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Timeline: How the Bondi Beach mass shooting unfolded 22 Dec 2025 - 12:19 pm
The Sydney Opera House is illuminated with candlelights in Sydney on December 21, 2025, as part of a national day of reflection honouring the victims of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack. (Photo by George Chan / AFP)
Moscow car blast kills Russian general: investigators 22 Dec 2025 - 11:59 am
In this handout photo released by the Russian Investigative Committee on December 22, 2025, an investigator works at the car bomb site in southern Moscow. (Photo by Handout / Russian Investigative Committee / AFP)
New Zealand says agreed free trade deal with India 22 Dec 2025 - 11:06 am
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Jailed Malaysian ex-PM Najib loses bid for house arrest 22 Dec 2025 - 10:05 am
Former prime minister of Malaysia Najib Razak (L) arrives for a court hearing where he seeks to land a ruling allowing him to serve the rest of his six-year sentence under house arrest instead of in the Kajang Prison, at the Kuala Lumpur High Court in Kuala Lumpur on December 22, 2025. (Photo by Mohd Rasfan / AFP)
Canada population drops 0.2% in third quarter 22 Dec 2025 - 09:50 am
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Nearly 1,500 children await medical evacuation, 42 percent of pregnant women suffer from anemia in Gaza 21 Dec 2025 - 11:36 pm
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Somalia beefs up security ahead of first local elections in decades 21 Dec 2025 - 11:20 pm
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Iranians celebrate Yalda festival as economic woes bite 21 Dec 2025 - 11:00 pm
Iranians celebrate with Yalda decoration in northern Tehran on December 20, 2025, in preparation for the annual festival of Yalda. (Photo by -STR / AFP)
130 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren freed: government 21 Dec 2025 - 10:20 pm
(Files) A general view of a classroom at St. Mary's Catholic School in Papiri, Agwarra local government, Niger state, on November 23, 2025. (Photo by Ifeanyi Immanuel Bakwenye / AFP)
San Francisco hit by major outage for several hours 21 Dec 2025 - 10:04 pm
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France to build new aircraft carrier 21 Dec 2025 - 08:24 pm
French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with a soldier during a Christmas diner with troops of the 5th Cuirassier Regiment's base in Zayed Military City, near Abu Dhabi, on December 21, 2025.(Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP)
Philippines extends sugar import ban until December 2026 21 Dec 2025 - 12:57 pm
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Taiwan police rule out 'terrorism' in metro stabbing 21 Dec 2025 - 12:39 pm
Flowers and notes from the public are laid for the victims of the metro attack outside a mall in Taipei on December 20, 2025. Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te pledged a full, public enquiry into a deadly metro stabbing attack as he visited victims in hospital on December 20. (Photo by Akio Wang / AFP)
US again seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela 21 Dec 2025 - 11:51 am
This screen grab taken from a video posted on the X account of US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem shows a US Coast Guard aircraft flying over a crude oil tanker, last docked in Venezuela, before apprehending it on December 20, 2025. (Photo by Handout / US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem's X account / AFP)
Gunmen kill 9, wound 10 in South Africa 21 Dec 2025 - 10:13 am
Family members of a victim react at the scene of an attack in Bekkersdal on December 21, 2025. Nine people were killed when gunmen opened fire outside Johannesburg early on December 21, 2025. (Photo by Emmanuel Croset / AFP)
San Francisco hit by electricity outage affecting 130,000 residents: utility 21 Dec 2025 - 08:22 am
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Egypt reaffirms rejection of any attempts to undermine Sudan’s sovereignty, internal cohesion 20 Dec 2025 - 10:38 pm
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Sri Lanka enters public 5G era with commercial launch 20 Dec 2025 - 10:05 pm
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