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Mourners gather by floral tributes at the Bondi Pavilion in memory of the victims of a shooting at Bondi Beach, in Sydney on Monday
Australia seeks tougher gun laws after 15 killed in Bondi Beach shooting
SYDNEY — Australia has announced plans to strengthen its already tough gun laws with new measures that will restrict who gets a license.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the proposed changes on Monday after a cabinet meeting of state and territory leaders a day after the country’s worst mass shooting in almost 30 years.Fifteen people were gunned down at a Jewish Hanukkah event on Bondi Beach, in a terror incident allegedly perpetrated by a father and son.Under the plan, only Australian citizens will be entitled to hold a gun license. There’ll be new limits on the number of guns they can own, and the type of firearms that can be purchased.Under the proposed changes, open-ended firearms licenses will be limited, requiring gun owners to reapply for approval to hold a license.The...
December 15, 2025

Australia seeks tougher gun laws after 15 killed in Bondi Beach shooting

Experts say the climate crisis is in part responsible for the extreme weather fluctuations
Dozens killed in Morocco flash floods
RABAT — Flash floods have killed at least 37 people in Morocco's coastal Safi region, according to state-owned television.Cars and mounds of rubbish were seen sweeping through the main port city of Safi after torrential rain hit on Sunday.Dozens of people have been receiving treatment in hospital for their injuries, say local authorities, and at least 70 homes have been inundated in the old city centre.Local reports say access to and from the city is blocked on certain roads because of damage and debris.Residents on Sunday described it as a dark day, with one telling the AFP news agency: "I've lost all my clothes. Only my neighbour gave me some to cover myself. I have nothing left. I've lost everything."Another survivor said he wanted to see government trucks at the scene...
December 15, 2025

Dozens killed in Morocco flash floods

Ahmed al Ahmed, pictured here in a hospital bed, received a visit from New South Wales Premier Chris Minns earlier
'He made us proud', Bondi Beach hero's family says
SYDNEY — Ahmed al Ahmed, the bystander who disarmed one of the gunmen during the Bondi Beach attack in Sydney, acted out of “pure conscience and humanity,” his family tells BBC News Arabic.His father, Mohamed Fateh al Ahmed, says his son did not hesitate when he saw people being attacked.“Ahmed was driven by his sentiment, conscience and humanity when he rushed forward, stopped the gunman, and snatched his weapon,” he says.He adds that Ahmed had been nearby “by coincidence,” having gone out with a friend for coffee, when he encountered the scene.“He saw the victims, the blood, women and children lying on the street, and then acted,” his father says.According to the family, Ahmed’s condition is stable, and he is awaiting further medical treatment for gunshot wounds to...
December 15, 2025

'He made us proud', Bondi Beach hero's family says

Lai at a protest in 2019 when huge pro-democracy demonstrations rocked Hong Kong
Pro-democracy Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai found guilty of colluding with foreign forces
HONG KONG — Pro-democracy campaigner and media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been found guilty of colluding with foreign forces under Hong Kong's controversial national security law (NSL).The 78-year-old, who has been in jail since December 2020, pleaded not guilty. He faces life in prison and is expected to be sentenced early next year.Lai used his now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper as part of a wider effort to lobby foreign governments to impose sanctions on Hong Kong and China, the court found.Hong Kong's chief executive John Lee welcomed the verdict, noting that Lai's actions "damaged the country's interests and the welfare of Hong Kongers", but rights groups called it "a cruel judicial farce".They say the NSL, which Beijing defends as essential for the city's...
December 15, 2025

Pro-democracy Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai found guilty of colluding with foreign forces

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
Meloni calls for Europe to strengthen defense as US signals pullback
ROME — Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni closed her party's annual Atreju rally on Sunday by defending her government's record and calling on Europe to strengthen its own defence capabilities in response to US President Donald Trump's shifting security strategy.Speaking at Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, Meloni said Trump had made clear that the US intends to disengage from Europe and that Europeans must organise their own defence."Trump has said most emphatically that the US intends to disengage and Europeans must organise to defend themselves: hello Europe," Meloni said."For eighty years we outsourced our security to the US pretending it was free, but there was a price to pay and that price is called conditioning. Freedom has a price."Meloni's comments come...
December 15, 2025

