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A visitor places a pebble at a memorial site in remembrance to the lives lost during the Bondi Beach mass shooting on Dec. 14, in Sydney, Australia, on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 20, 2026
Australia set to pass tougher laws on guns and hate crimes after Bondi shooting
Two bills passed on Tuesday by the House ​of Representatives in a special parliament session will now go to the upper house Senate for debate.
Riot police stand by at Bondi Beach as people hold a vigil for the victims and survivors of a deadly mass shooting during a Jewish Hanukkah celebration on Dec. 14.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jan 18, 2026
Australian government says firearms hit a record high in 2025
There were a record ‍4,113,735 guns ⁠in Australia last year, with 1,158,654 of ‍those in the most populous state of New South Wales where the Bondi attack took place.
A satellite image of a bushfire at Budgee Budgee Bushland Reserve near Dargo, in Australia's Victoria state on Jan. 12
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 16, 2026
Australia warns of floods and fires after cars washed away
Heavy rains on Thursday sent a deluge of water flowing through some parts of the eastern state of Victoria, which is still battling 10 major bushfires.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese looks on during a press conference, announcing Australia will hold a Royal Commission inquiry into the deadly mass shooting during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach, at Parliament House in Canberra on Jan. 8.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 15, 2026
Australia’s hate speech and gun law reforms face free speech concerns
Tougher laws were proposed by Australia’s center-left Labor government in the aftermath of the Bondi Beach mass shooting
Mourners gaze out over the sea of flowers left in memory of the victims of the Bondi Beach mass shooting in Sydney, Australia on Dec. 19.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 12, 2026
Australian parliament to return to pass hate speech laws after Bondi attack
The lawmakers will return next Monday, ‍and Prime Minister Albanese said he wanted to step up penalties for hate speech and authorize a gun buyback.
A sample of antimony is displayed at the Natural History Museum in London on June 6
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 12, 2026
Australia to prioritize antimony, gallium, rare earths in $802 million reserve
Australia and several other countries are joining a meeting of finance ministers from the ​Group of Seven advanced economies in Washington on Monday on the subject.
Smoke rises from a burning forest behind a home as bushfires continue to burn under severe fire weather conditions in Longwood, Victoria, Australia, on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 11, 2026
Scores of homes razed, one dead in Australian bushfires
Temperatures soared past 40 degrees Celsius as a heatwave blanketed the state of Victoria, sparking dozens of blazes that ripped through more than 300,000 hectares combined.
Australia players celebrate with the Waterford Crystal Ashes Trophy at the end of the fifth test match against England at Sydney Cricket Ground on Thursday.
MORE SPORTS / Cricket
Jan 8, 2026
Australia gets over the line in Sydney for 4-1 Ashes triumph
England will take credit for making a game of it and not being ‍ground into the Sydney dirt as previous tourists have in end-of-series dead rubbers.
Fireworks explode in the sky to bring in the New Year around the London Eye and the Elizabeth Tower, commonly known by the name of the clock's bell "Big Ben," at the Palace of Westminster, home to the Houses of Parliament, in central London at midnight on Thursday.
WORLD / FOCUS
Jan 1, 2026
World welcomes 2026 with fireworks after year of Trump and turmoil
Revelers around the world toasted the start of 2026, bidding farewell on Wednesday to a volatile year.
People stand near flowers laid as a tribute at Bondi Beach to honor the victims of a mass shooting that targeted a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach on Dec. 14, in Sydney on Dec. 16.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 30, 2025
Police say Bondi Beach mass shooting suspects ‘acted alone’
Sajid Akram and his son Naveed allegedly killed 15 people in an Islamic State group-inspired attack targeting a Jewish festival on Dec. 14.
England's Ben Stokes applauds fans after the fourth Ashes test match against Australia at Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Cricket
Dec 29, 2025
Melbourne curator in ‘state of shock’ after Ashes Test carnage
Page and his team left 10 millimeters of grass on the wicket, providing fast bowlers with excessive seam movement and bounce, which made batting treacherous.
