Topics
Countries
New Zealand News
Would you like to access news/blog content published by sources located in New Zealand?
Code example
If you'd like to make a REST call, then make a following POST request:
Endpoint /api/v1/article/getArticles
Request body
{
"sourceLocationUri": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand",
"resultType": "articles",
"apiKey": "API_KEY"
}
If you'd like instead to do a GET request then call:
/api/v1/article/getArticles?sourceLocationUri=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FNew_Zealand&resultType=articles&apiKey=API_KEY
Example of JSON response
Below is an example JSON object that you would receive as the result of the request. You can retrieve also additional properties such as concepts, categories, source details, etc. by specifying additional parameters in the request as described on the documentation page.
{
"articles": {
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"title": "On your marks, get set, cheat! First-ever Enhanced Games begin in Las Vegas",
"body": "On your marks, get set, cheat! First-ever Enhanced Games begin in Las Vegas\n\nAthletes have gathered in Las Vegas for the first-ever Enhanced Games, where organisers predict world records will be toppled by competitors using performance-enhancing drugs.\n\nAround 40 sprinters, swimmers and weightlifters have spent the past four months in Abu Dhabi taking combinations of testosterone, human growth hormone, peptides and anabolic steroids - all banned by events like the Olympics.\n\nThe event has been denounced by athletics governing bodies and anti-doping agencies as dangerous and against the spirit of sport.\n\nBut participants, lured by prize money of up to US$1 million ($1.7m) for beating world records, will include Olympic medallist swimmers James Magnussen, Cody Miller and Ben Proud, who have all taken drugs.\n\nHafthor \"Thor\" Bjornsson, best known for playing The Mountain in Game of Thrones, will try to break his own deadlift record.\n\nFormer 100m sprint champion Fred Kerley will be one of the few athletes competing without drugs at the event.\n\nMax Martin, chief executive officer and co-founder, has predicted multiple world records will be \"beaten\", though the feats will not be officially recognised.\n\nWeightlifters Beatriz Piron and Arley Mendez surpassed world records in training, he told a press conference on the eve of the event.\n\nMartin said: \"Hopefully they'll be able to do it tomorrow as well, and then we'll see a few more. My guess is we'll see quite a few.\"\n\nSwimmers will also be allowed to wear the types of \"supersuits\" that led to many world records falling around the 2008 Beijing Olympics but were subsequently prohibited.\n\nChief sporting officer Rick Adams said he respected that \"specific international organisations\" would not accept any records set on Sunday, even if they were broken by clean athletes like Kerley.\n\nThe Enhanced Games are taking place at a purpose-built US$50m arena in a Las Vegas casino parking lot, a structure to be dismantled hours after the final race.\n\nIn a marriage of sports, biohacking, politics and entertainment, investors including billionaire Peter Thiel are rumoured to be attending, while rock band The Killers will play a closing set. Donald Trump jnr is among the event's investors.",
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"title": "SMART Tool Not Ready, Creates More Concerns Than Solutions - Deputy Principals' Feedback",
"body": "The initial response from secondary teachers to the new Student, Monitoring, Assessment and Reporting Tool (SMART) indicates there are a range of issues that need to be resolved.\n\nDeputy Principals of Year 7 - 10 students from around the motu took part in a survey and interviews about the tool with the PPTA last week. Deputy and Assistant principals are largely responsible for the implementation and monitoring of assessment systems in secondary schools. The first testing period for the SMART tool ended last Friday.\n\n\"Teachers who have been using the tool over the last few months seem pretty underwhelmed,\" says Chris Abercrombie, president of PPTA Te Wehengarua. It raises serious concerns about the quality of assessment and whether students and the public are getting a fair deal.\"\n\nTeachers say the process demands substantial additional resourcing, including extra teaching sessions, administrative time, professional learning, and staff backfilling to supervise assessments, with set-up, log-ins, and multiple test sittings adding further burden.\n\nThe tool, which has been imported from Australia, was designed for 90-minute assessments whereas most schools in Aotearoa worked to timetables of 60-minute classes. The lack of alignment was a logistical challenge for secondary schools.