New Zealand

New Zealand postponed plans to re-enter Pike River Mine in which 29 men died in 2010, just one day before the shaft was set to be unsealed on Friday, an official said on Thursday. “Yesterday, unexpected and unexplained, readings were…

Facebook is suing a company and three individuals, based in New Zealand, over allegations they sold fake likes, views and followers to users of its photo-sharing platform Instagram, it said on Friday. The company said it suspended…

Prince William on Friday told the Muslim community in Christchurch that he stood with them “in gratitude to what you have taught the world in these past weeks.’’ The Duke of Cambridge spoke to about 160 survivors at the al-Noor mosque…

Prince William on Thursday met with police officers and paramedics, who dealt with the aftermath of a deadly gun attack by a suspected white supremacist on two mosques in Christchurch in March. On the first day of his two-day visit…

New Zealand will ban military-style semi-automatic and assault rifles under tough new gun laws following the killing of 50 people in its worst mass shooting, Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, said on Thursday in Zealand. In the immediate…

The bodies of victims from New Zealand’s mosques mass shooting were carried in open caskets on the shoulders of mourners into a large tent at Christchurch’s Memorial Park Cemetery on Wednesday. The bodies, wrapped in white cloth, were…

Britain’s biggest Muslim group on Monday urged the government to help fund security at mosques amid a “palpable sense of fear” following recent killing of 50 people at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The Muslim Council of Britain…

A raft of top-class sports events were cancelled in New Zealand on Saturday as a traumatised nation started burying the dead from the worst peacetime mass killing in its history. A lone gunman killed 49 people and wounded more than 20 at…

Britain’s Queen Elizabth II, Saudi Arabia and other countries said they were “deeply saddened by the appalling events” after 49 people were killed in an attack at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. “Prince Philip and I send our…

Owners of heritage buildings in New Zealand are set to benefit from changes to Heritage EQUIP, the National earthquake upgrade incentive programme, so as to have their valuable buildings better protected from disasters. “Heritage…