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Jacinda Ardern reflects on a career focused on the power of kindness

5:00am June 03, 2025

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to former Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern about balancing leadership and motherhood.

On Tuesday, New Zealand's Royal Commission of Inquiry released its report in relation to the March 2019 attack on two Christchurch mosques. The attacks by an Australian white supremacist killed 51 people and wounded dozens of others.

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New Zealand Finds Intelligence Lapses Leading To Last Year's Mosque Attacks

11:33am December 08, 2020

by Jaclyn Diaz

A Royal Commission report criticizes the country's lax gun laws, lackluster counterterrorism efforts, "fragile" intelligence agencies and ineffective leadership leading up to the attack.

Aya Al-Umari, whose brother Hussein Al-Umari was killed in the Al Noor mosque shooting, holds a pendant with a photo of herself and Hussein during an interview at her home in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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In Surprise Move, Christchurch Shooting Suspect Pleads Guilty To 51 Counts Of Murder

9:34pm March 25, 2020

by Bobby Allyn

The man's abrupt change in plea comes one year after the massacres at two mosques. It means the scheduled June trial will be called off. The gunman has a sentencing hearing in May.