Tag: New Zealand
Coronavirus returns to New Zealand, Auckland set for lockdown
New Zealanders on Wednesday scrambled to stock up on essentials as the country’s biggest city of Auckland prepared to go…
Virus free New Zealand world’s safest place
Virus- free New Zealand, the Pacific island nation of 5 million people is now the safest place in the world…
Australia, New Zealand shut borders
Australia and New Zealand have both closed their borders to all visitors except for citizens and permanent residents and their…
Coronavirus: Confirmed cases in New Zealand reach 8
Two more cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in New Zealand, making the total confirmed cases in the country eight.
Death toll reaches 16 in New Zealand volcanic eruption
The New Zealand Police said on Sunday that another victim had been confirmed dead in an Australian hospital, making the…
New Zealand: 6 bodies recovered from volcanic island
A recovery team has retrieved six bodies from New Zealand’s White Island volcano in spite of eruption risks, four days…
Australian, American, Chinese, 5 others still missing at New Zealand volcano
Eight tourists are still missing at the site of New Zealand White Island volcano as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern expressed…
Volcano eruption: Tourists missing, injured in New Zealand
Almost 1,000 tourists were stuck in the New Zealand tourist town of Franz Josef on Monday after torrential rains closed…
New Zealand PM challenges extremist online content
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced more funding and support on Monday to target violent extremist content online, just…
New Zealand postpones long-awaited re-entry into deadly mine
New Zealand postponed plans to re-enter Pike River Mine in which 29 men died in 2010, just one day before…
Christchurch attack: New Zealand votes for gun law changes
All but one member of New Zealand’s Parliament voted on Wednesday to change gun laws, less than a month after…
New Zealand Attack: Islamic centre calls for calm
The International Centre for Islamic Culture and Education (ICICE) has appealed to Muslims to remain calm, peaceful and eschew violence,…
New Zealand: Christchurch mosques reopen after attacks
Smelling of fresh paint, the two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch where a gunman killed 50 worshipers…
‘We are one’, says PM Ardern as New Zealand mourns
The Muslim call to prayer sounded out over Christchurch and around New Zealand on Friday, as thousands gathered to remember…
New Zealand PM receives death threats on social media
The New Zealand Police are investigating death threats sent to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on social media, local media reported…
New Zealand begins funerals for mosque shooting victims
The bodies of victims from New Zealand’s mosques mass shooting were carried in open caskets on the shoulders of mourners…
Mosque shootings: New Zealand to unveil gun laws
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday she would announce new gun laws within days, after a gunman…
New Zealand asks unruly British tourists to leave
A group of British tourists has been asked to leave New Zealand after they were reported for shoplifting, littering, threatening…
Meghan defeats Harry in New Zealand gumboot toss
Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, threw rubber gumboots on Tuesday as children cheered in a competition in New…
New Zealand, EU launch free trade agreement
New Zealand Minister for Trade and Export Growth David Parker and European Union (EU) Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom on Thursday…
New Zealand: Major reduction of people diagnosed with HIV
New Zealand’s Associate Health Minister, Julie Anne Genter, is pleased new results have shown a significant drop in the number…
Self-piloted ‘air taxi’ takes to sky in New Zealand
A California-based company unveiled an autonomous “air taxi” on Tuesday in Christchurch, with an eye on revolutionising personal air travel…
New Zealand increases testing for cattle disease spread
A testing and tracing regime for the bacterial infection Mycoplasma bovis found in New Zealand’s cattle, Officials said.
New Zealand bans foreigners from buying houses
New Zealand’s new Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, on Tuesday said her government would ban foreign investors from buying houses in…
Portugal put four goals past New Zealand, Reach Confederation Cup Semi-finals
Portugal cruised into the semi-finals of the Confederations Cup as Group A winners after Cristiano Ronaldo, Bernardo Silva, Andre Silva…
Confederation Cup: Mexico record 2-1 victory over New Zealand
Oribe Peralta scored a dramatic winner as Mexico came from behind to defeat New Zealand 2-1 in Sochi and move…
New Zealand: Cold Welcome For U.S. Secretary
New Zealand has given United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cold welcome on his whirlwind visit to the pacific…
Flight Operations Return In N. Zealand Airport
Flights from New Zealand’s Auckland Airport are returning to schedule after a runaway dog near the tarmac was shot dead…
Climber falls to death in New Zealand
A mountaineer fell several hundred metres to his death at Mount Aspiring in New Zealand’s Southern Alps, police said on…
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Thousands flee homes as quake hits New Zealand
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck central New Zealand just after midnight, the U.S. Geological Survey said, causing widespread damage and…