Mar 18 Defiant vigil starts healing in New Zealand after massacre By Kristen Gelineau, Juliet Williams, Stephen Wright, Associated Press They came together as one, more than 1,000 students from rival Christchurch schools and different religions, joining voices to honor the 50 lives lost in a massacre that has deeply wounded the cozy New Zealand city. Continue reading
Mar 17 Serbia president vows to defend law and order amid protests By Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press Serbia’s president pledged on Sunday to defend the country’s law and order a day after opposition supporters stormed the national TV station protesting what they said is his autocratic rule and firm control of the media. Continue reading
Mar 17 Ethiopia minister: Clear similarity between two crashes By Elias Meseret, Associated Press Preliminary data retrieved from the flight data recorder of the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed shows “a clear similarity” with an earlier disaster in Indonesia, Ethiopia’s transport minister said Sunday. Continue reading
Mar 17 Ethiopians hold mass funeral ceremony for crash victims By Elias Meseret, Associated Press Thousands mourned the Ethiopian plane crash victims on Sunday, accompanying 17 empty caskets draped in the national flag through the streets of the capital as some victims’ relatives fainted and fell to the ground. Continue reading
Mar 17 New Zealand citizens open to gun reform after massacre By Stephen Wright, Kristen Gelineau, Associated Press The New Zealand leader’s promise of tightened gun laws in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings has been widely welcomed by a stunned population. Continue reading
Mar 17 Houses of worship bear arms, install cameras to protect sacred spaces By Associated Press Houses of worship have traditionally been places of refuge where strangers are welcome. But high-profile attacks in recent years on an African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, a synagogue in Pittsburgh and now mosques in New Zealand have made many… Continue reading
Mar 16 Watch 5:41 The role of media and technology after terror attacks By PBS NewsHour The gunman accused of killing 49 people at two New Zealand mosques Friday live-streamed the attack, emailed his manifesto to media outlets, and shared his racist and hateful messages online. Charlie Warzel, opinion writer-at-large for The New York Times and… Continue watching
Mar 16 New Zealand gunman entranced with Ottoman sites in Europe By Jovana Gec, Associated Press The white supremacist suspected in the mosque shootings that left at least 49 people dead in New Zealand had traveled to the Balkans in the past three years, where he toured historic sites and apparently studied battles between Christians and… Continue reading
Mar 16 Stories of the victims of the New Zealand mosque attack By Associated Press An attack on a New Zealand mosque took the lives of 49 worshippers Friday and left dozens more wounded when a white supremacist opened fire and live-streamed the shootings. Here are the stories of the lives lost and those who… Continue reading
Mar 16 French rioters set fire to Paris bank; mother, child saved By Thomas Adamson, Angela Charlton, Associated Press French yellow vest protesters set life-threatening fires, smashed up luxury stores and clashed with police Saturday in the 18th straight weekend of demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron. Large plumes of smoke rose above the rioting on Paris’ landmark Champs-Elysees Avenue,… Continue reading