\n\nThe choice of texts - by Charles Dickens and Shakespeare - being used in the system were questioned by teachers about their appropriateness and relevance for junior students in 21st century Aotearoa New Zealand.\n\nOther feedback from teachers, apart from the survey, reported that the AI in the SMART writing tool seemed to mark students higher based on how much they wrote, as opposed to the quality of the writing.\n\nOne teacher found that several students received the same mark for their writing assessment, but when their scripts were compared, there were some significant differences between them. Some were much more structured than others, with evidence and well-supported arguments, yet this was not reflected in the marking.\n\n\"Fairness, equity and accessibility are serious issues. Teacher's feedback is that it is a 'one size fits all' system that does not cater for students with learning needs and the fact that it is run by AI is clearly problematic. It is simply not going to work, in its current form.\n\n\"When the Minister of Education announced the tool, she claimed that it would reduce teachers' workloads. However, the amount of reviewing that is required to ensure fairness and that students have been assessed accurately, probably adds to teachers' workloads overall.\n\n\"The is a multimillion-dollar* investment by the Minister for Education - who was warned by Treasury not to try and bring it in, in 2026 but went ahead anyway. Teacher feedback is that the tool was certainly not ready for implementation this year and that they would be unlikely to be using the data from it to report to parents.\n\nWe certainly think there needs to be an independent review into the purchase and rollout of this tool because it currently isn't fit for use in Secondary schools, the accuracy of the AI is a concern and the implementation and change management processes were woeful.",
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"title": "Bay of Plenty Snapchat offender, rapist Raveen Saily sentenced for grooming, sexual offending against young girls",
"body": "Warning: This story discusses graphic details of sexual violence and assault.\n\nSnapchat predator and rapist Raveen Saily's offending has been described as driven by a \"desire to demean and degrade\" his victims.\n\nThe 25-year-old recently appeared in the High Court at Rotorua, where Justice Dani Gardiner was tasked with deciding whether he should be given a sentence of preventive detention.\n\nSaily's latest offending involved two girls, aged 11 and 13.\n\nThe 11-year-old's mother's victim impact statement, read by Crown prosecutor Erin Reilly, explained that at the time, her daughter had been living with her grandmother.\n\nThe grandmother had tried to put boundaries in place for online access, but \"didn't know that much about online stuff, which made things harder to manage\".\n\n\"[My daughter] wasn't supposed to be using Snapchat because I know how dangerous it is myself,\" the girl's mother said.\n\n\"But it's hard because, socially, that was her way to engage with certain friends. She should have been safe using Snapchat to chat with people she knew instead of being taken advantage of.\"\n\nShe noticed her daughter had started acting cagey about her phone. Then, the screen got damaged.\n\nWhen she told her daughter she needed the passcode to get the phone fixed, her daughter was hesitant, making her mother promise not to look at any of her interactions.\n\nThe girl's mother checked her WhatsApp and Snapchat.\n\n\"There were explicit messages and photos of my daughter, but specifically Snapchat... When I saw these images, I felt sick to my stomach.\"\n\nShe realised her 11-year-old was being asked to send nudes, and was receiving nudes and other explicit material from someone she hadn't met - Saily.\n\nThe mother said she went into shock and that it was scary to think about what might have happened if she hadn't checked the phone.\n\nIt had taken time for her to rebuild trust with her daughter, and she had to explain to her why she searched the phone and how it was to keep her safe.\n\nHer daughter now struggled to socialise, had changed schooling arrangements and was getting treatment from psychologists.\n\nThe mother's statement addressed Saily directly: \"You have taken my child's ability to be a child away from her.\"\n\nShe had seen things \"she should never have seen as an 11-year-old child\".\n\nOne of the explicit videos the 11-year-old received was of Saily having a sexual act performed on him by the other victim - a 13-year-old from Rotorua.\n\nThat offending was detected after Saily was stopped at a routine traffic stop with the 13-year-old in his car, and police officers became suspicious about the age gap.