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Health Minister Ayesha Verrall announces New Zealand will end COVID-19 restrictions including mask mandates and 7-day quarantines.
2023-08-14

New Zealand signs a free trade agreement with the European Union, which is expected to increase EU exports to the South Pacific nation by €4.5 billion a year.
2023-07-9

A court in Minsk, Belarus, sentences opposition activist Sergei Tikhanovsky to 18 years in prison for several charges, including organising riots, following what was widely described as a "sham trial". Tikhanovsky's wife, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, left Belarus amid the protests that occurred in the country in 2020.
2021-12-14

New Zealand reports a record 160 new community cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.
2021-10-30

Three cars are hijacked and burned in Newtownabbey and rioters attack a police vehicle as disturbances enter their sixth day. Police announce seven people aged from 13 to 25 have been charged with riot.
2021-04-3

Riots continue for the third day in Italian prisons after family visitations were suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. Four more inmates died in the incidents, bringing the death toll to 12. The 22 inmates that escaped in Foggia, Apulia, are still wanted.
2020-03-10

A passenger bus carrying 46 people, mostly school groups from Tonga, crashes in the Gisborne Region of New Zealand, approximately 30 kilometers south of the city of Gisborne. Two people died while several were injured, with some still hospitalized.
2016-12-24

A 7.1 magnitude earthquake occurs off the north east coast of North Island, New Zealand. A tsunami warning was issued after the earthquake, and waves of 0.3m have been reported near Gisborne.
2016-09-1

Former AC-DC drummer Phil Rudd pleads guilty to threatening to kill and drug possession charges in Tauranga, New Zealand.
2015-04-21

John Carter, the New Zealand Minister for Civil Defence, extends the State of National Emergency for another week.
2011-03-13