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Author: Molly Swift

NATO says New Zealand will not be invited to join the alliance as it is not a European country, but instead, they will be looking at ways to develop the relationship further.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/06/nato-says-new-zealand-will-not-be-invited-to-join-at-summit-but-develop-its-partnership.html
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Why would people think New Zealand even if we wanted to could join NATO? I mean it is in the title "North Atlantic Treaty Organization." However New Zealand has been a Major non-NATO ally since 1997.

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Category: World
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Author: Reuters

The United States, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the United Kingdom launched an informal group aimed at boosting economic and diplomatic ties with Pacific Island nations, the White House said on Friday.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/06/new-zealand-joins-new-pacific-partnership-group-with-us-uk-australia.html
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Category: Science
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Author: Mark Pratt

Nasa has asked Boston-based RR Auction to halt the sale of moon dust collected during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission that had subsequently been fed to cockroaches during an experiment to determine if the lunar rock contained any sort of pathogen that posed a threat to terrestrial life.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/300621207/nasa-give-us-back-our-moon-dust-and-cockroaches
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Author: Reuters

White House Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell says he expects more high-level US officials to visit Pacific island countries as Washington steps up its engagement to counter China in the strategically important region.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/469733/us-vows-more-high-level-engagement-with-pacific-islands-amid-china-push
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Category: Science
Category : Analysis
Author: Eric Berger

"It's really pushing the envelope as a commercially owned spacecraft operating at the Moon."

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Article: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/06/for-the-first-time-a-small-rocket-will-launch-a-private-spacecraft-to-the-moon/
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Category : News
Author: Benedict Collins

In February last year, a 1News investigation revealed Air New Zealand's Gas Turbines team had been fixing engines for the Saudi navy which was fuelling the humanitarian conflict in Yemen.

The airline subsequently apologised to New Zealanders and abandoned its engine repair work for the Saudi navy.

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Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/06/22/air-nz-stopped-work-for-taiwan-turkey-navies-after-govt-concern/
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Author: Reuters

Taiwan scrambled jets on Tuesday to warn away 29 Chinese aircraft in its air defence zone, including bombers that flew to the south of the island and into the Pacific, in the latest uptick in tensions and largest incursion since late May.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/06/taiwan-scrambles-jets-to-warn-off-29-chinese-aircraft-in-its-air-defence-zone.html
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Category: Defence
Category : Defence
Author: Dr Peter Greener

In March 2022, the Report of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee on the 2020/21 Annual Review of the Ministry of Defence and the NZDF, noted in the section headed ‘Strategic competition and co-operation in the Pacific’ that, “We heard that there will not be a white paper in 2022. However, Defence will be recommending to Ministers terms of reference that look at the development of defence policy settings in a more proactive approach, and the force structure that would support those settings.”

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Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2022/06/17/what-direction-now-for-new-zealand-defence-policy-and-capability/
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