New Zealand

Germany establishes diplomatic ties with Niue, signaling the importance of the Pacific - opinion

Niue is not a member of the United Nations, yet it is increasingly active and visible in diplomacy, with growing confidence and widening networks.

|ByYOSEF SOLOMON
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz speaks during the Italy–Germany Business Forum at the Grand Hotel Parco dei Principi, in Rome, Italy, January 23, 2026.
HEAVY MACHINERY has been brought in at the scene of a landslide triggered by heavy rains on January 23, in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand, January 24, 2026.

Recovery efforts for New Zealand landslide victims suspended after crack found at site

Six people, including two teenagers, are presumed dead after heavy rains triggered Thursday's landslide at Mount Maunganui on the island's east coast.

|ByREUTERS
A resident from Tairua helps clean up a land slip following the recent storm that struck New Zealand’s North Island, January 23, 2026.

At least six missing after landslide at New Zealand campsite, authorities confirm

A landslide triggered by heavy rains at Mount Maunganui has left six people missing in New Zealand's Tauranga, with search teams continuing their efforts despite unstable conditions.

|ByREUTERS
Flowers and an Israeli flag lie on the ground in a makeshift memorial following the attack on a Jewish holiday celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia, December 15, 2025.

Bondi Beach massacre proves antisemitism is now global contagion - analysis

The Bondi Beach attack was not confusing. It was clear very quickly that these were gunmen shooting at people. It was also very quickly made clear that the targeted event was a Jewish Hanukkah event.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

Debates over kiwi dog toy raises animal conservation issues

Conservation groups complained a kiwi dog toy was inappropriate since dogs are the kiwi bird's most dangerous predator.

DECEMBER 21, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A three-week old North Island Brown Kiwi called 'Tuatahi', meaning 'first' in the Maori language, is held by Taronga Zoo's birdkeeper Chris Hibbard September 26.

New Zealand museum that lit up blue and white forced to apologize

Pro-Palestinian activists were ‘very outraged’ about sign of solidarity with terror victims.

OCTOBER 17, 2023ByATARA BECK
The Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira is one of New Zealand's most important museums and war memorials.

Medical implement was left inside a woman for two years before discovery

The commissioners report found that the hospital had failed in its duty of care and the hospital issued a verbal apology, to be given in writing within three weeks.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Pregnant woman (illustrative)

Zionism is a model for indigenous people - opinion

Many New Zealanders view Israel through the lens of our own settler colonialist history: the Jews, like the British, are seen as white European colonizers; the Palestinians as the indigenous Māori.

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023BySHEREE TROTTER
THE WRITER participates in the ISGAP scholars-in-residence program at Pembroke College, Oxford, last month.

Leading Israeli epidemiologist not worried about new COVID-19 variant

The world's response to the latest pandemic and the social rifts created concern him more.

AUGUST 18, 2023ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, also known as novel coronavirus

South African mother faces life sentence for murder of three daughters in New Zealand

Lauren Anne Dickason killed her two-year-old twins and their six-year-old sister in September 2021, about a month after the family had migrated from South Africa to New Zealand.

AUGUST 16, 2023ByREUTERS
Leah Spies, 7, stands with her mother Chantelle outside where Lauren Anne Dickason, a woman charged with murdering her three young daughters just weeks after arriving in New Zealand from South Africa, used to live, in Pretoria, South Africa, September 24, 2021.

Not very reasonable: Leaving Israel for New Zealand over the reasonableness clause - opinion

Every element of Israel’s proposed reform that the Israel Medical Association finds so odious and dictatorial is present in even greater measure in New Zealand.

AUGUST 10, 2023ByDAVID KIRSHENBAUM
DEMONSTRATORS GATHER on the grounds of New Zealand Parliament in Wellington last year to protest what they consider government encroachment on freedoms.

Two people, shooter dead in shooting in Auckland, New Zealand

Two people were killed and several more were injured in a shooting in Auckland, New Zealand ahead of the Women's World Cup.

JULY 20, 2023ByREUTERS
Armed police stand guard outside a building construction site following a shooting in the central business district, in Auckland, New Zealand July 20, 2023.

These countries are most likely to survive nuclear war, asteroid impact

Discover the countries with the highest chances of survival in the face of nuclear war, asteroid impacts, or other catastrophes. Get ready to book your tickets.

JUNE 23, 2023ByWALLA!

Man with axe attacks Chinese restaurants in New Zealand, injuring four

New Zealand Police said they had arrested a 24-year-old man and he was due to appear in court on Tuesday.

JUNE 20, 2023ByREUTERS
The scene of the Auckland, New Zealand axe attack