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CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AFP) — At least one gunman who targeted crowded mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch killed a number of people friday, police said, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern describing the shooting as “one of New Zealand’s darkest days”. The mosques were packed with worshippers gathering for Friday afternoon prayers, and members of the Bangladesh cricket team were arriving when the shooter opened fire. Local media reported at least nine people were […]
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AFP) –Bangladesh’s cricket team escaped unscathed after a shooting at a mosque in central Christchurch, an official told AFP on Friday. Bangladesh Cricket Board spokesman Jalal Yunus said most of the team were bussed to the mosque and were about to go inside when the incident happened. “They are safe. But they are mentally shocked. We have asked the team to stay confined in the hotel,” he told AFP. Player Tamim Iqbal […]
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AFP) — Armed police in New Zealand swarmed central Christchurch Friday amid a shooting at a mosque in the South Island city. “A serious and evolving situation is occurring in Christchurch with an active shooter,” police said in a statement. “Police are responding with its full capability to manage the situation, but the risk environment remains extremely high.” Local media said there were multiple casualties at one mosque and said another had been […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — A large New Zealand wildfire is expected to burn for weeks longer but has moved away from some inhabited areas, allowing residents of an evacuated village to return home soon, firefighters said Monday. About 3,000 inhabitants of Wakefield, just outside Nelson at the top of South Island, were ordered out Saturday as flames razed bushland within two kilometers (1.2 miles) of their homes. The fire erupted early last week amid […]
(Eagle News)—Another Filipino drowned in New Zealand, the second such incident in days, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday, Jan. 17. In a statement, the Philippine Embassy in Wellington said the victim, a 20-year-old, drowned in Whanganui River, 150 kilometers northwest of Wellington on Wednesday, Jan. 16. His body was recovered the day after. According to the DFA, last week, student Kent Espinosa, also drowned. In October, the DFA said another Filipino also drowned […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — New Zealand denied Thursday that telecommunications giant Huawei was banned from a 5G network rollout because it is Chinese, saying the problem it faced was a technological one. Wellington also dismissed suggestions its intelligence services came under pressure from allies in the “Five Eyes” spy network to bar Huawei amid fears about cybersecurity and its potential links to Beijing. “It’s not about the country, it’s not even particularly about the […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — Six beached whales were successfully refloated off New Zealand Tuesday, rescuers said, after a spate of mass stranding in recent days that resulted in the deaths of dozens of marine mammals. Wildlife rangers and volunteers used pontoons to float the killer pygmy whales — part of a group of 12 found beached in the country’s far north on Sunday — and take them about 400 meters (437 yards) offshore. “We […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — Up to 145 pilot whales have died in a mass stranding in a remote part of New Zealand, with authorities saying Monday they made the “heart-breaking” decision to euthanized dozens that lay stricken on the shore. The stranding was discovered by a hiker late Saturday on Stewart Island, 30 kilometers (19 miles) off the southern coast of the South Island. Half of the whales were already dead and due to […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — A destructive earthquake that struck New Zealand two years ago has left its two main islands edging towards each other, and one city sinking, according to scientists. But the margins are minimal with the gap between the North and South islands narrowing a mere 35 centimetres (13 and a half inches), while Nelson at the top of the South Island has sunk by up to 20 millimetres. The magnitude […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — Prince Harry and Meghan arrived in Wellington Sunday to a traditional Maori welcome, an official reception disrupted by a fire alarm and a rock star reception during a public walkabout. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are on the last leg of a 16-day, four-nation tour which was timed to coincide with the 2018 Invictus Games in Sydney. They flew in from Sydney on a Royal New Zealand Air […]
(AFP) — Remarkable footage of the moment a New Zealand fur seal slaps a stunned kayaker in the face with an octopus goes viral.
by Catherine Triomphe Agence France Presse UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — New Zealand’s prime minister has been proclaimed a history maker for taking “first baby” — daughter Neve — into the United Nations General Assembly hall, shaking up what is still a boys’ club of world leaders. Photographs of Jacinda Ardern, 38, kissing and bouncing her three-month-old in the main hall at the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit on the eve of the General Assembly […]
