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Rocket Lab is excited to be launching CAPSTONE this year for @NASA in support of #Artemis​. Electron and Photon will deploy this pathfinding satellite to a never-before-used cislunar orbit near the Moon.

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From topside to inside. Following the installation of her new superstructure, HMNZS Te Mana recently moved across Canada’s Esquimalt Harbour from Victoria Shipyards to the Fleet Maintenance Facility for the next stage of her frigate systems upgrade.
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Data was withheld from World Health Organization investigators who travelled to China to research the origins of the coronavirus epidemic, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday.

He made the comments to the agency's member states as a WHO-led team that spent four weeks in and around Wuhan, China, in January and February released its final report to the public.

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Author: Jamie Ensor

New Zealand has joined a group of countries advocating for media freedom, something it describes as increasingly under threat by governments using the COVID-19 pandemic as a pretext to restrict free expression.

The Media Freedom Coalition was formed in July 2019 with the purpose of supporting journalists, ensuring the free exchange of information and combating restrictions placed on media. Among the group's 46 member nations is Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Author: Priscilla Dickinson

Mortgage borrowers should be prepared for interest rates to go slightly higher over the next couple of years, a bank economist says.

Interest rates are already at record lows and economists don't expect interest rates to drop further.  In ASB's February quarterly economic forecast, the bank forecast interest rates to start rising in August 2022.

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Author: Rachel Sadler

Several Dr Seuss books that were pulled from further publication over their "racist imagery" are selling for hundreds of dollars on Trade Me.

Dr Seuss Enterprises, which represents the late author and illustrator, made the announcement earlier in March to discontinue some titles. The stories were pulled from print because of the way characters of Asian and African ethnicity are depicted.

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Author: Maxine Jacobs

A soldier who shared a photo of himself taking acid will go to military prison for two years and has been dismissed from service.

At a court martial in Linton on Monday, Signaller Braedan Francis Onehi​, 23, faced multiple charges of supplying, offering to supply and consuming LSD in Linton Military Camp in 2019 between May and August.

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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand will continue to raise concern with China over its treatment of the Uighur people in Xinjiang, describing how Aotearoa deals with the issue as "entirely predictable". 

The international response to the atrocities underway in China's Xinjiang region escalated last week when three of New Zealand's Five Eyes partners - the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada - as well as the European Union sanctioned Chinese officials linked to the human rights abuses against the Uighur people. 

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