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Author: Kurt Bayer

China is allegedly buying political influence in the Pacific through a soft power campaign of debt-trap diplomacy and "economic blackmail", according to senior US military leaders who say New Zealand is a key player in maintaining a "free and open" region.

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Author: China Uncensored

Rampant corruption within the United Nations World Health Organization is putting lives at risk during the deadly coronavirus outbreak from Wuhan, China. Why did the WHO delay issuing a global emergency? Has Chinese money influenced the WHO and it's Director General Tedros Adhanom? And what about poor Taiwan?

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Health Minister David Clark says the government is keeping a close eye on countries with soaring instances of Covid-19 amid an uncertain international situation.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/410290/health-minister-david-clark-on-coronavirus-travel-ban
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Author: Vita Molyneux

A 19-year-old German girl described as "the antidote to Greta Thunberg" is gaining popularity with her right-wing supporters.

 
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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/02/german-teen-naomi-seibt-the-antidote-to-greta-thunberg-gaining-popularity-with-far-right.html
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Author: Reuters

Fears of a coronavirus pandemic have grown after sharp rises in new cases reported in Iran, Italy and South Korea but China relaxed restrictions on movements in several places including Beijing as its rates of new infections eased.

The surge of infections outside mainland China triggered steep falls in Asian shares and Wall Street stock futures as investors fled to safe havens such as gold. Oil prices tumbled.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/02/coronavirus-outbreak-sharp-increase-in-cases-in-iran-italy-south-korea.html
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Author: Meredith Cohn

In 1582, Pope Gregory began a campaign to replace Julius Caesar's widely used calendar with a slightly more accurate one that was named for him. Most of the modern world eventually agreed, and the rest is history.

Now a pair of Johns Hopkins professors believe it's time to turn the page on the Gregorian calendar in favour of one to really last the ages.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/119749275/forget-leap-days-start-every-year-on-a-monday--professors-propose-new-calendar
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Author: Libby Wilson

A Waikato student rapidly choked and collapsed after vaping in his school lunchbreak - he's since vowed never to touch the stuff again.

The Cambridge High School student was taken to Waikato Hospital last Wednesday, and his caregivers were told vaping was the cause, the school said.

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Author: Laurie Garrett

As the deadly coronavirus began to spread, Beijing wasted the most critical resource to fight it: trust.  The novel coronavirus epidemic has reached a critical juncture. Steps taken over the next few days, particularly by Beijing’s leadership, will decide the fate of the virus and whether it spreads internationally to become a genuine pandemic. Time is short for the Chinese government to prevent a catastrophe.

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Article: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/15/coronavirus-xi-jinping-chinas-incompetence-endangered-the-world/
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