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A wooden Star of David stands in a makeshift memorial to pay tribute to the victims of Sunday’s mass shooting on Bondi Beach. Photo: Reuters
Australia

Australia’s Albanese faces battle over gun laws after Bondi Beach shooting

The prime minister’s call for tighter gun controls is meeting resistance from right-wing populists and mainstream conservatives.

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Gun violence in the US

How right-wing misinformation hurt the Brown University shooting investigation

Obituaries

In memoriam: 29 beloved celebrities we lost in 2025

Taiwan

3 killed in Taiwan knife and smoke grenade attack

The suspected stabber was also declared dead after jumping from the sixth floor of a department store building.

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Swat team members respond at the scene of a knife attack in Taipei, Taiwan, on Friday. Photo: Reuters
United States

Trump Justice Department releases partial set of Epstein files for now

US official says more of the long-awaited documents will follow in coming months, citing legal limits to protect victims and investigations.

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Crime in Hong Kong

Robbery suspect flees Hong Kong hospital barefoot but is caught after taxi rides

Suspect escapes police custody at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Jordan but is caught hours later in Mong Kok.

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Malaysia

‘Was he the Hulk?’: Malaysian officer goes viral after ripping off car door

The officer became an unlikely internet sensation when a dashcam video showed him ripping apart a suspect’s car door ‘like a banana leaf’.

A Malaysian police officer is seen wrenching a suspect’s car door open with his bare hands in a dashcam video that has gone viral. Photo: TikTok/Mazmar93
The Philippines

Is Philippines being unfairly named in Australia’s Bondi Beach shooting?

Australian police are looking into a trip the two suspects made to Davao City, but Philippine officials say it is not connected to the shooting.

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United States

Trump suspends US green card lottery after Brown, MIT shootings

Trump administration targets diversity visa programme after deadly shootings were carried out by a Portuguese national.

Australia

Editorial | Restoring safety and unity key for Australia in Bondi shooting aftermath

Pledges to toughen laws against hate speech and on gun ownership are welcome as Australia reels from the horrifying violence.

People pay tribute outside Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 18. Photo: AP
Gun violence in the US

Suspect in Brown University shooting and MIT professor’s killing found dead

Portuguese national suspect took his own life as investigators reveal a years-old academic connection to a slain MIT scientist.

Images of the suspect Claudio Neves Valente displayed at a press conference announcing he had been found dead. Photo: Reuters
Americas and the Caribbean

Brazil’s Lula vows to veto bill slashing Bolsonaro’s 27-year prison term

The proposed law could see the ex-president spend just over two years behind bars for an attempted coup.

United States

US man who googled how to dispose of body gets life sentence for wife’s murder

Ana Walshe – a mother of three – disappeared nearly three years ago, and her body has never been found.

China trade

China jails antimony smugglers in tough stance on critical minerals

Dozens convicted of illegally shipping 166 tonnes of the strategic material, marking a major enforcement of Beijing’s export controls.

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The Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court in Guangdong province has found several people guilty of illegally shipping antimony without obtaining export licences. Photo: SCMPOST
France

‘Used medicine to kill’: French doctor jailed for life for poisoning patients

Prosecutors allege Frederic Pechier tampered with IV bags to discredit colleagues, resulting in 12 deaths, including a four-year-old.

French former anaesthetist Frederic Pechier arrives at Besancon’s courthouse on Monday. Photo: AFP
Singapore

Singapore fines man US$9,300 over vaping videos in deepening crackdown

Krish Khalifa became the first person to be prosecuted in the city state for posting clips of himself vaping on social media.

Australia

‘I am angry’: hate spreaders in Australia to lose visas after Bondi shooting

Prime Minister Albanese vowed to fight the ‘evil scourge’ of division and outlined measures to punish preachers stoking violence.

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The Philippines

Philippines rejects ‘outdated’ violent extremism label linked to Bondi attack

National Security Adviser Ano denied the alleged gunmen who killed 15 people in Sydney received military training in Davao.

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Mourners pay tribute to the Bondi Beach shooting victims in Sydney on Wednesday. Photo: EPA
Gun violence in the US

Brown University shooting: police seek witness who came close to gunman

The hunt has stretched into its fifth day, after a man with a rifle burst into a campus building and killed two students.

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Hollywood

Son of filmmaker Rob Reiner in court on charges of murdering parents

Nick Reiner, 32, faces two counts of first-degree murder as the DA weighs whether to seek the death penalty.

France

Louvre crisis: why jewel heist, staff unrest push museum to breaking point

A US$102 million jewel heist exposed the Louvre’s security flaws, but strikes and decaying infrastructure threaten the world’s most visited museum.

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Louvre employees hold a banner reading “Louvre museum on strike” as they gather by the closed museum’s glass pyramid to protest working conditions on Monday. Photo: Reuters
Australia

Millions raised for ‘hero of Australia’ who stopped gunman at Bondi Beach

Over 40,000 people have donated about US$1.5 million to Ahmed al Ahmed, the Syrian-Australian Muslim hero who saved Jewish lives.

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (left) meets Ahmed al Ahmed at a hospital in Sydney on Tuesday. Photo: Australian Prime Minister Office/AP
Australia

Video | Sydney mourns Bondi victims, as shooter emerges from coma

The suspected Bondi shooters allegedly travelled to the southern Philippines, a region long plagued by Islamist militancy, days before the attack.

South Korea

South Korean court rules Yoon’s ‘self-coup’ illegal as walls close in

Judges are fast-tracking verdicts to beat statutory time limits, dashing the ex-president’s faint hopes of walking free early next year.

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Gun violence in the US

Homicide investigation launched after MIT professor fatally shot at home

Police are seeking a suspect who murdered Nuno Loureiro, the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Centre.

Nuno Loureiro. Photo: Jake Belcher/MIT via AP
India

Indian police reveal Bondi Beach shooting suspect’s background

Police said the Indian family of Sajid Akram, who got a degree in commerce in Hyderabad, was unaware of his ‘radical mindset’.

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People leave floral tributes at the promenade of Bondi Beach in Sydney on Wednesday. Photo: AFP
Australia

Alleged Bondi shooter Naveed Akram charged with terrorism, murder

Akram, who regained consciousness after being in a coma, also faces multiple charges related to other offences.

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Hollywood

Rob Reiner’s son Nick charged with murdering his parents

The film director and his wife were found dead from apparent stab wounds in their Los Angeles home on Sunday.

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