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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces her resignation at the War Memorial Centre on January 19, 2023 in Napier, New Zealand.

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  • Politics

New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern is resigning. Is there a lesson for other politicians?

Political experts say that other global leaders can learn from Ardern's moment of gracefully bowing out while keeping reputations largely intact.

January 22, 2023
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Sanna Marin, prime minister of Finland, left, and New Zealand Prime Minster Jacinda Ardern pose at Government House in Auckland, New Zealand. Marin is in New Zealand for a three-day visit, which sparked international interest after a reporters asked questions about the leaders' ages and gender.

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  • World

Jacinda Ardern and Sanna Marin shut down a reporter's sexist question about their ages

Asked whether she met with her Finnish counterpart "just because" of their similarities in age and gender, New Zealand's leader questioned whether reporters would ask the same of her male predecessor.

November 30, 2022
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By:
  • Emily Olson
A woman, center, leaves to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office at Ulsan Jungbu police station in Ulsan, South Korea, on Sept. 15, 2022.

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  • Asia

The bodies-in-suitcase suspect appears in a New Zealand court

A woman who was extradited from South Korea this week after the bodies of her two children were found in abandoned suitcases made her first court appearance in New Zealand on Wednesday.

November 30, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A vote is cast in Tauranga, New Zealand, during a by-election on April 27, 2018.

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  • World

New Zealand lawmakers will vote on whether to lower the national voting age to 16

New Zealand lawmakers will vote on whether to lower the national voting age to 16 after the country's Supreme Court ruled that not allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to vote amounted to age discrimination.

November 21, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
New Labour MP Soraya Peke-Mason gestures during her maiden speech at Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022.

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  • Asia

New Zealand women lawmakers outnumber men for first time

The milestone places New Zealand among a half-dozen nations in the world that this year can claim at least 50% female representation in their parliaments, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

October 26, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A string of dead pilot whales line the beach at Tupuangi Beach in New Zealand's Chatham Archipelago, on Saturday.

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  • Animals

477 stranded whales die on remote New Zealand islands

The whales beached themselves on the Chatham Islands, about 500 miles east of New Zealand's main islands. None of the whales could be refloated and all either died naturally or were euthanized.

October 12, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Dairy cows graze on a farm near Oxford, in the South Island of New Zealand on Oct. 8, 2018.

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  • Environment

New Zealand angers its farmers by proposing taxing cow burps

New Zealand's government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change. Farmers quickly condemned the plan.

October 11, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A helicopter and a rescue boat search for survivors off the coast of Kaikoura, New Zealand, on Saturday.

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  • World

A boat capsized after a possible collision with a whale. 5 people are dead

Another six people who had been on the boat off New Zealand were rescued. A local mayor says the water was dead calm and the assumption was that a whale had surfaced from beneath the boat.

September 10, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Maori Party co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer speak to media during the opening of New Zealand's 53rd Parliament.

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  • World

New Zealand considers changing its name to confront its troubled colonial past

As the people of New Zealand confront their nation's troubled past with colonization, a return to the Maori name of Aotearoa is being presented to a parliamentary committee.

August 05, 2022
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  • Ailsa Chang,
  • Christopher Intagliata,
  • and 1 more
New Zealand Climate Change Minister James Shaw poses for a photo at Owhiro Bay beach in Wellington, New Zealand, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022.

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  • Climate

New Zealand's national climate plan includes possibly seeking higher ground

New Zealand's first-ever climate adaptation plan includes the possibility of moving some communities to higher ground, but doesn't explain how much the changes will cost and who will pay.

August 03, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Proud Boys leader Henry "Enrique" Tarrio wears a hat that says The War Boys during a rally in Portland, Ore., Sept. 26, 2020. Tarrio, the former top leader of the Proud Boys, will remain jailed while awaiting trial on charges that he conspired with other members of the far-right extremist group to attack the U.S. Capitol.

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  • World

New Zealand's government classifies the Proud Boys as a terrorist organization

Proud Boys Chairman Enrique Tarrio and four other members were federally charged earlier this month with conspiring to overthrow the government by attacking the Capitol in the Jan. 6 riots.

June 30, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Al Noor mosque shooting survivor Temel Atacocugu points to the scar of a bullet wound in his arm during an interview at his home, Feb. 25, 2020, in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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  • World

New Zealand shooting survivor says violence achieved nothing

The deadly attacks at two Christchurch mosques brought people together rather than sowing discord, one of the survivors says.

May 17, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Al Noor mosque shooting survivor Temel Atacocugu points to the scar of a bullet wound in his arm during an interview at his home, Feb. 25, 2020, in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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  • World

New Zealand shooting survivor says violence achieved nothing

The deadly attacks at two Christchurch mosques brought people together rather than sowing discord, one of the survivors says.

May 17, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Families embrace after a flight from Los Angeles arrived at Auckland International Airport as New Zealand's border opened for visa-waiver countries Monday, May 2, 2022.

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  • Asia

New Zealand welcomes back tourists as it eases pandemic rules

New Zealand welcomed tourists from the U.S., Canada, Britain, Japan and more than 50 other countries for the first time in more than two years.

May 02, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Australia's Defence Minister Peter Dutton stand next to an anti-ship missile as he addresses industry representatives during the opening of the Navy Guided Weapons Maintenance Facility, in Sydney, on Tuesday.

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  • World

Australia steps up missile upgrade due to growing threats from China and Russia

The country's defense minister cites both the Russia-Ukraine war and China for accelerating the rearming of fighter jets and warships.

April 05, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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