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Police cordon off an area at Bondi Beach after a deadly terror shooting at a Hanukkah event in Sydney, December 14, 2025. (AP/Mark Baker)
December 15, 2025, 5:51 pm
‘Please don’t let us die’: Survivors and witnesses recount terrifying Bondi shooting
One survivor recalls pulling buckets of drinks on top of her body to try protect herself and her son, while consoling a man who was fatally shot just inches away from her
By Kristen Gelineau
This late 2000s photo provided by the Assistance Association of Political Prisons for Myanmar in 2021 shows cell doors at a prison in Thayat, Myanmar. The military has a long history of torture, particularly before the country began transitioning toward democracy in 2010. (AAPP via AP)
October 28, 2021, 2:44 pm
Myanmar military systematically tortures detainees across the country
Prisoners describe electric shocks, near-drownings and relentless beatings as well as overcrowded, filthy conditions in prison facilities
By Victoria Milko and Kristen Gelineau
Illustrative: A public health worker demonstrates the use of the overdose-reversal drug Narcan for employees in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 4, 2018. (AP/Matt Rourke/File)
December 15, 2019, 9:26 pm
Pharma empire behind OxyContin now selling overdose cure
International affiliate of Purdue Pharma, widely blamed for US opioid epidemic, marketing new antidote amid cascade of protest and litigation against company
By CLAIRE GALOFARO and Kristen Gelineau
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (L) and Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters speak to the media at Parliament in Wellington on March 18, 2019.(David Lintott / AFP)
March 19, 2019, 12:09 pm
New Zealand PM vows to deny mosque gunman notoriety
‘Speak the names of those who were lost, rather than the name of the man who took them,’ Jacinda Arden implores public
By Kristen Gelineau and JULIET WILLIAMS
Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan (R) and New South Wales state Police Deputy Commissioner David Hudson discuss details of the charging of two men with terrorism offenses in Sydney, August 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
August 4, 2017, 4:40 am
Australian police reveal Islamic State attempt to blow up plane
Two men charged with planning terror attack using ‘military-grade explosives’ sent by senior IS member to Sydney via air cargo from Turkey
By Kristen Gelineau
In this Feb. 28, 2016 image provided by Blaine Gibson and the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), a piece of aircraft debris with the words 'NO STEP' is photographed after it was found washed up on a beach in Mozambique. (Blaine Gibson/ATSB via AP)
March 3, 2016, 3:12 pm
Australian officials say MH370 debris could have reached Mozambique
Right-hand tail section of Boeing 777 that washed up on African shore may help shed light on mysterious Malaysian plane crash
By Kristen Gelineau
October 3, 2015, 6:59 am
Slaying of Sydney police worker may have terror links
Australian officials say Iranian teen who shot Curtis Cheng was likely ‘politically motivated’
By Kristen Gelineau
An April 18, 2011, photo of Man Haron Monis, the gunman behind the Lindt Cafe siege in Sydney, Australia (photo credit: AP/AAP Image, Dean Lewins)
May 25, 2015, 8:13 am
Sydney cafe gunman may have been narcissistic, court told
Inquest debates if Iranian-born attacker was inspired by IS or just seeking publicity, after siege left 2 hostages dead
By Kristen Gelineau
Illustrative photo of men holding up an Islamic State flag. (AFP/Tauseef Mustafa)
February 11, 2015, 1:13 am
Police: 2 Sydney men planned ‘imminent’ terror attack
Authorities seize hunting knife a machete, an Islamic State flag and other items from suspects
By Kristen Gelineau
In this Dec 22, 2014, Steven Van Lonkhuyzen, left, with his sons Timothy, 5, second left, and Ethan, 7, third left, speaks to farmer Tom Wagner, center, and a park ranger in the remote Expedition National Park, northwest of Brisbane in Australia where they were found after 10 days. (AP Photo/Queensland Police)
December 22, 2014, 4:23 pm
Australian family found after 10 days in wilderness
A father and two young sons became stranded in a remote area of a national park
By Kristen Gelineau and Nick Perry
People lay flowers to pay respect to the shooting victims at a makeshift memorial in Sydney, Australia, on December 16, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Photo/Steve Christo)
December 16, 2014, 10:05 pm
Horror over deadly Sydney siege turns to anger
Australian PM says authorities must investigate how a convicted criminal managed to plan deadly attack unnoticed
By Kristen Gelineau
People sign tributes at a makeshift memorial after shootings during a siege at the Lindt Cafe at Martin Place in the central business district of Sydney Australia. Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. Tearful Australians laid mounds of flowers at the site where a gunman held hostages for 16 hours at a popular Sydney cafe. The siege ended early Tuesday with a barrage of gunfire that left two hostages and the Iranian-born gunman dead, and a nation that has long prided itself on its peace rocked to its core. (photo credit: AP Photo/Steve Christo)
December 16, 2014, 3:34 pm
Sydney siege victims lauded for courage, kindness
Cafe manager Tori Johnson reportedly brought the hostage crisis to a head by grabbing the shotgun wielded by hostage-taker Man Haron Monis
By Kristen Gelineau
Tori Johnson, 34 (L) and Katrina Dawson, 38 (R), identified as the victims killed in the Sydney cafe siege on Monday, December 15, 2014 (Photo credit: Youtube screen capture)
December 16, 2014, 2:30 am
Cafe manager, lawyer identified as Sydney cafe victims
Siege ends in shootout between police and kidnapper; some reports say Tori Johnson, 34, had tried to snatch attacker’s weapon
By Kristen Gelineau
Ships and planes search for debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370 in the southern Indian Ocean in April 2014. (Abis Nicolas Gonzalez/Australian Defence/AFP)
October 6, 2014, 6:19 am
Underwater search for Malaysian airliner resumes
Six months after it vanished, international crews begin year-long hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
By Kristen Gelineau
Flight Lieutenant Stephen Graham studies notes aboard a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P-3 Orion on route to search over the southern Indian Ocean looking for debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 Friday, April 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Richard Polden)
April 12, 2014, 6:55 am
Australian PM confident sounds are from Flight 370
5 weeks later, search for missing jet’s dying black boxes continues in race against time
By Kristen Gelineau and Rob Griffith
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