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Father and son gunmen kill 15 at Jewish festival on Australia's Bondi Beach
AFP, Published on 15/12/2025
» SYDNEY - A father and son opened fire on a Jewish festival at Australia's Bondi Beach in a shooting spree that killed 15 people, including a child, authorities said Monday, denouncing the attack as antisemitic "terrorism".
US troops in Syria killed in IS ambush attack
AFP, Published on 14/12/2025
» DAMASCUS - Two American troops and a civilian interpreter were killed in central Syria on Saturday after an alleged member of the Islamic State group opened fire on a joint US-Syrian patrol, officials said.
Iran detains Nobel-prize winner in 'brutal' arrest
AFP, Published on 13/12/2025
» PARIS (FRANCE) - Iranian security forces on Friday detained the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi along with at least eight other activists in an arrest condemned as "brutal" by the Norwegian Nobel committee.
Afghan IOC member Asghari hopes Taliban dialogue spark u-turn over women's rights
AFP, Published on 12/12/2025
» PARIS (FRANCE) - Afghanistan's International Olympic Committee member Samira Asghari has told AFP that the Taliban authorities must face the stark truth that if they are ever to be accepted internationally they must respect the rights of women to education and sport.
Syria's tragic saga a long way from being over
Oped, Published on 12/12/2025
» Just one year ago Syria's brutal and seemingly eternal Assad family dictatorship was toppled.
Israel says Hamas 'will be disarmed' after group proposes weapons freeze
AFP, Published on 11/12/2025
» JERUSALEM — Israel said on Thursday Hamas "will be disarmed" as part of the US-sponsored peace plan for Gaza, after a top leader from the Palestinian Islamist movement suggested a weapons freeze.
Austria to vote on headscarf ban in schools
AFP, Published on 11/12/2025
» VIENNA - Austrian lawmakers on Thursday are expected to approve a law banning headscarves in schools for girls under 14, a move rights groups and experts say is discriminatory and could deepen societal division.
Straddling two worlds
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 11/12/2025
» When I visited Istanbul for the first time, I learned a joke from Gocke, my local guide, who goes to work by undersea train every day. "But you can't see anything," she laughed. For her, it takes only four minutes to cross from Asia to Europe, under the Bosphorus Strait that divides the ancient city.
Indonesians climb over logs to get to flood aid centre
Published on 06/12/2025
» ACEH TAMIANG, Indonesia - Residents in the Indonesian region of Aceh Tamiang climbed over slippery logs and walked for about an hour on Saturday to get aid, as the death toll from floods and landslides that hit Sumatra island this month rose to more than 900 people.
Australia hits Afghan Taliban officials with sanctions, travel bans
Reuters, Published on 06/12/2025
» SYDNEY — Australia on Saturday imposed financial sanctions and travel bans on four officials in Afghanistan's Taliban government over what it said was a deteriorating human rights situation in the country, especially for women and girls.