\n\nThe night of the traffic stop was the weekend before Saily went on trial, charged with rape and other sexual violations of a 16-year-old girl, whom he'd also been in contact with on Snapchat.\n\nHe'd been on bail with conditions not to contact girls under the age of 16, or have access to the internet, but his Snapchat offending against the 11-year-old and 13-year-old happened while he awaited trial.\n\nHe was found guilty of the 2021 rape, violations and assaults of the 16-year-old.\n\nIn that trial, the jury heard how he had met the girl at Bayfair Shopping Centre in Mount Maunganui, before they went for a walk at nearby Arataki Park and ended up in the changing rooms at the community centre.\n\nThere, he threatened her with a knife, which he drew across her skin, drawing blood, and raped and violated her.\n\nIt was her first sexual experience, she told the jury, and the first time she'd met up with a boy alone.\n\nHe was sentenced to nine years and two months' imprisonment for that offending. He also has previous convictions for possession of objectionable images.\n\nLast week, he was sentenced on the remaining matters, including charges of sexual violation, sexual connection with a young person, possessing and distributing objectionable material, grooming and indecent communication, variously relating to the 11-year-old and 13-year-old, for which he had earlier pleaded guilty.\n\nThe Crown sought a sentence of preventive detention, submitting that Saily showed a pattern of sustained offending that had caused serious harm to his victims, and two psychological report writers had found him to be at a high risk of reoffending.\n\nReilly said he seemed to have no remorse, nor any inclination to take part in rehabilitation.\n\nWhile acknowledging Saily hadn't yet had an opportunity to have treatment, Reilly said there were concerns he wouldn't \"genuinely engage\" in that process.\n\n\"Particularly when you look at his capacity for duplicitousness,\" Reilly said, referring to a comment from a report writer.\n\nWhile he was only in his 20s, it wasn't the typical impulsive offending of youth.\n\n\"It's predatory, it's grooming, it's sustained over three victims,\" she said.\n\n\"Having the order of preventive detention would mean that there would be more incentive to actually engage meaningfully in any treatment before being released.\"\n\nHowever, Saily's lawyer Bill Nabney said his client had changed his position and now accepted he needed treatment.\n\n\"He, to be quite frank, had a fairly naive attitude, shall we say, towards the severity of his offending,\" Nabney said.\n\nIn talking about the significant periods of imprisonment, there had \"finally\" been a recognition from Saily that he required treatment.\n\nNabney said the risk factors could still be addressed by a lengthy finite sentence, with treatment while in prison, and where he would still have to convince the Parole Board he had been rehabilitated before being granted parole.\n\nIn sentencing Saily, Justice Gardiner first assessed the seriousness of the offending itself.\n\nReferring to the 13-year-old, Justice Gardiner said Saily had \"forced her to take part in demeaning and degrading acts\", taking video recordings and photographs of her in those acts.\n\n\"I consider it relevant and aggravating the manner in which your offending has been driven by power and coercion and a desire to demean and degrade your victim.\"\n\nHe had used his \"age and power to manipulate the victim\".\n\n\"Your actions during the course of offending indicated that you derived pleasure from this aspect of the offending.\"\n\nSaily added the 13-year-old girl on Snapchat in May 2024, claiming he was 16. He groomed her over a month and encouraged her to send him sexually explicit photographs.\n\nThey met at night in June 2024 and he drove her to several private locations where he sexually violated her, at times as she cried in pain.\n\nShe repeatedly told him to stop, but he told her to shut up.\n\nJustice Gardiner found the offending against the 11-year-old was aggravated by the fact the girl was \"very young\".\n\n\"You knew she was that young, she told you. You groomed her persistently over months,\" the judge said.\n\nSaily never met the 11-year-old victim in person; they lived in different cities and communicated on Snapchat.\n\nThe summary of facts stated that during a video call, Saily asked the girl to be his girlfriend. She told him she was only 11 and too young to have a boyfriend.\n\nHowever, Saily continued to pressure her until she agreed and their conversations continued over text and Snapchat, and with audio and video calls.\n\nShe became \"increasingly emotionally dependent\" on Saily, believing she was in a relationship with him.\n\nSaily told the 11-year-old he loved her, while encouraging her to send him sexually explicit images.