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[ad_1] UFC Kiwi champion Israel Adesanya has opened up once again about the racism he has faced while living in New Zealand. Your playlist will load after this ad. The Kiwi-Nigerian fighter responded to criticism of the protests by New Zealand’s Black Lives Matter. Source: 1 NEWS The Nigerian-born MMA …

[ad_1] Donald Trump has downplayed the severity of the coronavirus pandemic as the death toll in the United States surpasses the 200,000 mark. “It affects practically no one, it’s amazing,” the US president told supporters at a rally in Swanton, Ohio, on Monday night. The official death toll from Covid-19 …

[ad_1] A comment by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at Tuesday night’s leaders’ debate has sparked a backlash from farmers. “If I can, it feels like the worldview that has passed,” she said, responding to comments by National Party leader Judith Collins that as a child growing up on a dairy …

[ad_1] The death toll in the United States from the coronavirus surpassed 200,000 on Tuesday, by far the highest in the world, reaching a threshold that was once unimaginable six weeks before an election that is sure to be a referendum in part on the management of the crisis on …

[ad_1] UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya has opened up about facing racism in New Zealand. The Nigerian-born and Auckland-based fighter, who will defend his belt at UFC 253 against Brazilian Paolo Costa this Sunday, said he was harassed when he first arrived in New Zealand. “I didn’t really realize that …

[ad_1] The increasingly long lines outside Fergburger might suggest otherwise, but New Zealand’s tourism sector is still in a fight for survival mode. Tourism spending in the year to July 31, 2020 decreased in each of our regions, except Wairarapa, when it was divided into regional tour operator (RTO) regions, …

[ad_1] All foreign aircrews will have to complete their stops in New Zealand in controlled isolation as part of a new policy to keep borders tight. “That is a new development,” Chief Health Officer Ashley Bloomfield told the Herald this morning. “There has been a lot of work with the …

[ad_1] China’s leader took indirect shots at the United States and its foreign policies on Tuesday, warning in a UN speech that the world “must not fall into the trap of a clash of civilizations,” remarks reproduced minutes after delegates heard to the US president to insist Nations “hold China …

[ad_1] The death toll in the United States from the coronavirus surpassed 200,000 on Tuesday, an unimaginable figure eight months ago when the scourge first reached the world’s richest nation and its state-of-the-art laboratories, world-class scientists and reserves of medicines and emergency supplies. “It’s completely unfathomable that we’ve gotten to …

[ad_1] UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a series of coronavirus restrictions that are expected to last six months in a government pushback to combat a second wave of the virus. Johnson told the House of Commons that the country had reached a “dangerous tipping point” in the trajectory …