Monday briefing: The latest on the deadly attack on Bondi beach’s Jewish community

<p>In today’s newsletter: On Sunday evening local time, two gunmen opened fire on a gathering at Sydney’s famous beach – here’s what we know so far</p><p></p><p>Good morning. As you receive this email it is Monday evening in Sydney, where the Jewish community, the city and the country are grappling with grief after <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/14/police-advise-people-to-take-shelter-following-reports-of-active-shooter-at-bondi-beach">the deadliest terrorist attack in Australia</a> in modern times.</p><p>On Sunday evening, at least 15 people, including one child, were killed after two men, said by police to be a father and son armed with guns, opened fire on a Hanukah celebration at Bondi beach in Sydney. Dozens more were injured in what police have declared a targeted antisemitic terrorist attack. The older of the two men was shot by police and is dead.</p><p><em><strong>UK news </strong></em>| British police forces <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/14/security-stepped-up-uk-jewish-communities-bondi-beach-shooting">are stepping up security</a> in Jewish communities after the antisemitic terror attack at Bondi beach in Australia.</p><p><em><strong>Jimmy Lai </strong></em>| The Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon is facing life in prison after being <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/15/jimmy-lai-verdict-hong-kong-judges-national-security-charges">found guilty of national security and sedition offences</a>, in one of the most closely watched rulings since the city’s return to Chinese rule in 1997.</p><p><em><strong>Immigration </strong></em>| Human rights and refugee campaigners are calling on the Home Office <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/14/home-office-urged-transparent-asylum-seeker-deaths">to be transparent</a> about the numbers of asylum seekers who die in its care by publishing quarterly data as other government departments do.</p><p><em><strong>Security </strong></em>| Assassination plots, sabotage, cyber-attacks and the manipulation of information by Russia and other hostile states mean that “the frontline is everywhere”, the new <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/15/new-mi6-head-blaise-metreweli-speech-russia-threat">head of MI6 will warn on Monday</a>.</p><p><em><strong>US news </strong></em>| A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a US air force refuelling tanker on Friday, and the pilot <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/14/jetblue-pilot-avoids-midair-collision-air-force-venezuela">blamed the military plane</a> for crossing his path.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/15/first-edition-bondi-beach-attack">Continue reading...</a>

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