The edition of
Sunday 14 December 2025
13 stories, section by section, the most important first.
International
Two gunmen open fire during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, killing 15 people and leaving 42 others injured. One perpetrator is killed, while the other is arrested. Two bombs are found at the scene and detonated by police.
Hamas Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Zamzam is shot and killed by a gunman inside the Maghazi refugee camp in the Deir al-Balah Governorate, Gaza Strip. The perpetrator is arrested.
Thailand confirms that a rocket launched from Cambodia killed a Thai villager, the first civilian death in Thailand as a result of the ongoing conflict.
Three people are killed in three separated Israeli airstrikes against vehicles in southern Lebanon.
Four security force members are killed and another is injured in a mass shooting when gunmen open fire on a patrol in Idlib, Syria.
Politics
Chileans vote for their president in a runoff between Jeannette Jara and José Antonio Kast.
Kast is elected president of Chile.
Czech president Petr Pavel appoints prime minister Andrej Babiš's cabinet following ANO's victory in the recent election.
The Law
A person of interest is taken into custody for yesterday's mass shooting that killed two people and injured nine others at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. The person is later released from custody the same day, with authorities announcing that they are still searching for a suspect.
American filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner are stabbed to death at their home in Los Angeles, California, United States. Their son, Nick, is later charged with the alleged murders.,
Guatemalan president Bernardo Arévalo declares a state of emergency in two municipalities in western Guatemala a day after gunmen attacked a military post and a police station, cut off roads, and hijacked buses, killing at least five people.
Environment
A school bus carrying students returning from a field trip falls off a cliff in Remedios, Antioquia, Colombia, killing 17 people and injuring 20 others.
At least 37 people are killed and 14 more injured during flash floods in Safi, Morocco.
Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 14 December 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.