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Oceania
Jacinda Ardern, riding COVID success, launches re-election bid
The September 19 election is "more important than ever" because of the pandemic, Ardern told Labour Party faithful in Auckland on Saturday.
- by Matthew Brockett
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Coronavirus pandemic
Countries in Pacific unite to guarantee food, medicine in pandemic
The CPTPP comprises Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.
- by Laura Gottesdiener and Frank Jack Daniel
Crime
Criminals try to blast open Hamilton ATM with pipe bombs
The rare incident required the help of the military bomb disposal unit.
- by NICK PERRY
Courts
Grace Millane killer appeals guilty conviction and sentence
A jury had determined the British backpacker was strangled to death on her 22nd birthday in December 2018 by a man she had met on Tinder.
- by NICK PERRY
ADF
SOS on the sand saves trio
The men had been missing in the Micronesia archipelago for nearly three days when their distress signal was spotted.
Coronavirus pandemic
Ardern says trans-Tasman bubble a long way off
It has been 93 days since New Zealand last saw a case of COVID-19 with no known source.
- by Henry Cooke
Coronavirus pandemic
'Trying time': Australia races to help PNG fight virus resurgence
The former Australian territory had the virus under control until it escape a hospital testing lab.
- by Lia Timson
CCP influence
New Zealand suspends extradition treaty with Hong Kong
New Zealand is the final member of the “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing alliance to take such action.
- by Nick Perry
World elections
Ardern's 40th birthday present: Sky-high polls
It is the first poll after New Zealand's main opposition party changed leaders and one of its parliamentarians resigned over an alleged sexting scandal.
- by Praveen Menon
Immigration
'A long chapter' ends: Behrouz Boochani granted asylum in New Zealand
The Kurdish-Iranian writer joins a small group of successful applicants. Having refugee status means he can stay in the country indefinitely and can apply for a resident’s visa.
- by Cate Broughton and Lee Kenny
Workplace culture
Ardern dismisses minister over claims of inappropriate relationship
Iain Lees-Galloway had a consensual affair for about a year with a woman who had worked as a staff member in his office, the New Zealand Prime Minister said.