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Author: Robert Ayson
There are good reasons why we are hearing a lot about American democracy as the Biden Administration takes office. If anyone needed reminding of the strain that four years of Donald Trump’s presidency had placed on the institutions underpinning America’s democracy, the 6 January siege of the US Capitol building illuminated the problem with terrifying starkness.
 
Two weeks later, in the poem that stole the inauguration show, Amanda Gorman insisted that “while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.” In his inaugural address Biden sought to rededicate the United States to its constitutional principles: “Today”, he intoned, “we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate, but of a cause, the cause of democracy.”
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Article: http://www.incline.org.nz/home/biden-and-democracy-implications-for-new-zealand
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Author: Thomas Coughlan

About 80 per cent of staff working at New Zealand’s visa application centre in Beijing are direct employees of a company owned by the Beijing police, inflaming concerns that the Chinese government could gain access to information about citizens trying to leave the country.

Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi said he was happy with security arrangements at the centre, which the Government says protects the privacy of people applying for visas.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300255449/nz-visa-office-in-beijing-staffed-mostly-by-chinese-policeowned-company
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Author: Dan Satherley

A member of the World Health Organization (WHO) team that recently spent time in China investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic says they've worked out where it probably came from.

Peter Daszak, a British expert on zoonotic diseases - those which leap from animals to humans - says the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, likely originated in southern China's wildlife farms.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/03/coronavirus-who-investigation-singles-out-china-s-wildlife-farms-as-source-of-covid-19-pandemic.html
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Author: Jeff Foust

WASHINGTON — A NASA competition to launch a cluster of cubesats attracted a bid from SpaceX, who appeared to offer a vehicle other than its current Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy.

NASA released March 11 the source selection statement from the competition to launch the Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) mission, a group of six cubesats to be launched into three orbital planes in 2022 to study tropical weather systems. NASA awarded a contract for the launch to Astra Feb. 26, valued at $7.95 million.

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Article: https://spacenews.com/spacex-bid-on-launch-of-nasa-cubesat-mission/
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 The space industry and space race is heating up with competition...

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Author: Gavin Evans

In June 2021 Marvel Comics will launch a five-part limited edition series titled The United States of Captain America.

That timing is deliberate as June is Pride Month, and the edition of the character featured in that month’s intro story will be the first to take up the Captain America role who is LGBTQ.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/300255536/marvel-comics-announces-gay-teen-captain-america-as-part-of-new-series
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Author: Crystal Wu

Ten people have been arrested and $10.2 million in assets seized in the final operation targeting Auckland's high-end money launderers.

Police executed twelve search warrants across the city as the final stage of Operation Ida on Wednesday morning.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/03/operation-ida-ten-arrested-10-2-million-seized-in-money-laundering-investigation.html
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Author: Dan Satherley

A mysterious object that whizzed by the Earth three years ago was probably the remnants of a planet from another solar system, scientists now say. 

Since it was first spotted by the Pan-STARRS astronomical observatory in Hawaii in late 2017, 'Oumuamua has defied scientists' best efforts to figure out what it was. 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/03/strange-visitor-oumuamua-that-passed-close-to-earth-in-2017-was-probably-an-interstellar-planet-study.html
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Author: THOMAS COLSON
  • Boris Johnson is set to pass a new law banning protests that are noisy or cause “annoyance.”
  • The law also limits the right to protest outside the UK parliament and carries a maximum sentence of ten years.
  • The legislation comes as London’s police force comes under criticism for its heavy-handed response over the weekend to a vigil for the murdered woman Sarah Everard.
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Article: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/boris-johnson-outlaw-protests-that-are-noisy-or-cause-annoyance-2021-3?utm_source=reddit.com&r=US&IR=T
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