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New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during an interview in Wellington, New Zealand, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. Ardern said she’ll do all she can to stop a man accused of killing 51 Muslim worshippers from spreading his message of hate at his trial. She also hopes artificial intelligence will one day stop such attacks from being broadcast online. (AP Photo/Sam James)

New Zealand leader discusses abortion, marijuana, monarchy

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

In this March 16, 2019, file photo, Stephen Colbert attends the 36th Annual PaleyFest "An Evening with Stephen Colbert" at the Dolby Theatre on Saturday, March 16, 2019, in Los Angeles. Now Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern may have found the perfect spokesman to embrace all of the above and more: American comedian Stephen Colbert. In an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday, Dec. 5, she talked about the boost to the country’s vital tourism industry that Colbert appears to have singlehandedly orchestrated.(Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

New Zealand leader finds perfect spokesman: Stephen Colbert

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

In this image made from video, New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during an interview in Wellington, New Zealand, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. Ardern said she’ll do all she can to stop a man accused of killing 51 Muslim worshippers from spreading his message of hate at his trial. She also hopes artificial intelligence will one day stop such attacks from being broadcast online. (AP Photo/Sam James)

AP Interview: New Zealand PM aims to limit spread of hate

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson walks down the street near United Nations headquarters in New York, Monday, Sept. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

New independent watchdog to keep extremists off internet

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

New Zealand plans to withdraw all Iraq troops by next June

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, March 23, 2019 file photo, Worshippers prepare to enter the Al Noor mosque following last week's mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand. The death toll from the Christchurch mosque attacks has risen to 51 after a Turkish man who had been hospitalized since a gunman opened fire on worshippers seven weeks ago died overnight, authorities in New Zealand and Turkey confirmed, Friday, May 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

Turkish man shot in Christchurch attack dies, toll now 51

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to media at her electorate office in Aukland, Wednesday, April 24, 2019. Ardern said that she and French President Emmanuel Macron will host a meeting in Paris next month seeking to eliminate acts of violent extremism and terrorism from being shown online. (Jason Oxenham/New Zealand Herald via AP)

New Zealand and France to call for an end to online terror

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

In this March 17, 2019, file photo, a girl carries flowers to a memorial wall following the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand. New Zealand's parliament on Wednesday passed sweeping gun laws which outlaw military-style weapons, less than a month after the nation's worst mass shooting left 50 dead and 39 wounded in two mosques in the South Island city of Christchurch. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)

New Zealand Parliament votes to ban semi-automatic weapons

By Steve McMorran - Associated Press

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama speaks during a press conference after talking to an audience of educators, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, April 4, 2019. The Dalai Lama says he has been seeking a mutually acceptable solution to the Tibetan issue with China since 1974 but that Beijing considers him a &quot;splittist.&quot;(AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Dalai Lama lauds New Zealand PM for handling mosque attacks

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern , right, arrives for a National Remembrance Service in Hagley Park for the victims of the March 15 mosques terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, Friday, March 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

HRW urges New Zealand’s Ardern to discuss Muslims in China

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New Zealand prime minister to visit China next week

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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern addresses a press conference in Wellington, New Zealand Monday, March 25, 2019. Ardern has announced a top-level inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the massacre of 50 people in two Christchurch mosques on March 15. (AP Photo/Nick Perry)

New Zealand to probe role of spies, guns in mosque attacks

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

Mourners attend the service for a victim of the mosque shootings for a burial at the Memorial Park Cemetery in Christchurch, New Zealand, Friday, March 22, 2019. People across New Zealand will listen to the Muslim call to prayer on Friday as the nation marks one week since a gunman attacked two mosques and killed 50 people. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Broken-hearted but not broken: New Zealand prays together

By Nick Perry and Juliet Williams - Associated Press

FILE - In this file image made from video that was live-streamed Friday, March 15, 2019, a gunman reaches for guns in the back of his car before the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand. Only a week after attacks on two mosques in New Zealand killed 50 worshippers, the country has banned sales of &quot;military-style&quot; semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines. (Shooter's Video via AP, File)

A closer look at New Zealand’s new weapons ban

By FOSTER KLUG and JULIET WILLIAMS - Associated Press

In this photo released by New Zealand Prime Minister's Office, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, center, meets representatives of the Muslim community, Saturday, March 16, 2019, at the Canterbury Refugee Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand. (New Zealand Prime Minister Office via AP)

New Zealand bans sale of semi-automatic rifles

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Mourners gather before a service of a victim from last week's mosque shooting for a burial at the Memorial Park Cemetery in Christchurch, New Zealand, Thursday, March 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

The Latest: New Zealanders to observe Muslim call to prayer

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Mourners leave the cemetery after the burial service of the body of a victim of the Friday March 15 mosque shootings at the Memorial Park Cemetery in Christchurch, New Zealand, Thursday, March 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

New Zealand to observe Muslim prayer after mosque attacks

By NICK PERRY and JULIET WILLIAMS - Associated Press

A girl walk to lay flowers on a wall at the Botanical Gardens in Christchurch, New Zealand, Sunday, March 17, 2019. New Zealand's stricken residents reached out to Muslims in their neighborhoods and around the country on Saturday, in a fierce determination to show kindness to a community in pain as a 28-year-old white supremacist stood silently before a judge, accused in mass shootings at two mosques that left dozens of people dead. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Mourners pay tribute to New Zealand victims, await burials

By NICK PERRY and JULIET WILLIAMS - Associated Press

Religious representatives perform a special blessing ceremony on the site of Friday's shooting outside the Linwood mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, Monday, March 18, 2019. Three days after Friday's attack, New Zealand's deadliest shooting in modern history, relatives were anxiously waiting for word on when they can bury their loved ones. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

The Latest: Spy agency says no threats ahead of massacre

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In this photo released by New Zealand Prime Minister's Office, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to representatives of the Muslim community, Saturday, March 16, 2019 at the Canterbury Refugee Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, a day after the mass shootings at two mosques in the city. (New Zealand Prime Minister Office via AP)

New Zealand welcomes Jacinda Ardern gun control after Christchurch mosque massacre

By Stephen Wright and Kristen Gelineau - Associated Press