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2 kin of Christchurch victims die after killings: officials

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 23 04:14 PM

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - A grief-stricken mother who had travelled to New Zealand after her son was gunned down in the Christchurch mosque massacre passed away overnight, officials said Saturday. Read more »

Muslims return to Christchurch mosque as NZ works to move on

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 23 10:41 AM

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Muslims returned to Christchurch's main mosque on Saturday for the first time since a white supremacist massacred worshippers there, as New Zealand sought to return to normality after the tragedy.   Read more »

Duterte condoles with New Zealand after mass shooting

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 22 07:48 PM

MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte extended his condolences to New Zealand after the nation was gripped by the killing of 50 people in the worst mass shooting in its history. Read more »

New Zealand bans semi-automatic, assault rifles after mass shooting

Reuters
Posted at Mar 21 11:56 AM

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday that military style semi-automatics and assault rifles will be banned under stronger new gun laws following the killing of 50 people in the country's worst mass shooting. Read more »

'My special little one': A Christchurch father's message to slain son

Jerome Taylor, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Mar 20 08:03 PM

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – John Milne sits on his bed and sobs as he pens an anguished letter to his murdered teenage son Sayyad -- one of 50 people killed in the Christchurch massacre. Read more »

'He will have no friends': New Zealand gunman isolated in prison

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 20 04:46 PM

The white-supremacist accused of the Christchurch killings will spend the rest of his life in jail if convicted, likely in isolation for his own safety, a New Zealand criminologist and former convict said Wednesday. Read more »

Second man charged with sharing livestream of Christchurch massacre

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 20 03:55 PM

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - A 44-year-old man has become the second person charged with sharing a gruesome livestream video of the deadly attack at a Christchurch mosque. Read more »

Burials begin for New Zealand mosque shooting victims

Tom Lasseter and Charlotte Greenfield, Reuters
Posted at Mar 20 01:52 PM

CHRISTCHURCH - The bodies of two victims from New Zealand's mosques mass shooting were carried in open caskets on the shoulders of mourners into a large tent at Christchurch's Memorial Park Cemetery on Wednesday - the first burials of the 50 victims. Read more »

'I am your mother now': NZ mosque shootings hit tight-knit Bangladesh community hard

Charlotte Greenfield and Tom Westbrook, Reuters
Posted at Mar 20 08:08 AM

A total of 50 people were killed in the rampage, with as many wounded, as the gunman went from Al Noor to another mosque in the South Island city. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: March 19, 2019

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 20 12:08 AM

Here are the big stories today in photos Read more »

Mourning in Christchurch

Edgar Su, Reuters
Posted at Mar 19 12:17 PM

Abdul Iskandar, who said he was supposed to be at Masjid Al Noor mosque on Friday, the day of the shooting, is comforted by a bystander as he weeps at the memorial site for the victims, outside the mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand on Tuesday.  Read more »

'I still love you': Christchurch survivor forgives his wife's killer

Tom Westbrook, Reuters
Posted at Mar 19 07:30 AM

A wheelchair-using worshiper who survived the slaughter at Christchurch's Al Noor mosque, but whose wife was killed, has offered an olive branch to the gunman, saying he would like to meet him and telling him "I still love you."   Read more »

New Zealand alleged killer visited Israel in 2016

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 18 05:39 PM

JERUSALEM - The Australian white supremacist accused of carrying out a massacre at two mosques in New Zealand briefly visited Israel in 2016, Israeli officials said Monday. Read more »

Controversial Australian lawmaker 'egged' after comments on New Zealand mass shooting

Will Ziebell, Reuters
Posted at Mar 18 05:19 PM

MELBOURNE - Australian police said they were investigating after a teenager smashed an egg on a controversial right-wing lawmaker who had blamed New Zealand's mass mosque shootings on the country's immigration program. Read more »

New Zealand pledges gun control as mosque 'gunman' sacks lawyer

Glenda Kwek, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 18 02:37 PM

New Zealand will tighten gun laws in the wake of its worst modern-day massacre, the government said Monday, as it emerged the white supremacist accused of carrying out the killings at two mosques will represent himself in court. Read more »

Australian police search homes near mosque suspect's hometown

Reuters
Posted at Mar 18 08:53 AM

Australian police have searched two homes in towns on the New South Wales (NSW) mid-north coast linked to the investigation into Friday's mass shootings at mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch. Read more »

'We are the luckiest ones' - survivors of Christchurch killings

Charlotte Greenfield and Tom Westbrook, Reuters
Posted at Mar 18 08:26 AM

As a heavily-armed man entered Christchurch's al Noor mosque and began gunning down worshipers, Sardar Faisal happened to be in the bathroom, Sheikh Fahad ran and Amir Daud was just pulling up with his wife in their car, moments late for Friday prayers. Read more »

Trump slammed for 'silence' on white supremacist threat

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 18 07:06 AM

Democrats led by an Arab-American lawmaker attacked President Donald Trump's "silence" on the rise of white supremacy Sunday as reaction to the New Zealand mosque massacre spilled into a heated US debate over religious and racial bigotry. Read more »

Graves prepared as New Zealand looks to bury mosque massacre dead

Jerome Taylor, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 18 07:03 AM

Dozens of graves were being dug in a Christchurch cemetery on Monday for the 50 worshipers killed in two mosque attacks, as families clamored for the return of their dead. Read more »

Facebook says it removed 1.5M videos of the New Zealand mosque attack

Reuters
Posted at Mar 17 07:01 PM

Facebook Inc. said it removed 1.5 million videos globally of the New Zealand mosque attack in the first 24 hours after the attack. Read more »