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Nation of outlaws? New Zealand’s gun ‘amnesty’ nets only 530 firearms

By World Tribune on June 5, 2019 Exclusives, NE Asia, New Zealand, Rest of The Best, Top Stories, World Links, World News, World Tribune

by WorldTribune Staff, June 5, 2019 In April, Reuters cited New Zealand police as saying they expected tens of thousands of guns to be surrendered after parliament passed tough new firearm laws in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shooting. The new legislation prohibits the circulation and use of most semi-automatic firearms, parts that convert […]

New Zealand terror attack: Lone shooter? Intelligence failure? Turkey connection?

By World Tribune on March 25, 2019 Exclusives, New Zealand, Top Stories, World Tribune

Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, Wellington and Canberra New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s strenuous reaction to the shootings of Muslims at Friday prayers on March 15, 2019, in two mosques in Christchurch, on New Zealand’s South Island, was seen as a logical political response to an extreme act of terrorist […]

New Zealand angst: Gun owners surrender 37 of 1.2 million firearms; Bookstores ban Jordan Peterson, not ‘Mein Kampf’

By World Tribune on March 24, 2019 Exclusives, NE Asia, New Zealand, Rest of The Best, Top Stories, World Links, World News, World Tribune

by WorldTribune Staff, March 24, 2019 In the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings which left 50 people dead, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern encouraged the country’s gun owners to surrender their weapons. As of March 19, New Zealand police reported that 37 guns had been surrendered. There are about 1.2 million firearms registered […]

Who’s who: Vote tally on UN resolution slamming U.S. on Jerusalem

By World Tribune on December 21, 2017 Afghanistan, Africa / Europe, Algeria, Americas, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burma, Cambodia, Canada, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Djibouti, Dominica, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, EU, Exclusives, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Grace Vuoto, Great Britain, Haiti, Hamas, Hizbullah, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kurdistan, Kuwait, Kyrgyz Republic, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Mexico, Mideast, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, NATO, NE Asia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palestinian Authority, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Terrorism, Thailand, Top Stories, Top Story, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, U.S. Politics, Ukraine, United Nations, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Washington, Yemen, Zimbabwe

Special to WorldTribune , December 21, 2017 Yes: 128 No: 9 Abstain: 35 Y AFGHANISTAN Y DOMINICA Y LITHUANIA SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE Y ALBANIA A DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Y LUXEMBOURG Y SAUDI ARABIA Y ALGERIA Y ECUADOR Y MADAGASCAR Y SENEGAL Y ANDORRA Y EGYPT A MALAWI Y SERBIA Y ANGOLA EL SALVADOR Y MALAYSIA […]

Times have changed: A multilateral NATO-type alliance now makes more sense in Asia

By World Tribune on December 6, 2017 Australia, China, EU, Exclusives, India, Japan, NATO, New Zealand, North Korea, Rest of The Best, Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, Top Stories, Turkey, U.S. Military, Washington

Special to WorldTribune , December 6, 2017 By Miles Maochun Yu, Hoover Institution Last week marks the 63rd anniversary of the signing of the Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States of America and the Republic of China. The historic mutual defense treaty, signed on Dec. 2, 1954 in Washington, provided an ironclad guarantee to […]

Crowns vs chaos: Brexit and Trump repudiated governance by ‘urban globalists’

By World Tribune on September 10, 2017 Australia, Canada, Egypt, Ethiopia, EU, Exclusives, France, Great Britain, India, Iran, Israel, Kosovo, Kyrgyz Republic, New Zealand, North Korea, Pakistan, Top Stories, U.S. Culture, U.S. Politics, Vatican City, Washington

Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs What form of governance is “best”? What is most durable? What is most equitable? What produces the best economic results? These questions are usually posed — and the answers are usually imposed — as though a universally applicable model could be found by […]