Tag: New Zealand

New Zealand Steps Closer to Tighter Terrorism Laws After Supermarket Knife Attack

WELLINGTON—New Zealand’s parliament took a step closer on Tuesday to making it easier to arrest and prosecute terrorists planning attacks, just weeks after an ISIS-inspired assault by a knife-wielding assailant wounded seven people at a supermarket. The Counter-Terrorism Legislation Bill passed its second reading in parliament with the ruling Labour Party and the main opposition…


New Zealand Abandon Pakistan Tour After Security Alert

ISLAMABAD—New Zealand abruptly abandoned their tour of Pakistan on Friday citing a security alert in a massive blow to the South Asian country’s hopes of staging regular international cricket. The tour was due to get underway with the first of three one-dayers in Rawalpindi on Friday but New Zealand did not travel to the stadium….


Woman Charged With Killing 3 Young Girls in New Zealand

WELLINGTON, New Zealand—A 40-year-old woman was charged Friday with killing three young girls in a crime that has shocked New Zealand. Police did not immediately identify the woman but the Stuff news agency said she was the girls’ mother, Lauren Dickason, a doctor who had just moved to New Zealand from South Africa along with…


Australian Nuclear Subs Banned From Entering NZ Waters: Ardern

New Zealand (NZ) Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has declared Australia’s future fleet of nuclear submarines will not be allowed into NZ’s territorial waters. Establishing a nuclear-powered fleet in Australia, the first step of the newly announced trilateral security partnership AUKUS, will see the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States partner with Australia to “significantly deepen…


Australian Nuclear Subs Banned From Entering New Zealand Waters: Ardern

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has declared that Australia’s future fleet of nuclear submarines will not be allowed into New Zealand’s territorial waters. Establishing a nuclear-powered fleet in Australia, the first step of the newly announced trilateral security partnership AUKUS will see the UK and the United States partner with Australia to “significantly deepen cooperation on…


Australian Nuclear Subs Will Be Banned From New Zealand Waters: Ardern

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has declared that Australia’s future fleet of nuclear submarines won’t be allowed into New Zealand’s territorial waters. Establishing a nuclear-powered fleet in Australia, the first step of the newly announced trilateral security partnership AUKUS will see the UK and the United States partner with Australia to “significantly deepen cooperation on a…


AUKUS Is the New ANZUS: Diplomacy Expert

The “historic” trilateral security pact between Australia, the United States, and the UK will take precedence over the existing and long-running ANZUS treaty involving New Zealand and the U.S. Joseph Siracusa, adjunct professor of international diplomacy at Curtin University said the “AUKUS” alliance was really an “updating” of the Australia, New Zealand, and United States…


New Zealand Supermarket Chain Temporarily Removes Knives From Shelves After Terror Attack

New Zealand supermarket chain Countdown has temporarily removed all knives from its shelves after an ISIS-inspired knife-wielding terrorist wounded seven people at a mall in Auckland. Kiri Hannifin, Countdown’s general manager of safety, said in a statement on Sept. 4 a day after the attack that the company had decided to temporarily pull all knives and scissors from…


New Zealand Tried to Deport ISIS-Inspired Terrorist for Years After He Arrived as Refugee

WELLINGTON—New Zealand had tried for years to deport the knife-wielding terrorist who wounded seven people at a mall in Auckland last week, the government said after it released more details on the attacker following the lifting of a court suppression order. Court documents made public on Sunday identified the attacker as Ahamed Aathil Mohamed Samsudeen,…


New Zealand Officials Confirm Name of Knife Attacker

WELLINGTON, New Zealand—New Zealand authorities imprisoned a man inspired by the ISIS terrorist group for three years after catching him with a hunting knife and extremist videos—but at a certain point, despite grave fears he would attack others, they say they could do nothing more to keep him behind bars. So for 53 days from…