\n\nHe would ask her to \"get naked\" and tell her about his sexual preferences, describing himself as \"freaky\".\n\nHe told her she would be a \"good SCAT girl\", which describes sexual arousal from faecal matter.\n\n\"Your offending escalated to requiring her to perform demeaning sexual acts for you and sending her images of another victim performing a degrading sexual act,\" the judge said.\n\nIt had caused distress and pain to the girl and her family.\n\n\"You stole the victim's innocence at 11 years old. She has been left psychologically damaged by your actions, unable to attend school, and requiring clinical treatment,\" the judge said.\n\nAfter looking at the offending itself, the judge turned her mind to the ongoing risk Saily posed to the community to consider if a sentence of preventive detention was appropriate.\n\n\"There is a pattern of grooming young women online for sexual purposes,\" she said.\n\n\"While you appear to have met the [16-year-old] victim through a friend, you then engage with her online, providing a false name. As your offending progressed, you engaged with younger victims, whom you've groomed on social media. You have admitted to numerous online relationships with young girls beyond the victims.\"\n\nIn the cases of the 16-year-old raped by Saily and the 13-year-old, he had met with them before \"sexually violating them in violent and degrading ways\".\n\nJustice Gardiner considered the psychological reports - Saily had a longstanding pattern of \"compulsive pornography consumption\".\n\n\"You described a rabbit hole effect whereby you became increasingly drawn to extreme material, which led you towards paedophilia content, and eventually to the development of sexual interest in young women and girls,\" the judge said.\n\nHe'd also consumed non-sexual violent content, such as beheadings.\n\nThe ongoing exposure to increasingly extreme sexual material had \"distorted [his] understanding of healthy relationships, consent and age-appropriate intimacy\".\n\n\"Your sexual deviancy has contributed to associated health problems, including difficulty being sexually fulfilled by developmentally appropriate and healthy relationships,\" the judge said.\n\nHowever, Justice Gardiner concluded that given Saily was still relatively young, there was an ability for him to engage in rehabilitative programmes that targeted things such as cognitive distortions, intimacy deficits, arousal management, victim empathy, safety planning and relapse prevention.\n\n\"According to [the psychologist] your deviant sexual predispositions are likely to be, at least in part, borne out of childhood trauma and compulsive consumption of increasingly extreme pornography from late childhood.\n\n\"You may be able to address these contributing causes through rehabilitation.\"\n\nHe could also be subject to an extended supervision order, and was not guaranteed parole as soon as he became eligible.\n\nShe decided a finite sentence would be sufficient to deter and denounce the offending, and to protect the community.\n\nIn terms of what that sentence would be, the judge had to look not just at the latest offending but the sentence he was already serving.\n\nIt was agreed by the Crown and defence that the sentences would be cumulative, not concurrent, so she had to apply totality.\n\nShe adopted a starting point of 13 years and six months for the offending against the 11-year-old and 13-year-old, but adjusted the end sentence to eight years, to be served cumulatively with the nine-year, two-month sentence for the rape and violation of the 16-year-old.\n\nThis meant that for all the offending, Saily is serving a sentence of 17 years and two months' imprisonment.\n\nShe also imposed a minimum period of imprisonment so that Saily would have to serve at least six and a half years before being eligible for parole.",
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That's roughly equal to the annual emissions of 239 million cars.\n\nThis makes rice-growing the largest emissions source in agriculture outside of livestock, and rice demand is expected to keep rising.\n\nFarmers have ways to reduce their rice crops' emissions without lowering their yields. If every grower used the best currently available \"climate-smart\" options, we found that global rice emissions could be reduced by about 10% by midcentury. However, greater reductions are needed to slow climate change, which would require developing additional, more effective strategies.\n\nRice emissions have risen for two reasons: the expansion of rice cultivation area and the intensification of management practices.\n\nJust over half of the global increase is from the expansion of rice-growing areas. In Africa, for example, the rice-growing area has roughly doubled since the 1960s, helping drive a twofold rise in methane emissions in the region.