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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Thursday an immediate ban on semi-automatic and automatic weapons like the ones used in the terror attacks on two mosques in Christchurch that killed 50 worshippers. The man charged in the attack had purchased his weapons legally using a standard firearms license and enhanced their capacity by using 30-round magazines “done easily through a …

Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson Releases Statement after to mass shootings in New Zealand. By: Raja Zahid A Khanazada Washington: Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson Releases Statement after to mass shootings in New Zealand.   Said When asked to comment regarding members of the Muslim immigrant community who were brutally slain by a deranged gunman in the country that she leads, New …

One of the world’s biggest aluminium producers, Norway’s Norsk Hydro, on Tuesday said it had been hit by a cyber-attack of unknown origin. “Hydro became victim of an extensive cyberattack in the early hours of Tuesday, impacting operations in several of the company’s business areas,” the energy group said in a statement. Spokesman Halvor Molland said it was too early …

HERAT: The Taliban have captured 58 Afghan border soldiers, the defence ministry said on Mon­day, after days of fighting which saw dozens of troops briefly chased into neighbouring Turkmenistan. The ministry statement came after reports of days of fighting in Bala Marghab district of Badghis province. “Unfortunately, 58 BSS (border security soldiers) are captured by the enemies,” a defence ministry …

Holdout extremist militants scurried along the reedy banks of the Euphrates in an increasingly desperate defence on Tuesday of the last scrap of their ‘caliphate’ in eastern Syria. Advancing Kurdish-led forces forced fighters from the militant Islamic State (IS) group out of the main encampment where they had been confined in recent days. The move brought a months-old operation to …

The Foreign Office confirmed on Tuesday that no Pakistanis were hurt in yesterday’s deadly shooting on a tram in the city of Utrecht and two other people arrested in connection with the rampage. Ambassador Shujjat Rathore in The Hague also confirmed that all Pakistanis in Netherlands are safe after the attack Dutch police also announced on Tuesday that they questioned …

Some 40 people were preventively evacuated from a building near the European Union headquarters in Brussels after a bomb threat was sent to a company linked to the EU. Police spokeswoman Ilse Van de Keere said a “telephone bomb threat” was made on Tuesday morning to a consulting office linked to the EU’s executive commission and that it has been …

BEIRA: More than a thousand people are feared to have died in a cyclone that smashed into Mozambique, while scores have been killed and more than 150 are missing in neighbouring Zimbabwe. The city of Beira in central Mozambique bore Cyclone Idai’s full wrath on Thursday before the storm barrelled on to neighbouring Zimbabwe, unleashing fierce winds and flash floods …

New Zealand’s prime minister declared on Tuesday she would do everything in her power to deny the accused mosque gunman a platform for elevating his white supremacist views after the man dismissed his lawyer and opted to represent himself at his trial in the killings of 50 people. “I agree that it is absolutely something that we need to acknowledge …

Prime Minister Theresa May will ask the European Union to delay Brexit by at least three months after her plans for another vote on her twice-defeated divorce deal were thrown into crisis by a surprise intervention by the speaker of parliament. Nearly three years after Britain voted to leave the EU, its departure is uncertain. Possible outcomes still range from …