Tag: Jacinda Ardern
Ardern, Trump discuss gun control in first formal meeting
WASHINGTON D.C.: US President Donald Trump “listened with interest” about New Zealand's gun reforms introduced after the mass shooting in Christchurch, the Pacific country's...
New Zealand votes to amend gun laws after Christchurch attack with...
Lawmakers in New Zealand voted almost unanimously on Wednesday to change gun laws, less than a month after its worst peacetime mass shooting, in...
New Zealand remembers Christchurch terror victims
WELLINGTON: Thousands stood in silence in a Christchurch park on Friday as the names of 50 people shot dead in two mosques were read...
New Zealand orders top-level inquiry into mosque massacres
WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday ordered an independent judicial inquiry into the Christchurch mosque attacks, asking whether police and intelligence...
‘We are one’ says PM Ardern as New Zealand mourns with...
CHRISTCHURCH: The Muslim call to prayer sounded out over Christchurch and around New Zealand on Friday, as thousands gathered to remember the 50 people killed...
New Zealand PM Ardern receives death threats on social media
WELLINGTON: Police in New Zealand are investigating death threats sent to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on social media.
According to the NZ Herald, a Twitter...
New Zealand begins funerals for mosque shooting victims, PM visits school
CHRISTCHURCH: 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...
New Zealand to broadcast Friday Azaan ‘in solidarity with Muslims’
CHRISTCHURCH: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Wednesday said Friday Azaan will be broadcast nationally along with a two minutes’ silence to show...
Pakistan lauds NZ premier’s speech
Pakistan on Tuesday lauded the speech New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in which she paid tribute to Pakistani national Mian Naeem Rashid, who...
Christchurch shooting: NZ PM starts her parliamentary address with ‘As-salaam Alaikum’
Jacinda Ardern has said she will render the person accused over the Christchurch terrorist attack “nameless” and urged the public to speak the victims’ names instead,...
Ardern vows not to name Christchurch attack suspect
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said she will render the person accused over the Christchurch terrorist attack “nameless” and urged the public to speak...
New Zealand PM urges Trump to ‘show love’ for all Muslims
WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she told US President Donald Trump to show “sympathy and love” to all Muslim communities.
Ardern said...
New Zealand’s ‘first bloke,’ PM Ahern’s partner, fends off angry shark
WELLINGTON: New Zealand's "first bloke" Clarke Gayford revealed Thursday how he fought off an angry shark with a pole while diving off Auckland.
Gayford, the...
‘Jacindamania’: Vogue calls NZ’s PM Ardern as ‘anti-Trump’
WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been described as an "anti-Trump" in a glamorous feature in iconic American magazine Vogue's March edition.
In the...
NZ PM to be the second to give birth in office;...
WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Friday she is expecting her first baby and is set to become the country's first leader...
Jacinda Ardern to become next New Zealand PM
New Zealand's centre-left opposition leader Jacinda Ardern is poised to become prime minister in a stunning rise to power, after maverick populist Winston Peters backed the...