Author: Rob Kidd

A Mosgiel man who believed he was sexually grooming a 14-year-old girl online has been sentenced to five months’ home detention.

Article: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/man-caught-grooming-14-year-old-sting-gets-home-detention
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Author: Hamish McNeilly

Evan Hedley Smith knew she was underage when he said he wanted her virginity, but it turns out the 14-year-old girl he confessed his love for was actually an undercover cop.

Police swooped on the 63-year-old Mosgiel man when he parked next to a Dunedin playground on December 20, 2018.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/119447693/age-is-only-a-number-sexual-groomer-tells-undercover-cop-posing-as-14yearold-girl
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Author: Mike Yeo

MELBOURNE, Australia — Maritime patrol and maritime surveillance aircraft are a vital tool in ensuring what is known as maritime domain awareness, and they serve as a complementary asset for navies and coast guards protecting their nation’s maritime interests.

Article: https://www.defensenews.com/digital-show-dailies/singapore-airshow/2020/02/11/theres-no-shortage-of-threats-in-the-southeast-asian-seas-so-why-arent-residents-buying-maritime-patrol-aircraft/
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Author: PBS Space Time

We’re living in a brief window of time where our planet isn’t frozen underneath a giant layer of glaciers. How much longer will the moderate climate that we’ve come to know as “normal” continue? What causes these dramatic shifts in temperature that thaw our planet and then throw it back into a state of deep freeze? This episode looks at how the changes in our planet’s orbit and rotation impacts our climate.

Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztninkgZ0ws
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Author: Sky News Australia

Sky News host Chris Smith says the Australian public are “smelling a rat” when it comes to the charitable donations given towards the nation’s bushfire victims.

Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_G33E8AI9s
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Author: Reuters

China's coronavirus has been named officially as COVID-19, with the World Health Organisation (WHO) explaining that it was important to avoid stigma and that other names could be inaccurate.

"We had to find a name that did not refer to a geographical location, an animal, an individual, or group of people," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Geneva on Tuesday (local time).

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/02/coronavirus-deadly-illness-named-officially-as-covid-19-world-health-organisation.html
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Author: Vita Molyneux

A determined man frustrated Wellington motorists by walking in the middle of the road carrying a couch on his back.

Video of the man posted on Facebook on Saturday showed him trudging along the road in Eastbourne as cars slow to a crawl behind him.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/02/man-carrying-couch-blocks-wellington-traffic.html
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Author: Rachel Sadler

US health officials say they have successfully treated an American coronavirus patient with an experimental drug.

Remdesivir was made by American pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, and was used on a 35-year-old man in Snohomish County, Washington state, the Washington Post reported.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/02/coronavirus-us-health-officials-successfully-treat-patient-with-experimental-drug.html
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