Category: 3. Middle East

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Fifty-nine charges are being introduced after the deadly shooting that also wounded dozens of others.

Australian authorities say…

Fifteen years have passed since Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old Tunisian street vendor whose cart was confiscated by the police, set himself on fire to protest against police harassment and the authorities’ neglect.

His act of desperation

SYDNEY, Dec ​17 (Reuters) – ​Police ⁠in Australia said on ​Wednesday ‍they had ​charged a man ⁠who allegedly opened fire on a ​Jewish ⁠event ⁠on Sydney’s Bondi Beach ‌with 59 ​offences, including a terror ‍charge.

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Lucknow, India – Harshit Verma believes his 50-year-old father, Vijay Kumar Verma, died because he was handling an “inhuman task”.

Vijay, a contractual government teacher in Lucknow, the capital of India’s Uttar Pradesh state, was hired as…

US President Donald Trump said he was standing by his White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, after Vanity Fair magazine published interviews in which Wiles revealed internal tensions in Trump’s administration and painted an unflattering…

SYDNEY, Dec ​17 (Reuters) – ​The Australian ⁠state parliament of New ​South ‍Wales will ​reconvene next week to ⁠discuss urgent legislation on gun control in ​the wake ⁠of ⁠the deadly Bondi shootings ‌and consider ​protest…

Dec 17 (Reuters) – Among the 15 victims of a mass shooting at Australia’s Bondi Beach targeting an event for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah were two who tried to thwart the attack, and others who ​died shielding friends and family, according…

The Eurovision Song Contest heads into its 70th anniversary edition next year mired in its biggest-ever political boycott, with five countries staying away over Israel’s participation.

Eurovision organisers announced Monday that 35 countries would…

Judge sentences former Harvard Medical School morgue manager for stealing organs and various body parts for sale to others.

The former manager of the Harvard Medical…

These are the key developments from day 1,392 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is where things stand on Wednesday, December 17:

Fighting

• Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko…