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'I Live! I Die!': New Zealanders stage 'haka' war dance to show solidarity with Muslim community after Christchurch terror attack
•Other haka performances have burst forth across Christchurch and elsewhere in the country as well as in Australia, where large communities of New Zealanders live.
New Zealand mosque attacks: While intel focuses on Islamist militants, Christchurch shooting shows how white nationalists fly beneath radar
•Like other extremist groups, racist ideologues have leveraged the power and reach of the internet to disseminate violent ideas, and give advice on the logistics of terror.
Jacinda Ardern vows never to utter New Zealand shooter's name, says won't get him 'publicity he craved'
•New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed Tuesday never to utter the name of the twin-mosque gunman as she opened a sombre session of parliament with an evocative as salaam alaikum message of peace to Muslims.
New Zealand mosque attack: Cartoonist Pat Campbell recreates silver fern in memory of Christchurch shooting victims
Fp Staff •Hauntingly beautiful, Pat Campbell's recent cartoon shows Muslims in different stages of prayer. The art also vaguely numbers the number of victims in different stages of prayer, some as they kneeling, at the time of being shot
New Zealand shooting: Christchurch teenager charged with distributing visuals of mosque rampage, 'inciting violence'
•The teenager, whose name was suppressed by the judge, was also charged with publishing a photograph of the Christchurch mosque with the message "target acquired", and for inciting violence
White House aide Mick Mulvaney says it's 'absurd' to link Donald Trump with Christchurch shooter Brenton Tarrant
•Mick Mulvaney, the acting chief of staff, described the New Zealand shooter as a "disturbed individual" and "evil person" and said it was unfair to cast the 28-year-old Australian "as a supporter of Donald Trump any more than it is to look at his, sort of his eco-terrorist passages in that manifesto and align him with Nancy Pelosi or Ms Ocasio-Cortez."
New Zealand mosque shooting: Afghan refugee chased away gunman in Christchurch using credit card machine, empty shotgun
•Aziz, an Australian citizen, tried to distract and chase the gunman away from outside his mosque in Christchurch with the only weapon he could find - a hand-held credit card machine
New Zealand police shuts Dunedin airport after reports of ‘suspicious package’; Christchurch attack gunman lived in the town
Fp Staff •New Zealand police closed Dunedin airport late on Sunday after a suspicious device was reported on the airfield.
Five Indians among 50 killed in terror attack at New Zealand’s Christchurch; victims hailed from Gujarat, Telangana, Kerala
•At least five Indians, including three from Gujarat have died in Friday's terror attacks in New Zealand's Christchurch, the Indian High Commission in New Zealand said on Sunday.
Christchurch shooting video lays bare terrifying new brazenness of right-wing trolls, their toxic ‘shitposting’
Arnav Das Sharma •The video of the Christchurch shooting shows that right-wing trolls, who were earlier confined to the virtual world, have found a way out.