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A makeshift memorial to honour the victims of the December 14 mass shooting during a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney. Photo: Reuters
Britain

2 men found guilty of UK plot to kill hundreds in Jewish community

Had the plan come off, it would have resulted in ‘one of, if not the, deadliest terrorist attack in UK history’, say counterterrorism police.

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Australia

‘Almost daily surgery’: policeman hurt in Bondi attack wakes from coma

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Singapore

Singaporean charged with making fake terrorist threat after church bomb hoax

Australia

Australian PM Albanese booed as Bondi Beach attack victims honoured

Tens of thousands attended Sunday’s memorial. The Sydney event was heavily guarded by police, including snipers on rooftops and police boats.

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Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his wife are booed as they arrive at the Light Over Darkness vigil in Sydney, Australia on Sunday. Photo: Reuters
Israel

Jews worldwide urged to ‘come home’ to Israel after Bondi massacre

Gideon Saar says ‘Jews are being hunted across the world’ following the December 14 Isis-inspired shooting at a Hanukkah event in Australia.

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

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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Crime

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.

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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.

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Australia

Video | Elderly couple killed disarming Bondi shooters before attack

The Russian-Jewish couple were later shot with a secondary weapon after initially disarming one of the shooters during the Bondi attack.

Crime

Video | Mourners lay flowers for Bondi shooting victims

Hundreds of mourners gathered at Sydney’s Bondi Pavilion to pay tribute to the victims of Australia’s worst mass shooting in decades.

Australia

Isis-inspired Bondi gunmen visited Philippines before shooting: police

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Sajid Akram and his son Naveed had been radicalised by an ‘ideology of hate’.

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Mourners place flowers at a makeshift memorial at Bondi Beach in Sydney on Tuesday. Photo: EPA
United States

Trump declares fentanyl a ‘weapon of mass destruction’

US president dramatically escalates his fight against the drug by signing an executive order and warning against the ‘scourge’ of fentanyl.

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US President Donald Trump with his signed executive order classifying fentanyl as a ‘weapon of mass destruction’. Photo: Reuters
Crime

FBI foils New Year’s Eve bomb plot in LA, US attorney general says

Four suspects, members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, allegedly planned bombings starting at midnight on New Year’s Eve.

Australia

Video | Bystander tackles, disarms gunman in Australia

Shooting happened in the popular tourist area of Bondi Beach.

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Australia

‘Genuine hero’: bystander who tackled Bondi gunman lionised

Ahmed al-Ahmed, a 43-year-old father of two from south Sydney, was shot twice as he wrestled a weapon from the shooter’s hands.

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Ahmed al-Ahmed, 43, is seen tackling one of the Bondi gunmen in this screengrab from a social media video. Photo: X
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’.

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.

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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
Middle East

Trump vows retaliation after 2 US troops and a civilian killed in Syria ambush

This is the first attack on American service members to inflict casualties since the fall of Assad a year ago.

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US President Donald Trump talks to the press before boarding Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House on Saturday. Photo: AFP
Gun violence in the US

National Guard shooting suspect pleads not guilty to murder from hospital bed

The judge ordered Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, held in custody without bond, citing the ‘sheer terror’ of the fatal ambush in Washington.

Crime

Alleged CEO killer tries to exclude evidence from US murder trial

Luigi Mangione’s defence argues police conducted an illegal warrantless search of his backpack, threatening his right to a fair trial.

Gun violence in the US

National Guard member dies as Afghan attacker’s past CIA link emerges

Shooting suspect Rahmanullah Lakanwal is a former member of a CIA-backed Afghan Army unit who entered the US under a special programme.

Pictures of National Guard members Andrew Wolfe and Sarah Beckstrom, who were shot on November 26 in Washington, next to a picture of the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal. Photo: Reuters
Pakistan

Can mediators prevent war between Afghanistan, Pakistan as tensions spike?

Prolonged proxy warfare could create space for terrorist groups such as Isis-K to regenerate and plot overseas attacks, analysts warn.

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Residents clear debris from houses destroyed in air strikes in Khost, Afghanistan, on Tuesday. Photo: EPA
Pakistan

3 Pakistani security officers killed in suicide bombing near Afghan border

One attacker detonated his explosives at the main gate of the paramilitary headquarters while a second was shot and killed in its compound.

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Indonesia

Isis-linked group used video games to radicalise Indonesian children: police

Over 110 children have been targeted by terrorist recruiters this year alone, a ‘massive’ spike from 17 between 2011 and 2017, police say.

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