New Zealand

3 climbers from the U.S. and Canada are believed to have died in New Zealand

Three mountain climbers — two from the U.S. and one from Canada — missing for five days on Aoraki, New Zealand's tallest peak, are believed to have died in a fall, the authorities said Friday.

New Zealanders help save about 30 whales after a pod strands on a beach

New Zealand is a whale stranding hotspot. It's often not clear why they happen but the island nation's geography is believed to be a factor.

42,000 crowd New Zealand’s Parliament grounds in support of Māori rights

Protesters oppose a measure that would reshape the county's founding treaty between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown.

New Zealand’s leader apologizes to survivors of abuse in state and church care

An estimated 200,000 people, many of them Indigenous Māori, suffered abuse in New Zealand's foster and faith-based care over a period of seven decades