Category : News
Author: John Anthony

Economic fallout from the war in Ukraine is already being felt in New Zealand, with soaring fuel and food prices, a rising New Zealand dollar and widespread supply chain disruption, with worse expected in the coming months.

Chris Edwards​, who is managing director of international air and sea freight logistics business Go Logistics, says supply chain disruption is even worse than when Covid-19 first hit.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/the-monitor/128027235/war-in-ukraine-having-immediate-impact-on-nz-businesses-with-ongoing-fall-out-expected
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Category : Opinion
Author: Craig McCulloch

The New Zealand First leader's comments follow revelations Solomon Islands is negotiating a security deal with China. Under the terms of a leaked draft agreement, Beijing could be allowed to base warships less than 2000km off Australia's east coast.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/464099/china-solomons-deal-winston-peters-says-nz-must-try-much-harder-in-pacific
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Category : Opinion
Author: Anne-Marie Brady

Yesterday the alarming news broke that the Solomon Islands is planning to sign a security agreement with the People’s Republic of China, opening the way for a permanent military base and intelligence listening posts. The new agreement has implications for the security of the whole of the Pacific.

Article: https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/shock-china-security-deal-shows-pacific-powers-need-to-face-facts-20220325-p5a7zw.html
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Category : News
Author: William Hewett

A Russian general has been killed in a strike near the southern city of Kherson in Ukraine after gloating the war would be over within hours.

Lt Gen Yakov Rezantsev - who was the commander of Russia's 49th combined army - was reportedly killed during a Ukrainian strike on the Chornobaivka airbase near Kherson.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/03/ukraine-invasion-russian-general-killed-during-ukrainian-strike-near-kherson-after-gloating-war-would-be-over-within-hours.html
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Category : News
Author: Reuters

Rockets struck the outskirts of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Saturday for what appeared to be the first time since Russia's invasion, and Russian forces took control of a town where workers at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant live.

Intense fighting raged in several parts of Ukraine, suggesting there will be no swift let-up in the month-old war, and US President Joe Biden called Russia's Vladimir Putin a "butcher" after meeting Ukrainian refugees in Poland.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/03/russia-ukraine-war-russians-hit-western-ukrainian-city-lviv-with-rockets.html
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Category : News
Author: Associated Press

Russian forces in Ukraine appear to have shifted their focus from a ground offensive aimed at Kyiv, the capital, to instead prioritising what Moscow calls liberation of the contested Donbas region in the country's industrial east, officials said Friday, suggesting a new phase of the war.

Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/03/26/russian-forces-appear-to-shift-focus-from-kyiv-offensive/
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Category : Opinion
Author: Rob Stock

OPINION: Prime minister David Lange famously told a questioner at a debate at Oxford University on nuclear weapons: “I can smell the uranium on (your breath) as you lean towards me.”

Well, there’s still a whiff of uranium on the breath of some KiwiSaver funds, new research from ethical research charity Mindful Money suggests, but not for much longer.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/128145013/kiwisaver-crawls-towards-its-nuclearfree-moment
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Category : News
Author: Reuters

Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft may have to change their core business practices in Europe as EU countries and EU lawmakers clinched a deal on landmark rules to curb their powers.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/464003/us-tech-giants-face-tough-new-rules-as-eu-countries-lawmakers-clinch-deal
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