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A member of Australia's Federal Police stands by a collapsed building in Port Vila, Vanuatu, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, following a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that struck off the coast of Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean, Tuesday, Dec. 17. (Australian Federal Police via AP)

Number of dead and missing still unclear as first aid arrives in quake-hit Pacific nation of Vanuatu

By Charlotte Graham-McLay - Associated Press

A building is seen damaged in Port Vila, Vanuatu following a powerful earthquake Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. (Tim Cutler via AP)

Rescuers dig for survivors of Vanuatu earthquake with no water and unclear death toll

By Charlotte Graham-McLay - Associated Press

This image made from a video shows a landslide near an international shipping terminal in Port Vila, Vanuatu following a powerful earthquake Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. (Dan McGarry via AP)

Magnitude 7.3 earthquake causes widespread damage in Pacific island nation of Vanuatu

By Charlotte Graham-McLay - Associated Press

FILE - In this photo provided by the New Zealand Department of Conservation, rangers inspect what is believed to be a rare spade-toothed whale on July 5, 2024, after it was found washed ashore on a beach near Otago, New Zealand. (Department of Conservation via AP, File)

New Zealand scientists suspect specimen of world’s rarest whale died from head injuries

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

FILE - Tournament favorite and five-time English-language scrabble world champion Nigel Richards looks across the board before the start of his final round, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, at the National Scrabble Championships in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Gary Wiepert, File)

A New Zealander studied for a year to win the Spanish world Scrabble title. He doesn’t speak Spanish

By Charlotte Graham-McLay - Associated Press

Greyhounds race at the Southland Greyhound Racing Club meeting at Ascot Park raceway, in Invercargill, New Zealand, Dec. 28, 2012, (Robyn Edie/Southland Times via AP)

Greyhound racing is increasingly rare worldwide. New Zealand now plans to outlaw the practice

By Charlotte Graham-McLay - Associated Press

New Zealand's highest peak, Aoraki, centre, is seen in the Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park, on Aug. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

3 climbers from U.S. and Canada believed to have died in fall on New Zealand’s highest peak

By Charlotte Graham-McLay - Associated Press

International scientist's, Alexander Werth, from left, professor Joy Reidenberg and Michael Denk study a male spade-toothed whale ahead of a dissection at Invermay Agricultural Centre, Mosgiel, near Dunedin, New Zealand, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Derek Morrison)

Scientists gather to decode puzzle of the world’s rarest whale in ‘extraordinary’ New Zealand study

By Charlotte Graham-McLay - Associated Press

Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom speaks during the Intelligence and Security Select Committee hearing at Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, on July 3, 2013. (Mark Mitchell/New Zealand Herald via AP, File)

Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has suffered a serious stroke, a post on his X account says

By Charlotte Graham-Mclay - Associated Press

Rescuers rope off an area around a dead pilot whale that was stranded on Ruakākā Beach in northland, New Zealand, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (Nikki Hartley/New Zealand Department Of Conservation via AP)

New Zealanders save more than 30 stranded whales by lifting them on sheets

By Charlotte Graham-McLay - Associated Press

New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon makes a "formal and unreserved" apology in Parliament for the widespread abuse, torture and neglect of hundreds of thousands of children and vulnerable adults in care, in Wellington, New Zealand, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. (Robert Kitchin/Stuff via AP)

New Zealand’s leader formally apologizes to survivors of abuse in state and church care

By Charlotte Graham-McLay - Associated Press

In a photo provided by Michael Schade, tourists on a boat look at the eruption of the volcano on White Island, New Zealand, Dec. 9, 2019. (Michael Schade via AP, File)

A judge to decide if owners of a New Zealand volcano site where 22 died were unjustly convicted

By Charlotte Graham-McLay - Associated Press

In a photo provided by Michael Schade, tourists on a boat look at the eruption of the volcano on White Island, New Zealand, Dec. 9, 2019. (Michael Schade via AP, File)

The owners of a New Zealand volcano that erupted in 2019, killing 22 people, appeal their conviction

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY - Associated Press

Fishermen Taula Fagatuai, left, and Faalogo Afereti Taliulu talk on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024, about the New Zealand navy ship HMNZS Manawanui that sank not far from them in the village of Siumu, Samoa. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Samoan coast where King Charles will visit worries about the future after ship damaged reef

Associated Press

Emirates Team New Zealand crew celebrates after winning the Louis Vuitton 37th America's Cup in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, Oct.19, 2024. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)

New Zealand achieves America’s Cup three-peat as Britain’s title quest goes on

By Joseph Wilson - Associated Press