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Chris Hipkins has been sworn in as New Zealand’s prime minister, following the unexpected resignation last week of Jacinda Ardern.

Jacinda Ardern has made her final public appearance as New Zealand’s prime minister, saying the thing she would miss most was the people, because they had been the “joy of the job.”.

The many crises that hit during New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s tenure, and her capacity to manage them, are a defining element of her legacy.

Political experts say that other global leaders can learn from Ardern's moment of gracefully bowing out while keeping reputations largely intact.

Chris Hipkins has been confirmed as New Zealand’s next prime minister and he chose Carmel Sepuloni as his deputy, marking the first time a person with Pacific Island heritage has risen to that rank.

The 44-year-old education minister must still garner an endorsement Sunday from his Labour Party colleagues, but that is just a formality. An official transfer of power is expected in the coming days.

New Zealand's education minister is set to become the island nation's next prime minister after the surprise resignation of Jacinda Ardern.

Jacinda Ardern was hailed internationally for leading New Zealand through covid, but the policies that saved lives also sparked divisions and poisonous misogyny.

When Jacinda Ardern announced she was stepping down as New Zealand’s prime minister, speculation began almost immediately about what she might do for a second act.

Five years ago she became the second world leader to give birth while in office. Now, the New Zealand prime minister plans to step down.

New Zealand’s prime minister is ending her barrier-breaking run with one last swing at those barriers.

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New Zealand’s prime minister, who took office aged 37, was called a “babe” and referred to as “the lady with the big teeth” during her time in office.

The giddy Fox News host made over-the-top claims about the outgoing prime minister.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has decided to leave office.

Her leadership stood in such stark contrast to many of her boorish male counterparts, and represented a different kind of politics.

Speaking to her party's annual caucus, 42-year-old Ardern said "it's time" for her to move on and that she "no longer had enough in the tank" for her premiership.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is leaving office after nearly six years in which she was praised globally for her empathetic handling of the nation’s worst mass-shooting and health-driven response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Jacinda Ardern, who won global acclaim for her handling of the coronavirus pandemic, will step down after her ruling center-left party votes on a new leader.

Sitiveni Rabuka has been sworn in as Fiji’s prime minister more than two decades after the former military commander first held the office in a term lasting nearly seven years.

When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was caught on a hot mic using a vulgarity against a rival politician last week, it seemed the nation’s politics could be taking an ugly turn heading into an election year.

Jacinda Ardern has sought to distance herself from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, insisting that her involvement in a forthcoming Netflix documentary series was not connected to the couple.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, known for her composure, used a pejorative word to compare an “arrogant” political rival to a part of the male anatomy.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged New Zealand to take a leading role in focusing on the environmental destruction his country is suffering as a result of Russia’s invasion

The comment came after lawmaker David Seymour peppered her with questions about her government's record.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been caught on a hot mic using a vulgarity against a rival politician.

Reflecting on her five years as New Zealand’s leader, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says China has undoubtedly become more assertive in the region over that time, but cautions that building relationships with small Pacific nations shouldn’t become a game of one-upmanship.

Reflecting on her five years as New Zealand's leader, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said China has undoubtedly become more assertive in the region over that time, but cautioned that building relationships with small Pacific nations shouldn't become a game of one-upmanship. In a joint interview Thursday with The Associated Press and the Australian Associated Press, Ardern said China has changed in recent years under President Xi Jinping. “I think if I stand back and look at the region as a whole and some of the changes that we’ve seen within our region, you do see a more assertive China,” Ardern said.

New Zealand is launching a wide-ranging inquiry into whether it made the right decisions in battling COVID-19 and how it can better prepare for future pandemics.

Asked whether she met with her Finnish counterpart "just because" of their similarities in age and gender, New Zealand's leader questioned whether reporters would ask the same of her male predecessor.

A reporter asked the New Zealand and Finnish prime ministers whether they were meeting because they were "similar in age and have got a lot of common stuff there."

The kingdom’s rulers may have managed their own social pressures better, but they’re wary of the tumult that’s shaking their neighbor.

New Zealand lawmakers will vote on whether to lower the national voting age to 16 after the country's Supreme Court ruled that not allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to vote amounted to age discrimination.

New Zealand lawmakers will take a vote on whether to lower the nation’s voting age from 18 to 16.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is assuring Asian leaders “the United States is here to stay” as she pitches Washington as a reliable economic partner committed to the region and its prosperity.

