Current events: 2025-12-14

Wikipedia Current Events · 2025-12-14T19:45:23-0500

Armed conflicts and attacks

2025 Bondi Beach shooting
- Two gunmen open fire during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, killing 15 people and leaving 42 others injured. One of the perpetrators is killed, while the other is arrested. Two bombs are found at the scene and detonated by police. (News.au) (Al Jazeera)
2025 Cambodia–Thailand conflict
- Thailand confirms that a rocket launched from Cambodia killed a Thai villager. The first civilian death in Thailand as a result of the ongoing conflict. (AP)
Gaza war
- Hamas Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Zamzam is shot and killed by a gunman inside the Maghazi refugee camp in the Deir al-Balah Governorate, Gaza Strip. The perpetrator is arrested. (Palestine Chronicle) (Reuters)
Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Three people are killed in three separated Israeli airstrikes against vehicles in southern Lebanon. (L'Orient Today)
Syrian conflict
- Four security force members are killed and another is injured in a mass shooting when gunmen open fire on a patrol in Idlib, Syria. (TRT World)

Law and crime

Mass shootings in the United States
- School violence in the United States
  - 2025 Brown University shooting
    - A man from Wisconsin is taken into custody for yesterday's mass shooting that killed two people and injured nine others at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Police recover a revolver and a Glock handgun from his hotel room. (CNN)
Crime in Guatemala
- Guatemalan president Bernardo Arévalo declares a state of emergency in two municipalities in western Guatemala a day after gunmen attacked a military post and a police station, cut off roads, and hijacked buses, killing at least five people. (CityNews Halifax)

Politics and elections