A powerful hurricane has hit Jamaica with heavy winds and rain, damaging buildings and felling trees on the Caribbean island.
Beryl - a category four storm with winds of up to 130mph (215km/h) - struck the island's southern coast.
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New Zealand announced it has tightened its visa rules, introducing language and skill criteria and shortening work permit lengths in response to "unsustainable net migration."
The changes to the Accredited Employer Worker Visa (AEWV) scheme have (...)
New Zealand's deputy prime minister Winston Peters says he "does not care" about the row over using Chumbawamba hit Tubthumping at a political rally.
The UK band had accused him of "hijacking" the song and had asked their recording label to issue a (...)
A New Zealand court has ordered NZ$10m (£4.8m; $6m) in compensation to the victims of the White Island volcano disaster, where 22 people died.
In December 2019, 47 people were touring the volcano when it erupted, killing nearly half of the group and (...)
A New Zealand MP has resigned following multiple allegations of shoplifting, which police are investigating.
Golriz Ghahraman, of the Green Party, is alleged to have stolen three times from two clothing stores — one in Auckland and the other in (...)
New Zealand's former prime minister Jacinda Ardern has married her long-term partner Clarke Gayford in a small private ceremony in North Island.
The couple had intended to tie the knot in 2022 but canceled during strict COVID restrictions that (...)
A fisherman who fell overboard and spent nearly 24 hours in cold, choppy waters — rousing a shark's attention — was rescued off New Zealand's coast Wednesday after using his watch reflection to signal for help.
Whangamatā Police Sergeant Will (...)
When New Zealand's new government announced it was scrapping the country's world-leading tobacco laws, it came as a particularly hard blow to Māori people.
With the Indigenous community having the highest smoking rates, its leaders had fought for (...)
Thousands of protesters across New Zealand have rallied against the new government's plans to reverse policies which boosted Indigenous rights.
Prime Minister Chris Luxon's right-wing government wants to re-interpret the nation's Indigenous treaty (...)
New Zealand's new government says it plans to scrap the nation's world-leading smoking ban to fund tax cuts.
The legislation, introduced under the previous Jacinda Ardern-led government, would have banned cigarette sales next year to anyone born (...)
An Australian woman charged with murdering three people in a suspected mushroom poisoning case is also accused of trying to murder her ex-partner on four occasions, court documents say.
Erin Patterson, 49, was charged with three counts of murder and (...)
An Australian woman has been charged with murder over the suspected mushroom poisoning deaths of three people.
Erin Patterson was arrested on Thursday morning and police have spent the day searching her home east of Melbourne.
Ms Patterson, 49, had (...)
A New Zealand landlord who was locked in a dispute with the Chinese embassy over rubbish disposal has lost a NZ$960 ($559;£462) claim.
Chandler Investments Limited claimed the embassy left a rented Wellington mews house without covering cleaning and (...)
The opposition National Party has won the New Zealand election, taking enough seats to form a coalition with its allies on the right wing of politics.
Incumbent Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, of Labour, phoned National's leader Chris Luxon to concede (...)
A memorial service in Australia for the couple who died after eating a mushroom beef Wellington cooked by their former daughter-in-law has drawn hundreds.
Gail and Don Patterson were two of three guests who died after the lunch last month at Erin (...)
New Zealand's justice minister has resigned with immediate effect, after failing an alcohol breath test in the wake of a car crash.
Kiri Allan, 39, was charged with careless driving and resisting arrest.
She is the fourth minister from Prime (...)
New Zealand has become the world's first country to expand its ban on plastic bags in supermarkets to thin bags, which are typically used to hold fruits or vegetables.
The move, which took effect on Saturday, is part of a wider government campaign (...)
Former New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern, who stepped down from her post earlier this year, has been made a dame in one of the country's highest honors.
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins announced the appointment on Monday to mark the King's Birthday (...)
New Zealand police have charged a 48-year-old man with five counts of murder in relation to a deadly hostel fire.
He had already been detained and charged with arson over the blaze in Wellington last month.
Loafers Lodge, a four-story emergency (...)
New Zealand police have launched a homicide inquiry into a fire at an emergency housing hostel in Wellington, where at least six people were killed.
Officials said up to 20 people were still missing and they were treating the blaze as an act of (...)
At least six people have died and others remain unaccounted for following a fire in a hostel, New Zealand's prime minister has told local media.
Emergency services were called to the four-story Loafers Lodge hostel in Wellington just after midnight (...)
China on Tuesday expelled a Canadian diplomat in Shanghai, a day after Canada announced it would expel a Chinese diplomat over allegations he was involved in efforts to intimidate a Canadian politician.
In a statement Tuesday, China's Foreign (...)
After stepping down as leader of New Zealand earlier this year, Jacinda Ardern has revealed that she is swapping the rough and tumble of politics for a stint of quiet reflection within academia overseas, heading to Harvard University this fall under (...)
For the first time, New Zealand will see an equal number of men and women in its cabinet.
This comes after Northland MP Willow-Jean Prime, who is of Māori descent, was promoted as a cabinet minister.
"It is nice to have a cabinet that reflects the (...)
AVARUA DISTRICT — Saudi Arabia and the Cook Islands have signed a protocol project to establish diplomatic relations between the two countries.
The protocol project was signed at the headquarters of Saudi Arabia's Embassy in New Zealand by Tariq (...)