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US President Donald Trump signs an executive order designating illicit fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday. Photo: EPA
United States

Trump declares fentanyl a ‘weapon of mass destruction’

US president dramatically escalates his fight against the drug by signing an executive order and warning against the ‘scourge’ of fentanyl.

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Crime

FBI arrests 4 suspects in New Year’s Eve terror plot targeting California

Australia

Video | Bystander tackles, disarms gunman in Australia

Australia

‘Genuine hero’: bystander who tackled Bondi gunman lionised

Ahmed al-Ahmed, a 43-year-old father of two from south Sydney, was shot twice as he wrestled a weapon from the shooter’s hands.

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Ahmed al-Ahmed, 43, is seen tackling one of the Bondi gunmen in this screengrab from a social media video. Photo: X
Australia

World leaders express horror at Bondi Beach attack as vigils held for victims

Israel’s Herzog condemned the ‘cruel attack on Jews’ by ‘terrorists’; Trump branded the shooting that killed 15 people ‘purely antisemitic’.

Australia

‘Worst fears happened’: Bondi shooting feels tragically inevitable to some

Amid firebombing, graffiti and hate speech, which surged during the Gaza war, a special envoy was appointed last year to combat antisemitism.

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Australia

Gunmen kill 15 people in attack on Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach

Police say the alleged attackers who opened fire at a Jewish celebration were a 50-year-old father and his son.

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Police patrol Bondi Beach on Monday as they investigate the scene following a shooting in Sydney on Sunday. Photo: AFP
Middle East

Trump vows retaliation after 2 US troops and a civilian killed in Syria ambush

This is the first attack on American service members to inflict casualties since the fall of Assad a year ago.

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Gun violence in the US

National Guard shooting suspect pleads not guilty to murder from hospital bed

The judge ordered Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, held in custody without bond, citing the ‘sheer terror’ of the fatal ambush in Washington.

Crime

Alleged CEO killer tries to exclude evidence from US murder trial

Luigi Mangione’s defence argues police conducted an illegal warrantless search of his backpack, threatening his right to a fair trial.

Luigi Mangione appearing in Manhattan Criminal Court on Monday. Photo: Yuki Iwamura via Reuters
Gun violence in the US

National Guard member dies as Afghan attacker’s past CIA link emerges

Shooting suspect Rahmanullah Lakanwal is a former member of a CIA-backed Afghan Army unit who entered the US under a special programme.

Pictures of National Guard members Andrew Wolfe and Sarah Beckstrom, who were shot on November 26 in Washington, next to a picture of the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal. Photo: Reuters
Pakistan

Can mediators prevent war between Afghanistan, Pakistan as tensions spike?

Prolonged proxy warfare could create space for terrorist groups such as Isis-K to regenerate and plot overseas attacks, analysts warn.

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Pakistan

3 Pakistani security officers killed in suicide bombing near Afghan border

One attacker detonated his explosives at the main gate of the paramilitary headquarters while a second was shot and killed in its compound.

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Indonesia

Isis-linked group used video games to radicalise Indonesian children: police

Over 110 children have been targeted by terrorist recruiters this year alone, a ‘massive’ spike from 17 between 2011 and 2017, police say.

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Members of a police bomb squad inspect the wreckage of a motorbike used to carry out a suicide attack in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, on March 29, 2021. Photo: AP
India

India arrests suspect in New Delhi car blast that killed 10

The anti-terror National Investigating Agency said it had detained Amir Rashid Ali on suspicion of conspiring with a suicide bomber.

Indian security staff near the site of a blast at Red Fort in New Delhi, India on Wednesday. On Sunday, India’s anti-terror investigating agency said a man from Indian-controlled Kashmir had been arrested on suspicion of conspiring with a suicide bomber to carry out the explosion. Photo: EPA
India

Blast kills 9, rocks India’s Kashmir police station, days after Delhi explosion

Confiscated explosives blew up, creating a blast so intense that some body parts were recovered from houses more than 100 metres away.

Pakistan

India-Pakistan conflict risks surge amid terror attacks, Afghan proxy war claims

With bombs tearing through capitals and leaders trading accusations, South Asia’s nuclear-armed neighbours are again approaching the brink.

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India

India calls Red Fort car blast a terror attack, detains suspects in Kashmir

If confirmed as a deliberate attack, it would be the deadliest such explosion in India’s capital since 2011.

Security personnel inspect the site, where a car explosion had taken place near the Red Fort monument in New Delhi. Photo: dpa
Indonesia

‘Lone wolf’ Jakarta mosque bombing suspect inspired by neo-Nazis: police

Indonesian police found as many as seven home-made explosive devices at the site of last week’s Jakarta mosque bombing that injured 96 people.

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Pakistan

Islamabad court blast kills 12 as Pakistan Taliban faction claims attack

Threat of more attacks follows, as Pakistan struggles with a resurgent Taliban.

India

‘I was shell shocked’: deadly New Delhi car blast triggers terrorism probe

At least nine people were killed in the car explosion near the landmark Red Fort in the Indian capital.

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Security personnel and members of a police forensic team work on Tuesday at the site of an explosion near the historic Red Fort in New Delhi. Photo: Reuters
Africa

Malian woman who posted on TikTok is abducted and publicly executed

Mariam Cisse, who had 90,000 followers, was kidnapped and shot after her abductors accused her of collaborating with the army.

Fulani refugee women wearing veils imposed by fighters from JNIM. Jihadists affiliated with al-Qaeda are tightening their grip on the increasingly weakened Malian military regime. Photo: AFP
Science

PLA team’s ‘dirty bomb’ fallout in rare field test as nuclear tension heats up

China’s weather modification tech can help fight radioactive fallout, study finds.

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Middle East

Syria leader arrives in US for Trump visit after removal from terror blacklist

Ahmed al-Sharaa, whose rebel forces ousted Assad, has been working to present a moderate image, in a break from his group’s violent past.

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Central Asia

Taliban says Afghanistan-Pakistan ceasefire will hold, despite failed talks

Afghanistan blamed ‘irresponsible and uncooperative’ Pakistan for the failure while Islamabad said Kabul was not clamping down on terrorism.

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A man and child stand by a house allegedly damaged by cross-border fire from Pakistan in Spin Boldak, Afghanistan, on Friday. Photo: EPA
Banking & finance

Opinion | As markets grow more fragile, matter of time before the bubble bursts

The news and stories that move markets could well be a leading indicator of when markets fail.

The floor of the New York Stock Exchange on September 10. Photo: AP
Germany

Germany arrests Syrian suspected of plotting ‘jihadist’ attack

Interior minister says Germany’s terrorist threat remains heightened, though the suspect’s activities were ‘detected in time’.

Pakistan

What’s behind Pakistan’s crackdown on anti-blasphemy extremists?

Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan was outlawed after thousands of its activists tried to besiege the US embassy in Islamabad.

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