By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW, Dec 14 (Reuters) – Several dozen people protested on Sunday in the Siberian city of Tomsk against Russia’s ban on U.S. children’s gaming platform Roblox, a rare show of public dissent as popular irritation over the ban gains some momentum. In wartime Russia, censorship is extensive: Moscow blocks or restricts social …
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By Alexander Villegas and Fabian Cambero SANTIAGO, Dec 14 (Reuters) – Jose Antonio Kast won Chile’s presidential election on Sunday, leveraging voter fears over rising crime and migration to steer the country in its sharpest rightward shift since the end of the military dictatorship in 1990. Kast secured a commanding 58% of the vote in a …
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By Alasdair Pal SYDNEY, Dec 15 (Reuters) – Like many people in Sydney, Glenn Nelson spent his Sunday evening watching television coverage of a deadly shooting on the city’s iconic Bondi Beach. But stepping onto his front porch, flanked by neatly trimmed box hedges, he saw armed police cordoning off the street before raiding the …
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Dec 14 (Reuters) – Seventeen people were killed and 20 were injured after a bus carrying school children fell off a cliff in a rural area in northern Colombia, the local governor said on Sunday night. In a post on X earlier in the day, the governor of Antioquia, Andres Julian, said the bus was …
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By Scott Murdoch and Christine Chen SYDNEY, Dec 15 (Reuters) – Stories of horror and heroism emerged as Australians mourned the 15 people killed by two gunmen at Sydney’s Bondi Beach during a Hanukkah event. Police said two shooters, a father-son duo, opened fire on the crowd gathered for the Jewish festival beside the landmark Sydney …
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By Fabian Cambero and Sarah Morland SANTIAGO, Dec 15 (Reuters) – After falling short in two previous presidential runs, Jose Antonio Kast finally secured the Chilean presidency on Sunday, a sign of how his far-right, anti-immigrant views have gained a wave of new support amid fears about increased crime. Kast, 59, easily beat leftist presidential …
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By Byron Kaye SYDNEY, Dec 15 (Reuters) – After Australia’s worst mass shooting in 1996, it took the government 12 days to ban semi-automatic weapons, organise a gun buyback scheme and introduce a licensing system to weed out people considered unfit to carry a weapon. Sunday’s shooting at a Jewish celebration in Sydney’s Bondi Beach, …
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By Manuela Andreoni and Janaina Quinet SAO PAULO, Dec 14 (Reuters) – Thousands of Brazilians on Sunday protested in major cities against a legislative effort to lower the jail sentence of former President Jair Bolsonaro and his supporters for plotting to overthrow democracy after he lost his 2022 reelection bid. The demonstrations, organized by social groups, artists, …
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SYDNEY, Dec 15 (Reuters) – Australian police said on Monday that the alleged offenders behind the attack at Sydney’s Bondi beach were a father and son duo, and that they were not looking for a third offender. Police said during a media briefing that investigations showed only two offenders were responsible for the attack at …
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Dec 14 (Reuters) – Syria has arrested five people suspected of having links to the shooting of U.S. and Syrian troops in the central Syrian town of Palmyra on Saturday, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday. Two U.S. Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed by an attacker who targeted a convoy of American …
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