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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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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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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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