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Author: Jamie Ensor, Jenna Lynch, Amelia Wade

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she will not be seeking re-election and will stand down by February 7. 

The Labour caucus will now ascertain whether any candidate has more than two-thirds of the caucus support. The caucus will vote on January 22. If a leader is successfully elected, Ardern will issue her resignation to the Governor-General. If no one can get this level of support, the contest will go to the wider membership.

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Author: Geoffrey Miller

ANALYSIS: Japan is a country on the move.

Since World War II, Tokyo has largely been happy to outsource its security needs to Washington.

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Author: Lisette Reymer

It's now feared as many as 70 people, children among them, have died in a Russian missile attack on an apartment block in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.

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Author: Herbert Villarraga

Ukraine saw little hope of pulling any more survivors from the rubble of an apartment block in the city of Dnipro on Sunday, a day after the building was hit during a major Russian missile attack, with dozens of people expected to have died.

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Author: Catrin Owen

A Navy sailor is facing a court-martial for allegedly indecently assaulting three of her shipmates while on board HMNZS Canterbury.

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Author: Nick Lee-Frampton

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A third of Royal New Zealand Navy ships are docked due to a shortage of sailors, causing a loss of “significant flexibility,” the service’s top officer told Defense News.

Last month, the 279-foot offshore patrol vessel HMNZS Wellington became the third ship to enter a period of idleness, joining the Navy’s other offshore patrol vessel HMNZS Otago and one of the two remaining 180-foot inshore patrol vessels, HMNZS Hawea.

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Author: Andrew Watts.

The Royal Navy’s pursuit of capability adaptability should re-assure our own defence policy makers that modularity is worth investigating, writes maritime capability specialist and former Royal New Zealand Navy Officer Andrew Watts.

Historically, navies have attempted to acquire combatant ships permanently equipped and trained to defeat threats in all dimensions. The escalating cost of such platforms is now forcing even the largest and most advanced navies to consider alternatives. As discussed in an earlier article (Modularity and the Shape of New Zealand’s Next Naval Fleet) published in Issue 22 of Line of Defence, the most promising of these alternatives is ‘capability modularity’.

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Author: Associated Press

China renewed its threats today to attack Taiwan and warned that foreign politicians who interact with the self-governing island are "playing with fire".

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