Australia / New Zealand

By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand said on Thursday it would ease coronavirus border restrictions that have been...

By Paul Sandle and Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's Queen Elizabeth has pulled out of the COP26 conference in Glasgow...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore will allow quarantine-free entry to travellers vaccinated against COVID-19 from Australia and Switzerland from Nov. 8,...

(Reuters) - New Zealand reported 109 new locally acquired coronavirus cases on Monday, the bulk of them in its largest...

By Lidia Kelly MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The junior partner in Australia's coalition government said on Sunday it will provisionally support...

By Lidia Kelly MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Melbourne, the world's most locked-down city that emerged from its latest spate of COVID-19...

(Reuters) - New Zealand reported 104 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, including the first community case of the virus in...

By Sonali Paul and Melanie Burton MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Melbourne residents flocked to the city's pubs, restaurants and hair salons in...

(Reuters) -Finance ministers from Asia-Pacific trade group APEC met on Friday and agreed to step up efforts to expand COVID-19...

By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand will end its strict coronavirus lockdown measures and restore more freedoms only when...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth, the world's longest-reigning monarch, spent a night in hospital but returned to Windsor Castle...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, paused briefly as an earthquake rattled the capital Wellington on Friday...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Britain's armed forces minister James Heappey on Thursday said there has been an "overhyping" of controversy...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Police in Western Australia are offering a A$1 million ($748,100) reward for information about the disappearance of...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's first indigenous Māori woman to be named Governor-general, Dame Cindy Kiro, was formally sworn into...

By Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth, the world's longest-reigning monarch, decided on Wednesday to...

By Melanie Burton MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Australia should set out a new national legal framework to protect Aboriginal cultural heritage, an...

By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand's biggest city of Auckland will retain its lockdown for two more weeks in...

By Renju Jose and Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday he would attend the...

BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese foreign ministry said on Monday that China has lodged stern representations with Australia over "inappropriate"...