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The Oceania Football Confederation has endorsed FIFA's review of a failed private investment scheme, yet New Zealand has broken ranks by withdrawing support for President Gianni Infantino's reelection bid amid broader leadership scrutiny.
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown's party has secured a razor-thin parliamentary majority with 12 of 24 seats in preliminary election results, though voting on a remote atoll was delayed by adverse weather.
New Zealand has detected its first H5N1 bird flu case in a migratory seabird, making it the last continent to report the virus. Authorities have begun vaccinating 300 core breeding birds from five critically endangered species.