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  • Mourners gather by floral tributes at the Bondi Pavillion in memory of the victims of a shooting at Bondi Beach, in Sydney on December 15, 2025. A father-and-son team toting long-barrelled guns shot and killed 15 people including a 10-year-old girl at Sydney's Bondi Beach on December 14, with authorities labelling it an antisemitic terrorist attack on a Jewish festival. (Photo by Saeed KHAN / AFP via Getty Images)
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  • ‘Heroic’ bystander who wrestled gun from Bondi Beach attacker is son of refugees and father to two
  • A 10-year-old girl, a Holocaust survivor and a French citizen. These are the victims of the Bondi Beach shooting
  • Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai found guilty in landmark national security trial, faces possible life sentence
  • Gunmen targeted Australia’s Jewish community in a deadly mass shooting. Here’s what we know
  • Australia’s Jewish community saw an attack coming but no one expected the Bondi Beach horror
  • People look on towards Israeli settler outposts near the occupied West Bank village of Turmos Ayya on October 19, 2025.
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    Israel approves 19 settler outposts in major expansion in occupied West Bank
  • King Charles ‘deeply touched’ by reaction to his cancer treatment update, palace says
  • Belarus frees Nobel prize laureate Bialiatski, opposition figure Kolesnikova as US lifts sanctions
  • More than a million without power in Ukraine regions after intense Russian strikes
  • UK police not taking further action over Andrew bodyguard claim
  • Gaza storms kill 14 Palestinians, including 3 children
  • North Korea’s Kim Jong Un hails troops returning from Russia
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  • <p>Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado has told CNN that the US government is preparing for a democratic transition of power in her native Venezuela. Speaking after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Machado said she stands ready to step up as Venezuela’s Vice President as the country enters this “new and challenging era.” </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>
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    Sunday’s attack challenged the idea of Australia as a model for preventing mass shootings 1:43
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    Bondi Beach shooting vigils held around the world 1:09
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    ADL head calls for people to stand together with the Jewish people 1:01
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  • People look on towards Israeli settler outposts near the occupied West Bank village of Turmos Ayya on October 19, 2025.
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    Israel approves 19 settler outposts in major expansion in occupied West Bank
  • Gaza storms kill 14 Palestinians, including 3 children
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  • M23 rebels stand guard at the the Unite stadium, where captured members of the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo  and Wazalendo troops wait to be taken aboard trucks for training by M23 rebels, in Goma, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 10.
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  • Presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast of the Republican Party speaks during a press conference in Santiago, Chile, on October 29.
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    Chile elects Kast as president, deepening regional shift to law-and-order politics
  • Special forces veteran who rescued Machado begs her not to return to Venezuela
  • Venezuela says US has suspended deportation flights; US denies it
  • US sanctions Maduro family members and ships it says move Venezuelan oil, a day after seizing tanker

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  • A resident shows part of a house, believed to have been damaged by Cambodian artillery shells during clashes, along the Thai-Cambodia border in Thailand's Sa Kaeo Province on December 9, 2025.
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    Thailand declares curfew along coast as Cambodia border fighting spreads
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  • Rescue personnel evacuate Ivan Alvarez and Fabiola Alvarez, who were stranded in their home in an area flooded by the Snohomish River, in Snohomish, Washington, on Thursday.
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    More atmospheric rivers coming for flooded Washington and the West Coast
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  • <p>World-renowned contemporary visual artist Julie Mehretu is known<strong> </strong>for her large-scale abstract works exploring themes of history and globalism. In an interview with CNN’s Larry Madowo in Nairobi, Kenya<strong>, </strong>Mehretu discusses her mission to help African creatives thrive.</p>
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  • Narges Mohammadi in her apartment in Tehran, Iran, on January 23.
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  • King Charles III, pictured at Clarence House in London, recorded a video message as part of Stand Up To Cancer 2025, a joint campaign from Cancer Research UK and Channel 4, broadcast on Friday.
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    King Charles shares cancer recovery milestone in TV message
  • A tunnel used by migrants to cross from Belarus into Poland, according to authorities, is seen near Narewka, Poland, in this handout photo released by the Polish Border Guard on December 12, 2025.
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  • KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI - DECEMBER 14: Patrick Mahomes #15 of the Kansas City Chiefs lays on the field after sustaining a leg injury during the fourth quarter of the NFL football game against the Los Angeles Chargers at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on December 14, 2025 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images)
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  • President Donald Trump prepares to sign an executive order on AI in the Oval Office in Washington, DC, on December 11, 2025.
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