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12-year-old boy dies after Sydney Harbour shark attack, family says SYDNEY — A 12-year-old boy who was bitten by a shark in Sydney Harbour has died of his injuries, his family said, following an attack that has intensified concern over a spate of shark incidents around Australia’s largest city. Nico Antic suffered critical injuries last week when a large shark attacked him as he and friends were jumping from a six-meter rock in Vaucluse, an eastern Sydney suburb on the harbor. He was pulled into a police boat while heavily…

New AFRICOM chief in Mogadishu pledges deeper U.S. support against al-Shabaab and ISIS Mogadishu—On a humid Wednesday on the Indian Ocean, as traffic in the capital thinned for afternoon prayers, the new commander of U.S. Africa Command slipped into Villa Somalia for a first meeting with President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. General Dagvin R. M. Anderson, newly in charge of America’s military footprint on the continent, promised that Washington will sustain—and sharpen—its support for Somali forces battling al-Shabaab and a…

In a troubling turn of events, two Belgian reporters found themselves injured in Lebanon amidst ongoing military exchanges between Israel and Hezbollah. Their employer, VTM, confirmed the incident as violence erupted in Beirut due to airstrikes during the night. The VTM correspondent, Robin Ramaekers, sustained facial injuries, while his colleague, cameraman Stijn De Smet, required medical attention for a gunshot wound to his leg, as outlined in a statement from DPG Media, the broadcast network’s parent company. “Just…