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Author: Thomas Manch

Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta says Pacific leaders want “greater clarity” from the Solomon Islands about their contentious China security deal, and may need to bring forward a crucial regional meeting.

Mahuta this week travelled to Fiji to sign a high-level partnership agreement, “uniting like never before” according to Fiji’s prime minister, to partner on economic, security, climate change and humanitarian aid issues.

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Author: Nebi Qena Yuras Karmanau

Talks to stop the fighting in Ukraine resumed on Friday, as another attempt to rescue civilians from the besieged port city of Mariupol broke down and Russia accused the Ukrainians of launching a cross-border helicopter attack on an oil depot.

The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region said the alleged air strike by a pair of helicopter gunships caused multiple fires and injured two people. A Kremlin spokesman said the incident on Russia’s territory could undermine the negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian representatives.

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Author: Richard Wood

Australia is facing a major defence shake-up if China manages to base warships in the Solomon Islands.

Security experts and Australian Defence Force senior commanders flagged an overhaul in military operations after the Solomon Islands initialled a security agreement with China.

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Author: Reuters

Russian President Vladimir Putin is demanding foreign buyers pay for Russian gas in roubles from Friday or else have their supplies cut, a move European capitals rejected and which Berlin said amounted to "blackmail".

Putin's move, via a decree signed on Thursday, leaves Europe facing the prospect of losing more than a third of its gas supply. Germany, the most heavily reliant on Russia, has already activated an emergency plan that could lead to rationing in Europe's biggest economy.

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Author: Reuters

Russia has managed to avoid defaulting on its international debt so far despite unprecedented Western sanctions. But the task is getting harder and Moscow's threats to cut Europe's gas supply seems to be upping the ante further.

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Author: Jamie Ensor

New modelling highlights the significant role booster vaccines have in dampening the transmission of the Omicron variant.

The modelling from Leighton Watson at the University of Canterbury, published as part of a report in the New Zealand Medical Journal, considered the probability of Omicron infection based on the different vaccination statuses of the infecting and infected individuals.

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Author: Mike Kilpatrick

Hacking collective Anonymous is ramping up its attempts to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine by promising a data dump that's "gonna blow Russia away".

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/technology/2022/03/anonymous-hacking-collective-denies-civil-aviation-hack-teases-giant-data-dump.html
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Author: Associated Press

China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that it had made "stern complaints" to Australia over its deportation of Chinese students for "concealing [their] so-called military training experience".

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Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/03/29/australia-deports-two-chinese-students-with-military-background/
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Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

  1. New Zealand's Australia-friendly response to China-Solomon Islands security deal
  2. Why the Solomon Islands risks becoming a bull's-eye of the Pacific
  3. Ukraine invasion: Russia bombs Ukraine cities, despite pledge to pull back from Kyiv
  4. Boris Johnson says Britain focused on helping protect Ukrainians not seeking to remove Vladimir Putin

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