The search continues for missing people after a landslide hit a popular campsite in Mount Maunganui, on New Zealand’s North Island. Six people remain unaccounted for, and police are seeking information on another three. Two teenagers are among the missing, with the youngest aged 15 years old, police said. Another landslide at the nearby Welcome…
Steven Markham/ Mick Tsikas/ EPA Australians have been disappointed by the politicisation of the Bondi tragedy Thursday had been earmarked for Australians to mourn the victims of last month’s Bondi shootings. Those who had lost loved ones in the antisemitic attacks wanted it to be a chance to remember the dead, and spread light and…
BBC Yuvraj Mehta’s body was recovered hours after he fell into a waterlogged pit in Noida The death of a 27-year-old Indian IT professional after his car fell into an unmarked construction pit has raised questions around urban planning and road safety in India. Last Friday, at around midnight, Yuvraj Mehta was driving home in…
Police in the southern Indian state of Kerala have arrested a woman in connection with the suicide of a man she had accused of touching her inappropriately on a bus. The arrest followed a complaint by the man’s family, who alleged that he faced online harassment after a social media video posted by the woman…
Watch: ‘I’m still shaking’ – Tourist recounts running from New Zealand landslide Two people have died and several are feared buried after landslides in New Zealand’s North Island. The deaths were reported at Welcome Bay, while rescue workers are still searching through rubble at a different site in a popular campground on Mount Maunganui. There…
Australia’s Liberal-National Coalition, the country’s main opposition, has split after a row over hate speech laws, casting the future of Liberal leader Sussan Ley into doubt. The centre-right Coalition, which has been on rocky ground since a resounding election loss last year, had been divided over how to respond to reforms moved by the government…
Three people have died after a reported shooting in a small town in New South Wales, Australia, police say. A fourth person has been taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition. Local police are now investigating the reported shooting which took place in Lake Cargelligo at about 16:40 local time (05:40 GMT). Police…
Filipino journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio has been found guilty of financing terrorism and sentenced to at least 12 years in jail. Cumpio, 26, was arrested in February 2020 after police and military raided her boarding house in the middle of the night and allegedly found a hand grenade, firearm, and communist flag in her bed….
Three activists who organised annual vigils to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown have gone on trial in Hong Kong, facing charges under the city’s controversial national security law. Chow Hang-tung, 40, Lee Cheuk-yan, 68, and Albert Ho, 74, are accused of inciting others to subvert state power under the China-introduced law. Ho has made…
Katy WatsonAustralia correspondent Reuters A makeshift memorial was created after the 14 December attack at Bondi Beach From the outside, the vacant shop on the corner of a busy avenue in central Sydney looks abandoned. Plastic sheeting is taped across all the windows and there’s a large padlock hanging on the door handle. Step inside,…