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New Zealand tackles ‘vaccine apartheid’ with ambitious APEC free-trade plan

New Zealand is pushing Asia-Pacific trade group APEC to remove all tariffs on COVID-19 vaccines and related medical products, but is facing opposition from some members who believe the plan…

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Australia and New Zealand unite over China human rights issues

Australia and New Zealand on Monday expressed grave concerns over developments in Hong Kong and the human rights situation in the Xinjiang region of China, as the two nations sought…

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UPDATED: China, deportation policy set to challenge Australia-New Zealand talks

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison arrived in New Zealand on Sunday for high-level talks hours after the country's government chose to support Canberra in its dispute with China on barley…

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New Zealand health systems hackers release patient details to the media

Hackers who targeted hospitals in New Zealand’s Waikato district have released what appears to be private patient information to media outlets, as health systems struggled to come back online more…

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Britain embroiled in bitter international legal battle over who can produce manuka honey

Britain has become embroiled in a bitter international legal battle over who is entitled to produce manuka honey. The British honey manufacturer Rowse has instructed lawyers to fight an application…

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New Zealand exploring quarantine-free travel with other countries

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday her government will explore more travel "bubbles" and lead trade delegations later this year to re-connect with a post-pandemic world after…

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Four stabbed in New Zealand supermarket

our people were stabbed on Monday in a supermarket in Dunedin on New Zealand's South Island, police said after detaining the man believed to have been responsible. Prime Minister Jacinda…

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New Zealand to resume Australia “travel bubble” as Sydney COVID threat eases

New Zealand will lift its partial suspension of a "travel bubble" with Australia from midnight on Sunday as fears of a COVID-19 outbreak in Sydney eased. New Zealand had blocked…

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New Zealand PM Ardern plans summer wedding

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern plans to get married during summer but did not disclose the date, local media reported on Wednesday. Ardern told Coast Radio that she and…

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New Zealand’s Ardern says differences with China becoming harder to reconcile

Differences between New Zealand and its top trading partner China are becoming harder to reconcile as Beijing's role in the world grows and changes, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on…

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New Zealanders face mental health, economic challenges in pandemic recovery

New Zealanders are still reporting negative impacts on mental health and income from the coronavirus pandemic, despite living in one of the world's few countries to have largely returned to…

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New Zealand expects Australia ‘travel bubble’ to stay open despite new virus case

New Zealand authorities reported on Tuesday that a worker in Auckland airport has tested positive for COVID-19, but doubted whether the new case would warrant ordering a pause in quarantine-free…

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Families reunite as Australia-New Zealand ‘travel bubble’ begins

Hundreds of passengers from Australia began arriving in New Zealand airports on Monday after authorities reopened borders, a pandemic milestone that allows quarantine-free travel between the countries for the first…

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New Zealand to end livestock exports due to animal welfare concerns

New Zealand said on Wednesday it will stop the export of livestock by sea following a transition period of up to two years, citing animal welfare concerns for a decision…

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New Zealand introduces climate change law for financial firms in world first

New Zealand has become the first country to introduce a law that will require banks, insurers and investment managers to report the impacts of climate change on their business, minister for climate change James Shaw said on Tuesday.…

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New Zealand suspends entry for travellers from India due to high COVID-19 cases

New Zealand on Thursday temporarily suspended entry for all travellers from India, including its own citizens, for about two weeks following a high number of positive coronavirus cases arriving from…

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Australia-NZ ‘travel bubble’ to begin April 19 in pandemic milestone

New Zealand and Australia will create a quarantine and COVID-testing free "travel bubble" from April 19, after effectively eradicating the virus by closing borders last year to stop more infections…

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New Zealand imprisons persons convicted of breaching coronavirus restrictions

More than 400 New Zealanders have been convicted of breaching coronavirus restrictions, with more than 80 among them even sentenced to prison terms. New Zealand has implemented stringent legislation to…

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New Zealand’s Catholic Church apologises to survivors of abuse

New Zealand’s Catholic Church formally apologised on Friday to the survivors of abuse within the church and said its systems and culture must change. Cardinal John Dew, who is the…

