NZ Defence Force captain in charge of Afghanistan evacuation speaks about mission for the first time
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The Kiwi Commander in charge of New Zealand's evacuation effort in Afghanistan has spoken for the first time about just how difficult the mission was.
Group Captain Nick Olney compared the rescue to pulling people from a mosh pit, and says they were lucky not to have been at the airport when the first suicide bomber struck.
Flying over a city under Taliban control, our Defence Force (NZDF) lands at Kabul's International Airport, taxiing past lines of people boarding aircraft from around the world in a race to evacuate as many as possible.
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- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/08/nz-defence-force-captain-in-charge-of-afghanistan-evacuation-speaks-about-mission-for-the-first-time.html
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On September 1, COVID-19 vaccinations will finally be open to all New Zealanders no matter their age, occupation or health status.
But at the same time as New Zealand is facing the wrath of Delta, we are facing another growing epidemic - the wrath of misinformation, something that is almost impossible to escape.
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Read more: How to protect anti-vax loved ones from the torrent of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation
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The Government hasn't used Bluetooth tracing to check whether people have been exposed to any new cases since the first day of the outbreak, Marc Daalder reports
The Government has not made use of a contact tracing function that Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins described as a "tool that will help to speed up contact tracing".
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Read more: Govt hasn’t used Bluetooth tracing since start of outbreak
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The U.S. intelligence community does not believe it can resolve a debate over whether a Chinese laboratory incident was the source of COVID-19 without more information, U.S. officials said in a declassified summary on Friday.
U.S. officials said only China can help solve questions about the true origins of the virus that has now killed 4.6 million people worldwide. "China's cooperation most likely would be needed to reach a conclusive assessment of the origins of COVID-19," they said.
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Read more: US intelligence can't solve COVID-19 mystery without more information from China
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North Korea appears to have restarted a nuclear reactor that is widely believed to have produced plutonium for nuclear weapons, the U.N. atomic watchdog has said in an annual report.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has had no access to North Korea since Pyongyang expelled its inspectors in 2009.
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Read more: North Korea appears to have restarted nuclear reactor, IAEA says
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There are 53 new cases of Covid-19 linked to the Delta community outbreak, bringing the total number of cases to 562.
The Ministry of Health gave the update in a statement on Monday, ahead of a Cabinet decision later on alert levels, due to be announced at 4pm.
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Read more: 53 new cases in Delta outbreak, 562 in total
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A New Zealand conspiracy group is in disarray, turning on each other and lamenting a poor turnout after barely anyone turned up to an anti-lockdown protest in Auckland CBD last week.
Police arrived at Aotea Square to break up the demonstration on Friday after being alerted to chatter about it on social media, but told Newshub only one person arrived with the intention of protesting.
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At this point, it is worth noting that the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia also had a habit of "acquiring" Western technology without the consent of the owners, for everything from the atomic bomb, to the Space Shuttle and video games. It's actually a dubious accomplishment, an admission that a nation lacks the capacity to really innovate its own technology.
Remember that Russian carrier-based jet that China copied without permission? Those airplanes are crashing, and Russia doesn't seem too broken up about it.
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Read more: Why Russia Doesn’t Care That Chinese J-15 Jets are Crashing
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