Category: 4. World

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TOKYO — Thousands of people flocked to Tokyo’s Ueno zoo to have a last glimpse of the popular twin pandas that are set to return to China next month, worried if or when they get to see their replacement in Japan as Tokyo’s relations with Beijing…

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Dashcam footage emerged on Tuesday which shows a couple tackling and attempting to disarm one of the attackers in Sunday’s mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia on Sunday.

Boris Gurman, 69, and his wife Sofia Gurman, 61, both stepped in to try and protect others before themselves being…

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Rwanda-allied M23 rebels have announced a unilateral withdrawal from the eastern city of Uvira in the Democratic…

Zalman Lazaroff, the uncle of injured American Chabad student Leibel Lazaroff, spoke on Monday night at a public Hanukkah menorah lighting in New York, giving an update on his nephew’s condition after the Bondi Beach attack….

Donations and tributes have poured in for a man dubbed the “Bondi hero” after he tackled and disarmed one of the alleged attackers during the deadly mass shooting at a Jewish celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday.

Ahmed al-Ahmed, a Muslim father of two, was captured on video…

Crowds gathered near the Bondi Pavilion, where flowers and candles marked the site of the attack. Aerial footage showed the scale of the tribute as police continued their work nearby.

Many said the vigil was about quiet support and…