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Yesterday the alarming news broke that the Solomon Islands is planning to sign a security agreement with the People’s Republic of China, opening the way for a permanent military base and intelligence listening posts. The new agreement has implications for the security of the whole of the Pacific.
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Read more: Shock China security deal shows Pacific powers need to face facts
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A Russian general has been killed in a strike near the southern city of Kherson in Ukraine after gloating the war would be over within hours.
Lt Gen Yakov Rezantsev - who was the commander of Russia's 49th combined army - was reportedly killed during a Ukrainian strike on the Chornobaivka airbase near Kherson.
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Rockets struck the outskirts of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Saturday for what appeared to be the first time since Russia's invasion, and Russian forces took control of a town where workers at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant live.
Intense fighting raged in several parts of Ukraine, suggesting there will be no swift let-up in the month-old war, and US President Joe Biden called Russia's Vladimir Putin a "butcher" after meeting Ukrainian refugees in Poland.
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Read more: Russia-Ukraine war: Russians hit western Ukrainian city Lviv with rockets
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/03/russia-ukraine-war-russians-hit-western-ukrainian-city-lviv-with-rockets.html
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Russian forces in Ukraine appear to have shifted their focus from a ground offensive aimed at Kyiv, the capital, to instead prioritising what Moscow calls liberation of the contested Donbas region in the country's industrial east, officials said Friday, suggesting a new phase of the war.
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Read more: Russian forces appear to shift focus from Kyiv offensive
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OPINION: Prime minister David Lange famously told a questioner at a debate at Oxford University on nuclear weapons: “I can smell the uranium on (your breath) as you lean towards me.”
Well, there’s still a whiff of uranium on the breath of some KiwiSaver funds, new research from ethical research charity Mindful Money suggests, but not for much longer.
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Read more: KiwiSaver crawls towards its nuclear-free moment
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/128145013/kiwisaver-crawls-towards-its-nuclearfree-moment
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Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft may have to change their core business practices in Europe as EU countries and EU lawmakers clinched a deal on landmark rules to curb their powers.
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Read more: US tech giants face tough new rules as EU countries, lawmakers clinch deal
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Russia has issued a chilling threat, saying it will launch nuclear weapons against the West if Nato forces enter Ukraine.
The disturbing warnings were made by commentators on President Vladimir Putin's highly controlled state TV on Wednesday, ahead of Thursday's emergency summit in Brussels between Nato, G7 and European Union leaders.
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Read more: Russia threatens 'universal nuclear war' if Nato peacekeepers enter Ukraine
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Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has a Chinese-government-proposed text for a security agreement between his country and China, which is apparently being considered by his government.
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