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.
{
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"body": "The 53-year-old actor - who has Axl, 12, with ex-wife Fergie and Shepherd, two, and Rocca, six weeks, with wife Audra Mari - has a house in Los Angeles but largely lives in Fargo, North Dakota , with his family, though he feels truly relaxed and at home at his cabin in the woods of Minnesota.\n\nSpeaking to Dana Carvey and David Spade on their Fly on the Wall podcast, he said: \"What I think I love the most about it is I just get out there and my heart rate drops about 25%.\n\n\"My priorities change too. I feel like I have purpose.\n\n\"I'm always working on something where I don't even mow my own lawn here. It's just absolute freedom out there.\"\n\nThe Transformers actor bought the land almost 17 years ago and has slowly built up the property, which didn't initially have any basic amenities.\n\nHe said: \"I bought like a little half a parcel for 12 acres for like nothing. And then the other half of that parcel went up for sale.\n\n\"Then I had then 26 acres with a little shack of a cabin with no electricity, no water, but it was a cabin.\n\n\"It was a structure. I got a cabin. I'm not going to sleep there with the rats or the mice or the raccoons. And then the one next to that went up for sale.\"\n\nJosh then got the next piece of land, on a lake, for \"nothing\", and he developed a \"passion\" for working on the getaway pad.\n\nHe said: \"I'll tell you what I paid for it - $189,000 for 26 acres. The amount you can get there versus what you pay for it here is crazy. I'm not sure I would be able to get it for that now.\n\n\"But then all of a sudden, I had two little cabins and like 50 acres on this place and I never planned to do that. I just wanted something out there somewhere that I could just get away and go, you know, fish and stuff like that.\n\n\"It's turned into like a whole passion of mine. I started moving dirt and I started shaping it.\n\n\"And we actually built a property. [Because] these cabins are so small, they're just big enough for three people or family of three.\"\n\nThe Shotgun Wedding actor's property is now set up with independent, off-grid infrastructure for water, heating and electricity.\n\nHe said: \"For the first few years, there was no water. There was no bathroom.\n\n\"We had electricity in the little cabin - the second one - but no water. So, we were like washing our dishes in the lake and it was like homesteading. But, I loved it. You know, it was like so different than anything I'd ever done before.\n\n\"We had to build wells. Each one of the cabins has a well.\"\n\nFor other facilities, solar panels generate electricity and propane tanks help provide heating and power major appliances.",
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"body": "Members of the public will be surveilled by real-time facial recognition cameras operated by police in an Australian-first trial aimed at catching criminals and bolstering safety.\n\nThe technology, which uses artificial intelligence to cross-reference faces with a database, will be deployed in Western Australia from Monday.\n\nBut critics say it's an overreach that's been introduced without public consultation.\n\nThe cameras will be mounted on or positioned in the vicinity of a marked police vehicle in designated public spaces.\n\nIf the technology detects a match to the database, the image will be retained and an alert will be sent to nearby officers to confirm the suspect's identity.\n\nSigns will alert the public to the cameras.\n\nThe cameras weren't an attempt at mass surveillance by the state and would enable police to better protect the public by catching criminals quicker, WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch said.\n\n\"The greatest advantage of this technology is, in fact, the deterrent effect,\" he said on Friday.\n\nIt's hoped it will help identify reportable offenders, people with outstanding warrants and suspects in serious offences.\n\nIt could also be used to identify convicted child sex offenders who are prohibited from being near children.\n\nAbout 8000 people in the WA community have an outstanding arrest warrant or a child sex conviction.\n\nPolice could also use the technology to help officers locate vulnerable and missing people and those subject to lawful restrictions, such as protected entertainment precinct orders.\n\n\"It allows police to focus on individuals who present a real risk, while the vast majority of people go about their day without any impact at all,\" Mr Blanch said.\n\nImages of community members who are not on the alert list are automatically pixelated in real time and were not saved, WA Police said.\n\nThere is no record-keeping of the data.\n\n\"This is less intrusive, and more focused on your privacy and your freedoms, than a CCTV camera owned by a person we don't know,\" Mr Blanch said.\n\nWA Police will trial the system using one camera system and a van for three to six months.\n\n\"We will trial this van in public places to start with at major events, so it might be at Optus Stadium, it might be at Northbridge (nightlife precinct),\" Mr Blanch said.