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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. (Image: Facebook)World
New Zealand’s Ardern poised for big win in election, poll says

All recent polls have pointed to a victory for Ardern’s Labour Party, governing in a coalition with the Greens and New...

8 Oct 2020 3:02 PM IST

PM Jacinda Ardern declared New Zealand beat the virus again. (Image: Facebook/Jacinda Ardern)World
PM Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand has -'beaten the virus again-'

Ardern announced restrictions in the country-'s largest city would be eased, after a second COVID-19 wave was contained

5 Oct 2020 10:16 AM IST

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern. (Image:Facebook/Jacinda Ardern)World
New Zealand sees first case-free day in five weeks

Friday’s report also marked the fourth consecutive day without any cases of community transmission

18 Sept 2020 10:06 AM IST

A family walks past the entrance to Luna Park in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda on September 16, 2020. - Melbourne continues to enforce strict lockdown measures to battle a second wave of the Covid-19 coronavirus. (AFP)World
Australia’s Victoria sees a steady drop in new coronavirus cases

Australia’s second-most populous state reported the lowest daily rise since June 24 and down from daily highs above...

17 Sept 2020 10:44 AM IST

New Zealands Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern carries her lunch during an event in Welcome Bay near Tauranga, New Zealand. (AP)World
New Zealand to lift virus curbs in most of country on September 21

New Zealand on Monday reported one new case of coronavirus in the community, taking the total number of cases to 1,447...

14 Sept 2020 11:00 AM IST

Humpback whales stray up crocodile-infested tropical Aussie riverWorld
Humpback whales stray up crocodile-infested tropical Aussie river

Park authorities have set up a partial exclusion zone to protect unwitting boaters and whales, which can grow up to 16...

12 Sept 2020 3:00 PM IST

Antarctica is still free of coronavirus. Can it stay that way?World
Antarctica is still free of coronavirus. Can it stay that way?

Until this year, conversations with incoming visitors focused on preparing the newcomers. Now the advice goes both ways

12 Sept 2020 2:02 PM IST

A dispute over protection measures for Australias endangered koalas threatened on September 10, 2020 to topple the government of the countrys biggest state. (AFP)World
A koala row might topple the government in Australia-'s New South...

The uniquely Australian political stoush comes months after unprecedented bushfires destroyed vast swathes of koala...

10 Sept 2020 12:24 PM IST

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, second right, addresses the media on the first day of her election campaign in Rotorua, New Zealand, Monday, Sept 7. 2020. Ardern said that her government will create a new public holiday to celebrate the Maori New Year if it is reelected next month. (AP)World
New Zealand government to honour Maori New Year if reelected

Many people have argued that marking the day would help recognise the nation-'s indigenous people

7 Sept 2020 1:08 PM IST

Protesters confront police at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne on September 5, 2020, during an anti-lockdown rally protesting the states strict lockdown laws as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus. (AFP)World
Australia-'s Melbourne to remain in lockdown despite protests

Scuffles between protesters and police resulted in more than 160 fines for contravening lockdown measures or not wearing...

6 Sept 2020 11:22 AM IST

Police place a face mask on an arrested protester at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne on September 5, 2020 during an anti-lockdown rally protesting the states strict lockdown laws as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus. (AFP)World
Anti-lockdown protests erupt in Australia just as cases start to come...

Four men were arrested and charged with incitement over the so-called -'Freedom Day-' protests planned for several...

5 Sept 2020 2:15 PM IST

The death at Aucklands Middlemore Hospital on Friday afternoon takes New Zealands death toll from the virus to 23, with the most recent previous fatality on May 24. (AFP)World
New Zealand records first COVID-19 death in over three months

Health officials said the man was part of a second-wave cluster of infections that emerged in Auckland last month

4 Sept 2020 2:09 PM IST

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