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Author: Jamie Ensor & Rachel Sadler

By the end of Wednesday, Aucklanders may be freed from the alert level 3 lockdown or required to continue life under the strict measures as officials grapple with the COVID-19 situation.

Cabinet will meet in the afternoon to consider the latest data, including the results of outstanding close contact tests. These will signal if there has been any onward transmission from the three infected cases, while wider community testing should reveal any undetected parallel transmission. 

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Author: Henry Cooke

The Auckland level 3 lockdown may have been based on a “false alarm,” a key advisor to the Government says.

But other experts are more cautious about the possibility of the community cases portending a wider community outbreak.

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Author: M.L. Cavanaugh

When New Zealanders vote this September, they should consider closing a self-inflicted wound—decades of disarmament and dangerous strategic apathy.

In 1949, a distinguished New Zealand soldier, Major General Sir Howard Kippenberger, warned:

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Author: Jenna Lynch

The Government is not ruling out making QR code scanning compulsory, with COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins saying we're good at signing in when things go awry, but get lax too quickly. 

Scanning QR codes takes two seconds and is super simple - and sometimes all we need is a gentle reminder, which is what Hipkins is considering to try and get Kiwis using the app more. 

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Author: NZ Herald

At least 30 Taliban militants have died in Afghanistan after they blew themselves up during a bomb-making class.

The Khaama Press News Agency said the fighters died when Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) they were learning to construct exploded inside a mosque, quoting a release from the Afghan Army's 209th Shaheen Corps.

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Author: Jamie Ensor & Rachel Sadler

Another close contact has tested negative for COVID-19 but several results are still pending as Auckland remains in lockdown for another day.

Three community cases recorded in south Auckland over the weekend prompted Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Sunday to throw the region into lockdown and the rest of New Zealand into alert level 2.

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Author: Zane Small

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defended cancelling the citizenship of a woman accused of terrorism, leaving New Zealand to pick up the pieces thanks to her dual citizenship. 

The woman, a 26-year-old identified as a terrorist belonging to Islamic State by the Turkish Ministry of National Defence, was caught trying to cross the border from Syria with her two children. 

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Category: Defence
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Author: THOMAS MANCH

The Defence Force will make public each occasion its soldiers are alleged to have killed civilians, as the military aims to reform itself after the damning Operation Burnham inquiry.

The inquiry last year found the Defence Force had misled ministers and the public about allegations of civilian deaths after the 2010 Special Air Service-led raid in Afghanistan, allegations which top brass failed to properly investigate. No civilians were wrongfully killed in the raid, the inquiry found.

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