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49 Killed and 48 Injured in New Zealand Mosque Shootings

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03/15/2019

03/15/2019

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49 Killed and 48 Injured in New Zealand Mosque Shootings

Top News: Gunmen stormed two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand on Friday, leaving some 49 people dead and 48 injured, according to the New Zealand Herald, in what Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called a well-planned “terrorist attack.”

“These are people who I would describe as having extremist views that have absolutely no place in New Zealand and in fact have no place in the world,” she said of the assailants.

Four people were arrested in connection to the attacks. One of the alleged attackers—Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old Australian national—live streamed the shooting, creating a harrowing, 17-minute video and issued a manifesto explaining his actions that draws heavily on the ideas of white nationalists and fascists, including the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik and the Nazi-era British Union of Fascists leader Oswald Mosley.

Authorities found and disarmed two explosive devices attached to suspects’ cars.

The terrorist attack was the deadliest in New Zealand’s history.

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AFRICA

•  Joyce Banda, the former president of Malawi, withdrew from the country’s upcoming presidential race.

•  Botswana’s High Court postponed a ruling on the decriminalization of gay sex.

•  Cyclone Idai hit Mozambique.

AMERICAS

•  Electricity has been restored to much of Venezuela a week after widespread blackouts began, but fully normal service may not resume for weeks or months in some areas.

•  Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s plan to create a new national guard was approved by Congress on Thursday.

•  The United States is set to increase military cooperation with Brazil, Reuters reports.

ASIA

•  North Korea is considering ceasing denuclearization talks with the United States.

•  More than 6 million people in the Philippines are living under a water shortage.

•  Foreign investors in Myanmar may soon be able to trade on Yangon’s stock exchange, on which five companies are currently listed.

EUROPE

•  Britain’s Parliament on Thursday voted to delay Brexit.

•  European Parliament President Antonio Tajani apologized for causing offense by saying that Italian dictator Benito Mussolini did “positive things.”

•  The Catholic Church in Poland released a report admitting that members of the clergy sexually abused hundreds of children.

MIDDLE EAST

•  In response to two rockets fired toward Tel Aviv, Israel struck 100 targets in the Gaza Strip overnight, including the headquarters of Hamas. The two rockets were likely fired by accident, according to the Israeli military.

•  The International Criminal Police Organization named 20 suspects in the killing of U.S.-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year, including Saud al-Qahtani, a top aide to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

•  The U.S. senate passed a resolution seeking to end U.S. backing for the Saudi-led war in Yemen.

- By Benjamin Soloway

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