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Tag: New Zealand
New Zealand Protesters Seeded Marijuana Plants on Parliament Grounds
New Zealand officials say anti-vaccination protesters seeded cannabis during a three-week occupation.
Solomon Islands’ Leader Calls Concern Over China Security Deal ‘Insulting’
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare criticized Australia and New Zealand as assuming that the island nation could not act in its own best interests.
Australia Agrees to Let New Zealand Resettle Offshore Refugees
Under the arrangement, first offered in 2013, New Zealand will take in 150 refugees a year for three years from Australia’s widely criticized detention system.
Is This the World’s Largest Potato?
A couple in New Zealand found a giant growth in their garden, named it Doug and applied to Guinness World Records. Then the results of a DNA analysis came in.
How Maori Stepped In to Save a Towering Tree Crucial to Their Identity
Tāne Mahuta, an ancient tree named after the god of forests in Māori mythology, is threatened by the slow creep of an incurable disease.
Hundreds Held After New Zealand-Led Investigation Into Images of Child Abuse
An international collaboration resulted in the rescue of dozens of children and exposed a secret global network used to share material on sexual abuse.
As Cases Skyrocket, New Zealand Finally Faces Its Covid Reckoning
New Zealanders are anxious as they learn to live with the pandemic-related risk that has been a fact of life elsewhere for two years.
New Zealand Police Move to End Protest, and Violence Erupts
Fires and violence at a protest opposing vaccine mandates were a rare sight in a country known for its relative serenity and stability.
New Zealand Antivaccine Protest Gets More Violent
An occupation in the capital demonstrates the dangerous influence that American disinformation is having on otherwise stable democracies.