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New Zealand military to buy 5 Lockheed Super Hercules planes

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In this Saturday, March 16, 2019 photo, Brenton Tarrant, the man charged in the Christchurch mosque shootings, appears in the Christchurch District Court, in Christchurch, New Zealand. (AP Photo/Mark Mitchell, Pool)

NZ judge allows images of man charged in mosque shootings

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

A man sits with a bowl asking for money in the central business district of Christchurch, New Zealand, Thursday, May 30, 2019. The liberal-led government on Thursday unveiled the country's first so-called well-being budget, which aims to measure social outcomes like health and the environment alongside traditional metrics such as economic growth. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

New Zealand’s 1st ‘well-being budget’ targets mental health

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

New Zealand crews reenter coal mine 8 years after 29 killed

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

Carli Lloyd helps US to 5-0 win over New Zealand

By STEVE OVERBEY - Associated Press

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, right, smiles prior to give a press conference, at the OECD headquarters, in Paris, Tuesday, May 14, 2019. The leaders of France and New Zealand will make a joint push to eliminate acts of violent extremism from being shown online, in a meeting with tech leaders in Paris on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Facebook limits livestreaming ahead of tech summit in Paris

By Sylvie Corbet and Masha MacPherson - Associated Press

In this March 25, 2019, photo, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern addresses a press conference in Wellington, New Zealand. (AP Photo/Nick Perry) **FILE**

Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand Prime Minister: ‘I do not understand’ lack of gun reform in U.S.

By Bailey Vogt - The Washington Times

New Zealand Climate Change Minister James Shaw, left, and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern talk to reporters on Wednesday, May 8, 2019, in Wellington, New Zealand. The government has introduced an ambitious climate change bill which aims to make the nation carbon neutral by 2050 while giving some leeway to farmers.(AP Photo/Nick Perry)

New Zealand introduces climate bill to become carbon neutral

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 17, 2019, file photo, a police officer stands guard in front of the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand. New Zealand's major media organizations pledged Wednesday, May 1, 2019, not to promote white supremacist ideology when covering the trial of the man charged with killing 50 people at two mosques.(AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

New Zealand media to avoid ideology at mosque shooting trial

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

Latest: Family of terror plot suspect surprised by arrest

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Britain's Prince William lays a wreath during an Anzac Day service in Auckland, New Zealand, Thursday, April 25, 2019. (Brett Phibbs/SNPA via AP)

Prince William meets New Zealand mosque attack responders

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

New Zealand officer guilty of planting camera in embassy

Associated Press

FILE - In this March 15, 2019, file photo, police stand outside a mosque in central Christchurch, New Zealand. New Zealand police on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 released a detailed timeline of their response to the March 15 shootings that left 50 dead at two Christchurch mosques, confirming they arrested the suspected shooter 18 minutes after receiving the first emergency call. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

Timeline of police response to New Zealand mosque attacks

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This undated photo provided on Monday, April 15, 2019, by International Committee of the Red Cross shows Syrian driver Nabil Bakdounes. New Zealand's foreign minister has confirmed a New Zealand nurse has been held captive by the Islamic State group in Syria for almost six years, information long kept secret for fear her life might be at risk. The collapse of ISIS has raised hopes Louisa Akavi and two Syrian drivers, Nabil Bakdounes and Alaa Rajab, kidnapped with her might now be discovered. (International Committee of the Red Cross via AP)

New Zealand, Red Cross at odds over naming captive nurse

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This undated photo released by International Committee of the Red Cross, the organization's New Zealand nurse Louisa Akavi. New Zealand's foreign minister has confirmed the nurse has been held captive by the Islamic State group in Syria for almost six years, information long kept secret for fear her life might be at risk. The status of nurse and midwife Akavi, now 62, is unknown but her employer, the International Committee of the Red Cross, says it has received recent eyewitness reports suggesting she might be alive. (International Committee of the Red Cross via AP)

Red Cross, New Zealand hope for info on Louisa Akavi, nurse held in Syria

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FILE - In this April 2, 2019, file photo, Police acting superintendent Mike McIlraith shows New Zealand lawmakers in Wellington, New Zealand, an AR-15 style rifle similar to one of the weapons a gunman used to slaughter 50 people at two mosques. New Zealand's new gun laws have been signed into law and now ban military-style weapons, just one day after the nation’s parliament overwhelmingly approved legislation to outlaw them less than a month after a man used such guns to kill 50 worshippers at two mosques. (AP Photo/Nick Perry, File)

New Zealand’s new gun laws get final assent to take effect

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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

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017 file photo, U.N. refugee chief Filippo Grandi, center-right, visits a hospital as he tours Dadaab refugee camp, hosting over 230,000 inhabitants, in northern Kenya. An internal United Nations document obtained by The Associated Press on Friday, March 29, 2019 says Kenya again seeks to close the Dadaab camp that hosts more than 200,000 refugees from neighboring Somalia. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

UN refugee chief sees more ‘poison’ focused against migrants

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

This March 20, 2018, file photo shows the YouTube app on an iPad in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

YouTube disables comments during House hate speech hearing

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

New Zealand official calls Facebook ‘morally bankrupt’

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press