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Defence Minister Ron Mark has asked the Defence Force for a national fire risk assessment to prevent a disaster like Australia's bushfires.
Mark said there was nothing to prevent large-scale blazes from also happening in New Zealand and that he had ordered the assessment shortly before Christmas.
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Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters has again called for calm and diplomacy following Iranian missile strikes on bases housing United States troops in Iraq, but confirmed New Zealand's base in the country was not hit.
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Winston Peters' weak statement on the US assassination of an Iranian military commander is a craven display of fealty to Donald Trump, argues former Green MP Keith Locke.
OPINION: How can New Zealand claim to have an independent foreign policy when it won't even criticise America's assassination of Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian leader?
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Read more: New Zealand's response to Soleimani assassination shamefully timid
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The National Party says New Zealand troops stationed in Iraq should not "cut and run", advising the Government to keep troops on the ground.
On Wednesday, Iran launched its retaliation for the US-orchestrated killing of top Iranian general, Qassem Soleimani. More than a dozen missiles were fired at two military bases in Iraq, the complexes known to house both US and Iraqi troops.
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Read more: MIDDLE EAST Iran missile attacks: National wants to keep New Zealand troops in Iraq
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New Zealand is set to experience drier and calmer weather than normal, according to WeatherWatch.
The North Island and parts of the South Island will feel warm sub-tropical northerly-quarter winds from Friday to Saturday, followed by a brief phase of cooler and windier weather on Sunday and Monday.
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Read more: Drier, calmer, warmer weather heading to New Zealand
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Video has emerged of a New Zealand Defence Force Boeing 757 flying as low as 90 metres above Kerikeri in Northland, before climbing to a higher altitude and leaving the area.
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Read more: NZ Defence Force plane stuns locals as it skims houses in Northland
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New Zealand's withdrawal from Iraq looks "inevitable" following Iranian missiles strikes against bases hosting United States troops, former Minister of Defence Wayne Mapp says.
The NZDF is, meanwhile, investigating claims New Zealand's base in Iraq has also been hit.
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Read more: NZ withdrawal from Iraq now 'inevitable': former Defence Minister
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Some New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel just deployed to Australia's bushfire crisis may be headed for biodiversity-rich Kangaroo Island, where around 155,000ha of pristine land has been scorched.
Around 100 NZDF personnel were today flown across the Tasman to help Australia battle the unprecedented fires, now burning across several states.
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