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Fire at Queenstown's Walter Peak 'spreading rapidly', smoke billowing

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Security experts warn the data from fitness app Strava could provide valuable intelligence to foreign adversaries.

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Fitness app data exposes location of hundreds of NZDF staff

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Tennessee Republicans weigh execution options after failed lethal injection

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Australian soldier dies, five others injured in training exercise

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This image taken from pool court video shows 40-year-old Caleb Flynn listening to the judge reading out the jury's verdict at the Miami County Court of Common Pleas.

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Former American Idol singer sentenced to life in prison for wife’s murder

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