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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Hurst. Australian Jews living in Israel are mourning the deaths of at least 15 people in today's mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney. Dozens of others were injured. Police say a father and a son are suspected in the attack. Jerome Sokolovsky has more from Tel Aviv.
An Australian cantor chants a prayer of mourning at a vigil on a beach in Tel Aviv. Hundreds of people crowd around and light candles in memory of the Bondi Beach massacre victims. Elie Parkes said his grandparents and many Australian Jews of their generation were survivors of the Holocaust. They went to Australia to escape the anti-Semitism of the old world.
When we grew up, we thought we were the blessed Jews. We were the ones who didn't have to deal with all that. And unfortunately, the last few years have shown us that that isn't quite true. But he said the vast majority of Australians are horrified by the attack and also want the kind of country that was a haven for his grandparents. Jerome Sokolovsky, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
In Rhode Island, police say they have a person of interest in custody, a man in his 20s, identified by sources as Benjamin Erickson. There's no word on a motive for the shooting that left at least two people dead, nine others injured. It happened yesterday as students were taking final exams.
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Chapter 2: What happened during the mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney?
And the state's governor, Daniel McKee, says they are offering help to those who are struggling with what happened.
As governor, I'm committing to the city and to Brown and the broader community that has been impacted by this incident. to make sure everyone who needs assistance, mental health assistance, can access them.
Brown has canceled classes and finals. McKee also ordered flags at state buildings be lowered to half-staff. Far-right politician Jose Antonio Kast will be Chile's next president, having scored a resounding victory over his left-wing rival in the presidential runoff. John Bartlett has more from Santiago, Chile.
Kast ran a campaign based almost entirely on public security and immigration, claiming that he would install an emergency government in a country which he describes as being in crisis and which is deeply traumatised by a recent rise in crime. Kast's father, Michael, was a Nazi party member who fought in the German army in the Second World War and emigrated to Chile in 1950.
His son, José Antonio, the president-elect, is a staunch supporter of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and will become the first president since democracy returned in 1990 to openly support the dictatorship. Kast will take office on 11 March 2026, the deadline he has repeatedly given for illegal migrants to leave the country or face persecution and deportation.
For NPR News, I'm John Bartlett in Santiago, Chile.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Media mogul and democracy activist Jimmy Lai is scheduled to be sentenced tomorrow in Hong Kong. He's facing multiple charges for his activism. Empire's Emily Fang reports one carries a potential life sentence.
Lai was first arrested in 2020 under Beijing's national security law in Hong Kong, accused of colluding with foreign forces by contacting American politicians like President Trump and then-Vice President Mike Pence, as well as journalists. He had already spent years in prison on protest charges when his national security trial began in 2023.
And while awaiting his verdict, his family says the 78-year-old's health has declined. Lai's work funding and organizing pro-democracy demonstrations came late in life. After arriving in Hong Kong as a refugee, he built a fortune in fast fashion, then started several successful media companies in Hong Kong and Taiwan before pivoting to politics. Emily Fang in Pure News.
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