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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that a royal commission of inquiry will look at the attacks on March 15. Among other things, the actions of the…

Former Brazilian president Michel Temer Lulia has been arrested in connection with the ongoing investigation into the extensive corruption scandal called 'Lava Jato' (car wash). Temer was from…

New Zealand is going to ban all automatic and semi-automatic assault weapons as quickly as possible. That is what Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces, following the shooting in…

The New Zealand prime minister refuses to pronounce the name of the main suspect of the attack on two mosques. Jacinda Ardern told parliament that the perpetrator is after infamous and that...

The prime suspect of the massacre in New Zealand wants to defend himself during his trial. He fired the lawyer he was assigned to.

The New Zealand government has agreed on tightening the arms law. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced this on Monday.

The Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, said she received the terrorist manifest nine minutes before the attacks on the mosques in Christchurch. She says that the...

The death toll from the shooting in two mosques in Christchurch has risen to fifty. New Zealand police chief Mike Bush said on Sunday morning (local time) that it was…

The man suspected of having shot at least 49 people in two mosques in Christchurch owned a small arsenal of semi-automatic guns and had a valid gun license. Which…

School students from all over the world have skipped school to demand that governments take more action against climate change. Worldwide more than 2000 protests were scheduled in…

In New Zealand many people have fled because of a large forest fire that has been going on for a week. The fire rages near the town of Nelson on the south island and threatens the...

For the second time in a week, in New Zealand, tens of whales have washed up and died. New Zealand media reported that Thursday 80 to 90 were flushing animals on the Chatham Islands, an island group east of New Zealand. More than fifty did not survive.

145 whales have been washed ashore in New Zealand. Some of the pilot whales were already dead before they were discovered on the secluded beach of the southern Stewart Island. Because of the condition of the other animals it was decided to euthanize the rest, reports the New Zealand Herald.

An earthquake with a strength of 6.7 on Tuesday morning hit the North Island of New Zealand. According to reports in the media, the earthquake lasted about 30 seconds.

Three brothers have found a huge squid on the beach of Wellington, New Zealand earlier this week. The giant squid was dead, but still pretty intact.

An experiment of a company in New Zealand has turned out very positively. Employees were paid five days while they only needed four to work. It turned out that the time they spent on work was spent much more effectively.

The vegetarian burger that the national New Zealand airline Air New Zealand serves on the flights from Auckland to Los Angeles is not popular everywhere. There has been a stir over the fake meat manufactured in California from plants.

A New Zealand court has determined that internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom may be extradited to the United States. The founder of Megaupload thus hangs a hefty punishment in the US.

Premier Jacinda Ardern gave birth on Thursday of her first child, a daughter. She let herself know through social media. The 37-year-old Ardern was the youngest prime minister of the country ever when she took office last year. She is now the first New Zealand prime minister ever to give birth during her term of office.

A 28-year-old man from Auckland, New Zealand, had to appear on Monday because he was accused of having stolen two human toes from an exhibition of Body Worlds Vital.

A New Zealand minister has caused a stir by making a phone call in an airplane. Phil Twyford is therefore no longer in charge of the civil aviation authority, because it may still be investigating the incident.

Scientists believe that the largest wave has ever been established in the southern hemisphere. A solar buoy registered a wall of 23.8 meters high water during a flying storm near Campbell Island, some 700 kilometers south of New Zealand.

New Zealand wants to expel Russian spies out of solidarity with Great Britain, but can not find them.

A court in New Zealand on Wednesday refused a request from Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom to let US former President Barack Obama hear in the damage case surrounding his company Megaupload. According to the court, it is insufficiently clear that his interrogation would be relevant.

Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom wants to hear the American former president Barack Obama in the damage case around his company Megaupload. That should happen if Obama visits New Zealand this week anyway. Dotcom demands about $ 10 billion from the New Zealand and US authorities because his company is destroyed. His freedom has also been restricted for seven years.

Due to a violent storm, a state of emergency has been declared in parts of New Zealand. Cyclone Gita roamed the South Island on Tuesday evening (local time). Trees and high-voltage pylons were destroyed in many places. Tens of thousands of people are without power.

New Zealand braces for Cyclone Gita, who rages across the Pacific Ocean. The largest airline in the country has canceled all flights to and from the capital Wellington on Tuesday. In Christchurch on the southern island, the state of emergency has been declared, reports The New Zealand Herald.

New Zealand has the belly full of tourists who are already begging through the country and even use soup kitchens. The country is outraged by a New Zealander and a German who 'paced' in this way, the latest example of what according to critics is apparently a new trend.

Keep the handkerchiefs ready, because Nigel the lonelyest bird in the world has died. In addition to the (concrete) love of his life, at the love nest he built for her.

The ferry that disappeared in the island state of Kiribati probably did not have fifty but a hundred passengers on board. President Taneti Mamau said on Monday that there were probably twice as many passengers on the wooden catamaran as had been assumed until now, reported Australian media.