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Crew on a Royal New Zealand Air Force Boeing 757 have carried out a contactless delivery of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to Port Moresby to help Papua New Guinea deal with a surge in COVID-19 cases.
The delivery of the PPE follows the Government’s announcement on Friday that New Zealand is providing additional support to PNG following the spike in COVID-19 cases there.
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Read more: RNZAF delivers PPE to Papua New Guinea to help with COVID-19 response
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Two weeks later, in the poem that stole the inauguration show, Amanda Gorman insisted that “while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.” In his inaugural address Biden sought to rededicate the United States to its constitutional principles: “Today”, he intoned, “we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate, but of a cause, the cause of democracy.”
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Read more: Biden and Democracy: Implications for New Zealand
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About 80 per cent of staff working at New Zealand’s visa application centre in Beijing are direct employees of a company owned by the Beijing police, inflaming concerns that the Chinese government could gain access to information about citizens trying to leave the country.
Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi said he was happy with security arrangements at the centre, which the Government says protects the privacy of people applying for visas.
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Read more: NZ visa office in Beijing staffed mostly by Chinese police-owned company
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A member of the World Health Organization (WHO) team that recently spent time in China investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic says they've worked out where it probably came from.
Peter Daszak, a British expert on zoonotic diseases - those which leap from animals to humans - says the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, likely originated in southern China's wildlife farms.
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WASHINGTON — A NASA competition to launch a cluster of cubesats attracted a bid from SpaceX, who appeared to offer a vehicle other than its current Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy.
NASA released March 11 the source selection statement from the competition to launch the Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) mission, a group of six cubesats to be launched into three orbital planes in 2022 to study tropical weather systems. NASA awarded a contract for the launch to Astra Feb. 26, valued at $7.95 million.
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Read more: SpaceX bid on launch of NASA cubesat mission
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In June 2021 Marvel Comics will launch a five-part limited edition series titled The United States of Captain America.
That timing is deliberate as June is Pride Month, and the edition of the character featured in that month’s intro story will be the first to take up the Captain America role who is LGBTQ.
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Read more: Marvel Comics announces gay teen Captain America as part of new series
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Ten people have been arrested and $10.2 million in assets seized in the final operation targeting Auckland's high-end money launderers.
Police executed twelve search warrants across the city as the final stage of Operation Ida on Wednesday morning.
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Read more: Ten arrested, $10.2 million seized in money laundering investigation
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A mysterious object that whizzed by the Earth three years ago was probably the remnants of a planet from another solar system, scientists now say.
Since it was first spotted by the Pan-STARRS astronomical observatory in Hawaii in late 2017, 'Oumuamua has defied scientists' best efforts to figure out what it was.
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