BBC News·Monday, December 15, 2025

BBC News - Monday, December 15, 2025

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Videos and eyewitness accounts reveal how Australia's worst mass shooting in nearly three decades unfolded.

Authorities say two rabbis, a Holocaust survivor and a 10-year-old girl were among the victims.

While US officials talked up progress in Berlin, there was little detail on how the issue of Ukraine's sovereignty would be resolved.

The 78-year-old UK citizen was convicted of lobbying foreign governments to impose sanctions on HK and China.

Narges Mohammadi told her family in a phone call that she was beaten on the head and neck by plainclothes agents in Mashhad last week.

At least 70 homes have been inundated in Safi's old city centre, officials say.

Messi's India tour had a chaotic start after angry fans in Kolkata damaged a stadium after failing to catch a glimpse of him.

Many believe Kast will be the most right-wing president since Augusto Pinochet, who oversaw a 17-year dictatorship in Chile from 1973.

Two people died and nine others were injured in the attack in Rhode Island on Saturday.

"It's a feeling of incredible happiness," says political prisoner Maria Kolesnikova, freed after more than five years.