\n\nAt the same time, rice farmers are using more fertilizers and organic amendments, such as straw and manure, planting more productive rice varieties and growing the plants closer together. The result is more rice but also more greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nWe found that one practice in particular - leaving rice stalks in the field after harvest and then plowing them into the soil to improve soil fertility - was responsible for about 18% of rice's increase in overall net emissions since the 1960s. The reason: It increases the organic matter in the soil, which microbes then decompose, creating more methane emissions.\n\nRising global temperatures further accelerate microbial activity in the soils, meaning even more emissions.\n\nFertilizer is another major contributor to emissions. Use of synthetic nitrogen increased by about 76% after 2000, boosting nitrous oxide - another powerful greenhouse gas. It contributed about 9% of the increase in total global net emissions from human activities.\n\nIrrigation practices also affect emissions. In the past, irrigated rice paddies were kept flooded throughout the growing season, resulting in constant greenhouse gas emissions produced by microbes that thrive in the wet environment. Over the past two decades, however, more farmers have used intermittent flooding - draining their fields periodically.\n\nThis change has lowered methane emissions compared with keeping the paddies continuously flooded. However, we found a slight increase in nitrogen oxide emissions as soils cycled between wet and dry, which induces microbes to transform nitrogen in organic matter into nitrogen oxide gases, particularly nitrous oxide.\n\nPutting a full climate price tag on rice production is harder than measuring one greenhouse gas at a time.\n\nRice paddies emit methane and nitrous oxide from wet or flooded soils. They also remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as rice grows, and they lose carbon from their soils between crop seasons.\n\nA credible global estimate requires consistently accounting for different gases and soil carbon changes, as well as the uncertainty involved in tracking data across space and time.\n\nTo do that, we combined three approaches:\n\nTogether, they allowed us to quantify emissions from 1961 to 2020, determine what drove those emissions, and test the potential of mitigation techniques under future climate conditions.\n\nThere are ways to reduce emissions from rice production without sacrificing yield.\n\nOur study found that reducing fertilizer use and residue applications, managing irrigation to allow dry periods in between flooded ones and reducing tillage could, together, reduce global greenhouse gas emissions from rice by about 10% by midcentury.\n\nWe were surprised to find that replacing chemical fertilizers with more organic choices is not always better from a greenhouse gas perspective, although it is valued in organic farming.\n\nMaintaining moderate amounts of straw and other crop residue in the field can help boost soil fertility, but too much can increase methane emissions and accelerate the loss of carbon from the soil. Another option is to convert part of the residue into biochar - burning it under low-oxygen conditions before mixing it into flooded soils. Biochar can help stabilize soil carbon and reduce methane emissions.\n\nImproving water management can be a powerful tool for reducing emissions. Periodically draining fields reduces methane production, though it may slightly raise nitrous oxide emissions. This strategy is particularly effective in regions with reliable irrigation infrastructure, including large parts of Asia.\n\nManaging fertilizer use is also an effective mitigation strategy, particularly in highly fertilized systems, including parts of China and South Asia. Excess nitrogen increases nitrous oxide without a clear increase in crop yields and increases water pollution. Reducing overapplication of nitrogen reduces emissions and water pollution, and it saves farmers money in the process.\n\nThe effects of tilling, the practice of plowing the soil between crop seasons, have large regional differences. Reducing tilling is often promoted as climate-friendly, but we found that it does not always minimize net emissions in flooded systems. In rice fields in temperate zones, including much of the U.S. and China, cooler conditions can limit methane production, allowing the soil carbon benefits of reduced tilling to outweigh the methane risk. In warmer, persistently flooded systems, however, low-oxygen conditions can boost microbial activity, increasing methane production and accelerating soil carbon loss.\n\nOverall, we found that no single practice works everywhere. 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