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In November China's Yutu 2 lunar rover photographed an object on the far side of the moon that was quickly dubbed a 'mystery house'.
According to journalist Andrew Jones, who reports on China's space programme, the cube-shaped image was around 80m away from the rover in an area known as the Von Kármán crater.
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Read more: Why is it taking so long to find out what the 'mystery house' on the moon is?
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/technology/2021/12/why-is-it-taking-so-long-to-find-out-what-the-mystery-house-on-the-moon-is.html
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New Zealand's first case of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 had arrived in the country from Germany, via Dubai and Auckland, last Friday.
The case has prompted experts to urge the Government to delay opening the border, restrict passengers from high-risk countries, and reconsider allowing Covid-19 patients to isolate at home.
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Read more: First person in NZ with Omicron had flown from Germany six days ago
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300480140/covid19-first-person-in-nz-with-omicron-had-flown-from-germany-six-days-ago
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A new report from a human rights group has found North Korea has publicly executed at least seven people for watching or distributing K-pop videos in the last decade, according to The New York Times.
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Read more: North Korea has reportedly publicly executed at least 7 people for watching K-pop
- Article: https://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-reportedly-publicly-executed-124958531.html
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As the United States and China battle for technological supremacy, will countries like New Zealand be forced to pick a side or can the status quo be maintained?
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Read more: How the US-China ‘decoupling’ drive will affect NZ
- Article: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/technology/how-the-us-china-decoupling-drive-may-affect-nz
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There are claims and counter-claims that China is vying with Taiwan and the US to offer inducements to Solomon Islands leaders for their support – and New Zealand police and defence personnel are caught in the middle.
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Read more: NZ troops patrol China-US proxy war in Solomon Islands
- Article: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/nz-troops-patrol-china-us-proxy-war-in-solomon-islands
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Kiwis are told to put together emergency kits for a worst-case scenario – but the New Zealand state’s own stockpile is lacking despite an increasingly uncertain global environment, Dr Reuben Steff writes
Comment: Is Aotearoa New Zealand prepared for an increasingly unstable and unpredictable future?
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Read more: A wake-up call for Aotearoa as global instability grows
- Article: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/a-wake-up-call-for-aotearoa-as-global-instability-grows
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Government's new national security priorities reveals growing concerns about 'strategic competition'
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The Government is growing increasingly concerned about the rising threat of "strategic competition" between powerful countries, according to a raft of new national security priorities.
The 2021 National Security Intelligence Priorities, released by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Thursday morning, will have the Government’s national security and intelligence agencies focusing on growing strategic competition in the Pacific, the threats or actual conflicts within New Zealand’s maritime domain, and threats to “democracy and territory” elsewhere in the world.
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Analysis - Victoria University Professor of Strategic Studies Robert Ayson* breaks down the Pacific trends informing New Zealand's 2021 Defence Assessment.
Speculation was rife earlier this year that Peeni Henare was about to announce his defence policy principles in a stand-alone speech. If that mode of delivery had eventuated, observers would have pounced.
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Read more: New Zealand's Defence Assessment and its Pacific future
- Article: https://www.incline.org.nz/home/wanted-scary-pacific-trends-for-new-zealands-defence-assessment
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