\n\nWA Police have used non-live facial recognition technology for more than a decade.\n\nWA Greens MP Brad Pettitt said the measure was \"a massive overreach\" and the public should be concerned, likening it to the dystopian themes explored in the British TV anthology series Black Mirror.\n\n\"A deeply concerning development from the most authoritarian Labor government we have ever seen,\" he said.\n\n\"It's like something out of Black Mirror.\"\n\nLive facial recognition systems have been rolled out across the UK by police.\n\nThey're also being used in retail stores to clamp down on theft.\n\nCritics say it's Orwellian and some people are being wrongly identified.\n\nIt's leading to people being ejected from stores, with few avenues to appeal the decision.\n\nOthers have been held in police custody after being misidentified as suspects in major crimes.\n\nHuman rights groups have raised concerns, alleging UK police were retaining thousands of images of Britons who were never charged or were later cleared of a criminal offence following their arrest.\n\nBunnings trialled facial recognition cameras between November 2018 and November 2021 in 63 stores in NSW and Victoria.\n\nThe retailer owned by Wesfarmers faced significant criticism over the technology, with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner in late 2024 ruling that Bunnings breached the Privacy Act.\n\nBut this was overturned earlier in 2026 by the Administrative Review Tribunal.",
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"body": "A week after a brutal attack outside a primary school, parents say they are struggling to comprehend how it could have occurred.\n\nVictoria Police homicide squad detectives are investigating after a 63-year-old man died in hospital on Thursday.\n\nSix days earlier, he was allegedly assaulted metres from Strathaird Primary School at Narre Warren South, in Melbourne's outer southeast.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, two bouquets of flowers sat near the scene of the attack.\n\nChildren ran across the nearby oval and families moved through the reserve as the school day wound down.\n\nGrandmother Jackie Mashiter said she was shocked the alleged assault happened so close to a primary school.\n\n\"It's an absolute disgrace, especially outside of a primary school,\" she told AAP outside the school gates.\n\n\"Parents and kids should be able to feel safe coming to school.\"\n\nMs Mashiter said she had passed the reserve shortly after the incident while collecting her granddaughter from school.\n\nShe said she saw a man on the ground surrounded by several people but did not initially realise the gravity of what had happened.\n\n\"I just saw him laying down and I thought he was actually just resting and waiting for his kids to come out,\" she said.\n\nAfter learning of the man's death, she said her thoughts were with his family.\n\n\"I'm just so sorry for the family that it's happened to,\" she said.\n\n\"I couldn't imagine what they're going through.\"\n\nPolice believe the man was first assaulted at the reserve near the school about 3.15pm on June 12, shortly before students were due to leave for the day.\n\nTwo men aged 21 and 22 have been charged with recklessly causing serious injury.\n\nThe charges were laid before the victim died.\n\nHomicide detectives would consider alternate charges following the results of a post mortem examination, police said.\n\nA number of parents and students witnessed the incident and its aftermath.\n\nA father, who asked not to be named, said his priority was making sure his son was safe and did not become a witness.\n\n\"I shielded my son straight away, I didn't want him to see anything,\" he said.\n\nThe reserve sits metres from the school grounds and a children's centre and is regularly used by families, dog walkers and local residents.\n\nOn Thursday, the school's principal Julie Kennedy advised parents and carers the alleged victim had died in a message seen by AAP.\n\n\"It is with great sadness that I inform you the victim of the alleged assault... has passed away,\" she wrote.\n\nMs Kennedy advised parents that wellbeing supports were available for students and urged anyone with information to contact Victoria Police.\n\nEducation Minister Ben Carroll said his sympathies were with the local community and psychologists and education support staff had been arranged for affected students and carers.\n\n\"What's occurred here is a complete tragedy, and to think that was witnessed by young children makes the tragedy even ... worse,\" he told reporters.\n\nThe Department of Education was aware of the distressing incident with support offered to those affected.\n\n\"The safety and wellbeing of students and staff is always our priority,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe two alleged attackers remain in custody and are expected to return to court in July.\n\nPolice believe the parties involved were known to each other.",
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