Russia and China have again blocked plans supported by the European Union, the United States and 23 other nations to protect three vast stretches of ocean around Antarctica from most fishing.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern this week is making a rare visit by a world leader to Antarctica.

Delegations from Russia and Ukraine are among those meeting in Australia this week to decide the future of Antarctica’s pristine waters.

For the first time, New Zealand now has more female politicians than male after swearing in lawmaker Soraya Peke-Mason. Elsewhere, progress remains mixed.

The milestone places New Zealand among a half-dozen nations in the world that this year can claim at least 50% female representation in their parliaments, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

For the first time in New Zealand’s history, a majority of lawmakers are women.

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The plans have not been universally welcomed.

New Zealand's government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change. Farmers quickly condemned the plan.

New Zealand’s government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change.

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern warned allowing free speech online leads to rhetoric that can be as dangerous as military weaponry.

New Zealand has commemorated Queen Elizabeth II with a public holiday, a moment of silence and an official memorial service.

This year’s U.N. General Assembly meeting of world leaders comes on the heels of another event that reverberated internationally — the death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II.

"When you think about leaders who have been in that position… there were so few to look to," Ardern said.

American presidents usually make a splash when they travel abroad, holding the spotlight and quickly becoming the center of attention. For U.S. President Joe Biden and other presidents, prime ministers and dignitaries, there were no red-carpet arrivals, no big speeches and no news conferences as they gathered for Monday's state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II. Instead, world leaders used to people hanging on their every word checked their egos in the service of honoring the queen, Britain's longest-serving monarch, who died earlier this month at age 96 after 70 years on the throne. “They know that they are there to honor the passing, honor the individual,” said Capricia Marshall, who was the U.S. State Department's protocol chief for a period during Barack Obama's administration.

The audience at Buckingham Palace took place after Olena Zelenska saw the Queen lying in state.

U.S. President Joe Biden and other dignitaries are arriving in London for the funeral.

New Zealand, home of some of the toughest COVID restrictions in the world, has begun scaling back its pandemic restrictions as worries around the virus shrink.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says her government will not pursue any moves to change the country into a republic following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

New Zealand is removing most of its remaining COVID-19 restrictions as the government signals a return to normalcy for the first time since the pandemic began

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said Thursday that his country’s new security pact with Beijing would not allow China to build a military base on the South Pacific nation and make his citizens “targets for potential military strikes.” Details of the pact haven’t been made public but the deal has raised fears of a permanent Chinese military facility within 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) of the northeast Australian coast.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will host New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in London on Friday for talks on security and boosting bilateral ties

Legislators asked for a review of the rules after MP Stella Creasy was told she could not bring her 3-month-old into a debate.

New Zealand said that the Proud Boys' role in the Jan 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot contributed to its blacklisting.

Australia’s new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he will take advice on whether to accept President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's invitation to visit Ukraine during an upcoming European trip.

Australia’s prime minister said Friday after a meeting with his New Zealand counterpart that the two nations are in lockstep in their policies toward the Pacific islands, where China's influence is growing. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern became the first foreign leader to visit Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Australia since he was elected on May 21. Both lead center-left administrations and Ardern described the Albanese Labor Party’s election after almost a decade in opposition as a reset in the bilateral relationship.

Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow has announced that he plans to step down next year.

Hurricane Agatha became the strongest hurricane ever recorded to come ashore in May during the eastern Pacific hurricane season. Agatha made landfall on a stretch of small beach towns and fishing villages in southern Mexico.

President Joe Biden is praising New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for her success in curbing extremism and guns following a 2019 mass shooting there.

The leaders of California and New Zealand have signed a pledge agreeing to help fight climate change.

People in Britain, Australia and New Zealand are yet again struggling to comprehend why America's lawmakers appear unmoved by a massacre of innocents.

"It's just hard to imagine, hard to fathom, how a great nation like the United States can go on like this," said French President Emmanuel Macron.

Officials around the world are responding to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the deadliest such incident to take place in the U.S. in nearly a decade.

The Uvalde, Tex., elementary school shooting is the latest in a U.S. epidemic, as gun violence in many other developed countries is far less common.

New Zealand’s government says it will hand out an extra few hundred dollars to more than 2 million lower-income adults to help them navigate what it describes as “the peak of the global inflation storm.”.

