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Thales Australia has cut the first steel for New Zealand’s new fleet of Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicles (PMV) at its factory in the Australian State of Victoria. New Zealand ordered an additional 43 of the type in 2020, to replace its aging fleet of armoured Pinzgauer transports. Previously, in 2015, New Zealand’s special forces, the New Zealand Special Air Service (NZSAS), acquired five of the type from Australia which they have operated ever since.
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Read more: Thales Australia Cuts Steel for New Zealand’s new Bushmasters
- Article: https://www.overtdefense.com/2021/08/20/thales-australia-cuts-steel-for-new-zealands-new-bushmasters/
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Here's What You Need To Remember: With the federal deficit growing, the military is likely to see some lean years.
Is it worth sacrificing some F-35s and aircraft carriers to trim the federal budget deficit?
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Read more: The Biggest Threat to Aircraft Carriers is Not Russia or China
- Article: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/biggest-threat-aircraft-carriers-not-russia-or-china-192659
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A U.S. warship and a U.S. Coast Guard cutter sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Friday, the latest in what Washington calls routine operations through the sensitive waterway that separates Taiwan from China, which claims the self-ruled island.
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Read more: US warship sails Taiwan strait, China says move 'provocative'
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/08/us-warship-sails-taiwan-strait-china-says-move-provactive.html
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The Government is being urged to push for the safe passage of anyone who is eligible to get out of Afghanistan but is stranded there, now the Taliban have taken control.
On Thursday, New Zealand made its last evacuation flight out of Kabul following the bomb attack at the airport which killed scores of people.
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Read more: NZ 'has a moral obligation' to stay involved in Afghanistan crisis - defence expert
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/450263/government-urged-to-lobby-for-safe-passage-of-those-wanting-to-flee-afghanistan
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Employers continue to be “shocked” they can not unilaterally reduce workers’ pay during the level 4 lockdown, says an employment law expert.
An Auckland electrical contractor sent an email on Thursday saying that staff not working on construction sites would receive 80 per cent of their normal wage for this week’s pay, consisting of $600 from the Government’s wage subsidy and a top-up from the company.
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Read more: Employers can't just decide to pay staff 80% in lockdown, lawyers say
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/126209523/covid19-employers-cant-just-decide-to-pay-staff-80-in-lockdown-lawyers-say
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A total of 370 people are on their way to New Zealand after being evacuated from Afghanistan.
It was still not know how many were New Zealand passport holders, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) spokesperson said.
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Read more: 370 people on way to New Zealand after Afghanistan evacuation - MFAT
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/08/370-people-on-way-to-new-zealand-after-afghanistan-evacuation-mfat.html
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China has vowed to retaliate if the US accuses China of leaking covid from its lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. China contests that the coronavirus came from Fort Detrick in Maryland, and it has some sick beats to back that claim up. According to a research lab in Canada, Apple is helping the Chinese Communist Party censor what people can write on their phones in Taiwan (sidenote: why is one of China's dead leaders on the list of forbidden terms?). And there is concern in a Michigan community that Chinese fentanyl—I mean fluoride—is being used in its drinking water. China is also exporting a lot of fentanyl to the US, although as far as we know it's not being used in drinking water. Watch this episode of China Uncensored for that and more of this week's China news headlines.
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Read more: China Vows Retaliation! New Report on Covid Origins
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There are 82 new cases of COVID-19 in the community, the Ministry of Health says.
Saturday's update means the total number of cases associated with this outbreak sits at 429, of which 415 are in Auckland and 14 are in Wellington. The Wellington number didn't increase on Saturday.
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Read more: 82 new cases takes outbreak to 429
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/08/coronavirus-82-new-cases-takes-outbreak-to-429.html
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