News

News

General News from around the world

Details
Category: News
Author: RocketLAB
We're counting down to our next mission, a launch from LC-1 for Planet and Spaceflight Inc.'s customer Canon! This launch will be our 15th Electron mission overall, and our 5th for 2020.
Hits: 1264

Article: https://www.rocketlabusa.com/about-us/updates/new-blog-post-2/
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Category: News
Author: The Epoch Times

Beijing’s flagship foreign policy initiative, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has been mired in controversy since its inception, with critics warning that Beijing’s infrastructure projects place developing countries under a “debt trap” by offering unsustainable loans, while exploiting their natural resources to drive the Chinese economy.

Hits: 1666

Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etINC-eFgDw
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Category: News
Author: Hannah Kronast & Wilhelmina Shrimpton

The driver involved in a fatal Rotorua bus crash has been sentenced to home detention, fined and disqualified from driving.

Hits: 1144

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/09/rotorua-fatal-bus-crash-driver-junwei-zhang-sentenced-to-home-detention.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Category: News
Author: China in Focus - NTD

Multiple explosions rocked Beijing overnight. A hundred fire trucks showed up, with helicopters hovering nearby. The timing is sensitive.

Hits: 1259

Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O12HciCcyRg
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Category: News
Author: Reuters

China's air force has released a video showing nuclear-capable H-6 bombers carrying out a simulated attack on what appears to be Andersen Air Force Base on the US Pacific island of Guam, as regional tensions rise.

Hits: 1181

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/09/china-air-force-video-appears-to-show-simulated-attack-on-us-base.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Category: News
Author: Newstalk ZB

Southern and central New Zealand is bracing for a massive storm, with torrential rain, thunderstorms and damaging gales in the next 24 hours.

Hits: 1137

Article: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/destructive-gales-torrential-rain-to-blast-south-island-and-lower-north-island/
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Category: News
Author: Alice Wilkins

A New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) applicant who ticked 'yes' to indicate a previous history of self-harm, was told she was "medically unfit" for the position.

Hits: 1216

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/09/woman-told-to-stop-royal-nz-navy-application-after-admitting-to-previous-self-harm.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Details
Category: News
Author: Charles Marsh

As a proposed trade bloc, CANZUK is unusual for many reasons, but one of the most distinctive is its geographic dispersal. Unlike the EU or Mercosur, CANZUK’s member states are distributed across the globe, with the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans dividing them. Building upon a 2014 article, this piece seeks to assert the need for deeper naval integration in any future CANZUK organisation, with the aim of increased operational capability and efficiency.

Hits: 2984

Article: http://www.dailyglobe.co.uk/comment/will-there-be-a-need-for-naval-cooperation-within-canzuk/
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

  1. Could CANZUK be the multinational alliance we need to tackle China?
  2. The Belt And Road Initiative Is Eroding Countries' Future
  3. Jacinda Ardern apologises for breaking social distancing rules
  4. Canterbury doctor praised by NZ Public Party found to have spread 'misleading' information about COVID-19

Subcategories

Politics Article Count:  331

General Politics

Defence Article Count:  1190

General Defence Articles

Science Article Count:  76

Sciencey stuff

 

World Article Count:  591

World News

Instagram