🚨BREAKING: In Australia, heavily armed tactical police swooped on a group of men believed to be heading to Bondi Beach. Acting on intelligence that a violent act may have been planned.pic.twitter.com/HzJKYxDS2C
— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) December 18, 2025
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Every year huge crowds gather in Paris at the Champs-Élysées to ring in the new year with fireworks and concerts. Much like the New Year’s Eve parties in Times Square in New York City, the joyous festivities are a key link in the chain of worldwide celebrations of the year to come.
When Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency publicly revealed in November 2025 that it had helped European countries expose a Hamas terrorist infrastructure “in the heart of Europe” – including weapons caches and plans to hit Jewish and Israeli targets – it simply confirmed what intelligence professionals have warned since October 7, 2023: The war in the Gaza Strip is no longer local. It has been exported, operationally, to European soil.
Remigration is the only solution.
The ISIS-terrorist dad killed during the Bondi Beach massacre had transferred his family home into his wife’s name — seen as a “final insult” to the slain and injured that could stop their loved ones getting compensation.
Sajid Akram, 50, put the three-bedroom Sydney property under the sole name of his wife, Venera Akram, in February last year, Australia’s Daily Telegraph reported.
More Christmas ham deliveries are needed.
The man accused of opening fire at a Jewish celebration on Bondi Beach faces 59 charges after 15 people were killed in the attack.
Naveed Akram, who allegedly shot at a crowd of hundreds alongside his father – Sajid Akram – on Sunday, spent two days in a coma after being shot by police.
The 24-year-old is expected to face a Bail Division Local Court Seven, Sydney, from his hospital bed on Wednesday afternoon.
Toronto’s top baby names in 2024: Muhammad and Emma
Muhammad leapfrogged to the top of baby names for boys born in Toronto in 2024 while Emma edged out Olivia as the most popular among girls.
According to a list of names provided Tuesday by the Ontario government, Muhammad moved up from fourth spot in 2023 and ahead of Noah as the most popular baby boy name in the city.
h/t MP
The Liberal government concealed a deal with alleged “raging antisemite” Laith Marouf, two Conservative MPs say after they learned about it through a written inquiry.
Marouf received $122,661 as part of a Canadian Heritage program to deliver anti-racism lectures. According to Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC), where Marouf was a senior consultant who led seminars, three consultative events by the centre took place in Montreal, Vancouver and Halifax in 2022.
A man, described in the German national press only as a 21-year-old Central Asian, was arrested in Magdeburg on Friday to prevent him from carrying out attacks against large crowds.
The timing and location are significant. Just a year ago, a Saudi psychiatrist and refugee who was known to German police drove a car into a crowded Magdeburg Christmas market during the city’s festivities, killing six people. It is for this reason that this year’s market quietly opened under tight security.
There was an air of inevitability as news spread of the massacre at the Hanukkah event on Bondi Beach yesterday. A friend in Sydney told me that almost everyone had been expecting something like this. Counter-terrorism analysts I spoke to yesterday and local media coverage said the same thing.
There is little mystery about the motive here. Sajid and Naveed Akram, the father and son who killed 15 people — including a Holocaust survivor, two rabbis, and a ten-year-old girl — had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (Isis), according to Australian security sources. Naveed, in particular, had been investigated six years ago due to his ties to an Isis cell.
What a mess. This little phrase seems unequal to the task of describing the situation Britain finds itself in after decades of multiculturalism and liberalism.
In a – perhaps surprising – spirit of compassion and generosity, I find myself feeling for some of the liberals who are now regularly being mugged at scale by reality. There is very little time to draw breath nowadays, to reset and forget, between what are still described as ‘incidents’. The Bondi Beach massacre followed on from the news of the two Afghan asylum seekers jailed for raping a girl of 15, which followed the news of the migrant hotel worker stabbed to death with a screwdriver, which followed the attack on a Manchester synagogue … all set against the continual background rumble of the rape gangs.
They gathered to celebrate Hannukah, the Jewish festival of light—a family event in a park by the beach on a Sunday.
The exact details of what occurred remain murky. What’s known is that two men, Naveed Akram and his father Sajid Akram, took out guns and began shooting at the Jewish families. At least 15 are dead, and 42 have been hospitalized.
Remember. This was Sydney on October 8, 2023. pic.twitter.com/49WYk7TPoA
— The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) December 14, 2025
Just like Canada.
A Christmas ham has been sent to the Bonnyrigg home of the alleged Bondi terrorists.
The half-leg of ham was among numerous Woolworths bags of items sent to the south-west Sydney home.
Pork and pork products are considered “haram” in Islam and expressly forbidden for Muslims to consume.
h/t Patti Jo
OTTAWA—The Israeli embassy in Ottawa says a group that included six Canadian MPs was denied entry into the occupied West Bank on Tuesday because of an alleged financial link to an aid organization Israel considers a “terror entity.”
In a statement to the Star, Israeli embassy spokesperson Yifah Mivtach Greenvald said the group that organized the trip — Canadian Muslim Vote — receives the “vast majority” of its funding from Islamic Relief Canada, which Greenvald said is a subsidiary of Islamic Relief Worldwide, a listed terror entity in Israel.
Canada has not designated the group on its own terror list.
"CBC News has learned that a delegation of Canadian parliamentarians has been denied entry into Israel this morning after trying to enter by land from Jordan."
"While all of that is out the window now, what the group has told us is, is that they were stopped at the crossing from… pic.twitter.com/cFq5JPMqal
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) December 16, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
Two gunmen – identified by authorities as a father and son – opened fire on hundreds of people marking a Hanukkah event on Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday, killing 15 and leaving 27 in hospital with injuries.
The father was killed in an exchange of fire with police at the scene while the son is in hospital with critical injuries.
Among the victims of the country’s worst mass shooting in decades, which targeted Jewish people and is being treated as a terrorist incident, are a 10-year-old girl, a Holocaust survivor and two rabbis.
The attackers are both said to have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group. Here is what we know about them.
Verena Akram, the mother of 24-year-old suspected Bondi gunman Naveed Akram, said she didn’t believe her son could be involved in the attack on Sydney’s Jewish community on Sunday, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
“He doesn’t have a firearm. He doesn’t even go out. He doesn’t mix around with friends. He doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke, he doesn’t go to bad places … he goes to work, he comes home, he goes to exercise and that’s it,” she claimed.
40m out, 9mm Glock.
Moving targets.
Takes down Islamist Sajid Akram, takes cover from Naveed Akrham as he shoots back..Balls of Steel by this Detective.
No body armour.
No long arm rifle.
Suit and Tie.Thank you for your service and saving more lives. pic.twitter.com/bXP0JFU41D
— Mickamious (@MickamiousG) December 15, 2025
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