Australia / New Zealand

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Widespread flash floods unleashed by heavy rain in Australia's northeastern state of Queensland have killed two people,...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia seeks to join others in imposing direct sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin and has extended...

LONDON (Reuters) - Queen Elizabeth has postponed two scheduled virtual audiences on Thursday but will continue with light duties, a...

PRAGUE (Reuters) - It is an "obscene perversion" for Russian President Vladimir Putin to speak of Russian soldiers acting as...

LONDON (Reuters) - Queen Elizabeth will miss a planned virtual engagement on Tuesday because she is still experiencing mild cold-like...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand will lift COVID-19 vaccine mandates and social distancing measures after the Omicron peak has passed,...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison accused Beijing of an 'act of intimidation' after a Chinese navy vessel...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A Chinese navy vessel directed a laser at an Australian military aircraft in flight over Australia's northern...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - An anti-vaccine mandate protest outside New Zealand's parliament swelled in numbers on Wednesday, with hundreds of people...

By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's parliament on Tuesday near-unanimously passed a legislation that bans practices intended to...

(Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison may have thought strumming a ukulele version of a 1970s pop hit would...

By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday she felt demonstrations against a COVID-19...

By Lidia Kelly (Reuters) - Australia said on Sunday it was evacuating its embassy in Kyiv as the situation on...

By Samuel McKeith (Reuters) - Australian police have given thousands of protesters until the end of Sunday to leave occupied...

(Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's Liberal Party suffered a major upset in New South Wales state's by-elections, preliminary...

(Reuters) -The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) said on Saturday that it will temporarily rescind its withdrawal from the Pacific's...

By Lidia Kelly (Reuters) -Days-long rallies against COVID-19 vaccination mandates picked up in numbers in New Zealand and Australia on...

(Reuters) - New Zealand's foreign ministry urged on Saturday all New Zealanders in Ukraine to leave immediately in response to...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong on Friday extended a ban on incoming flights from eight countries, including the United...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - More people arrived outside New Zealand's parliament on Friday, as protesters calling for an end to a...