New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern has called it quits.

20 Jan 2023 12:37 AM

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ( Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern to step down as PM, sets October election

Ardern announced that New Zealand's next general elections would be held on October 14, and that she would remain a lawmaker until then

19 Jan 2023 8:55 AM

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. (AP)

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern cancels her wedding due to Omicron surge

New Zealanders are set to face new COVID-19 restrictions after nine cases of the omicron variant were detected in a single family

23 Jan 2022 12:13 PM

People, some wearing masks, walk along a path in Wellington, New Zealand Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. (Mark Mitchell/New Zealand Herald via AP)

New Zealand has biggest COVID-19 case day in over a year

The government put the nation into a strict lockdown last week as it tries to stamp out the outbreak, which has grown to 277 infections

26 Aug 2021 11:42 AM

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern walks to the COVID-19 update press conference in Wellington, New Zealand, Friday, Aug. 20, 2021. (Mark Mitchell Pool photo via AP)

New Zealand extends Delta outbreak lockdown

PM Jacinda Ardern said the initial three-day lockdown, which would have expired overnight Friday, would be extended by another four days

20 Aug 2021 12:09 PM

While arrivals from India had triggered the risk assessment, Prime Minister Ardern said the Government would be looking at risks posed by other COVID-19 hotspot countries. (Mark Mitchell/New Zealand Herald via AP)

New Zealand temporarily suspends entry of travellers from India amid COVID-19 surge

The travel restriction comes after New Zealand recorded 23 new COVID-19 cases in managed isolation on Thursday, of which 17 came from India

08 Apr 2021 11:25 AM

Earlier this year New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern accused Australia of sending back people who were not "genuine Kiwis". (Representational Image: AP)

Australia deports New Zealanders despite virus travel ban

Since 2014 nearly 3,000 New Zealanders in Australia have had their visas cancelled ‘on character grounds’

16 Jul 2020 4:13 PM

A pandemic revelation: Women rule (better)

Women leaders winning over the coronavirus crisis prompts the question - “Who should run the world?”

14 Jun 2020 7:21 PM

New Zealand declares emergency

The country currently has 205 reported cases of the virus

25 Mar 2020 11:58 AM

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