This handout photo taken and released on Jan 24, 2023 by the New Zealand Prime Minister's Office shows outgoing New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, seen wearing a ceremonial Maori cloak, during her last public engagement visiting the Maori settlement of Ratana in the North Island. (HANDOUT / NEW ZEALAND PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE / AFP) […]
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern addresses members of the media during a joint news conference hosted with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, following their annual Leaders' Meeting, at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices in Sydney, Australia, July 8, 2022. (LOREN ELLIOTT / FILE PHOTO / REUTERS) WELLINGTON – Candidates to replace Jacinda Ardern as New […]
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern grimaces as she announces her resignation at a press conference in Napier, New Zealand, Jan 19, 2023. (WARREN BUCKLAND / NEW ZEALAND HERALD / AP) WELLINGTON – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Thursday made a shock announcement she had "no more in the tank" to continue leading […]
In this file photo taken on Sept 4, 2021, New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during a press conference in Wellington. (MARK MITCHELL / POOL / AFP) SYDNEY – New Zealand will not actively take any measures to become a republic in the short-term after the death of Queen Elizabeth, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern […]
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (left) and Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speak during a press conference in Sydney, Australia on July 8, 2022. (RICK RYCROFT / AP) WELLINGTON – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met in Sydney on Friday for their first annual Australia New Zealand […]
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Investment Lunch in Sydney on July 7, 2022. (JAMES GOURLEY / POOL / AFP) WELLINGTON – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Thursday attended the Australia-New Zealand Leadership Forum in Australia's largest city of Sydney to boost trade ties between […]
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to the media during a press conference on COVID-19 restrictions at Parliament in Wellington on March 23, 2022. (MARTY MELVILLE / AFP) UNITED NATIONS / JAKARTA – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern tested positive for COVID-19 with moderate symptoms, her office said in a statement on Saturday. […]
This file photo taken on Nov 6, 2017 shows New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaking to the media in Wellington. (MARTY MELVILLE / AFP) WELLINGTON – New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday she felt demonstrations against a COVID-19 vaccine mandate now entering their second week were an "imported" phenomenon, and nothing […]
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces an ambitious target of fully vaccinating 90% of eligible people to end coronavirus lockdowns, in Wellington on Oct 22, 2021. (ROBERT KITCHIN / POOL PHOTO VIA AP) WELLINGTON – New Zealand's Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, paused briefly as an earthquake rattled the capital Wellington on Friday while she […]
Armed police stand outside a supermarket in Auckland, New Zealand, Sept 4, 2021. (BRETT PHIBBS/AP) WELLINGTON – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed on Saturday to tighten counter-terrorism laws this month after a knife-wielding militant known to the authorities stabbed and wounded seven people in a supermarket. Police shot dead the 32-year-old attacker, a Sri […]
A police officer stands outside an Auckland supermarket, Sept 3, 2021. (ALEX BURTON / NEW ZEALAND HERALD VIA AP) WELLINGTON – New Zealand police on Friday shot and killed a "violent extremist" who was known to authorities, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, after he stabbed and wounded at least six people in a supermarket. Of […]
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, center, is covered during a ceremony in Auckland, Aug 1, 2021. (PHOTO / AP) MELBOURNE – New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern issued a sombre state apology on Sunday to the Pacific community for racially targeted immigration raids in the 1970s that resulted in deportations and prosecutions. The "Dawn […]
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, second right, chairs a virtual APEC Leaders meeting from Wellington, New Zealand, July 16, 2021. (JEFF TOLLAN / APEC2021 VIA AP) WELLINGTON – The top priority for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders is "achieving widespread access for vaccines globally and working collaboratively to provide them to everyone as […]
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks with her Australian counterpart (not pictured) at the Australia-New Zealand Leaders' Meeting in Queenstown on May 31, 2021. (JOE ALLISON / POOL / AFP) WELLINGTON – New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will chair an informal meeting of leaders from countries in the Asia-Pacific trade group APEC this […]
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during a press conference about COVID-19 coronavirus restrictions, in Wellington on March 5, 2021. (MARTY MELVILLE / AFP) New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Saturday that world leaders and tech firms looking to stamp out violent extremism online would need to focus efforts on understanding social […]
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, left, and her fiance Clarke Gayford, front right, attends the launch of the Labour Party's election campaign in Auckland on Aug 8, 2020, ahead of the country's general elections scheduled for Sept 19. (PHOTO / AFP) New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern plans to get married during summer but […]
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to the media a day after her landslide election win, in Auckland on Oct 18, 2020. (MARTY MELVILLE / AFP) WELLINGTON – New Zealand is unlikely to stop having Queen Elizabeth as its head of state anytime soon, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, in comments following Oprah Winfrey’s […]
In this May 18, 2020 photo, children make their way to school after the government allowed schools to re-open in Wellington, capital of New Zealand. All New Zealand schools will have free access to sanitary products from June, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Feb 18, 2021. (MARTY MELVILLE / AFP) WELLINGTON – All New […]
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during a press conference at the Parliament House in Wellington on Nov 6, 2020. (PHOTO / AFP) WELLINGTON – New Zealand will conclude its deployment of the New Zealand Defense Force (NZDF) to Afghanistan by May 2021, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Wednesday. "After 20 years of […]
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to the media in Wellington, New Zealand, on Feb 15, 2021. (NICK PERRY / AP) WELLINGTON/SYDNEY – New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Tuesday accused Australia of abdicating its responsibilities by “unilaterally” cancelling the citizenship of a woman detained in Turkey with alleged links to the Islamic […]