Category : News
Author: Emma Hatton

The last time Ali heard from his brother was a voicemail he left him over the weekend.

He was running for the mountains.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/449308/afghan-kiwis-plead-with-government-to-bring-their-families-to-nz
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Author: RNZ

The NZDF will not be required to land in Kabul itself but will be providing airlift support in and around Afghanistan, the Defence Minister says.

New Zealand's military deployment to get people out of Afghanistan will be a difficult and delicate mission if the reports coming out of Kabul airport are anything to go by.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/449334/defence-force-will-not-land-in-afghanistan-peeni-henare
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Author: RocketLab

Long Beach, California. August 16, 2021 – Rocket Lab, a leading launch provider and space systems company, has today announced it will launch a satellite to test space junk removal technologies for Aurora Propulsion Technologies, a Finnish company dedicated to the sustainable use of space.

Article: https://www.rocketlabusa.com/about-us/updates/new-blog-post-6/
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Author: Rachel Sadler

A former New Zealand First MP says party leader Winston Peters can't be counted out of returning to Parliament in 2023, if a new poll is anything to go by.

The UMR poll, which came out on Monday, shows Labour on 43 percent down 5 points, National on 28 percent up 4 points, ACT on 13 percent up 2 points, the Greens on 7 percent down 1 point, NZ First on 4.4 percent down 0.6 and the Māori Party on 1.7 percent up 0.2. The numbers are similar to the latest Newshub-Reid Research poll, which was taken at about the same time - around the end of July. 

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/08/umr-poll-why-new-zealand-first-got-a-bump-and-how-winston-peters-could-return-in-2023-jenny-marcroft.html
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Author: Kirsty Lawrence

An interpreter whose family worked with the New Zealand Defence Force in Afghanistan says it is unfair that his three siblings have been left behind to die at the hands of the Taliban.

Cabinet announced on Monday that New Zealanders and Afghan allies would be evacuated from Afghanistan but that’s cold comfort for Kazimi who thus far is in the dark about the fate of his brother and two sisters.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/126082304/afghanistan-my-siblings-served-new-zealand-now-theyre-targets
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As the Taliban regains its foothold on the Afghanistan capital of Kabul, women across the country are sitting, waiting – many hiding – in fear. But not all women are willing to conform to the archaic mandates previously enforced by the militant group.

"I have no intention of getting [a burqa]. I don't want to hide behind a curtain-like cloth," 26-year-old university student Habiba​ told The Guardian.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/126091120/my-identity-is-about-to-be-scrubbed-out-burqas-return-as-women-fear-for-their-future-under-taliban
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Category : Opinion
Author: Luke Malpass

ANALYSIS: All that blood and treasure and for what? The war in Afghanistan now reaches its tragic – and some would say inevitable – conclusion.

The Taliban – a fundamentalist theocracy – is back in power. The Government is scrambling to evacuate the estimated 53 New Zealanders there, plus Afghan nationals and their immediate families who helped the New Zealand Defence Force, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Operation Burnham inquiry. Chief of the Defence Force Kevin Short estimated that hundreds of people could potentially be rescued.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/126089596/afghanistan-war-20-years-of-blood-and-treasure--and-for-what
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Author: Reuters & ITV News

Thousands of civilians desperate to flee Afghanistan thronged Kabul airport on Monday after the Taliban seized the capital, prompting the US military to suspend evacuations as the United States came under mounting criticism at home over its pullout.

Crowds converged on the airport seeking to escape, including some clinging to a US military transport plane as it taxied on the runway, according to footage posted by a media company.  Several men plunged to their deaths, ITV News reported.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/08/five-killed-after-thousands-of-civilians-desperate-to-flee-afghanistan-flock-to-kabul-airport.html
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