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New Zealand
The New Zealand Labour Party's mandate means Ardern could form the country’s first single-party government in decades.
“We’ve got someone who obviously got an education in America."
"We may well extend this," Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack said.
“It is possible,” the NZ prime minster said as conversations around the much-hyped trans-Tasman travel bubble make a comeback.
“Your crimes, however, are so wicked that even if you are detained until you die it will not exhaust the requirements of punishment and denunciation."
Brenton Tarrant showed no remorse and appeared to smirk at one survivor during a sentencing hearing on Tuesday.
"May you get the severest punishment for your evil act in this life, and hereafter,” said Maysoon Salama, a mother of a victim slain at Al Noor mosque.
The first nine days of a hard lockdown earlier this year requiring people to isolate at home was justified but unlawful.
New Zealand's prime minister and lawmakers fired back after Trump claimed there was a "big surge" of the coronavirus in the country.
“We are all in the same boat. We are all campaigning in the same environment,” Ardern said.