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New Zealand plans to ban young people from ever buying cigarettes in their lifetime in one of the world’s toughest crackdowns on the tobacco industry, arguing that other efforts to extinguish smoking were taking too long. People aged 14 and under in 2027 will never be allowed to purchase cigarettes …

A city in New Zealand has taken down its statue of a former British naval officer, becoming the latest country to reassess elements of its colonial past amid the Black Lives Matter protests sweeping the globe. Authorities in the city of Hamilton removed a bronze statue of Captain John Fane …