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Families embrace after a flight from Los Angeles arrived at Auckland International Airport as New Zealand's border opened for visa-waiver countries Monday, May 2, 2022. New Zealand welcomed tourists from the U.S., Canada, Britain, Japan and more than 50 other countries for the first time in more than two years as it dropped most of its remaining pandemic border restrictions. (Jed Bradley/New Zealand Herald via AP)

New Zealand welcomes back tourists as pandemic rules eased

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

Illustration on China's threat to the Solomon Islands by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Solomon Islands a step in China’s Pacific colonization

By Jianli Yang

A health worker gives out Rapid COVID-19 antigen self-test kits at the Waipareira Trust drive-in COVID-19 testing station in Auckland, New Zealand, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Back in August, 2021, New Zealand's government put the entire nation into lockdown after a single community case of the coronavirus was detected. On Tuesday, when new daily cases hit a record of nearly 24,000, officials told healthcare workers they could go back to work in understaffed COVID-19 wards even if they were mildly sick themselves. (Brett Phibbs/New Zealand Herald via AP)

As virus cases go from 1 to 24,000, New Zealand changes tack

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gestures during the post-Cabinet press conference in Wellington, New Zealand, Monday, March 7, 2022. New Zealand's government plans to rush through a new law this week that will enable it to impose economic sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. (Mark Mitchell/Pool Photo via AP)

New Zealand will rush through new law to sanction Russia

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

United States forward Mallory Pugh, right, celebrates her goal with midfielder Jaelin Howell during the second half of the 2022 SheBelieves Cup soccer match against New Zealand Sunday, Feb. 20, 2022, in Carson, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

U.S. women take advantage of three own goals to beat New Zealand

Associated Press

Police arrest people protesting against coronavirus mandates at Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, on Feb. 10, 2022. Some countries might send in a riot squad to disperse trespassing protesters. In New Zealand, authorities turned on the sprinklers and Barry Manilow. But the moves to try and flush out several hundred protesters who have been camped on Parliament's grassy grounds since Tuesday, Feb. 8, had little effect. (Mark Mitchell/NZ Herald via AP, File)

New Zealand tries old earworm hits to flush out protesters

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

In this recent photo provided by Charlotte Bellis, Bellis poses in a selfie with her partner Jim Huylebroek in Kabul, Afghanistan. Bellis, a pregnant New Zealand reporter who is expecting her first child with Huylebroek, has chosen Afghanistan as a temporary base for her uphill fight to return home because of her country's stringent COVID-19 entry rules. Huylebroek, a freelance photographer and Belgium native, has lived in Afghanistan for two years. (Charlotte Bellis via AP)

Pregnant New Zealand journalist in Afghanistan can go home

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, right, is watched by COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins as she speaks about the omicron situation while visiting New Plymouth, on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022. New Zealand is among the few remaining countries to have avoided any outbreaks of the omicron variant — but Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Thursday an outbreak was inevitable and the nation would tighten restrictions as soon as one was detected. (Mark Mitchell/New Zealand Herald via AP)

Omicron spreads in New Zealand, spoiling PM’s wedding plans

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This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows an overview of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai volcano in Tonga on Dec. 24, 2021. Three of Tonga's smaller islands suffered serious damage from tsunami waves, officials and the Red Cross said Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, as a wider picture begins to emerge of the damage caused by the eruption of an undersea volcano near the Pacific archipelago nation. (Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies via AP, File)

Three of Tonga’s smaller islands badly damaged by tsunami

By Moussa Moussa and David Rising - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the New Zealand Defense Force, volcanic ash covers roof tops and vegetation in an area of Tonga, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. Thick ash on an airport runway was delaying aid deliveries to the Pacific island nation of Tonga, where significant damage was being reported days after a huge undersea volcanic eruption and tsunami. (CPL Vanessa Parker/NZDF via AP)

Despite huge volcano blast, Tonga avoids widespread disaster

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

This Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019 photo shows a group of cigarettes in New York. On Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration endorsed a type of cigarette that could help ease the addictive grip of smoking by delivering very low levels of nicotine. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)

New Zealand bans young people from ever buying cigarettes

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

FILE - A pig wonders around a house in Nuku'alofa, Tonga, Sunday April 7, 2019. The island nation of Tonga has reported its first-ever case of COVID-19, Friday Oct. 29, 2021 after a traveler from New Zealand tested positive. (AP Photo/Mark Baker,File)

Tonga reports its first COVID-19 case from plane traveler

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

Police stand outside the site of a knife attack at a supermarket in Auckland, New Zealand, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021. New Zealand authorities say they shot and killed a violent extremist after he entered the supermarket and stabbed and injured six shoppers. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described Friday's incident as a terror attack. (AP Photo/Brett Phibbs)

New Zealand police kill suspected terrorist after he stabs 6 people

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

A commercial business is closed in Sydney on Aug. 13, 2021, as greater Sydney continues a weeks-long COVID-19 lockdown. Japan, Australia and New Zealand all got through the first year of the coronavirus pandemic in relatively good shape, but now are taking very divergent paths in dealing with new outbreaks of the fast-spreading delta variant. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Lockdowns or vaccines? 3 Pacific nations try diverging paths

By Nick Perry, Mari Yamaguchi and Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2015, file photo, Google co-founder Larry Page speaks at the Fortune Global Forum in San Francisco. Page has gained New Zealand residency, officials confirmed Friday, Aug. 6, 2021, stoking debate over whether extremely wealthy people can essentially buy access to the South Pacific country. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Google founder gets New Zealand residency, raising questions

By Nick Perry - Associated Press