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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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New Zealand PM promises gun law reform after 49 killed in mosque shootings

Photo Reuters New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Saturday promised to reform the country’s gun laws, a day after at least one gunman attacked worshippers in two mosques, killing 49 and wounding 42 others. The attack, labeled terrorism by the prime minister, was the worst ever peacetime mass killing in New Zealand and the

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Trump issues first veto after rebuke of border order

President Donald Trump signs the first veto of his presidency in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, March 15, 2019, in Washington. Trump issued the first veto, overruling Congress to protect his emergency declaration for border wall funding. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) President Donald Trump issued the first veto of his presidency on Friday,

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Mosque shooter a white nationalist seeking revenge

Photo (AP) The gunman behind at least one of the mosque shootings in New Zealand that left 49 people dead on Friday tried to make a few things clear in the manifesto he left behind: He is a 28-year-old Australian white nationalist who hates immigrants. He was set off by attacks in Europe that were

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New Zealand mosque shootings kill at least 49, seriously wound 20

Photo Reuters At least one gunman killed 49 people and wounded more than 20 during Friday prayers at two New Zealand mosques in the country’s worst ever mass shooting, which Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern condemned as terrorism. A gunman broadcast live footage on Facebook of the attack on one mosque in the city of Christchurch,

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Mass shootings at New Zealand mosques kill 49; 1 man charged

Photo (AP) Mass shootings at two mosques full of worshippers attending Friday prayers killed 49 people on what the prime minister called “one of New Zealand’s darkest days,” as authorities charged one person, detained three others and defused explosive devices in what appeared to be a carefully planned racist attack. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said

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France receives Ethiopia crash black boxes, families mourn

Photo Reuters Investigators in France were to take charge of the crashed Ethiopian Airlines jet’s black boxes on Thursday, seeking clues into a disaster that has grounded Boeing’s global 737 MAX fleet and left scores of families mourning and angry. Sunday’s crash after take-off from Addis Ababa killed 157 people from 35 nations in the

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