Meloni calls for Europe to strengthen defense as US signals pullback

More than 1,000 people had gathered at the Hanukkah event
'It was pandemonium': Jewish community in shock after deadly Bondi Beach attack
SYDNEY — The first day of Hanukkah was a sweltering one in Sydney — a perfect afternoon to spend at Australia's most iconic beach.More than 1,000 people were enjoying a festival marking the occasion at a grassy stretch in Bondi: kids careened around in facepaint, crowds snaked between food trucks, and many enjoyed live entertainment as they soaked up the last rays of sunshine.Then, just before 7pm local time, shots rang out.From a small footbridge — just metres from a children's playground — gunmen fired upon the fenced-in crowds. A car full of improvised bombs was parked nearby, though they never went off.One attendee, who identified himself only as Barry, described watching people around him get shot as hundreds of beach-goers began screaming and running through the...
December 15, 2025

'It was pandemonium': Jewish community in shock after deadly Bondi Beach attack

A thick haze has engulfed Delhi over the past few days
Online classes and construction ban as toxic haze covers Delhi
NEW DELHI — Schools in Delhi and surrounding areas have moved classes online and construction has been banned as the Indian capital grapples with hazardous air quality.On Monday morning, a toxic haze engulfed the city, affecting visibility and delaying flights and trains.The city's air quality index (AQI) — which measures PM2.5, fine particulate matter that can clog lungs, and other pollutants — was more than 30 times the limit recommended by the World Health Organization. Exposure to this level of pollution can cause serious health problems, especially in children and elderly people.Toxic air is a recurring problem in Delhi and its suburbs, especially during winters.The problem is attributed to a mix of factors such as industrial emissions, vehicle exhaust, dropping...
December 15, 2025

Online classes and construction ban as toxic haze covers Delhi

A JetBlue plane on the tarmac at Boston Logan International Airport
JetBlue plane near Venezuela avoids ‘midair collision’ with US Air Force aircraft
NEW YORK — A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a US Air Force refueling tanker on Friday, and the pilot blamed the military plane for crossing his path, the Associated Press said in a report.“We almost had a midair collision up here,” the JetBlue pilot said, according to a recording of his conversation with air traffic control. “They passed directly in our flight path. … They don’t have their transponder turned on, it’s outrageous.”The incident involved JetBlue Flight 1112 from Curaçao, which is just off the coast of Venezuela, en route to New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. It comes as the US military has stepped up its anti-drug-trafficking campaign in the Caribbean and is also...
December 15, 2025

JetBlue plane near Venezuela avoids ‘midair collision’ with US Air Force aircraft

Ahmed managed to wrestle the gun from the attacker in the struggle
Fruit shop owner hailed as hero after disarming Bondi Beach gunman
SYDNEY — A bystander who tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi Beach gunmen has been identified as Ahmed al-Ahmed, a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from Sydney's Sutherland Shire.Video footage shows Ahmed, wearing a white T-shirt, charging one of the shooters from behind, wrestling away his rifle and then pointing it at the attacker, who retreated towards a bridge where the second gunman was positioned.Ahmed then placed the rifle against a tree and raised his hands, apparently to signal to police he was not a threat.During the struggle, Ahmed was shot twice by the second gunman..Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.Fifteen people died and dozens were...
December 15, 2025

Fruit shop owner hailed as hero after disarming Bondi Beach gunman

FBI officers work at the scene in Rhode Island on Saturday night
'Person of interest' detained over Brown University shooting, police say
PROVIDENCE — A person of interest has been detained in connection with a shooting at Brown University in the US which left two people dead, police said.Nine others were injured after a gunman opened fire at the university in Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday.Police said the detained suspect was in his 20s, and he was later named by US media outlets as Benjamin Erickson.Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said seven people who were injured in the incident remained in a stable condition, one of them is in critical condition, and another was discharged.The gunman opened fire in a classroom at around 16:00 local time (21:00 GMT) on Saturday at the Holley engineering building at the eastern end of Brown's campus, according to officials.The identities of those killed and most of the injured...
December 15, 2025

'Person of interest' detained over Brown University shooting, police say

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