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The AM Show co-host Duncan Garner has come out swinging at Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, saying that overseas views of her as a hero are "shallow".
His comments came after National Party Justice spokesperson Mark Mitchell appeared on the show to discuss a prisoner who was released after he went on a 25-day hunger strike.
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Read more: Overseas views of Jacinda Ardern as a hero are 'shallow'
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/02/overseas-views-of-jacinda-ardern-as-a-hero-are-shallow-duncan-garner.html
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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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Read more: US accuses China of 'debt-trap diplomacy' in Pacific
- Article: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12310493
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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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Read more: Coronavirus: How WHO Corruption Helped It Spread
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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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Read more: Health Minister David Clark on coronavirus travel ban
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/410290/health-minister-david-clark-on-coronavirus-travel-ban
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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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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
- 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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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
- 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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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
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/119751996/vaping-student-who-collapsed-at-school-got-the-fright-of-his-life
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