Mourners pay tribute to New Zealand victims, await burials

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — Thousands of people paid tribute Sunday at makeshift memorials to the 50 people slain by a gunman at two mosques in Christchurch, while dozens of Muslims stood by to bury the dead when authorities finally release the victims’ bodies. Hundreds of flowers were piled up amid candles, balloons and notes

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UK: ‘Far-right’ stabbing treated as terrorist incident

U.K. police are treating the stabbing of a young man as an act of terrorism as the perpetrator was inspired by the far-right. On Saturday night a 19 year old man was stabbed in the county of Surrey and a 50 year old man was arrested near the scene on suspicion of attempted murder and

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Israel’s Top Court Bans Kahanist Leader From Running, Approves Joint Arab Slate and Far-left Candidate

Far-right politicians Itamar Ben-Gvir and Michael Ben Ari at a Supreme Court hearing, on March 14, 2019.AFP The court reversed the Knesset election committee’s decision, which had approved Michael Ben Ari and disqualified Balad-United Arab List and Hadash’s Ofer Cassif First time in Israeli history candidate, not list, is banned. Israel’s Supreme Court banned on

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Yemen’s Houthis threaten to hit Riyadh, Abu Dhabi if Hodeidah peace deal broken

Photo Reuters Yemen’s Houthi group said they were building their ballistic capabilities and their forces stand ready to strike Riyadh and Abu Dhabi if implementation of a U.N. peace deal in the port city of Hodeidah is breached. A spokesman of the Houthi forces said the group has a “stockpile of missiles” and the group

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Toddler with an old soul: Young victim of NZ attack mourned

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — He spent just three years on this earth, but in some ways, a friend said, he seemed like an old soul. Before he became the youngest known victim of Christchurch’s mass shooting, 3-year-old Mucaad Ibrahim had possessed an intelligence beyond his years, and an affinity for his elders. But on

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NZ mosque shootings toll rises to 50, authorities to begin releasing bodies

Photo Reuters The bodies of some of the victims in New Zealand’s mosque shootings will be released on Sunday to loved ones for burial, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, as the death toll rose to 50 when police found another body. Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, a suspected white supremacist, was charged with murder on Saturday.

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The Terror Attack is New Zealand’s Darkest Day

Photo Reuters. At least forty-nine are dead; an assailant is in custody, and a murderous, white supremacist manifesto has been widely rejected. it’s happened again. In a fresh terror attack at least forty-nine people were gunned down in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday—a white supremacist terrorist attack streamed on social media. Two mosques, during Friday

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As New Zealand shooter appears in court, world rallies behind Muslim communities

Brenton Tarrant, charged for murder in relation to the mosque attacks, is lead into the dock for his appearance in the Christchurch District Court, New Zealand March 16, 2019. Mark Mitchell/New Zealand Herald/Pool via Reuters CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — New Zealand’s stricken residents reached out to Muslims in their neighborhoods and around the country on

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Djibouti’s President receives warm welcome in Mogadishu

Djibouti’s President Ismael Omar Guelleh and his delegation arrived in Mogadishu and met with the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, HE Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed. President Guelleh the plan and visiting Mogadishu is that Djibouti President to open the Djibouti’s Embassy in Mogadishu  Abdiazis district Banadir. Somali Foreign Minister Abdulkadir Ahmed Kheire said President

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Somalia’s first licensing round could be a tough sell

The former “failed state” needs to deliver on its promises if the bidding process is to be a success. The launch of a Somalian offshore licensing round at a London roadshow in February did much to showcase both the geological potential of the acreage on offer and the efforts being made by the fragile state’s

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