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New Zealand passes miscarriages bereavement leave law

New Zealand’s parliament has passed legislation giving mothers and their partners the right to paid leave following a miscarriage or still birth, becoming only the second country in the world…

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Israel, New Zealand approve sale of virus killing nasal spray

Israel and New Zealand have given interim approval for the sale of biotech firm SaNOtize Research and Development's Nitric Oxide Nasal Spray (NONS) which could help prevent transmission of the…

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New Zealand PM Ardern says to announce date for quarantine-free travel with Australia in two weeks

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will announce within two weeks a date for quarantine-free travel with Australia, she said on Monday, despite mounting pressure from business to open borders…

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New Zealand says close to a travel arrangement with Australia

New Zealand is close to allowing Australians to visit without quarantining on arrival, New Zealand’s deputy prime minister said on Thursday, a reciprocal right that would create a long-touted “Trans-tasman…

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Team New Zealand win America’s Cup 7-3

(Reuters) - Team New Zealand won the 36th America's Cup on Wednesday, beating Luna Rossa 7-3 in the best-of-13 series with victory in race 10 off the coast of Auckland.…

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New Zealand’s Ardern says world needs to talk about racism, two years after Christchurch attack

The world still needs to have conversations about racism and white supremacy, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday, as the country marked two years since a white…

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New Zealand honours Christchurch shooting victims at anniversary service

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern joined hundreds of people in Christchurch on Saturday to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the country’s worst mass murder. Armed with high-capacity semi-automatic weapons,…

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Australia records first local COVID-19 case in two weeks

Australia on Saturday recorded first local COVID-19 case in more than two weeks after a doctor tested positive for the coronavirus, triggering restrictions in area hospitals. Queensland state Premier Annastacia…

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New Zealand to buy enough Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines for entire population

New Zealand will buy additional COVID-19 vaccines, developed by Pfizer Inc and Germany's BioNTech, which will be enough to vaccinate the whole country, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday.…

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Following 3 major quakes off New Zealand, questions remain about how they might be linked

A sequence of three major offshore earthquakes, including a magnitude 8.1 quake near the Kermadec Islands, triggered tsunami warnings and evacuations along the east coast of New Zealand this morning. By early afternoon,…

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New Zealanders take to the hills as powerful quakes trigger tsunami waves

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Small tsunami waves triggered by a series of powerful earthquakes hit the east coast of New Zealand's North Island on Friday and authorities said thousands of residents…

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Update – Tsunami warning downgraded in New Zealand

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand downgraded its tsunami threat level, as the largest waves have now passed, the National Emergency Management agency said on Friday in its latest update. "All people who…

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New Zealand’s Auckland starts second COVID-19 lockdown this month

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Exactly a year after New Zealand recorded its first coronavirus case, the biggest city of Auckland woke on Sunday to a second lockdown this month, as authorities…

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New Zealand’s largest city Auckland back to lockdown after COVID-19 case

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Saturday that the country’s biggest city, Auckland, will be put into a seven-day lockdown from Sunday after a coronavirus community case of…

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S&P raises New Zealand ratings on COVID success; kiwi dollar soars

Ratings firm S&P raised New Zealand's sovereign credit ratings by a notch on Monday, saying the economy was on a quicker recovery path from the COVID-19 pandemic, sending the local…

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Photo Story: 10th anniversary of the Christchurch earthquake commemorated

People react during a memorial service to mark the 10th anniversary of the Christchurch earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand 22 February 2021. New Zealand marks the tenth anniversary of the…

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Quarantine-free travel resumes from New Zealand to Australia

Quarantine-free travel from New Zealand to Australia has resumed ahead of a downgraded alert level expected in Auckland today. Australia reopened the one-way travel bubble this morning following a cluster…

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New Zealand in coronavirus lockdown as British variant cases reported

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A coronavirus outbreak that sent New Zealand's biggest city into a snap lockdown over the weekend involved the more transmissable UK variant, health officials confirmed on Monday,…

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COVID-19 vaccines touch down in Australia, New Zealand, inoculations to start

