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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
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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
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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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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
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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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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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Winston Peters' weak statement on the US assassination of an Iranian military commander is a craven display of fealty to Donald Trump, argues former Green MP Keith Locke.
OPINION: How can New Zealand claim to have an independent foreign policy when it won't even criticise America's assassination of Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian leader?
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Read more: New Zealand's response to Soleimani assassination shamefully timid
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The National Party says New Zealand troops stationed in Iraq should not "cut and run", advising the Government to keep troops on the ground.
On Wednesday, Iran launched its retaliation for the US-orchestrated killing of top Iranian general, Qassem Soleimani. More than a dozen missiles were fired at two military bases in Iraq, the complexes known to house both US and Iraqi troops.
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Read more: MIDDLE EAST Iran missile attacks: National wants to keep New Zealand troops in Iraq
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