A legal challenge to the so-called gang patch ban has compared the controversial legislation to Nazi Germany and the Taliban. Lawyer Chris Nicholls is asking the High Court at Wellington to overturn the conviction of Mana-Apiti Brown – a patched member of the Bad Company chapter of the Nomad gang.

New Zealand has sacked its top diplomat in London after he made a “deeply disappointing” remark questioning Donald Trump’s grasp of history.

New Zealand's foreign minister Winston Peters said on Thursday he had sacked the country's ambassador to the United Kingdom, after he made comments seen as critical of United States President Donald Trump.