Category : Defence
Author: Key.Aer

Chen Chuanren flies with the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s No.6 Squadron to find out more about its Kaman SH-2G(I) Super Seasprites.

For 32 years, the Royal New Zealand Navy flew four Westland Wasp helicopters as part of its Naval Support Flight, from Leander– class Batch 2TA frigates. The Navy received numerous former Fleet Air Arm Wasps for spares, before the type’s retirement in 1998.

Article: https://www.key.aero/article/super-seasprites
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Category : Defence
Author: Nighthawk

Around 2035 the RNZN's two ANZAC frigates will need replacing. What are New Zealand’s options. What will meet their needs and requirements. Now this is one of the hard this, as decisions we make today have to compatible for at last 30 years.

There already a few options that New Zealand could tap into. From the expensive to the more affordable options. The RNZN has been keeping an eye on various projects around the world already but officially the industry engagement is around 2023.

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Category : News
Author: RNZ

Hundreds of pets are coming through the border each month, serving their time in quarantine like their humans, but without having to take a compulsory Covid-19 test.

Most recent figures from July show 518 cats and dogs were imported to New Zealand, just below the figure from a year earlier.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/12/hundreds-of-pets-coming-through-new-zealand-border-being-quarantined.html
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Author: The Conversation

To misquote Shakespeare, our Brexit negotiating revels now are ended. The tempestuous talks did not lead to a dramatic walkout, even if at times the UK government gave the impression this was a feud worthy of the Montagues against the Capulets. The negotiators ignored the background noise and succeeded in drafting a dense legal document on which the future of UK-EU relations now hangs.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/12/brexit-deal-done-what-s-in-it-and-where-next-for-the-uk-and-eu.html
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Author: Finn McHugh

Up to 3000 Australian soldiers could be stripped of accolades amid the fallout from a horrific Afghan war crimes report released on Thursday.

The report found evidence of 39 murders by Australian special forces, recommending 19 troops be investigated by the Australian Federal Police.

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Author: Alice Wilkins

A new strain of COVID-19 has New Zealand public health experts calling for stricter border controls, as the UK faces Christmas in lockdown. 

Preparing for Christmas in New Zealand is very different to the preparations happening overseas with even more parts of England given notice that they're going back into a strict lockdown.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/12/new-zealand-public-health-experts-call-for-stricter-border-controls-as-covid-19-mutates.html
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Category : News
Author: Vita Molyneux

New South Wales authorities are warning COVID-19 could be spreading through Sydney's CBD after a man contracted the virus with no links to a known cluster.

NSW recorded nine new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday - seven of the cases are directly linked to a current cluster, and two are under investigation. 

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/12/new-south-wales-officials-warn-transmission-could-get-out-of-control-after-sydney-cbd-worker-contracts-covid-19.html
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Author: Lana Andelane & Reuters

Huge swathes of England will be placed under stringent COVID-19 restrictions, the British government announced on Wednesday (local time), as a highly infectious virus variant sweeps the country and pushes case numbers to a record level.

Britain has reported almost 40,000 new infections as the mutated variant of the coronavirus - which could be up to 70 percent more transmissible than the original strain - causes case numbers and hospital admissions to soar.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/12/coronavirus-latest-on-covid-19-from-around-the-world-thursday-december-24.html
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