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Category: Politics
Category : News
Author: Joanne Naish

A cartoon published in a West Coast newspaper has been labelled “racist and abhorrent”.

The cartoon by Hokitika cartoonist David Thomas Healy was published in the Greymouth Star on Thursday.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/128659943/greymouth-star-editor-apologises-for-offence-taken-over-racist-cartoon
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Category : Analysis
Author: Molly Swift

A rare but life-threatening COVID-19 side-effect is affecting children in Australia.

Australian health officials are warning parents of a dangerous inflammatory illness called paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome (PIMS-TS).

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/05/rare-and-life-threatening-covid-19-side-effect-affecting-australian-children.html
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Author: 1News

Ron Mark says he decided to take matters into his own hands and head to Ukraine after getting "tired of feeling useless" after Russia invaded the country.

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Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/05/17/i-got-tired-of-feeling-useless-over-ukraine-ron-mark/
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Author: Wellington higher courts reporter

Some Afghans who took court action to force the processing of their applications for New Zealand visas are still waiting for an answer six months on.

After a judge at the High Court in Wellington said their applications for residence visas must be promptly considered and decided, 26 people from the group of about 70 have arrived in New Zealand.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/128654342/afghan-visa-seekers-still-without-answers-six-months-on-from-court-win
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Category : Opinion
Author: Lucy Craymer

Opinion - New Zealand has long been seen as the moderate, even absent, voice on China in the "Five Eyes" western alliance, so much so that its commitment to the group was questioned just 12 months ago.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/467313/alarmed-by-solomon-islands-china-pact-new-zealand-finds-its-voice-on-security
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Category: Defence
Category : Defence
Author: RNZ

The second of the country's two naval frigates is due to leave Canada, eight years after an upgrade project began.

The costs to upgrade the ship Te Mana, and before it Te Kaha, have blown out to between $600 million and $700m, due in part to project management mistakes.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/467270/new-zealand-navy-frigate-to-leave-canada-years-after-upgrade-began
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Author: William Hewett

An electronics and bottle store are the latest victims of Auckland's crime spree on Tuesday morning. 

Police were at the scene where a Vodafone store and a Bottle-O shop, which are in the same complex in Takanini, were burgled shortly after 2:30am. 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/05/auckland-as-crime-spree-continues-vodafone-bottle-o-stores-burgled-in-takanini.html
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Category: World
Category : Defence
Author: Associated Press

Sweden overnight decided to join neighbouring Finland in seeking NATO membership, ending more than two centuries of military nonalignment in a historic shift prompted by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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  1. Finland, Sweden inch closer to seeking NATO membership
  2. Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to back off threats as Sweden, Finland prepare to join NATO
  3. Climate action group claims they've started deflating tyres in Christchurch
  4. Australian sailor says she was drugged and raped while serving with NZ Navy - and told not to report it

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