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Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand ‘ready to respond’ to Pacific’s security needs as China seeks deal in region
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Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand is “ready to respond” to security needs in the Pacific, after it emerged China is planning a Pacific-wide security deal with almost a dozen island nations. The prime minister, who is to...
New Zealand will push Anthony Albanese on ‘501’ deportation policy, Jacinda Ardern says
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New Zealand will continue to push the conversation on Australia’s “problematic” deportation policy with the incoming government under Labor leader Anthony Albanese, prime minister Jacinda Ardern has said. “There is ob...
Jacinda Ardern loses sense of taste after Covid, can’t enjoy cheese roll
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New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern says she has lost her sense of taste after testing positive for Covid-19 on Saturday. Thursday was budget day in New Zealand, when traditionally the prime minister has an earl...
New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern tests positive for Covid-19
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The New Zealand prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has tested positive for Covid-19 and will have to isolate for another week in what she called a “very Kiwi experience”. Days after announcing the relaxation of the count...
Jacinda Ardern forced into isolation after partner tests positive to Covid
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New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has been forced into seven days of isolation after her partner tested positive to Covid-19. Ardern announced her Covid isolation in a social media post wishing a happy Mot...
Jacinda Ardern greeted by giant sad dancing kiwifruit during visit to Japan
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New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern has been met in Japan on her first trip outside the country in two years by a duo of enormous, mournfully dancing kiwifruit. The two large mascots welcomed the prime ministe...
Jacinda Ardern questions motive for China-Solomons security pact
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Jacinda Ardern, the New Zealand prime minister, has spoken of Beijing’s “growing assertiveness” in the Pacific region as she challenged the motive for a security pact between Solomon Islands and Beijing. Australia, Ne...
Jacinda Ardern united New Zealanders when Covid hit. Then a long second lockdown split ‘the team of 5 million’
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Today marks two years to the day that the call went out for New Zealanders who were travelling or living overseas to “return home”. In those strange, dangerous days the pandemic was threatening to unleash so many unkn...
Anti-Covid vaccine mandate protesters chase New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern outside school
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A group of shouting protesters have chased the New Zealand prime minister’s van down a driveway as she visited a Christchurch primary school, amid tensions over increasingly volatile anti-vaccine mandate protests. Jac...
Jacinda Ardern delivers Waitangi Day address – video
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In a pre-recorded address, the New Zealand prime minister says while people cannot come together on the Treaty grounds this year due to Covid restrictions, 'the day remains of great importance to us as a nation'. Arde...
New Zealand border will open in stages from end of February, Jacinda Ardern announces
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New Zealand has announced it will reopen its border to visitors in stages, starting at the end of February, after its earlier plans to do so were derailed by Omicron. It will be the first time the country has opened u...
Covid live: NZ’s Jacinda Ardern in self-isolation; Tory MP defends Johnson over party claims
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Intensive care doctor seeking judicial review over vaccine requirement; abnormalities found in lungs of long Covid patients
New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern isolates after possible Covid exposure
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New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has gone into self-isolation until Tuesday after being deemed a close contact of a person who tested positive for Covid. The exposure took place last Saturday during a fli...
Jacinda Ardern’s poll rating at lowest since becoming New Zealand’s PM
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Support for Jacinda Ardern has dropped to its lowest level since she became New Zealand’s prime minister in 2017, as the country reckons with higher living costs and a Covid-19 outbreak. While Ardern remains New Zeala...
‘Such is life’: Jacinda Ardern cancels wedding amid Omicron wave – video
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The Omicron outbreak in New Zealand has forced Jacinda Ardern and partner Clarke Gayford to cancel their wedding, which was due to take place in the coming weeks at Gisborne on the North Island’s eastern coast. The pr...
Deal with Jacinda Ardern’s Labour party is proving toxic for New Zealand’s Greens
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Metiria Turei, the former Green party co-leader, left parliament more than four years ago, resigning from the co-leadership and the party list after right wing lobby groups, with an able assist in the form of the parl...