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People visit a floral tribute outside the Bondi Pavilion on Friday following Sunday’s shooting. Photo: AP
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 unconnected to the shooting.

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Japan

Japan dismayed over Finnish beauty queen’s ‘slanted eyes’ photos

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Nordic nations

Finnish PM apologises for MPs’ ‘racist’ gestures in Miss Finland scandal

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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
Anti-Asian racism

Miss Finland ‘racism’ scandal is damaging country, PM says

Prime Minister Petteri Orpo weighs in as Finnish politicians mimic a racist gesture in solidarity with stripped beauty queen.

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Australia

Video | Bystander tackles, disarms gunman in Australia

Shooting happened in the popular tourist area of Bondi Beach.

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Australia

World leaders express horror at Bondi Beach attack as vigils held for victims

Israel’s Herzog condemned the ‘cruel attack on Jews’ by ‘terrorists’; Trump branded the shooting that killed 15 people ‘purely antisemitic’.

People hold a vigil outside the Australian High Commission in central London, Britain on Sunday following a terrorist attack on a Jewish celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. Photo: PA Wire / dpa
Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu accuses Australia’s PM of inaction in tackling antisemitism

After the Bondi Beach shooting, the Israeli PM said he warned Albanese months ago that Australia’s policy was ‘encouraging antisemitism’.

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Australia

‘Worst fears happened’: Bondi shooting feels tragically inevitable to some

Amid firebombing, graffiti and hate speech, which surged during the Gaza war, a special envoy was appointed last year to combat antisemitism.

Australia

Gunmen kill 15 people in attack on Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach

Police say the alleged attackers who opened fire at a Jewish celebration were a 50-year-old father and his son.

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Police patrol Bondi Beach on Monday as they investigate the scene following a shooting in Sydney on Sunday. Photo: AFP
Britain

‘Make Christmas Great Again’: hundreds join far-right Robinson’s London rally

UK bishops express grave concern over the use of Christian symbols to ‘justify racism and anti-migrant rhetoric’.

British far-right activist Tommy Robinson addresses supporters in central London on Saturday. Photo: Reuters
United States

How Asian-American history is reshaping classrooms in the US

Connecticut schools are enriching lessons with Asian-American stories amid rising anti-Asian sentiment.

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Anti-Asian racism

Christine Choy, who made documentary on racist killing of Vincent Chin, dies at 73

The indie filmmaker brought attention to the 1982 slaying, a galvanising moment in the fight against anti-Asian hate in the US.

Anti-Asian racism

Miss Finland loses her crown due to anti-Chinese racism scandal

Sarah Dzafce apologised after a photo surfaced of her making a gesture seen as derogatory to Asian people.

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Miss Finland Sarah Dzafce wears a swimsuit during the 74th Miss Universe 2025 preliminary competition in Thailand in November. Photo: EPA
Donald Trump

US wipes South Africa’s G20 website clean for 2026 Trump summit

The US presidency of the G20 begins with the first-ever exclusion of a member nation.

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US President Donald Trump. Photo: AFP
South Africa

Ramaphosa dismisses Trump’s threat to bar South Africa from 2026 G20 summit

South Africa’s president labels Donald Trump’s repeated claims about his country as ‘misinformation’.

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Gun violence in the US

Trump orders review of immigrant visas after National Guard attack

The sweeping new policy follows Wednesday’s attack in Washington by an Afghan national that has caused one death.

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Donald Trump

Trump barring South Africa from next year’s G20 summit in Miami

South Africa denounces US president’s G20 ban as punitive as relations between the two nations sour.

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A protester wears a Trump mask, as Oxfam activists demanding the taxing of the super-rich in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Saturday, the opening day of the G20 leaders’ summit. Photo: Reuters
Australia

Australian senator slammed as ‘racist’ for wearing burka in parliament

Far-right politician Pauline Hanson has long campaigned against Islamic clothing during her parliamentary career.

Science

As I see it | Not all genetic questions about race are racist

Without denying the offensive remarks of James Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA structure, some of his speculation on race does have merit.

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Chinese overseas

TD Bank sued by Chinese staff in US who say they were illegally fired

The employees say they were hired to forge ties with Chinese customers, then sacked as part of a money-laundering crackdown.

A bilingual branch of TD Bank in Chinatown in New York. Photo: Shutterstock
Europe’s refugee crisis

UK toughens asylum policy as anti-immigration sentiment rises

Policy overhaul seeks greater control over who can remain in Britain as tens of thousands of people claim asylum.

Migrants in Gravelines, northern France, walk in the water to board a small boat in an attempt to reach Britain. Photo: AP
Science

Why ‘racist’ biologist James Watson is remembered in China with respect

Controversial Nobel Prize winner helped to lay the groundwork for China to become a genomics and biotech powerhouse.

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United States

US disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51

The daughter of Hong Kong immigrants, Wong fought for a world where people with disabilities could have full autonomy over their lives.

South Korea

South Korean Red Cross chief quits over ‘dark-skinned’ diplomat comments

Kim Chul-soo’s racist remarks, exposed in leaked audio, undermine the Red Cross’ core principle of non-discrimination, critics say.

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Kim Chul-soo has resigned as head of South Korea’s Red Cross over the scandal. Photo: Handout
Donald Trump

Trump says US to boycott G20 in South Africa, cites treatment of white farmers

The US president says no American officials will attend this year’s Group of 20 summit, repeating claims of abuse of Afrikaners.

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US President Donald Trump shows a copy of an article that he said its about white South Africans who had been killed, in the Oval Office in May. Photo: Reuters
US-China relations

Courts turn ‘slam dunk’ case into hard battle in Florida’s Chinese property ban

Legal experts say persuading conservative judges will be difficult and new plaintiffs may be needed to move the case forwards.

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Science

James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix shape, dead at 97

His efforts won him a Nobel Prize, but Watson drew condemnation near the end of his life for saying black people were less intelligent.

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