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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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Read more: German teen Naomi Seibt, the 'antidote to Greta Thunberg', gaining popularity
- 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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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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Read more: Sharp increase in cases in Iran, Italy, South Korea
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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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Read more: Forget leap days, start every year on a Monday - professors propose new calendar
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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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Read more: Vaping student who collapsed at school 'got the fright of his life
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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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Read more: How China’s Incompetence Endangered the World
- Article: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/15/coronavirus-xi-jinping-chinas-incompetence-endangered-the-world/
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says it's "not realistic to assume" COVID-19 will never reach New Zealand, and the current travel restrictions can't go on forever.
The virus has so far infected nearly 80,000 people, killing nearly 2500 of them. The vast majority of the deaths - 2346 - have been in China's Hubei province, where the outbreak began. It's now starting to spread in other countries, most notably South Korea, Japan, Italy, Singapore and Iran.
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Read more: 'Very high chance' COVID-19 will reach NZ
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International concern about the spread of coronavirus outside China has grown with sharp rises in infections in South Korea, Italy and Iran.
South Korea went on high alert on Sunday (local time) after the number of infections surged over 600, with six deaths.
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Read more: Coronavirus: South Korea on high alert, cases jump in Italy and Iran
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A US daredevil pilot has been killed during an attempted launch of a homemade rocket in the Californian desert.
'Mad' Mike Hughes crash-landed his steam-powered projectile shortly after take-off.
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Read more: Amateur 'astronaut' trying to prove the Earth is flat killed in rocket crash
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