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For many people in Western nations, the USA has been the dominant economic and cultural force for most of our lives.

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Author: Tom Pullar-Strecker

Amazon has opened up its Australian online store to New Zealand shoppers in a long-awaited move.

The company said the change meant Kiwis would be able to buy “millions” of products from amazon.com.au, in addition to the company’s main United States site.

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Author: Henry Cooke

Treasury is warning the Government that its debt is on an “unsustainable trajectory” over the coming 40 years thanks to an ageing population driving up superannuation and health costs.

The Government’s main economic adviser released a draft report on Monday looking at Government spending out to 2060, the first of these legally mandated reports to be released since 2016.

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Author: Zane Small

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has distanced herself from Labour MP Louisa Wall's accusation that China is harvesting organs from political prisoners. 

Wall, who is part of a global Inter-​Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) which monitors the actions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), told RNZ the Government needs to do more to counter what she described as slave labour in China. 

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Author: Guyon Espiner

Labour MP Louisa Wall has accused China of harvesting organs from political prisoners among the Uyghur and Falun Gong populations.

The MP, who is part of a global network of politicians monitoring the actions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), also says her own government needs to do more to counter what she calls the slave labour trade in China.

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Author: Hannah Kronast

A political commentator is urging the international community to get involved and for a politician to be dragged out of office as a new development emerges in Samoa's battle for power.

Political commentator Mata'afa Keni Lesa spoke to The AM Show on Monday almost two months after FAST Party broke a month-long deadlock from the April election to claim a majority of seats in Parliament.

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Author: Stuff News

New Zealand's largest shipment of Pfizer vaccines has arrived two days ahead of schedule, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins has announced.

The shipment of 150,000 doses touched down late on Sunday afternoon.

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Author: Mark Quinlivan

Mike King says the Ministry of Health (MoH) has rejected funding pleas for Gumboot Friday funding to provide free counselling for young people.

In an Instagram post on Thursday morning King, a prominent mental health campaigner who founded Gumboot Friday, said he'd received a letter saying the MoH "wasn't in a position" to fund the service.

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