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Terror-struck New Zealand quickly bans assault weapons
Mar 21, 2019 10:36New 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.
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New Zealand holds first funerals for terror attack victims
Mar 20, 2019 07:36The Muslim burial ceremony for the victims of the recent terrorist attacks targeting two mosques in New Zealand has begun with the funeral two members of a Syrian family, who had fled war back home and taken refuge in the city of Christchurch.
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1000s rally in Melbourne against racism after Christchurch mosque attacks
Mar 20, 2019 02:34Thousands of Australians rally against racism and Islamophobia in Melbourne, days after the terrorist attacks on two mosques in Christchurch on Friday.
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Turkey’s Erdogan urges New Zealand to restore death penalty over mass shooting
Mar 19, 2019 15:07Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged grief-stricken New Zealand to restore capital punishment for the mass murderer who shot dead scores of people in the Pacific Ocean country last week, vowing that Ankara would make the assailant “pay” for his “heinous” crime if Wellington did not.
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Systematic Islamophobia to blame for NZ terror attack: Senior Muslim figures
Mar 19, 2019 09:54Hundreds of prominent Islamic figures from across the world have condemned a recent deadly terrorist attack on Muslim worshipers at two mosques in New Zealand, saying the assault was “the awful outcome of systemic and institutionalized Islamophobia.”
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New Zealand PM says mosque attacker will face ‘full force of law’
Mar 19, 2019 09:51New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the terrorist who killed scores of Muslims at two mosques in the country last Friday will face “the full force of the law.”
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UK Muslims could be target of mass shooting: Minister
Mar 18, 2019 13:50Britain’s Minister of State for Security Ben Wallace has warned Muslims in the country could become victims of high-profile terrorist attacks like those that killed 50 worshipers in two mosques in New Zealand on Friday.
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New Zealand's Dunedin Airport closed due to 'suspicious package', flights disrupted
Mar 17, 2019 14:11Dunedin Airport in New Zealand has been closed after a suspicious package was found.
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Thousands in Melbourne call for halt to Islamophobia, racism
Mar 16, 2019 15:56Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Australia’s second-largest city of Melbourne to protest against rising sentiments of Islamophobia and racism in the wake of the recent massacre of Muslim people in New Zealand.
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Survivors of Christchurch mosque shootings tell of lucky escapes
Mar 16, 2019 15:50New Zealanders mourned the loss of 49 lives, while others spoke of their survival on Saturday, one day after Christchurch was rocked by shootings at two local mosques.