New Zealand will help pay for lower-income families to scrap their old gas guzzlers and replace them with cleaner hybrid or electric cars as part of a sweeping plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The surreal spectacle of giant kiwi mascots dancing to solemn music stole the show during New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s visit to Japan.

New Zealand will send a military transport plane and a support team of 50 to Europe, as well as give money to Britain to buy weapons, as it significantly steps up its response to the war in Ukraine. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Monday that the C130 Hercules plane would travel throughout Europe to carry much-needed equipment and supplies to key distribution centers. Ardern said her government would also spend an additional 13 million New Zealand dollars ($9 million) on military and human rights support, including NZ$7.5 million for Britain to buy weapons and ammunition.

The small but strategic South Pacific island nation is forging a new security pact with Beijing – a growing alliance U.S. allies in the region call "gravely concerning."

A New Zealand man on Thursday was sentenced to one year in prison for threatening to kill Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

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New Zealand will remove many of its COVID-19 pandemic mandates over the next two weeks as an omicron outbreak begins to wane.

The move is meant to speed up the recovery of the island nation's pandemic-battered economy, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Wednesday.

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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says her nation is “ready to welcome the world back” with most tourists allowed to return by May as the nation continues to ease its coronavirus restrictions.

New Zealand's government said Monday it plans to rush through a new law that will allow it to impose economic sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. Unlike many countries that have already introduced sanctions, New Zealand's existing laws don't allow it to apply meaningful measures unless they're part of a broader United Nations effort. Because Russia has U.N. Security Council veto power, that has left New Zealand hamstrung.

New Zealand police say they will review hours of cellphone footage taken by themselves, the media and the public to identify lawbreakers.

New Zealand police said Thursday they will review hours of cellphone footage taken by themselves, the media and the public to identify lawbreakers, while crews begin the cleanup of Parliament's grounds after a protest there against coronavirus vaccine mandates ended in violence. House Speaker Trevor Mallard said on Twitter he thought a wall was needed, with gates that could be closed when they were confronted by groups like the unruly protesters. Police Assistant Commissioner Richard Chambers told reporters eight officers were admitted to a local hospital after the confrontation, suffering injuries like broken bones and lacerations.

Thick black smoke billowed across the grounds of New Zealand’s Parliament and sirens blared as retreating protesters against coronavirus vaccine mandates set fire to tents, mattresses and chairs.

New Zealand is ending a requirement that incoming travelers isolate themselves.

The number of cars and trucks blocking the streets outside New Zealand’s Parliament was thinning Friday, but more protesters were expected to arrive for the weekend, including some by boat.

Police in New Zealand's capital say a protester drove a car toward a police line, narrowly avoiding officers, and other protesters sprayed officers with a stinging substance.

New Zealand’s prime minister says protesters who oppose coronavirus mandates are using “intimidation and harassment,” as the convoy of demonstrators continues to disrupt the capital of Wellington.

Hundreds of people protesting vaccine and mask mandates drove in convoy to New Zealand’s capital and converged outside Parliament as lawmakers reconvened after a summer break.

New Zealand’s government will end its quarantine requirements for incoming travelers and reopen its borders.

Many countries that have been especially hard-hit by the coronavirus are easing their tough and often unpopular restrictive measures to fight COVID-19.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she is self-isolating after coming into close contact with a person infected with the coronavirus.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is postponing her wedding after announcing new COVID-19 restrictions following the discovery of nine cases of the omicron variant in a single family that flew to Auckland to attend a wedding.

New Zealand is among the few remaining countries to have avoided any outbreaks of the omicron variant.

New Zealand will send up to 65 military and police personnel to the Solomon Islands in the coming days after rioting and looting broke out there last week over several issues, including concerns about the country's increasing links with China.

The emergence of the omicron variant isn’t changing New Zealand’s plans to ease restrictions in Auckland and move the nation into a new, more open phase of its pandemic response.

Bars, restaurants and gyms can reopen in Auckland from early December but customers will be required to show proof they’ve been fully vaccinated.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says people have a duty to get vaccinated against the coronavirus to protect others.

U.S. President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will have a rare virtual encounter this week as they gather online with other Pacific Rim leaders to chart a path to recovery out of the crisis brought on by the pandemic.

The lockdown of New Zealand’s largest city is likely to end later this month, with some coronavirus restrictions being eased Tuesday.