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New Zealand will compensate Samoa $3.6M for a navy ship wreck a year after the vessel sank

Cs news8 months ago05 mins

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s government said Monday it had agreed to pay 10 million Samoan tala ($3.6 million) in compensation to Samoa’s government, a year after New Zealand sailors drove a navy ship aground on a reef off the Pacific Island nation. All 75 people on board evacuated to safety as the…

Beijing denies it is a threat as FBI opens new office in New Zealand to ‘counter China’

Cs news10 months ago02 mins

Claims by the head of the FBI that China is a threat to the Indo-Pacific are groundless, Beijing said as the American security agency opened its first permanent office in New Zealand. “We strongly oppose any attempt to make groundless assertions or vilification against China out of the Cold War mentality,” the Chinese embassy in…