Australia’s Bondi Beach attack: What we know about it

Agence France Presse 12/15/2025

SYDNEY, Australia — An attack by a father and son on a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach killed 15 people, plunging Australia into a day of mourning Monday. Here’s what we know: Gunfire at Bondi…

Australia hails ‘hero’ who stopped gunman in his tracks

Agence France Presse 12/15/2025

SYDNEY, Australia — Australians are hailing a “hero” whose daring struggle with a gunman Sunday led to the disarming of an attacker during the country’s worst mass shooting in years. He even earned a shout-out from US…

Bondi Beach in Australia: Gunman, girl among 16 dead in shooting attack

Agence France Presse 12/15/2025

SYDNEY, Australia — Gunmen killed 15 people in a mass shooting that targeted a Jewish celebration on Australia’s famed Bondi Beach, police said Monday in an updated toll that included a 10-year-old girl. One of the gunmen…

Australia social media ban: Reddit files legal challenge 

Agence France Presse 12/12/2025

SYDNEY, Australia — Online discussion site Reddit launched a legal challenge Friday to Australia’s social media ban on under-16s, just days after the landmark laws came into effect. This week, the country became the first to ban…

Australia: 4 men charged for sharing ‘satanic’ child abuse material

Agence France Presse 12/01/2025

SYDNEY — Australian police said Monday they had charged four men in Sydney accused of being part of a network sharing “satanic” child sex abuse material. Detectives swooped after probing an “international satanic child abuse material ring”,…

Bull shark kills woman off Australia beach

Agence France Presse 11/27/2025

SYDNEY, Australia —A bull shark killed a woman swimming off a remote beach in Australia’s eastern state of New South Wales Thursday while a man was seriously injured and may have been saved by the “heroic” efforts…

FIBA Asia Cup: PH crashes out of tourney with big loss to Australia

Ivan Stewart Saldajeno - Philippine News Agency 08/14/2025

MANILA, Philippines – Australia gave Gilas Pilipinas a reality check as the latter’s FIBA Asia Cup campaign ended in another quarterfinal exit with a 60-84 defeat at the King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah on Wednesday. Another slow…

MCIA offers direct flights to Australia

Morexette Marie B. Erram 07/16/2025

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Exciting news for travelers bound for the Land Down Under.  Passengers from Cebu and neighboring areas will soon have a more convenient way to reach Australia. Starting December, the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA)…

Sara Duterte files counter-affidavit before Ombudsman

Luisa Cabato - Reporter 06/28/2025

MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte on Friday filed her counter-affidavit before the Office of the Ombudsman in response to allegations of misusing confidential funds of the Office of the Vice President and the Department of…

VP Sara returns to PH from ‘personal trip’ to Australia

Faith Argosino 06/24/2025

MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte returned to the Philippines on Tuesday afternoon from her “personal trip” in Australia, where she met and urged her Filipino supporters to bring the arrest of her father, former chief…

China ‘strongly condemns,’ Australia backs US strikes on Iran

06/23/2025

BEIJING, China/SYDNEY, Australia — China’s foreign ministry said on Sunday it “strongly condemns” US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites. The ministry said in a statement the strikes “escalate tensions in the Middle East.” “China calls on all…

Cyclone’s fringe lashes eastern Australia

Agence France Presse 03/06/2025

GOLD COAST, Australia — The outer fringe of a tropical cyclone started whipping eastern Australia on Thursday, bringing drenching rains and record-breaking waves to a heavily populated region rarely hit by typhoons. Tropical Cyclone Alfred was 285…

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