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Multiple investigations are underway after a Canterbury doctor was filmed issuing COVID vaccine medical certificate exemptions to anti-vaxxers.
This is despite the fact official exemptions need to go through the Ministry of Health to be assessed and issued. Intentional breaches can lead to fines or a prison sentence for up to six months.
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"Someone is going to get it."
Those were Luke James Lambert's chilling words to an associate only half an hour before carrying out a frenzied stabbing attack on four strangers in Countdown Dunedin Central in May.
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Read more: Dunedin Countdown stabbings: Man pleads guilty to attempted murder
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/457461/dunedin-countdown-stabbings-man-pleads-guilty-to-attempted-murder
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New Zealand is being issued a stark warning - our strategic environment is deteriorating and is becoming the most challenging it's been in decades.
The Ministry of Defence has released its report on the global landscape and highlights strategic competition as a key threat, which it says is driven by China.
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New Zealand’s position in the South Pacific is increasingly threatened by an assertive China, and defence officials fear the construction of a military base in the region could “fundamentally alter the strategic balance”.
The dire warning about worsening regional security and global competition was contained in the latest Defence Assessment, published by the Ministry of Defence on Wednesday.
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Another 14 people have been arrested as part of an investigation into the smuggling of drugs into New Zealand using baggage handlers.
"A total of 24 people have been charged as a result of a six-month joint investigation by the NZ police's national organised crime group and NZ Customs investigating vulnerabilities at the New Zealand border and, in particular, Auckland International Airport and the Port of Auckland," a statement said.
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Read more: More baggage handlers, gang members arrested over drug smuggling operation
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/12/more-baggage-handlers-gang-members-arrested-over-drug-smuggling-operation.html
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The United States will have to "pay a price" for its diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, China said on Tuesday, just weeks after talks aimed at easing tense relations between the two sides.
The White House said on Monday U.S. government officials would boycott the Winter Olympics because of China's human rights "atrocities", although U.S. athletes were free to travel there to compete.
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New Zealand, and no doubt the rest of the world, has had to reprioritize government agendas to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. We made it a priority to keep New Zealanders safe while continuing to accelerate our economic recovery to set the foundations for a better future.
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Read more: New Zealand’s defense minister: Industry is still weathering the COVID-19 storm
- Article: https://www.defensenews.com/outlook/2021/12/06/new-zealands-defense-minister-industry-is-still-weathering-the-covid-19-storm/
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The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China wants us to join America’s diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced the boycott earlier today.
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Read more: IPAC writes letter to PM asking to join US in Winter Olympics diplomatic boycott
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