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Author: KRISTIN HALL

Some employers are underpaying their workers and First Union says it's expecting to see that continue as lockdown rolls on in Auckland and Northland.

Eyewear company OPSM/Luxottica is paying New Zealand staff 80 per cent of their normal rate of pay. In an email a spokesperson told 1 NEWS that employees are the companies' “most important asset” and the pay reduction is “consistent with previous long-term lockdowns”.

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Author: Caley Callahan

The Kiwi Commander in charge of New Zealand's evacuation effort in Afghanistan has spoken for the first time about just how difficult the mission was.

Group Captain Nick Olney compared the rescue to pulling people from a mosh pit, and says they were lucky not to have been at the airport when the first suicide bomber struck.

Flying over a city under Taliban control, our Defence Force (NZDF) lands at Kabul's International Airport, taxiing past lines of people boarding aircraft from around the world in a race to evacuate as many as possible.

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Author: Emma Clark

On September 1, COVID-19 vaccinations will finally be open to all New Zealanders no matter their age, occupation or health status. 

But at the same time as New Zealand is facing the wrath of Delta, we are facing another growing epidemic - the wrath of misinformation, something that is almost impossible to escape. 

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Author: MARC DAALDER

The Government hasn't used Bluetooth tracing to check whether people have been exposed to any new cases since the first day of the outbreak, Marc Daalder reports

The Government has not made use of a contact tracing function that Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins described as a "tool that will help to speed up contact tracing".

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Author: Reuters

The U.S. intelligence community does not believe it can resolve a debate over whether a Chinese laboratory incident was the source of COVID-19 without more information, U.S. officials said in a declassified summary on Friday.

U.S. officials said only China can help solve questions about the true origins of the virus that has now killed 4.6 million people worldwide. "China's cooperation most likely would be needed to reach a conclusive assessment of the origins of COVID-19," they said.

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Author: Reuters

North Korea appears to have restarted a nuclear reactor that is widely believed to have produced plutonium for nuclear weapons, the U.N. atomic watchdog has said in an annual report.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has had no access to North Korea since Pyongyang expelled its inspectors in 2009. 

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Author: Josephine Franks

There are 53 new cases of Covid-19 linked to the Delta community outbreak, bringing the total number of cases to 562.

The Ministry of Health gave the update in a statement on Monday, ahead of a Cabinet decision later on alert levels, due to be announced at 4pm.

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Author: Matt Burrows & Rebecca Watson

A New Zealand conspiracy group is in disarray, turning on each other and lamenting a poor turnout after barely anyone turned up to an anti-lockdown protest in Auckland CBD last week.

Police arrived at Aotea Square to break up the demonstration on Friday after being alerted to chatter about it on social media, but told Newshub only one person arrived with the intention of protesting.

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