New Zealand lawmakers banned from TikTok amid data use fears
New Zealand lawmakers and other workers inside the nation's Parliament will be banned from having the TikTok app on their government phones, officials said Friday.
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The smallest field ever of competing sled dog teams takes off in the Iditarod race
The race to Nome began Sunday for 33 mushers in this year's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska. Competitors will travel travel nearly 1,000 miles and the winner is expected to take about 10 days.
New Zealand plans final rescues soon after a cyclone kills 2
Cyclone Gabrielle struck the country's north on Monday and has brought more destruction to the country than any weather event in years.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.