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Security officers gather near a gate at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, ahead of a ceremony to mark the National Day of Reflection for victims and survivors from the Bondi shooting on Dec. 14. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Bondi Beach shooting suspect conducted firearms training with his father, Australian police say

December 22, 2025 at 3:56 p.m.

A man accused of killing 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach conducted firearms training in an area of New South Wales state outside of Sydney with his father, according to...

Family react at the coffin of Rabbi Eli Schlanger, a victim in the Bondi Beach mass shooting, during his funeral at a synagogue in Bondi on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Sydney, Australia. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, Pool)

Accused gunman in Bondi Beach shooting charged with 15 counts of murder

December 17, 2025 at 6:21 a.m.

An accused gunman in Sydney’s Bondi Beach massacre was charged with 59 offenses including 15 charges of murder on Wednesday.

Rabbi Yossi Friedman speaks to people gathering at a flower memorial by the Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, following Sunday’s shooting in Sydney, Australia. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Australian police say Bondi Beach mass shooting was inspired by Islamic State group

December 16, 2025 at 6:26 a.m.

A mass shooting in which 15 people were killed during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach was “a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State.”

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. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Australia to tighten gun laws after Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre

December 15, 2025 at 8:24 a.m.

Australian leaders promised Monday to immediately overhaul already-tough gun control laws after a mass shooting targeted a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. At least 15 people died in the...

Emergency workers transport a person on a stretcher after a reported shooting at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Gunmen kill at least 16 people in attack on Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach

December 14, 2025 at 2:53 p.m.

An attack at a famous Australian beach killed 16 people, including a child, officials said Monday, after two gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach.

Hugo Winwood-Smith, right, Hardy Macpherson and Edan Abou, left, all 11-years-old, use their phones while sitting outside a school in Sydney, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Social media ban for children under 16 starts in Australia

December 10, 2025 at 8:16 a.m.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese welcomed a world-first social media ban for children younger than 16 that took effect Wednesday as families taking back power from tech giants but warned...

A teenager uses his mobile phone to access social media, Sydney, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024. (Dean Lewins/AAP Image VIA AP)

Australian Parliament bans social media for under-16s with world-first law

November 28, 2024 at 6:42 p.m.

A social media ban for children under 16 passed the Australian Parliament on Friday in a world-first law.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures after landing at RAAF air base Fairbairn in Canberra, Australia, Wednesday, June 26 2024. Assange has returned to his homeland Australia aboard a charter jet hours after pleading guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that concludes a drawn-out legal saga.(AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returns to Australia a free man after US legal battle ends

June 26, 2024 at 3:32 p.m.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned to his homeland Australia aboard a charter jet and raised a celebratory clenched fist as his supporters cheered on Wednesday, hours after pleading guilty to...

In this photo provided by the UNDP Papua New Guinea, villagers search through a landslide in Yambali village in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Sunday, May 26, 2024. The International Organization for Migration feared Sunday the death toll from a massive landslide is much worse than what authorities initially estimated. (Kafuri Yaro/UNDP Papua New Guinea via AP)

Papua New Guinea says Friday’s landslide buried more than 2,000 people and formally asks for help

May 27, 2024 at 8:26 a.m.

The government figure is roughly triple the U.N. estimate of 670 killed by the landslide in the South Pacific island nation's mountainous interior.

#EggBoy: Australian senator who sent tweets blaming Muslims for mosque attacks gets egged in the head

August 22, 2019 at 3:44 p.m.

An Australian senator had a raw egg cracked over his head and faces censure from his fellow lawmakers after sparking outrage by blaming Muslim immigration for the New Zealand mosque...

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