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Tensions run high over China and refugees at Pacific meeting

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

$In this April 18, 2018, file photo, Chelsea Manning addresses participants at an anti-fracking rally in Baltimore. Convicted classified document leaker Chelsea Manning will not be allowed to enter Australia for a speaking tour scheduled to start Sunday, Sept. 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)$

New Zealand allows Chelsea Manning entry for speaking tour

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Aug. 19, 2018, photo provided by Richard Graham, Lauren &quot;Kimi&quot; Worrell stands atop a rock peak not long before she died, at Castle Rock near the town of Whitianga in New Zealand. The family of the American scientist is urging other climbers to carefully consider their reliance on equipment that’s been left permanently attached to rock faces. (Richard Graham via AP)

American scientist dies while rock climbing in New Zealand

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

Polish President Duda defends government’s judicial moves

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Aug. 19, 2018, Instagram photo released by New Zealand’s Minister for Women Julie Anne Genter, Genter pregnant with her bicycle pose on an overpass outside Auckland City Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand. Genter said she decided to ride to the hospital on her electric bicycle because it was a beautiful morning and there wasn't enough room in the car for her support crew. (Peter Nunns/Julie Anne Genter via AP)

42 weeks pregnant, New Zealand minister cycles to hospital

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

New Zealand politicians plan pay freeze as workers strike

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

In this Aug. 13, 2018, photo a house is pictured for sale in Christchurch, New Zealand. New Zealand has banned most foreigners from buying homes as it tries to tackle runaway housing prices. The government on Wednesday, Aug. 15 passed legislation that allows only New Zealand residents to buy homes as it attempts to improve housing affordability and increase the rate of home ownership. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

New Zealand bans most foreigners from buying homes

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

Tourists stop to take a photo in middle of the world's steepest street, Baldwin street in Dunedin, New Zealand, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017. Baldwin Street is recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as the steepest residential street in the world with a the slope of about 1:2.86 (19° or 35%) – that is, for every 2.86 meters travelled horizontally, the elevation rises by 1 meter. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

New Zealand bans foreigners from buying homes in most cases

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern leads a group of schoolchildren on a beach cleanup Friday, Aug. 10, 2018, at Lyall Bay in Wellington, New Zealand. Ardern announced Friday that New Zealand plans to ban disposable plastic shopping bags by next July as the nation tries to live up to its clean-and-green image. (AP Photo/Nick Perry)

New Zealand to ban plastic shopping bags from next year

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, left, and New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters address a press conference after their meeting at Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. Mogherini said the EU is encouraging enterprises to increase their business with Iran, as that country has been compliant with their nuclear-related commitments. (Mark Mitchell/New Zealand Herald via AP)

EU says encouraging trade with Iran is crucial to nuke deal

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In this Aug. 1, 2018, photo supplied by Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, right, poses for a family portrait with partner Clarke Gayford and their baby daughter Neve in their home in Auckland, New Zealand. Ardern, just the second elected world leader to give birth while holding office, returned to work Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, after six weeks maternity leave. (Derek Henderson/Jacinda Ardern via AP)

AP Interview: Republic ‘not a priority’ for New Zealand

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

Florida student Tyah-Amoy Roberts poses next to a statue of Gollum Friday, July 27, 2018, at the Weta Workshop movie effects studio in Wellington, New Zealand. The 17-year-old is one of one of 28 students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., who have embraced the South Pacific nation during a trip to learn how to keep a youth movement going long after a tragedy fades from the headlines. (AP Photo/Nick Perry)

Parkland, Florida students embrace New Zealand on field trip

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

Student Delany Tarr from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, completes the planting of a tree at Halswell Quarry Park Conservation Area on the outskirts of Christchurch, New Zealand, Tuesday, July 24, 2018. The 28 students who survived the Feb. 14, 2018, mass-shooting at the Florida school are visiting New Zealand to learn more about sustaining youth movements. After planting the native totara trees on Tuesday, they recounted memories of their former classmates and teachers in a ceremony that brought many to tears. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Parkland, Fla., students plant memorial trees in New Zealand

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

Alaska spaceport shortlisted for Rocket Lab launch site

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New Zealand to buy 4 Boeing military planes from the US

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

Pacific nations plan new security pact as Chinese aid grows

By ROD McGUIRK and NICK PERRY - Associated Press

This photo provided by the Goochland County Sheriff's Office shows a New Zealand passport photo, of Troy George Skinner. A Virginia sheriff says the New Zealand man who went to the home of a 14-year-old girl he had communicated with online was shot by the girl's mother. Skinner was shot Friday, June 22, 2018 after he allegedly smashed a glass door and tried to enter the girl's Goochland, Va., home. Sheriff James Agnew said Skinner bought a knife and duct tape after arriving in the U.S. last week. (New Zealand Passport Office/ Goochland County Sheriff's Office via AP)

Sheriff: New Zealand man shot trying to enter teen’s US home

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FILE - In this April 21, 2016, file photo, Matt Lauer, co-host of the NBC &quot;Today&quot; television program, appears on set in Rockefeller Plaza, in New York. Lauer can keep a lakeside ranch in New Zealand after authorities there concluded there wasn't enough evidence he'd breached a &quot;good character&quot; condition. Lauer has been accused of sexual misconduct by at least three women and was fired from NBC last November. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Former NBC host Matt Lauer can keep New Zealand ranch

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

In this May 21, 2017 photo, a cow stands in a paddock on a farm near Invercargill, New Zealand. New Zealand plans to slaughter about 150,000 cows as it tries to eradicate a strain of disease-causing bacteria from the national herd. Politicians and industry leaders announced the ambitious plan Monday, May 28, 2018. They say it will cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and, if successful, would be the first time an infected country has eliminated Mycoplasma bovis.(AP Photo/Mark Baker)

New Zealand to kill 150,000 cows to end bacterial disease

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

In this March 29, 2018, photo, Alfred Keating, a former Navy commodore and senior defense attache, walks towards the Auckland District Court in Auckland, New Zealand. Keating, a high-ranking New Zealand military officer, has been accused Friday, May 4, 2018, of hiding a camera in a bathroom at the nation's embassy in Washington D.C. and has been charged with attempting to make an intimate visual recording, in a case that has raised unusual jurisdictional questions. (Michael Craig/NZ Herald via AP)

Officer allegedly hid camera at New Zealand Embassy in US

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press