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New Zealand truck protest supporters on Tuesday refused to leave and camped overnight inside the national parliament’s grounds in Wellington – picketing the parliament again Wednesday.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Thursday that her country would begin reopening its borders at the end of February, capping an embarrassing week in which a pregnant Kiwi journalist stranded outside the country turned to the Taliban for assistance.

New Zealand – which has had some of the toughest coronavirus restrictions in the world – announced Thursday it will begin to relax its border controls by the end of this month.

Charlotte Bellis, a 35-year-old pregnant New Zealand journalist abandoned in Afghanistan by her own left-wing government due to its coronavirus quarantine rules, said on Saturday she had no alternative but to ask the Taliban for help.

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern said she is self-isolating after coming into close contact with a person infected with the coronavirus.

A draft of a CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases research paper says “airborne transmission” is “the most plausible explanation” for a case of three people in New Zealand contracting the Delta variant of the Wuhan coronavirus — pinpointing a quarantined traveler across the hall, who had no contact with them, as the likely source of their infections.

New Zealand’s Ministry of Health has confirmed that patients suffering from the Wuhan coronavirus could be eligible for a right to a lethal injection under the nation’s new euthanasia law.

Far-left New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern joked during a recent broadcast that Tinder “liaisons” of up to 25 people could continue despite the nation’s authoritarian coronavirus restrictions, the fact-checking website Polygraph confirmed on Tuesday.

The Chinese Embassy in France has put out a song attacking American democracy, in a move that has sparked confusion and mockery online. The Chinese embassy in France has become embroiled in an online storm of puzzlement and mockery after

New Zealand’s far-left government plans to outlaw smoking nationwide by 2025, the country’s health ministry announced Thursday. Plans to effectively eliminate smoking in New Zealand over the next four years have now been finalized, New Zealand Associate Health Minister Ayesha

New Zealand announced Tuesday it will not send representatives at the ministerial level to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, in February because the “logistics of travel” during the coronavirus pandemic “are not conducive” to such a trip, though Wellington said its diplomats may still attend the Games.

The U.K. Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday that Australia may decide to keep politicians from attending the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics but brand it an effort to contain the Chinese coronavirus, not a statement against the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights abuses.

A few Australians are earning $65 per hour washing dishes in downtown Sydney, so the country needs to dramatically increase immigration of cheap labor, says the New York Times’ bureau chief in Sydney.

About 2,000 people marched through Wellington to the New Zealand parliament on Tuesday to protest the country’s recent coronavirus vaccine mandate and strict lockdowns.

New Zealand’s government announced plans on Monday to ease coronavirus restrictions in Aukland despite state health officials earlier that same day recording the country’s highest number of new daily cases since the start of the pandemic, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – New Zealand’s government said Tuesday it will expand a vaccine mandate to include thousands of workers who have close contact with their customers — including employees at restaurants, bars, gyms and hair salons.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern admitted she wants to create two classes of citizens based on vaccination status.

SYDNEY (AP) – One of New Zealand’s best-known businessmen Ron Brierley was sentenced in a Sydney court on Thursday to 14 months in prison for possessing thousands of child sex abuse images.

New Zealand’s federal government announced a new mandate on Monday that will legally require healthcare workers and teachers to receive a full dose of a Chinese coronavirus vaccine by January 2022, Channel News Asia (CNA) reported.

(AFP) — New Zealand announced Monday a sweeping “no jab, no job” policy for most healthcare workers and teachers to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

The move came despite an ongoing lockdown in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, due to a coronavirus outbreak.

Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg has in recent days trashed leaders around the globe for not fighting climate change.

The UK continues to strengthen bonds with allies with a rare example of “quad carrier operations” on China’s doorstep.

Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard was recently dubbed University of Otago sportswoman of the year during the Blues awards, according to New Zealand’s Otago Daily Times.

An email threatening the security of New Zealand’s national cricket team if it traveled to Pakistan for a planned tournament last week was “generated from India,” Pakistan’s Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said Wednesday.

In one of the strangest scenes from New Zealand’s bizarre coronavirus lockdowns, two alleged gang members were busted on Sunday while attempting to smuggle a large quantity of Kentucky Fried Chicken into the locked-down capital of Auckland.

Australia has now resorted to monitoring alcohol consumption and in some cases confiscating drinks in areas under strict lockdown.

New Zealand authorities imprisoned a man inspired by the Islamic State after catching him with a hunting knife and extremist videos — but at a certain point, despite grave fears he would attack others, they say they could do nothing but free him

(AFP) – Sri Lanka will cooperate with New Zealand’s investigation into a knife rampage by an Islamic State-inspired assailant from the South Asian nation, authorities said Saturday.

Six people have been stabbed by a Sri Lankan terrorist in Auckland, New Zealand, who was a “known threat to New Zealand”.

New Zealand entered a strict three-day national lockdown Tuesday after a single case of coronavirus was detected in Auckland, the first locally transmitted example in six months.

New Zealand’s parliament took a historic portrait of Sir Winston Churchill in response to Green Party lobbying, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern brushing the incident off with a flat “I don’t care.”

New Zealand is closing its borders for the remainder of the year, continuing the country’s embrace of a total isolationist strategy in its fight against the coronavirus.

China’s state-run Global Times ranted at length on Wednesday against the “disgraceful” behavior of the Australian Olympic team, some of whose members were accused of rowdy conduct that damaged their hotel rooms in Tokyo and “unacceptable behavior” on their flight home.

New Zealand transexual weightlifter Laurel hubbard failed to record a single successful lift in the women’s +87kg weightlifting at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday morning, crashing out of the competition in the process.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern sat motionless Sunday as members of the Pacific Island community pulled a large white mat over her head, completely covering her.