WELLINGTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed on Saturday to tighten counter-terrorism laws this month after a knife-wielding militant known to the authorities ...

New Zealand's opposition National Party leader Judith Collins said the attack needed to be viewed as a "terrorist issue" and not a "religious issue". "Please remember that the ISIS-inspired ...

By Cherie Howie Reporter·NZ Herald· 4 Sep, 2021 12:45 AM6 mins to read ...

The last terrorist attack in New Zealand was in the city of Christchurch, on the country's east coast. That devastating incident in March 2019 saw a white supremacist terrorist kill 51 worshippers ...

It was carried out by an individual, not a faith,” Ardern said, describing the attacker as a Sri Lankan national who arrived in New Zealand in 2011. “He alone carries the responsibility for ...

New Zealand police killed a man who was said to have injured several others during an attack at an Auckland mall in the early afternoon on Friday. A law enforcement statement said: "Police can ...

New Zealand police have shot and killed an ISIS supporter who injured at least six people in a supermarket “terrorist attack” in the Auckland suburb of New Lynn on Friday, authorities say.

Police respond to the scene of an attack carried out by a man shot dead by police after he injured multiple people at a shopping mall in Auckland, New Zealand, September 3, 2021.

New Zealand to criminalise attack planning after mall stabbing Police shot dead the 32-year-old attacker, who had been convicted and imprisoned for about three years before being released in July.

Police said they shot him within a minute of the start of the attack. Ardern said the man arrived in New Zealand in 2011 on a student visa and was not known to have held any extreme views.