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Abdul Aziz, right, gestures as he gives his victim impact statement during the sentencing hearing for Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant at the Christchurch High Court after Tarrant pleaded guilty to 51 counts of murder, 40 counts of attempted murder and one count of terrorism in Christchurch, New Zealand on Aug.…

Rose Byrne, left, and Jacinda Ardern Mega/AP Following a backlash against Cannes virtual market package They Are Us, one of the producers of the project has exited and one of the subjects of the movie, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, has criticized the project. Since being announced on Thursday,…

A 16-year-old boy who planned to attack Muslims in Singapore has been held by the Internal Security Department since last month, the agency announced today. The unnamed teenager planned copycat attacks, the authorities said, on the Yusof Ishak and Assyafaah mosques on March 15, the two-year anniversary of a mass…

SYDNEY — Canberra is open to the idea of New Zealand sending the Australian-born gunman behind the Christchurch mosque massacre back home to serve his life sentence, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday (Aug 28). White supremacist Brenton Tarrant was sentenced to life without parole on Thursday for the…

STACY SQUIRES/STUFFAbout 200 people gathered in Christchurch for a Black Lives Matter demonstration on Sunday.One of the organisers of Wellington's Black Lives Matter protest says he's disappointed Facebook has done more to address online threats than the authorities. Guled Mire, a community advocate, received threatening Facebook messages following the march…

Long before she was one of the world's most influential leaders, Jacinda Ardern was a precocious young kid with a passion for politics. The New Zealand prime minister's tale from humble beginnings to celebrated politician has been documented in a new biography, proving she has always been a voice of the…

As the Trump administration spotlights the anti-fascist group Antifa as the source of chaos and anarchy engulfing the countrywide protests for equal rights and justice, little, if any, has been said about White nationalists who have infiltrated the protests with the objective of creating a popular pandemonium. Surely, Antifa’s looters…

STUFFFifty-one people were killed on March 15, a date that will go down as one of New Zealand's darkest days. How far has the country come one year on?Stressed staff simply ticking boxes, or not ticking them at all. Tears at the desk as bosses demand a rising pile of…

From bombings and protests to the opening of a new health centre, student journalist Baraa Razzouk has been documenting daily life in Idlib, Syria, for years - and posting the videos to his YouTube account. But this month, the 21-year-old started getting automated emails from YouTube, alerting him that his…

From bombings and protests to the opening of a new health centre, student journalist Baraa Razzouk has been documenting daily life in Idlib, Syria, for years, and posting the videos to his YouTube account. But this month, the 21-year-old started getting automated emails from YouTube alerting him that his videos…