SYDNEY, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Australia and New Zealand have received their first COVID-19 vaccine deliveries and will begin rolling out inoculations in the coming week, while populous cities of…

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New Zealand reports three new COVID-19 local cases, imposes 3-day lockdown on Auckland

New Zealand Prime Minsiter Jacinda Ardern on Sunday announced a three-day lockdown in the country's biggest city Auckland, after three new local COVID-19 cases were reported. Ardern said the level…

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New Zealand, Australia on tsunami watch after strong South Pacific quake

WELLINGTON: A 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck the South Pacific region on Thursday, triggering tsunami warnings and calls for residents to avoid beaches and shore areas. The European Mediterranean Seismological Center…

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China, NZ ink trade deal as Beijing calls for reduced global barriers

China and New Zealand signed a deal that upgrades their existing free trade pact on Tuesday, giving exports from the Pacific nation greater access to the world's second-largest economy. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern…

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New Zealand confirms first COVID-19 case in months, sparking Australia travel halt – Update

WELLINGTON, Jan 25 (Reuters) - New Zealand on Monday confirmed its first case of COVID-19 in the community in months in a 56-year-old woman, but said close contacts of the…

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New Zealand to ask international travellers for negative virus test before flying in

(Reuters) - New Zealand will ask international travelers from most countries to show negative COVID-19 test results before boarding flights to the country as new contagious variants of COVID-19 spread…

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New Zealand central bank data system breached

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand said on Sunday that it was responding with urgency to a breach of one of its data systems. A third-party file-sharing service used by…

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New Zealand tightens border again amid fears over new Covid strain

New Zealand has further tightened border controls amid mounting anxiety about the new strain of coronavirus driving up infections overseas. Six cases of the new variant of the virus –…

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New Zealand’s Ardern apologises as report into mosque attack faults focus on Islamist terror risks

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand security agencies were "almost exclusively" focused on the perceived threat of Islamist terrorism before a white supremacist gunman killed 51 Muslim worshippers last year, a…

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New Zealand’s Ardern vows accountability ahead of Christchurch attack report

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday vowed accountability for the families of last year's Christchurch mosque attack victims, ahead of the public release of a…

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New Zealand declares climate emergency, promises carbon neutral govt by 2025

New Zealand promised its public sector would become carbon neutral by 2025 as it declared a climate emergency on Wednesday, a symbolic move that critics said needed to be backed…

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New Zealand PM offers COVID-19 help to U.S. President-elect Biden

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday she offered President-elect Joe Biden assistance with tackling the rampant outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States. During the first talks…

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NZ’s Ardern says no COVID on meat exports; checking Chinese claims

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday she was confident no meat products were exported from the country with COVID-19, after Chinese authorities said they had detected coronavirus…

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Photo Story: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s government sworn in

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (4-L, front), New Zealand Governor General Dame Patsy Reddy (5-L, front) and the Government's new executive pose for an official photograph at Government House in Wellington,…

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New Zealand’s Ardern increases parliamentary majority after final vote tally

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's centre-left government has increased its parliamentary majority after the results of postal and other special circumstance votes bolstered her already decisive Oct. 17 election…

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New Zealand’s Ardern forms government with Greens

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party on Sunday signed an agreement with the Green Party to form government in the Pacific nation of nearly five million. Ardern earlier…

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New Zealand approves euthanasia, set to reject recreational marijuana

New Zealand has provisionally voted to legalise euthanasia but is on course to reject law changes that would allow recreational marijuana use, the country’s Electoral Commission said on Friday. New…

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New Zealand business mood brightens as COVID contained

New Zealand business sentiment brightened in October as success in containing the COVID-19 outbreak in the country allowed the economy to re-open and activity to pick up from very depressed…

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New Zealand’s next parliament is set to be the most diverse ever

New Zealand’s next parliament is set to be the most inclusive ever, with several people of colour, members from the rainbow communities and a high number of women. The ruling…

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New Zealand’s Ardern says will form government in 2-3 weeks

New Zealand’s ruling Labour party leader Jacinda Ardern said on Sunday that she would form a government within two to three weeks but did not comment on a possible coalition…

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