Mourners attend a memorial for victims of the shooting at Bondi Beach, in Sydney on Dec. 21.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 29, 2025
Bondi shooting families want probe into ‘rise of antisemitism’ in Australia
Seventeen families of victims of the shooting have issued a letter calling on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to convene a royal commission for the purpose.
Islamic State graffiti in a house in the battle-torn city of Marawi, Philippines, in April 2018
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 28, 2025
Islamic state isn’t back in Asia, but its ideas still endure
The question is not whether Islamic State is “back” in Asia. It isn’t, but its ideology remains, as the tragedy in Bondi shows.
Asia’s economic growth in 2025 was sluggish, central banks acted cautiously amid low inflation and political pressures and the full impact of U.S. tariffs and policy choices will become clearer in 2026.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 25, 2025
Easy money defined Asia in 2025. It gets harder now.
If predictions are hazardous at the best of times, they are more fraught today.
England head coach Brendon McCullum said the team may have made mistakes in its preparation for the Ashes.
MORE SPORTS / Cricket
Dec 22, 2025
England coach admits to mistakes as team looks to salvage pride in Ashes
England’s Ashes demise in just 11 days was the tied for the second quickest in more than a century.
Mourners attend a memorial on Sunday held for victims of a shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney a week earlier.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 22, 2025
Australian state pushes tough gun laws and ‘terror symbols’ ban after shooting
New South Wales — where the Bondi Beach shooting took place — recalled its parliament to introduce what it called the “toughest firearm reforms in the country.”
People observe a moment of silence on Sunday in Sydney during a vigil for victims and survivors of the mass shooting at Bondi Beach on Dec. 14.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 21, 2025
Australia falls silent and lights candles for Bondi Beach shooting victims
A father and son are accused of targeting the beachside Hanukkah celebration, killing 15 people including children and Holocaust survivors.
Australian players Marnus Labuschagne (left), Usman Khawaja (center) and Alex Carey celebrate after beating England to clinch the Ashes on Sunday in Adelaide.
MORE SPORTS / Cricket
Dec 21, 2025
Australia beats England by 82 runs to win third test and retain Ashes
The visitors needed a win to keep the five-match series alive after being crushed by eight wickets at Perth and Brisbane.
Australia's flag flies at half-mast at the Bondi Surf Bathers Life Saving Club in Sydney to honor victims of the mass shooting that took place near there on Sunday.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 19, 2025
Kneejerk responses won’t stop the next Bondi attack
Preventing another tragedy like Bondi will involve improving the painstaking work of anti-extremism and counterterrorism.
Documented evidence shows schools that implement smartphone-free policies see measurable improvements in academic performance and student well-being, even within a single semester.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 19, 2025
It’s time for Japan to ban smartphones in schools
Excessive screen time creates addiction comparable to substance abuse, but it is more nefarious in that it impacts people in unseen ways, unlike tobacco or alcohol.
Japan triples departure tax in push to combat overtourism
Tourists in Yanaka Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday. Japan tripled its International Tourist Tax (departure tax) to ¥3,000 from ¥1,000 on Wednesday for all travelers leaving Japan, regardless of nationality.
More facilities in Japan placing sanitary bins in men’s restrooms
A sanitary bin with an awareness sticker placed in a men's restroom in the Nagasaki Municipal Government building
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
‘My dream is broken’: Japan visa rules push out foreign residents
A man orders from a kebab shop in the Okubo district in Tokyo.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
A French ship with close ties to Japan combines arts and sciences on the high seas
Romain Troublé, the executive director of Tara Ocean Foundation, speaks to visitors aboard the Tara during a rare port call in Tokyo in April.
In Kyushu’s far south, Senti.U sparks a culinary destination
Chef Yasuhiko Uchida was born in Saga Prefecture but has made his home in Kanoya, Kagoshima Prefecture, since 2012.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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The Terasaka Rice Terraces are seen with Mount Buko in the background.
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