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With mounting desperation, Donald Trump declared he would “fight like hell” to hold on to the United States presidency and appealed to Republican lawmakers to reverse his election loss to Joe Biden when they convene this week to confirm the Electoral College vote.
Electoral voters won by US President-elect Biden are “not gonna take this White House!” he shouted as supporters cheered at an outdoor rally on Monday night, local time, in Georgia. Trump's announced purpose for the trip was to boost Republican Senate candidates in Tuesday's runoff election, but he spent much of his speech complaining bitterly about his election loss – which he insists he won “by a lot”.
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As the COVID pandemic grows at pace overseas, there are concerns that Kiwis aren't using the Tracer app enough to help prevent an outbreak here.
Poster scans have dropped by a third over the Christmas break.
"I rarely use it, sorry, so guilty", one app user told Newshub.
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Read more: Warnings Kiwis aren't using COVID Tracer app enough as scans drop by a third
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Online cancel culture is like a "medieval mob looking for someone to burn", Rowan Atkinson has claimed.
The star of Blackadder and Mr Bean has long advocated for free speech and has campaigned against legislation he believes stifles expression.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Captive Nations Coalition, part of the Committee on Present Danger: China. The Captive Nations Coalition is made up of individuals from communities that are and have been taken over by the CCP, like Southern Mongolia, East Turkestan, Tibet, and really all of China as well—Hong Kong and even Falun Gong practitioners.
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Read more: How “Captive Nations” Are Fighting China and the Chinese Communist Party
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AIPEI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Two U.S. warships sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Thursday drawing protest from Beijing, the second such mission this month and coming almost two weeks after a Chinese aircraft carrier group used the same waterway.
China, which claims democratically run Taiwan as its own territory, has been angered by stepped-up U.S. support for the island, including arms sales and sailing warships through the Taiwan Strait, further souring Beijing-Washington relations.
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The new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is spreading rapidly in the UK and prompting high levels of concern around the world.
COVID-19 cases in Britain are at record levels and the increase in numbers is fuelled by the more transmissible variant of the virus.
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Two people are in hospital after a shooting in the early hours of this morning in North Canterbury.
Police have taken two people into custody following the incident.
Police were first alerted at about 3.30am when a man arrived at a residence in Kaiapoi, seeking help after being shot in the arm, a spokeswoman said.
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Read more: Two people in hospital after double shooting in Kaiapoi
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New Zealand’s place in the world is increasingly threatened as the post-World War II international order collapses and a power shift between the United States and China squeezes countries in the middle.
This picture of a “turbulent” world comes from newly released briefings to new Cabinet ministers written by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT), the Defence Force, and intelligence agencies the Security Intelligence Service (SIS) and the Government Security Communications Bureau (GCSB).
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