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Eyewitness captures moment man tackles and disarms Bondi shooter
Fifteen people have been killed, including a child, in a shooting targeting a Jewish celebration at Bondi Beach on Sunday.
Dozens of other victims are in hospital.
Footage captured by an eyewitness shows a man grappling with an alleged gunman, before wrestling the weapon off him.
In a press conference, the New South Wales Police Premier Chris Minns said that one of the gunmen had been killed and another was in custody.
The acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is pushing back on criticisms of the federal response to the central Texas floods that killed at least 136 people earlier this month.
“I can't see anything we did wrong,” David Richardson told a House panel of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on Wednesday. He called the relationship between state and federal agencies “a model for how disasters should be handled.”
Lawmakers used the hearing about improvements to FEMA disaster response to address reports that FEMA support was impaired by bureaucratic delays that slowed the deployment of urban search and rescue teams and left the agency's call centers unstaffed, which Richardson denied. The response “brought the maximum amount of capability to bear in Texas at the right time and the right place,” he said.
Richardson's appearance came after a wave of criticism and fallout over the response, including the resignation Monday of FEMA's ..
Zelensky warns Ukraine risks losing US support over White House peace plan47 minutes agoShareSaveJaroslav LukivShareSaveZelensky/TelegramPresident Zelensky addressed the nation on Ukraine's Dignity and Freedom DayUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that Kyiv risks losing US support over a White House plan on how to end the war with Russia.
Addressing the nation on Friday, Zelensky said Ukraine “might face a very difficult choice: either losing dignity, or risk losing a key partner”, adding that “today is one of the most difficult moments in our history”.
The widely leaked US peace plan includes proposals that Kyiv had previously ruled out: ceding eastern areas it now controls, significantly cutting its army size, and pledging not to join Nato.
These provisions are seen as heavily slanted towards Russia, whose President Vladimir Putin said the plan could be a “basis” for peace settlement.
At Friday's meeting with his security cabinet, Putin said Moscow had receiv..
What we know about the Hong Kong apartment fires3 hours agoShareSaveTiffany WertheimerShareSaveWatch: Daybreak aerial vision shows fire still burning in Hong Kong apartment blocksA devastating fire has ripped through several high-rise tower blocks in Hong Kong, killing at least 44 people. More than 270 have been reported missing and thousands of residents are in evacuation shelters.
Pictures show several buildings ablaze, and thick smoke billowing into the air, dominating the Chinese territory's skyline.
As night fell, the fire was still burning hours after it was first reported, with more than 760 firefighters deployed to the scene.
Three men have since been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter connected to the fire, according to local media reports, and an investigation has been launched.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has expressed condolences to victims, including a “firefighter who died in the line of duty”, state media report.
What caused the blaze is still unclear, but here..