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New Zealand will continue to cooperate with ‘more assertive’ China, Ardern says
Despite their differences the nations have shared interests, Jacinda Ardern says as she plans trip to ChinaNew…
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New Zealand: 15-year-old boy receives life sentence for murder
The boy, 14 at the time of the offence, must spend at least 10 years in jail after stabbing 22-year-old Bram W…
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Climate crisis ‘insufficient’ to halt oil and gas exploration, says New Zealand government
Despite declaring a climate emergency, government is in court defending decision to issue fossil fuel prospect…
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Keep starfish off the barbecue: New Zealanders call for rockpool protections
As over-harvesting of edible creatures adds to pressures on shoreline ecosystems, local groups and iwi urge te…
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New Zealand Covid chief’s farewell party ruined … by Covid
Dr Ashley Bloomfield dramatically scales back planned event, including cancelling the karaoke, in face of Omic…
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New Zealand seeks to repeat world-beating Covid response in face of surging cases
Amid warnings of a healthcare workforce collapse, the population is being urged to recommit to pandemic measur…
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New Zealand to make masks and rapid antigen tests free as Omicron wave grows
More people will also be eligible for antiviral drugs as Covid cases, hospitalisations and deaths riseNew Zeal…
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New Zealand reports second monkeypox case, unrelated to first
Authorities say the case is in a returned traveller who is now isolating, and is not linked to the first New Z…
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Pacific Islands Forum: Ardern says total membership ‘critical’ as PIF shaken by Kiribati’s exit
New Zealand prime minister says leaders had been trying to persuade Kiribati not to withdraw from the forumJac…
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Reports of fireball over New Zealand in what scientists think was rare daytime meteor
People across the North Island flooded social media with reports of the object, with some describing the sound…
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‘The world is bloody messy’: Jacinda Ardern urges end to ‘black-and-white’ view of global conflict
New Zealand PM says Russia’s war in Ukraine is morally bankrupt but should not be seen as a conflict of democr…
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New Zealand principals voice alarm as students fail to return to school after Covid lockdowns
One Auckland school has taken dozens of pupils off its register amid fears some are forced to find work as cos…
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New Zealand faces new Covid wave as experts say moving on from pandemic is ‘wishful thinking’
Signs that Omicron surge is becoming ‘more intense’, with cases rising steadily and more people in hospital th…
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‘Free healthcare, bad Mexican food’: what life is really like for US expats in New Zealand
As the overturning of Roe v Wade prompts a wave of interest in Aotearoa, Americans who made the leap post-Trum…
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West must stand firm as China challenges ‘rules and norms’, Ardern tells Nato
In New Zealand’s first formal address to Nato, Ardern dedicated part of her speech to warning of Beijing’s inc…