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• Border Patrol to move away from sweeping raids as support for Trump’s mass deportation policy tanks: report

  13-12-2025 17:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  Administration officials are reportedly changing up tactics as public approval for immigration operations sinks to 38 percent
  
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• Why Germany Wants a Divorce With China

  15-12-2025 05:48 via article.wn.com
  For the first time in decades, German businesses and politicians are questioning the unfettered free trade that turned the country into an industrial powerhouse ......
  
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• Pakistani man, son behind deadly shooting at Sydney’s Jewish Festival

  15-12-2025 05:48 via article.wn.com
  Sydney: The two men who sprayed bullets on the unsuspecting people at Jewish celebration in Australia’s Bondi Beach are a father and son of Pakistani origin, according to reports.At least 15 people were killed and several injured when 50-year-old Sajid Akram, who was fatally shot by police, and his 24-year-old...
  
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• Brown University shooting: man held as person of interest in Rhode island

  15-12-2025 05:46 via article.wn.com
  A man in his 20s has been...
  
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• L.A. police investigate 2 deaths at home of actor-director Rob Reiner as apparent homicide

  15-12-2025 05:45 via article.wn.com
  LOS ANGELES, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Two people...
  
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• What we know about Australia's Bondi Beach attack that killed 15

  15-12-2025 05:43 via article.wn.com
  An attack by a father and son on a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach killed 15 people, plunging Australia into a day of mourning Monday (December 15). Here's what we know:Gunfire at Bondi Emergency services responded to reports of shots fired at 6.47pm (0747 GMT) Sunday at Bondi Beach, one of the biggest tourist draws in Australia's largest...
  
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• S. Korean president's approval rating falls to 67.6 pct: poll

  15-12-2025 05:43 via article.wn.com
  SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's approval rating fell 1.8 percentage points from a week earlier to 67.6 percent last week, a weekly poll showed Monday. The negative assessment on Lee's conduct of state affairs gained 1.4 percentage...
  
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• Colombia: 16 students celebrating graduation killed as bus plunges into ravine

  15-12-2025 05:43 via article.wn.com
  At least 16 high school students celebrating their graduation and a driver were killed Sunday when the bus they were travelling in plunged into a ravine in northwest Colombia. The group of students — aged 16 to 18 — from a school in Bello, near Medellin, were traveling from a Caribbean beach on Colombia's...
  
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• Basketball Recap: North Bend girls keep record perfect

  15-12-2025 05:43 via article.wn.com
  North Bend’s girls basketball team won a pair of games during the week to keep its record perfect. ......
  
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• 2 people found dead at home of director Rob Reiner and homicide detectives are investigating

  15-12-2025 05:43 via article.wn.com
  Homicide detectives were investigating Sunday after two people were found dead at director-actor Rob Reiner's Los Angeles home, authorities said. ......
  
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• Israel accuses Canberra of allowing antisemitism

  15-12-2025 05:41 via article.wn.com
  Israeli leaders condemned a shooting in Sydney targeting a Hanukkah celebration that killed 11 people on Sunday, with various government officials suggesting Australia had failed to combat hatred of Jews. Prime Minister...
  
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• Hamas says weapons are ‘legitimate right’, open to proposals that preserve it

  15-12-2025 05:41 via article.wn.com
  Hamas’s Gaza chief Khalil al-Hayya said on Sunday that the militant group had a “legitimate right” to hold weapons and that any proposal for the next phases of the Gaza ceasefire must uphold that right. “Resistance and its weapons are a legitimate right guaranteed by international law...
  
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• Brown University shooting latest: ‘Person of interest’ released and manhunt continues for suspect in attack that killed 2

  15-12-2025 05:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  Police release ‘person of interest’ more than 24 hours after mass shooting at Rhode Island Ivy League school with suspect on the loose
  
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• From X to face-to-face: Erika Kirk to meet Candace Owens in person — will this meeting end the feud?

  15-12-2025 05:40 via article.wn.com
  After weeks of barbed exchanges online, the long-running digital spat between Erika Kirk and conservative commentator Candace Owens is set to move offline. Turning Point USA chief Erika Kirk has announced plans to have a face-to-face meeting with Owens on Monday, marking a rare attempt to turn a social media feud into an in-person conversation.Her meeting announcement came after pleading with...
  
