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The Uyghur community and China experts say this display goes further than cultural appropriation. The greater concern is the concerted effort by the Chinese state to downplay the human rights abuses of more than a million Uyghur people, with endorsement from (probably unwitting) New Zealand politicians. It's also noteworthy that Uyghur people only celebrate Chinese New Year under duress. Facebook Wellington Mayor Andy Foster is the latest New Zealand politician to be used as a propaganda tool in China's campaign against Uyghur Muslims. New Zealand Uyghurs who spoke to Newsroom said the di...

Watch: Chris Hipkins and Dr Ashley Bloomfield provide a COVID-19 update. Credits: Video - Newshub; Image - Getty. After a short, sharp lockdown, Auckland is back under alert level 2 while the rest of New Zealand has dropped to alert level 1. The moves comes despite three new community cases of COVID-19 being reported on Wednesday. All three, however, are connected to the original trio from the weekend and there is no evidence yet - either from community testing or wastewater testing - of any wider parallel transmission. Of the 31 close contacts of the original cases, 30 have tested negative w...

Officials investigate potential link between Auckland cases and MIQ Newshub 18/02/2021 © Video - Newshub; Image - Getty. Watch: Chris Hipkins and Dr Ashley Bloomfield provide a COVID-19 update. After a short, sharp lockdown, Auckland is back under alert level 2 while the rest of New Zealand has dropped to alert level 1. The moves comes despite three new community cases of COVID-19 being reported on Wednesday. All three, however, are connected to the original trio from the weekend and there is no evidence yet - either from community testing or wastewater testing - of any wider parallel tr...

Michigan’s Mike Shirkey problem is not going away Updated on Feb 18, 2021; Published on Feb 18, 2021 Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, R-Clark Lake speaks to a crowd of supporters during a rally for Pastors Alliance Thursday Oct. 8, 2020. The rally which was preplanned took place hours after details were released regarding a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer surfaced.  Nicole Hester/Mlive.com Twitter Share Michigan’s highest-ranking senator has repeatedly used sexist language when referring to the governor, used the word “hoax” when describing the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Ca...

After a video of Michigan Senator Majority Leader Mike Shirkey with the Hillsdale County Republican Party was posted on YouTube, the senator stands by his comments, but perhaps not his exact choice of words.