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The New York Times says it has verified a video which appears to show a missile hitting a Ukrainian International Airlines plane shortly before it crashed in Iran.
The Boeing 737 crashed on Wednesday, shortly after take-off from Tehran airport, and hours after Iran had fired missiles at two military bases in Iraq housing US troops.
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Read more: Video appears to show missile hitting doomed Ukrainian plane
- Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/video-appears-show-missile-hitting-doomed-ukrainian-plane-moments-before-crashes-in-iran
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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.
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Read more: New Zealand Defence Force ready to assist vital work
- 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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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."
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Read more: 'Top cop' spotted pruning hedges in Otago instead of giving tickets
- 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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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.
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Read more: Experts cast doubt technical issue behind flight 752 crash
- 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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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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Read more: Two rockets fall near US embassy in Baghdad
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/01/two-blasts-heard-near-us-embassy-in-baghdad.html
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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.
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Read more: Iran calls on NZ to use its influence to promote peace
- 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.
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Read more: Defence Force asked for national fire risk assessment to prevent large blazes
- 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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Read more: NZ base not hit in attack - Winston Peters
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