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

1:56pm November 30, 2022

by Emily Olson

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.

A vote is cast in Tauranga, New Zealand, during a by-election on April 27, 2018.

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

6:01am November 21, 2022

by The Associated Press

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.

A string of dead pilot whales line the beach at Tupuangi Beach in New Zealand's Chatham Archipelago, on Saturday.

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477 stranded whales die on remote New Zealand islands

12:06pm October 12, 2022

by The Associated Press

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.

Dairy cows graze on a farm near Oxford, in the South Island of New Zealand on Oct. 8, 2018.

Environment

New Zealand angers its farmers by proposing taxing cow burps

12:06am October 11, 2022

by The Associated Press

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 helicopter and a rescue boat search for survivors off the coast of Kaikoura, New Zealand, on Saturday.

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

11:08am September 10, 2022

by The Associated Press

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.

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

5:00am August 05, 2022

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.

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

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

4:32am June 30, 2022

by Ayana Archie

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.