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US federal health agencies on Tuesday recommended pausing the use of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine for at least a few days after six women under 50 given the shot developed rare blood clots, dealing a fresh setback to efforts to tackle the pandemic.
Following the news, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) said it was delaying the rollout of the vaccine to Europe, a week after regulators there said they were reviewing rare blood clots in four recipients of the shot in the United States.
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There are fears China and Russia could coordinate respective invasions of Taiwan and Ukraine, stretching the military resources of the United States and testing new President Joe Biden.
It comes as tensions mount in Crimea and Ukraine's eastern Donbas region - where Russia keeps deploying more troops - and around Taiwan in the South China Sea, where the US is already responding to an increased Chinese military presence.
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The Māori Party president says he wasn't aware the party had failed to disclose more than $320,000 in election donations, and once they realised what had happened they went directly to the Electoral Commission.
Three donations from 2020 were not declared within the 10 working days required by the Electoral Commission, and now, the matter has been referred to police.
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Anzac Day marks six months since this Government took office. Professor Robert Ayson argues it's time for our silent Defence Minister to begin staking out the positions on military policy and capability – before our bigger allies do it for him.
Jacinda Ardern’s first prime ministerial term began with a novel policy experiment. Courtesy of the post-election agreement with NZ First, the Labour Party subcontracted Wellington’s external engagement to its smaller coalition partner at the end of 2017.
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The Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield has revealed there are a range of reasons why some frontline border workers are hesitant to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
During the 1pm update on Monday, Dr Bloomfield confirmed there was a small group of people working on the frontline who had been offered the vaccine but had declined it.
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There is one new border-related case of COVID-19.
This person is a worker at the Grand Millennium managed isolation facility and is a close contact of the case reported on Thursday.
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The Biden Administration and New Zealand’s Strategic Options: Asymmetric Hedging, Tight Five Eyes Alignment, and Armed Neutrality
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Japanese authorities have rejected four shipments of New Zealand honey since more stringent testing was introduced for the weed killer glyphosate in January.
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) introduced mandatory testing for all honey headed to Japan from January 20 in response to concerns about glyphosate levels following random testing in Japan, which prompted authorities there to start testing all New Zealand honey at the border.
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Read more: Japan rejects NZ honey with traces of weedkiller glyphosate
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