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• Chile elects Kast as president in rightward shift

  15-12-2025 05:39 via article.wn.com
  Chile has elected its most right-wing president in 35 years of democracy, with Jose Antonio Kast securing a victory over his leftist runoff rival. Mr Kast won some 58% of the vote and held an unassailable lead over Jeannette Jara, a communist who headed a broad leftist coalition. He campaigned on a promise to expel more than 300,000 immigrants, seal the northern border, take a "firm hand" on near record crime rates and restart the stalled economy. "Chile wanted change," he told thousands of supp
  
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• Australian Prime Minister Albanese proposes tougher national gun laws after mass shooting in Sydney

  15-12-2025 05:39 via article.wn.com
  Sydney — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday proposed tougher national gun laws after a mass shooting targeted a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney's Bondi Beach, leaving at least 15 people dead. Albanese said he would propose new restrictions, including limiting the number of guns a licensed owner can obtain. His proposals were announced after the authorities revealed that the older of the two gunmen — who were a father and son — had amassed his six guns legally.
  
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• Authorities say they will release person of interest detained in Brown University shooting

  15-12-2025 05:36 via article.wn.com
  Officials in Providence say they will...
  
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• China targets retired Japanese general over Taiwan ties

  15-12-2025 05:34 via article.wn.com
  China has imposed sanctions on a retired senior Japanese military officer, accusing him of colluding with what Beijing describes as separatist forces in Taiwan, a move that underscores sharpening tensions in East Asia and Beijing’s growing readiness to penalise foreign individuals it says undermine its sovereignty claims. The Chinese foreign ministry announced punitive measures against Katsutoshi Kawano, who served as Japan’s chief of joint staff until his retirement in 2019 and was
  
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• Alphabet set for fresh paper gains from SpaceX valuation jump

  15-12-2025 05:34 via article.wn.com
  Alphabet Inc is positioned to record a sizeable paper profit after a major insider share transaction at SpaceX valued the aerospace company at about $800 billion, a level that could significantly uplift the book value of Alphabet’s long-held stake in the Elon Musk-led venture. The valuation, anchored by a tender offer pricing shares at roughly $421 each, more than doubles earlier benchmarks and underscores the growing financial impact of SpaceX’s private market performance on one of
  
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• Russia Ukraine war latest: MI6 chief to issue Putin warning after Zelensky offers to drop ...

  15-12-2025 05:30 via article.wn.com
  MI6 chief to issue a stark warning to Vladimir Putin, vowing sustained pressure on Russia...
  
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• Bondi beach shooting latest news: Police say gunmen were father and son as cabinet to ...

  15-12-2025 05:30 via article.wn.com
  What happened at Bondi Beach today? Live updates as 11 killed in terror attack on Jewish community...
  
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• Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese proposes tougher national gun laws after mass shooting in Sydney

  15-12-2025 05:28 via article.wn.com
  Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese proposes tougher national gun laws after mass shooting in Sydney. ......
  
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• Japan Stabbing

  15-12-2025 05:27 via article.wn.com
  Police guard near the site of a stabbing at a facility in Fukuoka, western Japan, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP) ......
  
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• Hong Kong Jimmy Lai Profile

  15-12-2025 05:27 via article.wn.com
  FILE - Tiananmen Square is filled with thousands during a pro-democracy rally in Beijing, China, May 17, 1989. ......
  
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• APTOPIX Australia Shooting

  15-12-2025 05:27 via article.wn.com
  A couple lay flowers at a tribute to shooting victims outside the Bondi Pavilion at Sydney's Bondi Beach, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, a day after a shooting. ......
  
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• 2 stabbed at entertainment complex in southern Japan, police arrest a 30-year-old suspect

  15-12-2025 05:27 via article.wn.com
  Japanese police say they arrested a man in connection with the alleged stabbing of two people at...
  
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• Father and son gunmen kill at least 11 people in attack on Hanukkah celebration on ...

  15-12-2025 05:26 via article.wn.com
  Two gunmen opened fire during a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi beach, killing 15 people, including a child, officials said Monday, in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called an act of antisemitic terrorism that struck at the...
  
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• 2 people found dead at Rob Reiner’s home and homicide detectives are investigating

  15-12-2025 05:26 via article.wn.com
  Homicide detectives were investigating Sunday after two people were found dead at director-actor Rob Reiner’sLos Angeles home, authorities...
  
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• Traffic disrupted, warning issued after blizzard batters Japan's Hokkaido

  15-12-2025 05:25 via article.wn.com
  TOKYO, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- A rapidly developing low-pressure system has brought a blizzard to Hokkaido on Monday, with violent winds and heavy snowfall also affecting parts of northeastern Japan, causing disruptions to transportation and prompting warnings of storm surges and flood risks from high tides. According to the...
  
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• Justice Department sues 4 more states, including Colorado, for access to detailed voter data

  15-12-2025 05:25 via article.wn.com
  The department filed federal lawsuits against Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts and Nevada on Thursday for “failing to produce statewide voter registration lists upon request.” So far, 18 states have been sued, along with Fulton County in Georgia, which was sued for records related to the 2020 election. The Trump administration has characterized the lawsuits as part of an effort to ensure the security of elections, and the Justice Department says the states are violating federal law by
  
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