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The attack occurred as hundreds of members of Sydney’s Jewish community gathered in Bondi Beach for the annual Hanukkah celebration, among the biggest events of the local Jewish calendar. The event, attended by many families, features the lighting of the menorah, a petting zoo, a children’s climbing wall and other activities. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his “thoughts are with every person affected.” Israel’s President Isaac Herzog called the attack terrorism: “Our hearts go out to our Jewish sisters and brothers in Sydney who have been attacked by vile terrorists as they went to light the first candle of…
German, British and French officials are set to meet in Berlin this weekend to discuss proposals to end the war in Ukraine. U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff is also expected to meet with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The talks are in preparation for a planned summit of leaders including Merz, Britain’s Keir Starmer, France’s Emmanuel Macron and Zelenskyy on Monday over stopping Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. A U.S.-backed 20-point peace plan is in the works, which includes territorial concessions on Ukraine’s part. Under one proposal being discussed, the Donbas region would be made into a free-trade zone were American companies can…
This risks leaving the Danish presidency of the Council short of the supermajority needed to get the deal over the line. Under EU rules, this would require the support of a “qualified” majority of EU member countries — meaning 15 of the bloc’s 27 members representing 65 percent of its population. The outcome of the vote will determine whether European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen can fly, as is now planned, to Brazil on Dec. 20 for a signing ceremony with her Mercosur counterparts. France however has been playing for time in an effort to delay its approval of…
Published on 14/12/2025 – 9:43 GMT+1 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ‘s main challenger, Péter Magyar, led tens of thousands of demonstrators through the streets of Budapest on Saturday in protest of alleged child abuse in state-run juvenile institutions. The demonstration came in response to videos published this week depicting employees of a juvenile correction facility in the Hungarian capital, physically abusing children housed there. The former head of the facility, who is in police custody on suspicion of operating a prostitution ring among other crimes, has also been accused of subjecting minors to physical and sexual abuse. Police raided…
Published on 14/12/2025 – 8:31 GMT+1 •Updated 8:39 A shooter dressed in black killed at least two people and injured nine others at Brown University on Saturday during final exams at the Ivy League school. Police say they are still searching for the suspect behind the incident. University President Christina Paxson said she was told that 10 people who were shot were students. Another person was injured by fragments from the shooting, but it was not clear if that victim was a student, she said. Officers scattered across the campus and into an affluent neighbourhood filled with historic and stately…
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The Amazon rainforest may be developing a climate unseen on Earth for tens of millions of years. In a study published this week in Nature, scientists argue the region is nearing what they call a ‘hypertropical’ climate, a hotter, drier and more volatile state that could trigger widespread tree die-offs and weaken one of the planet’s most important carbon sinks. The study’s authors warn that, without steep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, the Amazon could experience up to 150 days of ‘hot drought’ conditions – periods of intense dryness worsened by extreme heat – each year by 2100. That includes…
By Sertac Aktan with AP Published on 13/12/2025 – 21:05 GMT+1 US President Donald Trump said “there will be very serious retaliation” on Saturday, after two US service members and one American civilian were killed in an attack in Syria that Washington blames on the Islamic State group. “This was an ISIS attack against the US and Syria, in a very dangerous part of Syria that they do not fully control,” he said in a social media post. Trump told reporters at the White House that Syria’s president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, was “devastated by what happened,” and stressed that Syria was fighting alongside US…
By Jesús Maturana with ’RTVE’ Published on 13/12/2025 – 21:13 GMT+1 The EU’s Council of Agriculture and Fisheries Ministers has approved catch limits and fishing effort for 2026, and in some cases up to 2028. The agreement regulates the most critical commercial stocks in the Atlantic, the North Sea, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Fishing effort combines vessel size and engine power with days spent fishing. After two days of talks, the 27 Member States have reached a compromise that balances scientific recommendations with the sector’s economic viability. Danish fisheries minister Jacob Jensen explained that the pact “gives fishermen certainty about their…
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