New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern has apologised after a hot microphone caught her calling an opposition MP a vulgarity in Parliament.

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern caught on hot mic swearing at minor opposition party leader

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern became the recent victim of a hot mic for calling an opposition party leader an "arrogant prick." The clip was then aired on parliament's television.

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern caught on hot mic calling rival leader as 'arrogant prick,' later apologises 

New Zealand has just passed a set of anti-tobacco laws. Tobacco is now permanently banned for the next generation. @PriyankaSh25 brings you the details.

WION Fineprint | New Zealand's war on tobacco

Would you want to live in a country where smoking is banned? Well, New Zealand aims to be smoke-free by 2025, thanks to the passage of a world-first law prohibiting smoking for the next generation

Under-25s  banned from  buying cigarettes?

New Zealand has introduced what may be the toughest crackdown on tobacco in the world as it moves to ban the purchase of tobacco for future generations. The first-of-its-kind anti-smoking laws will go into effect in 2023 and stop those aged 14 and younger from ever being able to buy cigarettes successfully outlawing smoking for the next generation in New Zealand.

New Zealand passes the world’s first law to ban smoking for the next generation

A New Zealand court had taken temporary custody of a sick baby whose parents refused life-saving treatment because the blood donors may be vaccinated against coronavirus (COVID-19).

New Zealand: Baby undergoes life-saving surgery after court takes custody from anti-vax parents

Anti-vaxxer parents in New Zealand stalled a life-saving heart surgery for their infant, as they did not want to use blood transfusion from a vaccinated person. Molly Gambhir tells you more.

Gravitas: Anti-vaxxer parents stall life-saving surgery

A New Zealand court has mandated that health officials temporarily seize custody of a child who is embroiled in a dispute over blood transfusions from donors who have received the COVID-19 vaccine.

New Zealand court takes custody of ill infant from anti-vax parents over unviable request

A four-month-old baby in New Zealand facing severe pulmonary valve stenosis—a dangerously narrow heart valve—is finding it difficult to get critical heart surgery as the parents don’t want the doctors to use the blood of vaccinated people for the procedure.

New Zealand: Anti-Covid vax parents delay critical heart surgery for infant as they seek unvaccinated blood

The New Zealand government said that it plans to introduce a law which would require big tech companies like Alphabet Inc’s Google and several platforms under the parent company Meta including Facebook to pay media outlets if they want local news content to show on their feeds.

New Zealand government plans to introduce a law to make Google, Facebook pay for news

New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern and Finland's prime minister Sanna Marin were confronted with a sexist question during their meeting. They did not see it coming but certainly gave a befitting response. Neha Khanna brings you more details.

WION Fineprint: Finland, New Zealand PMs rebuke sexist question

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her Finnish counterpart Sanna Marin have long faced questions about their age and gender at a joint press conference at Auckland’s Government House.

Leaders of New Zealand and Finland hit back at reporter’s question on age and gender

A video of the horrifying Christchurch attack circulating widely on Twitter has been removed, but only after being alerted by the New Zealand government. The video was shot by an Australian supremacist who killed over 50 Muslims in two mosques in Christchurch in 2019.

Twitter fails to detect Christchurch attack video as 'harmful', New Zealand's govt reaches out

Are you scared of rats? Well, most of us are. But this news will shock you. Some 40 little school kids in New Zealand have managed to catch and kill over 600 rats within 100 days, in an effort to preserve the birdlife on the country's Stewart island.

New Zealand school kids as young as five trapped, killed over 600 rats in 100 days to preserve biodiversity

New Zealand struggles to contain stubbornly high inflation, its Central Bank raised interest rates by 75 basis points to a near 14-year-high of 4.25%. It is flagged that more hikes can come. 15 of 23 economies in a poll earlier forecast that Reserve Bank of New Zealand would move by 7.5%.

World Business Watch: New Zealand delivers biggest rate hike ever, interest rates at near 14-yr high

New Zealand's supreme court ruled that the current voting age of 18 discriminates against 16-year-olds. The verdict means New Zealand will debate lowering its voting age. Priyanka Sharma tells you more.

Gravitas: Is 16 too young to vote?

In a landmark ruling, a New Zealand court has ruled that not allowing 16 and 17-year-olds to cast their vote amounted to age discrimination. The court observed that protection against age discrimination in New Zealand begins at 16 and thus choosing 18 as the voting age showed discrimination.

New Zealand court rules in favour of lowering voting age from 18 to 16

New Zealand's supreme court has ruled that not allowing 16 and 17-year-olds to vote amounts to age discrimination. Will the national voting age be lowered from 18 to 16?

WION Fineprint: How young is too young to vote?

The New Zealand Supreme Court has ruled that the country's current voting age of 18 is discriminatory and breaches the right of young people. The decision now has prompted the government to launch plans to bring down the voting aids to 16.

New Zealand: Court to decide on voting age, rules current voting breaches rights of the young

A New Zealand court ruled that not allowing 16 and 17-year-olds to vote is 'age discrimination'. Protection against age discrimination in New Zealand begins at 16...and thus choosing 18 as the voting age showed discrimination, it said.

Allow 16-year-olds to vote, New Zealand court rules

Realtors in New Zealand are coming up with exuberant ideas in a desperate bid to sell houses as the real estate market continues to go south, partly thanks to the affordability crisis.

Get ‘brand new Tesla with brand new home’: NZ realtor gets creative to entice buyers

A court in South Korea on Friday approved the extradition of a 42-year-old woman accused of murdering two children, found dead in a suitcase that a New Zealand couple bought in an online auction.

New Zealand 'suitcase murders': Seoul court approves extradition of suspect Korean woman

Pakistan, Bahamas and New Zealand addressed the third day of the COP27 event. All the leaders were on the demands of climate vulnerable countries in mobilising loss and damage funds for disaster-hit nations.

COP27: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif speaks on climate finance

The self-proclaimed white supremacist, Brenton Tarrant, who killed 51 Muslim worshippers at two Christchurch mosques in March 2019, filed an appeal against his conviction and whole-life sentence on Monday.

New Zealand mosque gunman, who killed 51 people in 2019, files appeal against life sentence

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