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Teachers hold largest education strike in New Zealand
May 29, 2019 09:31Tens of thousands of New Zealand teachers walked off the job on Wednesday, May 29, in protest as they called for higher pay and shorter hours in the country's largest ever education strike.
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Police in New Zealand’s Christchurch charge man with possession of explosives, other weapons
May 01, 2019 13:37Authorities in the city of Christchurch in New Zealand have charged a man detained earlier with the possession of explosives and other weapons, one and a half months after 50 Muslim worshipers were shot dead in two mosques in the same city.
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New Zealand mosque attacker to face 50 murder charges
Apr 04, 2019 08:28The Australian man who has been detained for killing scores of Muslims in terrorist attacks on two mosques in New Zealand will face 50 murder charges and 39 attempted murder charges, police say.
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Australia’s Senate censures MP over anti-Muslim remarks after NZ terror attack
Apr 03, 2019 12:25Australia’s Senate has censured a far-right lawmaker over his controversial comments that the recent bloody terrorist attack against two mosques in New Zealand were the outcome of letting Muslims into the country.
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UN chief warns of rising Islamophobia after Muslim massacre in New Zealand
Apr 02, 2019 17:58Speaking at one of Sunni Islam’s most prestigious universities, the United Nations chief warns about the unbridled spread of Islamophobia across the international community, weeks after a shocking terror attack that killed dozens of Muslim worshipers at two mosques in New Zealand.
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Facebook bans white nationalism, separatism
Mar 28, 2019 08:53Facebook has banned content promoting white nationalism and white separatism on its platforms, amid criticism that came after a white supremacist live-streamed his shooting of worshipers at two mosques in New Zealand on the social media network.
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New Zealand police probing potential new suspect in mosque terrorist attacks
Mar 27, 2019 08:22Police in New Zealand have launched an urgent investigation to determine whether a man whom they sought on a tip-off and who died in a standoff with them had links to the recent terrorist attacks at two mosques in the city of Christchurch.
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New Zealand PM announces top-level inquiry into bloody mosque shooting
Mar 25, 2019 11:09New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has ordered an independent judicial inquiry into the recent terror attacks on two mosques in the city of Christchurch to decide whether intelligence services and police could have prevented the killing spree.
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Sanders speaks at US mosque in the wake of deadly terrorist attack in New Zealand
Mar 24, 2019 07:41US Senator Bernie Sanders attends a mosque in the state of California in the wake of deadly attacks against two mosques in New Zealand by a white supremacist shooter.
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Terror-struck New Zealand quickly bans assault weapons
Mar 21, 2019 14:06New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced an immediate ban on the sale of all military-style semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles, fulfilling her promise to reform gun laws less than a week after terror attacks killed 50 Muslims at two mosques in the country.