2 h. ago Trump says war with Venezuela is possible – US politics live

President says ‘I don’t rule it out’ when asked about the possibility of conflict during NBC interviewThe Trump administration announced on Thursday it will suspend a green card lottery that allowed a man believed to be behind both a mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor into the United States.Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national, is accused of bursting into a building at the Ivy League school on Saturday and opening fire on students, killing two and wounding nine. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Suspect in mass shooting at Brown University found dead after six

Claudio Neves Valente, 48, was discovered on Thursday evening at a storage facility in New Hampshire

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4 h. ago A sunrise crowd gathers at Bondi Beach in solace and defiance after a massacre

Thousands of people have returned to Australia's Bondi Beach in the first full day of opening since a mass shooting killed 15 people

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5 h. ago Man suspected in Brown University shooting and MIT professor’s killing is found dead, officials say

Officials say a man who is suspected in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University and in the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility

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7 h. ago Suspect in Brown University mass shooting is found dead as police link former PhD student, 48, to killing of professor

THE suspect in the Brown University mass shooting has been found dead, cops revealed. Authorities identified the suspect as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a 48-year-old former Brown graduate student. Investigators revealed that the suspect, a Portuguese national, took his own life inside a storage facility. He was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Investigators believe...

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8 h. ago Mounting calls for the doomed Bondi footbridge to be destroyed

'Don't let it become a monument,' Bondi residents warn as hordes of mourners flock to the site of Australia's worst mass shooting in decades.

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10 h. ago The immediate shock and terror of the Bondi shooting is giving way to anger and division. We must look for the light | Paul Daley

Some politicians have gone straight for the darkness, seeking to foment racial division. But we need community now more than everVictims of Bondi beach shootingTen minutes of terror: how the Bondi mass shooting unfolded in real time – videoFollow the latest live updatesAs Australia winds down for a traditional Christmas holiday across languorous days of beach and blistering heat set to the soundtrack of Test cricket and cicada song, this year the country’s summer mood feels, sadly, like none before.It would be a dramatic understatement to describe the national disposition after the antisemitic terrorist attack on Australian Jews during Bondi Hanukah celebrations as one of mere ennui. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Australia launches biggest gun buyback in 30 years after Bondi beach terror attack

Prime minister announces first firearm buyback since Port Arthur massacre, and designates Sunday a national day of reflection in honour of Hanukah shooting victimsVictims of Bondi beach shootingTen minutes of terror: how the Bondi mass shooting unfolded in real time – videoFollow the latest live updatesThe federal government will launch a new gun buyback scheme in response to the Bondi beach terror attack in what Anthony Albanese says will be the biggest collection of weapons since the Port Arthur massacre nearly three decades ago.It comes as New South Wales announced a suite of gun control measures including capping the number of firearms most recreational shooters can hold at four. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Police investigate links between Brown shooting and killing of MIT professor

Sources say person of interest identified in attack at university and death of prominent physicist 50 miles awayAuthorities said Thursday that they’re looking into a connection between last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University and one two days later near Boston that killed a professor at another elite school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.That is according to three people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to discuss an investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity. Two of the people said investigators had identified a person of interest in the shootings and were actively seeking that individual. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Authorities IDENTIFY person of interest in the hunt for Brown University killer

Law enforcement have identified a person of interest in connection to the Brown University mass shooting.

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17 h. ago Brown University mass shooting and MIT assassination may be connected, police confirm

The Brown University shooting which killed two students and the assassination of an MIT professor two days later may be connected, police have said.

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20 h. ago Children 'requesting armed officers' ahead of Hanukkah celebrations, GMP chief says

There have been reports of people in Manchester 'celebrating' the mass shooting of Jewish people at Bondi Beach, Sir Stephen Watson said

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31 h. ago Albanese announces new hate speech laws as he concedes more could have been done before Bondi beach attack

Australian prime minister unveils new measures to combat antisemitism as Coalition outlines own plan Victims of Bondi beach shootingTen minutes of terror: how the Bondi mass shooting unfolded in real time – videoFollow the latest live updatesHate speech laws will be expanded to directly target “hate preachers” under a new push to stamp out antisemitism, as Anthony Albanese concedes more could have been done to combat anti-Jewish sentiment ahead of the Bondi beach massacre.The home affairs minister will also be granted powers to cancel and reject visas of people who spread “hate and division” under a five-point plan announced on Thursday, after days of intensifying pressure on the prime minister to do more to address antisemitism and radicalisation after Sunday’s terrorist attack on a Hanukah celebration. Continue reading...

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31 h. ago Bondi Beach shooting LIVE updates: Aussie loses it at despicable act just moments after Bondi Beach was reopened following mass shooting that killed 15 innocent people

People have been spotted taking photos on the doomed footbridge used by the gunmen accused of shooting into a crowd gathered to celebrate Hunakkah on Sunday.

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40 h. ago Brown University to release early decision notices as the search goes on for a shooting suspect

Brown University says it's issuing early-decision admission offers Wednesday evening, even as the search continues for a suspect in the weekend mass shooting on campus

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40 h. ago What to know about the search for the Brown University shooter

The investigation into the Brown University mass shooting has dragged on for more than four days with no named suspect, motive, weapon or even a clear image of the assailant’s face that might help bring them to justice

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45 h. ago Police will arrest you if you chant phrase after Bondi Beach shooting

The mass shooting happened on the first night of the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah

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52 h. ago Bondi beach ‘attacker’ charged as first victims’ funerals take place

Naveed Akram, 24, is accused of murdering 15 people in a mass shooting at a Jewish celebration on Bondi Beach on Sunday.

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53 h. ago Ten minutes of terror: how the Bondi mass shooting unfolded in real time – video

Warning: this video contains footage that may be distressing to some viewers. At 6.41pm Sunday, on a footbridge overlooking Archer Park at Bondi beach, two gunmen opened fired in what would become Australia's worst mass shooting since the Port Arthur massacre. Guardian Australia's video team has pieced together footage posted to social media, showing the attack from different angles‘We are all human beings first’: Jews and Muslims embrace at vigils for those killed in Bondi beach terror attack‘We need to be here’: a paddle-out for Bondi – in pictures‘Pandemonium’, a woman in labour and every bandage in the clubhouse: how lifesavers became first responders in the Bondi shooting Continue reading...

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58 h. ago Heartbreaking tribute from father of youngest Bondi attack victim: ‘Remember her’

The father of the youngest victim of Australia’s Bondi Beach mass shooting gave an emotional tribute to his 10-year-old daughter, Matilda, at a vigil for victims on Tuesday December 16.

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