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Author: Jonathan Saxty

Canada and the UK are set to announce an enhanced multi-billion-dollar trade deal. Speaking at a Conservative Friends of Australia Zoom event, UK International Trade Secretary Liz Truss announced the news. In addition, Ms. Truss said, negotiations are ongoing between New Zealand and the UK, while a “deep trading relationship” is being discussed between Australia and Britain.

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Article: https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/saxty-canzuk-is-an-idea-whose-moment-has-arrived
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The remaining New Zealand Defence Force personnel in Afghanistan have returned home, having lowered the flag on the NZDF’s 20-year deployment to the country.
 

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Author: RNZ

There is evidence of European-produced potato fries being 'dumped' in the New Zealand market at a loss, says a New Zealand industry body, who warns the 'bad faith' practice threatens local businesses and must be stopped.

COVID-19 lockdowns and less people eating out have slowed demand for hot potato chips in European restaurants, and left their suppliers with a glut on their hands.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/rural/2021/03/potato-industry-says-it-has-evidence-of-hot-chip-dumping-in-nz.html
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Author: Poppy Wood

The UK is set to announce an enhanced trade deal with Canada, the trade secretary has said, after the two nations ratified a post-Brexit agreement last week.

Speaking at a Conservative Friends of Australia event on Zoom this evening, Liz Truss said the UK was working “very closely” with “like-minded partners” to tackle issues such as China as part of ongoing trade discussions.

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Article: https://www.cityam.com/uk-to-announce-enhanced-trade-deal-with-canada/
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For CANZUK to advance beyond a free trade and free movement cooperation thought in other areas to those two areas will be needed. One key area in which there is scope for significant advantage to CANZUK integration is foreign policy. However, it comes with three key balances between competing aims that will need to be resolved for any such suggestions of foreign policy unity to work, those being: the need to balance the benefits of acting in unity with the independence of each kingdom; the benefits of deploying force compared to getting stuck in unwinnable situations that cannot be withdrawn from; and the desire to undermine the power of tyrannies in the United Nations whilst keeping a rules-based international order.

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Article: https://www.dailyglobe.co.uk/comment/canzuk-foreign-policy-tensions/
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Newly released details of proposed bed numbers in the new Dunedin Hospital suggest it could have 91 more beds than the current facility.

The numbers, released by Health Minister Andrew Little in response to written questions by National Dunedin list MP Michael Woodhouse, showed the proposed hospital would have 474 beds, compared with the 383 available at the hospital now.

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Article: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/new-hospital-will-have-more-beds-figures
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Author: RNZ

The Security Intelligence Service is being praised for allowing more transparency with its information.

The SIS's annual report has disclosed that a New Zealand citizen is working for a foreign state's intelligence services.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/439318/sis-s-more-open-approach-makes-risk-appraisal-easier-professor
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As Myanmar’s military celebrated the annual Armed Forces Day holiday with a parade Saturday (local time) in the country's capital, soldiers and police elsewhere reportedly killed dozens of people as they suppressed protests in the deadliest bloodletting since last month's coup.

A count issued by an independent researcher in Yangon who has been compiling near-real time death tolls put the total as darkness fell at 93, spread over more than two dozen cities and towns. The online news site Myanmar Now reported the death toll had reached 91.

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