By Kirsty Needham, Stella Qiu and Alasdair Pal SYDNEY, Dec 14 (Reuters) – Gunmen opened fire at a Jewish holiday celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday, killing at least 11 people in what Australian officials described as a targeted antisemitic attack. One of the suspected gunmen was also killed. A second gunman was in …
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JERUSALEM, Dec 14 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned Sunday’s deadly shooting at a Jewish holiday celebration in Sydney and said he had warned his Australian counterpart that the country’s support for Palestinian statehood would fuel antisemitism. Gunmen opened fire during an event marking the first night of Hanukkah at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, …
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By Byron Kaye and Pete Mckenzie SYDNEY, Dec 14 (Reuters) – Days after Hamas attacked Israel in 2023, killing some 1,200 people and sparking the war in Gaza, an inverted red triangle was spray-painted on the front of a Jewish bakery in Sydney, the first of a string of antisemitic incidents in Australia. Sixteen months …
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SYDNEY, Dec 14 (Reuters) – Australia has experienced a string of antisemitic attacks on synagogues, buildings and cars since the beginning of Israel’s war in Gaza in October 2023. Here are some key events: May 25, 2024: Australia’s largest Jewish school graffitied in Melbourne. Oct 13: Antisemitic graffiti on Jewish bakery in Sydney, with note …
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Dec 13 (Reuters) – More than 400 law enforcement personnel were deployed on Saturday as police sought the suspect in a shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island that left two students dead and another nine people wounded at the Ivy League school, officials said. The Providence university remained in lockdown hours after a suspect …
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By Idrees Ali, Phil Stewart, Steve Holland and Maya Gebeily Dec 13 (Reuters) – Two U.S. Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed in Syria on Saturday by a suspected Islamic State attacker who targeted a convoy of American and Syrian forces before being shot dead, the U.S. military said. The attack was barely …
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By Andrius Sytas, Felix Light and Mark Trevelyan VILNIUS, Dec 13 (Reuters) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko freed 123 prisoners on Saturday including Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski and leading opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava in a deal brokered by an envoy for U.S. President Donald Trump. In return, the U.S. agreed to lift sanctions …
By Tarek Amara TUNIS, Dec 13 (Reuters) – Activists and opposition figures from across Tunisia’s political spectrum took to the streets on Saturday in a rare show of unity against President Kais Saied, demanding an end to one-man rule and the restoration of democracy. The protest followed three weeks of demonstrations and underscored growing momentum …
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By Emily Green TEGUCIGALPA, Dec 13 (Reuters) – Weeks before Honduras’ November 30 presidential election, a test run exposed deep flaws in the vote-counting system: only 36% of practice ballots were processed, according to electoral council member Marlon Ochoa. That warning proved prescient. Now, nearly two weeks after the election, the presidential vote remains paralyzed …
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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google will build three subsea cables in Papua New Guinea, which the largest Pacific Island nation said was funded by Australia under a mutual defence treaty, in a key upgrade to its digital backbone. Australian and U.S. military strategists view resource-rich but largely under-developed Papua New …
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