Author: Dan Satherley

An expert advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) has described the coronavirus outbreak as potentially "thermonuclear pandemic level bad".

Dozens have been killed by the virus 2019-nCoV since it was first detected in early December, and as of Sunday morning (NZ time) there were 1441 confirmed cases. 

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/01/harvard-expert-calls-coronavirus-outbreak-thermonuclear-pandemic-level-bad.html
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Author: George Block

The Defence Force is battling to find a buyer for 30 unwanted armoured vehicles which cost about $186 million.

It is another chapter in the long running saga of one of the army's most expensive, and most controversial, purchases.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/119010120/defence-force-struggling-to-find-a-buyer-for-30-unwanted-armoured-vehicles
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Author: Daniel Rutledge

Taika Waititi has confessed to being a time traveller after a fan noticed his likeness in an 1862 oil painting by Édouard Manet.

A man resembling the Thor: Ragnarok filmmaker with a grey beard appears in Manet's 'The Old Musician', which was pointed out on Twitter.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2018/05/taika-waititi-admits-he-s-a-time-traveller-after-mysterious-manet-painting-discovery.html
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Author: Jamie Ensor

New Zealand's Ministry of Health is stressing the risk to Kiwis from the case of coronavirus confirmed in Australia is "very low".

On Saturday, Australian authorities confirmed a Chinese National in Melbourne was infected with the mystery illness that has so far killed at least 41 and infected nearly 1300.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/01/coronavirus-new-zealanders-shouldn-t-be-alarmed-by-australia-s-confirmed-illness-moh.html
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The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Australia has risen to four nationwide after three cases were confirmed in New South Wales.

NSW Health says three infected men are being treated in isolation in Sydney's Westmead Hospital.

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New Zealand's Ministry of Health says the situation here "remains unchanged" as Australia announced its first case of the China coronavirus today.

Dr Caroline McElnay, Director of Public Health for the Ministry of Health, told 1 NEWS the ministry will remain in close contact with Australian authorities over the coronavirus case.

Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/ministry-health-says-situation-in-nz-remains-unchanged-australia-announces-first-case-china-coronavirus
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President Donald Trump unveiled the Space Force logo today, writing on Twitter that he had consulted with military leaders and designers before presenting the blue-and-white symbol, which features an arrowhead shape centred on a planetary background and encircled by the words, “United States Space Force” and “Department of the Air Force.”

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Ron Mark meets United States Secretary of Defense Mark Esper in Washington DC.

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