Author: Conor Whitten

The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel in Australia who are helping to fight the bushfires have arrived in their base-town Nowra, New South Wales (NSW), where vital work awaits them.

They will go wherever they're needed to move people and deliver crucial supplies, but they'll also be crucial to NSW firefighters. From the air, they can see where the fire is spreading and which communities stand in the way.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/01/australia-bushfires-new-zealand-defence-force-ready-to-assist-vital-work.html
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Author: Vita Molyneux

A helpful police officer has been praised on social media for pruning a roadside bush in Otago that was reducing visibility rather than ticketing drivers.

A photo of the policeman was posted to Reddit on Tuesday, captioned: "Top cop 2020 contender."

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/01/top-cop-spotted-pruning-hedges-in-otago-instead-of-giving-tickets.html
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Author: Dan Satherley

There is growing speculation a jet that crashed near Tehran, killing 176 people, may have been accidentally - or deliberately - shot down by Iranian air defences.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/01/iran-plane-crash-experts-cast-doubt-technical-issue-behind-flight-752-crash.html
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Author: Reuters & Vita Molyneux

Two rockets have fallen inside Baghdad's green zone, where the US embassy is located.

Two large blasts were heard, followed by sirens on Wednesday night in the Iraqi capital, Reuters witnesses said. 

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By Matthew Theunissen of RNZ

Iran's embassy in Wellington is calling on New Zealand to promote peace and security in the Middle East after rockets fell on US bases in Iraq on Wednesday.

The US Department of Defence confirmed that Iran launched more than a dozen rockets against the US military facilities of al-Asad base in western Iraq and Erbil in the north.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/01/iran-calls-on-nz-to-use-its-influence-to-promote-peace.html
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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.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/01/defence-force-asked-for-national-fire-risk-assessment-to-prevent-large-blaze.html
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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?

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/01/opinion-new-zealand-s-response-to-soleimani-assassination-shamefully-timid.html
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