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Author: New Zealand Defence Force
Testing the waters 🌊 After a large earthquake, Royal New Zealand Navy 's HMNZS Manawanui as well as hydrographers and clearance divers of HMNZS Matataua will be the first of our fleet on the scene to pave the way for humanitarian operations.
Join them, as they combined forces for the ship’s first real test of hydrographic and crane operations during an earthquake exercise at Great Barrier / Aotea Island.
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Senator James Paterson discusses the Australia-UK Free Trade Agreement and has re-advocated his support for both the UK and Canada to join or negotiate a similar series of bilateral agreements as the Closer Economic Relations (CER) and Trans-Tasman Travel Area (TTTA) already existing between Australia and New Zealand. He states that these are models for the Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom Agreement, which is often abbreviated as the CANZUK agreement.

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Article: https://canzuk.net/the-case-for-free-trade-and-movement-between-canada-australia-new-zealand-and-the-united-kingdom-canzuk-senator-james-paterson/
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Author: Reuters

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's neuroscience startup Neuralink on Friday unveiled a pig that has had a coin-sized computer chip in its brain for two months, demonstrating an early step toward the goal of curing human diseases with the same type of implant.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/08/elon-musk-unveils-chip-implanted-cypork-says-he-might-have-a-chip-in-his-brain-and-you-wouldn-t-know.html
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Author: BARBARA ORTUTAY

Elon Musk isn't content with electric cars, shooting people into orbit, populating Mars and building underground tunnels to solve traffic problems. He also wants to get inside your brain.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/300094615/neuralink-elon-musks-new-company-wants-to-implant-computer-chips-inside-human-brains
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Author: Dan Satherley
 
 Eleven new COVID-19 cases have confirmed in the community in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said on Saturday. 

Ten have been linked to the Auckland cluster, and six associated with the Mt Roskill Evangelical Church - "four within the same household and two who attended church services".

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/08/coronavirus-11-new-covid-19-cases-confirmed-in-the-community.html
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An Auckland University law professor says there's a risk the mosque terrorist could walk the streets of Sydney if he was deported to Australia to serve his life sentence.

After a four-day sentencing hearing in the High Court in Christchurch, the shooter was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance of parole.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300094091/no-guarantee-mass-killer-would-serve-full-jail-term-in-australia
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Author: MARI YAMAGUCHI

Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, says he’s resigning because a chronic illness has resurfaced.

"It is gut wrenching to have to leave my job before accomplishing my goals,” Abe said.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/300094373/japans-prime-minister-shinzo-abe-intends-to-resign-for-health-reasons
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Author: Joel MacManus

Two Waitemata police officers have been investigated for allegedly smoking cannabis which they had seized from a member of the public.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/122603886/police-officers-investigated-for-allegedly-smoking-seized-cannabis-while-on-duty
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