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The country’s head of counter-terrorism earlier said the incident “appears to be a terrorist attack”.

In Mozambique, President Filipe Nyusi says more than 1,000 people may have been killed by Cyclone Idai, which devastated the port city of Beira last week.

As families wait for bodies to be returned for burial, stories of heroism are emerging from Christchurch, stories like that of Husna Ahmed, who was credited with saving many lives at al Noor mosque on Friday.

It is New Zealand’s deadliest terror attack: 49 people have died in mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has described this as one of the country’s “darkest days”, while around the world political and religious leaders have expressed their condemnation of the attack. One man has been charged with murder,…

We spoke to Farhaan Faheez, who was at the New Zealand mosque.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, however, that nothing in the message could have helped stop the killings.

Are social media firms doing enough to tackle extremism and stop the live-streaming of violence?

Sasha Havlicek, co-founder of the counter-terrorism think tank, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, discusses the Christchurch attacks.

We spoke to former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, and began by asking for her reaction to what had happened.

It is New Zealand’s deadliest terror attack: 49 people have died in mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has described this as one of the country’s “darkest days”, while around the world political and religious leaders have expressed their condemnation of the attack. One man has been charged with murder,…

In Syria, Kurdish-led forces continue their push to remove the last few hundred Islamic State militants from the east of the country.

Our reporter Anja Popp is in Christchurch.

The Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is in Washington DC, where he has been meeting leaders, including President Trump.

371 Boeing airliners are sitting idle on the tarmac tonight, after the aviation giant grounded its 737 MAX model. It follows the decision by the US Federal Aviation Administration to temporarily ban the jet from US airspace – joining more than 50 countries which had already done the same. Sunday’s Ethiopian Airlines crash claimed 157 lives, including nine…

Within the last hour the United States has announced it is grounding all Boeing 737 Max 8 jets, following two fatal crashes in the last five months.