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Kim Dotcom to be extradited from New Zealand after 12-year fight with US

YoopyaAugust 15, 2024August 15, 2024

by YoopyaAugust 15, 2024August 15, 20240513

WELLINGTON, Aug 15 (Reuters) – Kim Dotcom, who is facing criminal charges relating to the defunct file-sharing website Megaupload, will be extradited to the United...

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Film: New Zealand court fines US actor Chris Pine for drink driving

YoopyaMarch 17, 2014September 26, 2023

by YoopyaMarch 17, 2014September 26, 202304

(Reuters) – U.S. film actor and Star Trek star Chris Pine pleaded guilty in a New Zealand court to drink-driving and was fined and disqualified...

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New Zealand adopts main island names

YoopyaOctober 10, 2013March 10, 2024

by YoopyaOctober 10, 2013March 10, 202407

New Zealand has formally adopted names in English and Maori for its two main islands. In English, they will be known as the North Island...

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Third time lucky for Colm Toibin on Man Booker prize shortlist?

YoopyaSeptember 10, 2013October 30, 2023

by YoopyaSeptember 10, 2013October 30, 2023011

(Reuters) – Six tales from gold-rush New Zealand to Zimbabwe to the English countryside and elsewhere on the planet were shortlisted for the 2013 Man...

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Fonterra says China-bound milk powder halted in May for high nitrite

YoopyaAugust 22, 2013April 21, 2024

by YoopyaAugust 22, 2013April 21, 202401

(Reuters) – New Zealand’s Fonterra, the world’s biggest dairy exporter caught up in a contamination scandal earlier this month, said on Thursday it was also...

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Interest grows in New Zealand’s designer drug law

YoopyaAugust 2, 2013May 15, 2024

by YoopyaAugust 2, 2013May 15, 20240139

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A novel New Zealand law that could legalize some designer drugs is being scrutinized with interest by other countries struggling...

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NZ article reopens debate on spying on journalists

YoopyaJuly 29, 2013May 15, 2024

by YoopyaJuly 29, 2013May 15, 202403

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand on Monday disputed a newspaper report saying its military conspired with U.S. spy agencies to monitor a freelance...

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Lucifer, Anal and Mafia No Fear: The astonishing names which parents wanted to give to their newborn babies

YoopyaMay 2, 2013May 21, 2023

by YoopyaMay 2, 2013May 21, 2023027

Officials in New Zealand have released a list of bizarre baby names put forward by parents Naming a child is one of the most difficult...

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New Zealand legalises same-sex marriage

YoopyaApril 17, 2013

by YoopyaApril 17, 201305

New Zealand’s parliament has legalised same-sex marriage, the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to do so. Lawmakers approved the bill, amending the 1955 marriage...

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NZ cricketer Jesse Ryder in a coma after attack

YoopyaMarch 28, 2013

by YoopyaMarch 28, 201304

New Zealand cricketer Jesse Ryder is in a medically induced coma after being attacked twice in quick succession as he left a Christchurch bar, police...