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OpenAI's admission that it banned the ChatGPT account of a female mass shooting suspect in Canada is drawing scrutiny to her past online activity. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/02/26/openai-canada-school-shooting-suspect/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Canadian police have identified the woman who carried out a deadly school shooting but did not give a motive for one of the worst mass killings in Canada's history. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/12/world/crime-legal/canadian-shooter-identified-woman/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Ten people are dead, including the suspected shooter, after a woman opened fire at a high school in western Canada on Tuesday before turning the gun on herself, police said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/11/world/crime-legal/shooting-canada-british-columbia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Australians are observing a national day of mourning on Thursday for the 15 people killed by gunmen who opened fire at a Jewish festival at Bondi Beach in December. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/22/asia-pacific/australia-mourning-bondi-shooting/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Australia's lower house of parliament passed new laws for a gun buyback, tighter background checks and a crackdown on hate crimes, in response to its worst mass shooting in decades. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/20/asia-pacific/politics/australia-gun-laws-hate-crimes-bondi/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Tougher hate speech and gun control laws proposed by Australia's center-left Labor government in the aftermath of the Bondi Beach mass shooting were criticized by conservative opposition parties on Thursday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/15/asia-pacific/politics/australia-hate-speech-gun-law/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Australia’s national parliament will cut short its summer break to pass laws tackling hate speech after the Bondi Beach mass shooting, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/12/asia-pacific/politics/australian-parliament-hate-speech-bondi/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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New Year's Eve revelers will toast the end of 2025 on Wednesday, waving goodbye to 12 months packed with Trump tariffs, a Gaza truce and vain hopes for peace in Ukraine. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/31/world/2025-trump-truces-turmoil/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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A father and son accused of a mass shooting at Australia’s Bondi Beach “acted alone” and were not part of a wider terrorist cell, police have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/30/asia-pacific/crime-legal/bondi-beach-shooting-act-alone/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Families of Bondi Beach shooting victims have urged Australia’s prime minister to launch a royal commission — an independent public inquiry — into the “rapid rise of antisemitism” in the country. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/29/world/crime-legal/bondi-families-antisemitism-probe/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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The Australian state of New South Wales — where the Bondi Beach shooting took place — is introducing what it calls the “toughest firearm reforms in the country.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/22/asia-pacific/crime-legal/australian-state-gun-laws/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Australians fell silent in flickering candlelight to honor the Bondi Beach shooting victims, marking one week since gunmen fired into crowds at a Jewish festival. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/21/asia-pacific/crime-legal/bondi-beach-vigil/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Nine people were killed when gunmen opened fire at a bar outside Johannesburg, police said, in the second such shooting in South Africa this month. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/21/world/crime-legal/mass-shooting-south-africa/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Searching for the suspect's motive in the Brown University shooting, investigators were examining Claudio Neves Valente's earliest days in academia, which took him from the University of Lisbon to the U.S. Northeast. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/20/world/crime-legal/brown-university-shooter-academia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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The Trump administration will suspend a green card lottery that allowed a man believed to be behind both a mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor into the United States. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/20/world/us-halts-green-card-lottery/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon