Alleged Bondi shooter charged with 59 offenses by Australian police

Australian police have charged one of the alleged perpetrators of the fatal mass shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach with 59 offenses. The charges include 15 counts of murder and one count of committing a terrorist act.

Naveed Akram, who carried out the attack with his father, has emerged from a coma after being shot by the police. Police said investigators expect to question the son once medication wears off and legal counsel is present.

Countries including Burkina Faso, Mali and Syria were added to the expanded list under the Trump administration's travel ban. This move is part of the efforts to tighten U.S. entry standards, after the arrest of an Afghan national in the shooting of two National Guard troops.

The freight volume of China-Europe freight trains passing through the largest land port between China and Mongolia has exceeded 5 million metric tons this year.

China's railway operator says the country's rail network handled nearly 4.3 billion passenger trips nationwide during the first 11 months of the year, up 6.6 percent.

The U.S. military claims the three vessels were transiting along drug-trafficking routes in the eastern Pacific.

U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators say there is progress in reaching a peace deal to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Europe has welcomed the outcomes of the talks in Berlin.

China says all countries have the obligation to urge Japan to eradicate the vestiges of militarism. The remarks came after China received Russian-provided evidence related to a Japanese germ-warfare unit.

China's value-added industrial output expanded 4.8 percent in November from a year earlier. In the first 11 months, the country's industrial output increased by 6 percent.

Seventy-eight-year-old Jimmy Lai faced charges of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and conspiracy to print seditious publications.