World
Oceania
New Zealand wrests largest haka record back from France
Maori have been trying to reclaim their cultural legacy for 10 years.
- by Lucy Craymer
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Kiwi pilot held hostage in West Papua freed after 592 days
Phillip Mark Mehrtens, a pilot from Christchurch who was working for Indonesian aviation company Susi Air, was captured by separatist rebels last year.
- by Niniek Karmini and Charlotte Graham-McLay
Pope arrives in deeply Catholic Timor-Leste where crowds may reach 750,000
His three-day visit will include an open-air celebration of Mass the Vatican says may include more than half the population of 1.3 million.
- by Nicole Winfield
New Zealand has a new monarch. She’s 27 and a haka expert
Twelve Maori male elders chose Nga Wai Hono i te Po Paki, a Maori culture expert, ahead of her older brothers to succeed her father, Kiingi Tuheitia.
- by Michael E. Miller
New Zealand to slug tourists nearly $100 per visit
The government – which announced a $NZ13.4 billion budget deficit in May – expects to raise up to an extra $NZ173 million each year.
- by Ben McKay
Editorial
China relations
China bullies Pacific Forum into seeing its world view
The leaders bowed to Chinese pressure to remove Taiwan from its diplomatic communiqué but it has rejected a bid to cut Taiwan from bloc meetings
- The Herald's View
Opinion
Climate crisis
Why Australia may no longer be ‘God’s country’, according to Ajay Banga. Amen
In stark contrast to his predecessor at the World Bank, the new president is a warrior in the cause of confronting climate change.
- by Peter Hartcher
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Vale
‘A mighty tree has fallen’: New Zealand’s Maori King Tuheitia dies
King Charles, NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and former PM Jacinda Ardern are among those paying tribute to the country’s Maori King.
- by Ben McKay
Pope urged to address child sex abuse scandals during Timor-Leste visit
Francis will come face to face with the faithful on his first trip to Timor-Leste where many still don’t believe an independence hero and bishop abused young boys.
- by Niniek Karmini, David Rising and Nicole Winfield
NZ food bank unknowingly distributes lollies with ‘lethal’ levels of meth
The amount of methamphetamine in each “revolting” lolly was up to 300 times the level someone would usually take, with a street value of $915.
- by Charlotte Graham McLay
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