SYDNEY, May 25 (Reuters) – Antisemitism in Australia was left unchecked after the October 2023 outbreak of the Israel-Gaza war, fuelling violence against Jewish people, the country’s spy chief told an inquiry into the Bondi Beach mass shooting on Monday. The comments came during public hearings in the wide-ranging inquiry known as a Royal Commission …
May 25 (Reuters) – One man was killed and another injured while energy infrastructure was damaged in a missile and drone attack on Russia’s Belgorod region bordering Ukraine, local authorities said on the Telegram messaging app on Monday. The casualties were the result of the drone and missile strike, and the missiles cut power and …
By Che Pan and Eduardo Baptista SHANGHAI/BEIJING, May 25 (Reuters) – When He Tingbo was put in charge of Huawei’s chip development in 2003, the young engineer was handed an annual budget of $400 million and a mandate that would eventually put her at the centre of China’s most consequential technology effort. More than two …
WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD, May 25 (Reuters) – The United States will either have a good agreement with Iran or deal with the country “another way,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday, as Washington played down hopes for an imminent breakthrough in the three-month-old war. Rubio told reporters in New Delhi that the U.S. would give …
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian spy agency boss told an inquiry on Monday he had pivoted resources away from counterterrorism to espionage and foreign interference investigations a few years before two gunmen massacred 15 people at a Sydney Hanukkah celebration. Mike Burgess, director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, the nation’s main domestic spy …
May 25 (Reuters) – Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday the U.S. will either have a good agreement with Iran or deal with the country “another way.” The U.S. will give diplomacy every chance to succeed before exploring the “alternatives,” Rubio told reporters in New Delhi. There is a “pretty solid thing on …
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Fred Kerley ran 100 meters in a pedestrian 9.97 seconds Sunday night to win the Enhanced Games in a race where the sprinters had to be placed in the starting blocks four times because of false starts and untied shoes. Kerley, who predicted Usain Bolt’s world record of 9.58 seconds would …
MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The annual Hajj pilgrimage, one of the Five Pillars of Islam, officially began Monday. More than 1.5 million pilgrims have arrived in Saudi Arabia from outside the country, Saleh bin Saad Al-Murabba, commander of the Hajj passport forces, said Friday. The faithful have been pouring into the country for the …
By Saad Sayeed and Mubasher Bukhari CHAKWAL, Pakistan, May 25 (Reuters) – In a cluster of villages in Pakistan’s largely rural Chakwal district, more than 100 Shi’ite Muslims have returned from the United Arab Emirates without jobs, luggage or access to the savings they spent years building abroad. They are among potentially thousands of Shi’ites …
A damaged chemical tank in Southern California cracked over the weekend but the interior temperature rose as authorities worked to reduce the risks of a powerful explosion that has led to the evacuation of some 50,000 residents. The tank overheated Thursday and began venting vapors, leaving local and state officials scrambling to evade a worst …