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An asteroid named after the Egyptian god of evil that was tipped to smash into the Earth in 2068 has been demoted.
New measurements by astronomers show the 350m-wide Apophis won't hit us anytime in the next century, so it's being taken off the European Space Agency's notorious Risk List of potential civilisation-destroying asteroids.
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Read more: Asteroid Apophis, named after the Egyptian god of evil, won't hit Earth after all
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/03/asteroid-apophis-named-after-the-egyptian-god-of-evil-won-t-hit-earth-after-all.html
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The West is teaming up against the Chinese Communist Party! The US, Canada, UK, and EU have put sanctions on the CCP for the persecution of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang China. It follows the US China meeting in Anchorage Alaska that was a little less than smooth.
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Read more: The West Fights Back Against China | Uyghur Sanctions
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Security Intelligence Service spies have discovered a New Zealander covertly gathering information for a foreign intelligence agency.
The person has been using both "overt and covert" methods to collect information about people in New Zealand who a foreign state believes are dissidents, according to the Security Intelligence Services (SIS).
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Read more: Spies catch out New Zealander working for a foreign intelligence agency
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A poverty advocacy group is disappointed after several landlords joked about poisoning squatters in a property investors Facebook group.
A woman, who wished to remain anonymous, sent Newshub screenshots of the comments. She joined the group to get advice about buying her first home but said she was "appalled" by the attitudes towards renters.
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Landlords were taken aback earlier this week when the Government announced they would no longer be able to deduct interest payments from rental incomes to reduce their tax liability.
But it's not a policy that's come right out of the blue, having been phased in over the past four years in the UK.
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This week, in favourable sea conditions and 250 nautical miles southeast of Tonga, the crew of HMNZS Aotearoa retrieved a Deep Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami (DART) buoy that had been drifting since it broke its mooring in December.
The buoy was part of a network managed by the National Emergency Management Agency that provides tsunami monitoring and detection coverage for New Zealand and the southwest Pacific.
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Read more: Navy retrieves drifting Pacific tsunami buoy
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Any border worker who refuses a vaccination will soon be removed from their frontline job.
COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says they can't force people to take the jab, but nor is it acceptable to have unvaccinated people working in New Zealand's main protection against the virus ravaging other parts of the world.
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Read more: Border workers who refuse vaccine to be removed from frontline jobs
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Only one in 10 Dudenites are using the COVID Tracer app when they're out and about, a "disturbingly low" percentage according to researchers.
And a third of venues aren't getting anyone to scan in at all, many of them bars - a high-risk setting for COVID-19 transmission if there was an outbreak.
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