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(AA): Following a backlash, New Zealand producer Philippa Campbell on Monday announced she will no longer be involved in the making of a controversial film on the Christchurch terror attacks, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern saying the Muslim community should be at the center of any film about the shootings, not her. The planned Hollywood […]

28th Jan 2021

Christchurch-like terror attack thwarted in Singapore

By Riyaz ul Khaliq (AA): A major terror attack has been foiled in Singapore as a 16-year-boy planning to attack two mosques and kill worshipers was arrested, an official statement said. The secondary school student of Indian ethnicity, whose name was not revealed, had prepared a plan to carry out attacks on March 15 […]

8th Dec 2020

New Zealand mosque attacks: Premier vows accountability

By Riyaz ul Khaliq (AA): New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday vowed accountability for the families of the victims of last year’s mosque attacks in Christchurch, as her government is set to publicly release a major report on the massacre. Brenton Tarrant, an Australian white supremacist, killed 51 people and injured 40 more […]

14th Oct 2020

Canada: Toronto mosque closed after violent threats

By Barry Ellsworth TRENTON, Canada (AA): A Toronto mosque remained closed Tuesday after receiving violent threats as police investigate the incident. “The threats specifically contained a promise that guns had been procured to ‘do a Christchurch all over again,” the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) tweeted Saturday, referencing the attack on two mosques […]

27th Aug 2020

New Zealand: Christchurch mosques’ terrorist sentenced to life without parole

By Jeyhun Aliyev (AA): A 29-year-old Australian white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers last year in New Zealand’s deadliest shooting has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the first such ruling ever handed down in the country, local media reported early Thursday. The sentence was handed down […]

24th Aug 2020

New Zealand: Sentencing of terrorist who murdered 51 worshippers in mosques begins

By Jeyhun Aliyev (AA): The four-day sentencing hearing of the terrorist responsible for the Christchurch mosque attacks, the worst mass shooting in New Zealand’s modern history, began Monday morning, according to a local daily. Brenton Tarrant, 29, an Australian white supremacist who initially planned to attack three mosques, admitted killing 51 Muslims as they […]

5th Apr 2019

New Zealand terrorist suspect who murdered 50 Muslims charged with murder

By Recep Sakar MELBOURNE (AA): The man accused of carrying out last month’s terrorist attacks on two New Zealand mosques appeared Friday for a hearing at the Christchurch High Court. A 3-year-old, three schoolboys and several pensioners were among fifty Muslims slaughtered in a far-right terror attack on two mosques during Friday prayers, in […]

18th Mar 2019

UK: ‘Far-right’ stabbing treated as terrorist incident

By Muhammad Mussa LONDON (AA): U.K. police are treating the stabbing of a young man as an act of terrorism as the perpetrator was inspired by the far-right. On Saturday night a 19 year old man was stabbed in the county of Surrey and a 50 year old man was arrested near the scene […]

17th Mar 2019

UK media fail to call NZ mosque shootings as terror attack

By Can Erozden (AA): U.K.’s well-known broadcasting corporation BBC and Daily Mirror came under fire as they did not name the New Zealand mosque shootings as terror attack that killed at least 50 Muslims at their place of worship on Friday. BBC was unable to name the Christchurch mosque attacks as “terror attacks” but […]

16th Mar 2019

New Zealand: Terrorist who allegedly murdered 49 Muslim worshippers charged

By Beyza Binnur Donmez ANKARA (AA): A court in New Zealand decided Saturday that the terrorist charged with murder in a terror attack would remain in custody until April 5. Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, would remain imprisoned without a plea and he did not request bail during his appearance at Christchurch District Court. Tarrant opened […]

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