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Read more: NZDF to complete Afghanistan deployment
- Article: https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/nzdf/news/nzdf-to-complete-afghanistan-deployment/
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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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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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Read more: Government to make alert level decision after possible 'false alarm' lockdown
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300231947/covid19-government-to-make-alert-level-decision-after-possible-false-alarm-lockdown
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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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Read more: New Zealand’s dangerous strategic apathy in an uncertain age
- Article: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/new-zealands-dangerous-strategic-apathy-in-an-uncertain-age/
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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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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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Read more: 30 Taliban militants killed in explosion during bomb-making class
- Article: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/30-taliban-militants-killed-in-explosion-during-bomb-making-class/DBKQCRGGYDC6PPNR5SMXBXHOSA/
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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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Read more: Coronavirus live updates: Latest on Auckland lockdown, community case
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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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