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Author: Rachel Sadler

A former United Nations prosecutor has called for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Carla Del Ponte, who was the chief prosecutor of UN war crimes tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, said the arrest warrant would restrict Putin from leaving Russia and "it would be a strong signal that he has many states against him".

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Author: Reuters

Dead civilians still lay scattered over the streets of the Ukrainian country town of Bucha on Saturday, three days after the invading Russian army pulled back from its abortive advance on Kyiv to the southeast.

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Category : Opinion
Author: Jared Koli

FORMER Prime Minister and Member of Parliament for Small Malaita Hon Rick Houenipwela says the security treaty with China was supposed to be a secretly orchestrated deal.

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Article: https://www.sibconline.com.sb/china-security-treaty-was-a-secretly-orchestrated-deal-hou/
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Author: Charlie Mitchell

On a Tuesday afternoon last month, around two dozen people joined a Zoom meeting to decide whether to sentence the New Zealand Government to death.

This group, calling itself a “grand jury”, was led by Australian woman Sandra Crack, who has claimed to be the “chief sheriff” of Australia.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300555020/the-selfproclaimed-sheriffs-who-want-to-arrest-the-authorities
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Author: news.com.au

Russian state television has broadcast an extraordinary rant about the state of the war in Ukraine, warning Vladimir Putin's regime faces "final and complete defeat". 

Yakov Kedmi, an Israeli-Russian pundit and former diplomat, is usually a reliably pro-Kremlin voice. But in an appearance on the prime time show Tonight with Vladimir Soloviyev, he was remarkably negative about the situation in Ukraine. 

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Article: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/world/russia-ukraine-war-final-and-complete-defeat-panic-on-russian-state-tv-over-the-war-in-ukraine/
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China says it will back neighbour Myanmar “no matter how the situation changes,” in the latest show of unequivocal support for the ruling military that seized power last year.

China “has always placed Myanmar in an important position in its neighbourly diplomacy" and wants to “deepen exchanges and cooperation," Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Myanmar counterpart Wunna Maung Lwin on Friday, according to China's official Xinhua News Agency.

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Author: Jon Johansson

OPINION: In 2009, when at Georgetown in Washington, D.C., I attended a guest lecture about China’s nascent foothold in Antarctica, with images of its first ramshackle base. A bunch of badly attired scientists huddled outside their shack. Compared to our well-established Scott Base, it looked like amateur hour. Thirteen years on, China has five bases on the ice.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/300555912/solomons-china-deal-a-wakeup-call-to-inward-looking-new-zealand
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Author: Grace Prior

Experts say New Zealand’s Defence Force is “not yet in a fit state” to face current threats as military spending has been allocated to the wrong places.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300555037/defence-force-not-yet-in-a-fit-state-to-face-cyber-and-maritime-threats--expert
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 Oh Peeni Henare... you have no clue what so ever do you no clue... get your head out of the sand and out of your own arse and face the reality of the situation. You are turning out to be the worst Defence Minister New Zealand has ever had... and that is saying something
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