Category : News
Author: Mark Quinlivan, Hannah Kronast, Lana Andelane

New Zealand is preparing to split into two different COVID-19 alert levels, with most of the country moving to level 3 at 11:59pm on Tuesday - except for Auckland and Northland, which will remain under a stringent lockdown.

Eighty-three new community cases of COVID-19 were reported on Sunday, the largest daily increase since the outbreak began almost two weeks ago.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/08/coronavirus-live-updates-latest-on-covid-19-community-outbreak-monday-august-30.html
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Category : News
Author: Mark Quinlivan

Warnings New Zealanders face the possibility of spending Christmas in lockdown are being described as "doom and gloom" and not helpful by a leading medical professor.

There are now 511 cases of COVID-19 in the community since an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant unfolded about a fortnight ago.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/08/covid-19-doom-and-gloom-predictions-about-being-in-lockdown-until-christmas-not-helpful-des-gorman.html
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Category : Defence
Author: Kevan Jones

The Ministry of Defence have confirmed that the Queen Elizabeth class carriers might be fitted with catapults ‘in the coming years’ in order to launch certain types of aircraft.

Article: https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/mod-confirm-aircraft-carriers-may-be-fitted-with-catapults
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Category : News
Author: Ariana Eunjung Cha

The Marin County, California elementary school in the US had been conscientious about following Covid-19 protocols.

Masks were required indoors, desks were spaced six feet apart, and the students kept socially distant. But the Delta variant found an opening anyway.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/300393908/a-us-elementary-school-teacher-took-off-her-mask-for-a-readaloud-within-days-half-her-class-was-positive-for-delta
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Category : News
Author: Tess McClure

A group of almost 40 interpreters and others who worked with the NZDF are still trapped in Afghanistan

Afghan interpreters left behind after New Zealand ceased its mercy flights are shocked and terrified at being stranded, saying it is a “total betrayal” by the New Zealand government.

Article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/27/total-betrayal-afghan-interpreters-shocked-as-new-zealand-ends-kabul-evacuation
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Category : Defence
Author: BENJAMIN FELTON

Thales Australia has cut the first steel for New Zealand’s new fleet of Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicles (PMV) at its factory in the Australian State of Victoria. New Zealand ordered an additional 43 of the type in 2020, to replace its aging fleet of armoured Pinzgauer transports. Previously, in 2015, New Zealand’s special forces, the New Zealand Special Air Service (NZSAS), acquired five of the type from Australia which they have operated ever since. 

Article: https://www.overtdefense.com/2021/08/20/thales-australia-cuts-steel-for-new-zealands-new-bushmasters/
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Category : Defence
Author: Michael Peck

Here's What You Need To Remember:  With the federal deficit growing, the military is likely to see some lean years. 

Is it worth sacrificing some F-35s and aircraft carriers to trim the federal budget deficit?

Article: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/biggest-threat-aircraft-carriers-not-russia-or-china-192659
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Category : News
Author: Reuters

A U.S. warship and a U.S. Coast Guard cutter sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Friday, the latest in what Washington calls routine operations through the sensitive waterway that separates Taiwan from China, which claims the self-ruled island.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/08/us-warship-sails-taiwan-strait-china-says-move-provactive.html
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