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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian state police force has worked to form a heavily armed rapid response team since gunmen killed 15 people and wounded three police officers armed only with handguns at a Sydney Hanukkah celebration in December, a government inquiry heard Wednesday. Testifying before the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, which is investigating the spread of antisemitism in Australia ahead of the Dec. 14 attack […]

BERLIN (AP) — An alleged accomplice of a man who was convicted of stabbing and seriously wounding a Spanish tourist at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial last year was arrested in the German capital on Wednesday. The Syrian national, identified only as Khalaf A. in line with German privacy rules, is suspected of being an accessory to attempted murder and bodily harm, federal prosecutors said in a statement. They said that he […]

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel said Wednesday that it targeted and killed the new leader of Hamas’ military wing during airstrikes in Gaza City less than two weeks after it killed his predecessor. Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz and the Israeli military said the strikes, which were carried out on Tuesday, killed Mohammed Odeh. Family members of a man called Mohammed Odeh said he was killed in the […]

May 27 (Reuters) – Australia’s drug regulator said on Wednesday it was notified by biopharmaceutical giant CSL’s unit Seqirus that it will be discontinuing all strengths of their Benpen injection products progressively due to commercial reasons. Benzylpenicillin sodium, the active ingredient in Benpen, is an injectable antibiotic widely used to treat bacterial infections following surgery and other medical procedures. CSL’s vaccine arm notified Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration that the discontinuation will […]

HONG KONG, May 27 (Reuters) – China is willing to work with the Czech Republic to improve ties and revive a traditional friendship, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Czech counterpart Petr Macinka, state broadcaster CCTV said on Wednesday. Like most nations, the Czech Republic formally recognises only Beijing and not Taiwan, which is claimed by China, but it has grown closer to the semiconductor powerhouse in recent years, and has […]

GENEVA, May 27 (Reuters) – Christian aid group Samaritan’s Purse hopes to open within a week a 50-bed Ebola treatment centre in the area of the outbreak in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, its President told Reuters. The World Health Organization has declared the outbreak of the rare Bundibugyo ​strain of Ebola, for which there are no approved vaccines or treatments, a public health ​emergency ⁠of international concern. Medics battling […]

By Scott Murdoch and Christine Chen SYDNEY, May 27 (Reuters) – A looming slowdown in mortgage lending, higher provisions for souring loans and rising interest rates are darkening the outlook for Australian banks, pushing investors away from their once-favoured stocks. The Australian banking sector outperformed the broader market in 2025 by roughly double, preferred by investors for reliable dividends and benefiting from record property prices and resilient credit quality. Their […]

Amed Rosario hit two of the Yankees’ six home runs as visiting New York beat the Kansas City Royals for a 14th straight time, including the playoffs, 15-1 on Tuesday night. New York’s Cody Bellinger, Anthony Volpe, Trent Grisham and Jazz Chisholm Jr. also went deep. Rosario had four hits and four RBIs, and the homer-hitting quintet combined for 12 RBIs. Grisham, Volpe, Ben Rice and Austin Wells each had […]

BEIJING, May 27 (Reuters) – China’s market regulator has fined Luxshare Precision Industry 900,000 yuan ($133,000) for unlawful implementation of acquisition of some business of Wingtech Technology, it said in a statement on Wednesday. • The State Administration for Market Regulation said Luxshare, a key supplier of Apple, failed to properly declare its acquisition of part of Wingtech’s business in January 2025. • The regulator began an investigation in September […]