However the human race does need to clean up our act with pollution and waste.

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Author: Tom McRae

Chaos is expected across Hong Kong on Tuesday night (NZ time) as anti-government protestors aim to spoil China's party.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/10/chaos-expected-in-hong-kong-as-anti-government-protests-continue.html
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Author: Michael Hayward

A Christchurch property developer spent about $30,000 on consent fees to replace a dilapidated villa with units, only for a council panel to reject his plans.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/116171178/developer-spends-30k-on-consents-only-for-council-panel-to-reject-plans?fbclid=IwAR0RNnSO33ciHTMeOaM4Nkea4V3ZDfHeuE6DqQ7dFyAOAlzPVfxwb55rLqg
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Author: Mike Houlahan

The region's measles outbreak has spread beyond Queenstown, with cases now detected in Wanaka, Dunedin and Oamaru.

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Article: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/health/measles-cases-confirmed-dunedin-wanaka-and-oamaru
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  1. Dunedin house prices rising fastest of main centres
  2. More bad news for shooters and dealers.
  3. Simon Bridges doesn't see climate change as an emergency, says that label's 'unhelpful and worrying'
  4. Supporting Greta Thunberg is evidence of 'white supremacy', activists claim

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