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A rare fatal attack off Sydney Beach, Australia, was carried out by a suspected “large shark,” according to police and rescuers, which resulted in the closure of several beaches.

The incident on Saturday, which was the second deadly shark attack to occur in Australia’s most populous city since a 35-year-old British diving instructor was killed off a beach in February 2022, making it Sydney’s first fatal shark attack since 1963.

New South Wales police said in a statement that the victim, who is still unidentified, was thrown from the Pacific surf onto Long Reef Beach in northern Sydney and died at the scene.

The man had experience as a surfer and was in his 50s, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. When the attack occurred just 100 meters (330 feet) from the shore, he reportedly was surfing with friends.

The Herald reported that the man lost both of his legs after having his surfboard sliced in half. What shark species was responsible for the attack, at this time?

Police gathered on the shore and ambulances parked nearby, according to images from the scene released by local media. According to Australian public broadcaster ABC, drones were observing shark activity on the beach.

Surf Life Saving NSW claims the victim was bitten by the ocean predator while surfing in a beach patrolled area in the morning.

According to the report, the beaches between Manly and Narrabeen’s northern suburbs have been closed for at least 24 hours. All weekend water activities and training have been canceled by nearby surf life-saving clubs.

The victim was reportedly surfing off the nearby Long Reef and Dee Why beaches, according to an unnamed surfer.

According to Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, “four or five surfers pulled him out of the water and it appeared like a significant portion of his lower half had been attacked.”

According to data from the state-run Taronga Zoo’s owner, there have been three fatal shark attacks in other parts of Australia in 2025.

A surfer was killed by a shark in shallow water on a remote beach in Western Australia in March.

A 17-year-old girl was fatally bitten by a shark while she was swimming off an eastern Australian island in February, and a 28-year-old surfer was fatally bitten in South Australia a month earlier.

A 40-year-old man spearfishing off Queensland was fatally struck in the neck by a shark on December 28.

After Chinese state media withdrew legal permission to use the footage and demanded its removal, the Reuters news agency removed the video that depicts an exchange between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping about the subject of organ transplants and living 150 years.

According to a written request from China Central Television’s (CCTV) legal team, Reuters violated the terms of its agreement and criticized the “editorial treatment applied to this material,” leading the news outlet to remove the footage from its website on Friday.

In a conversation that was recorded live on a microphone on Wednesday, Putin and Xi discussed organ transplants and the possibility of human life as they walked in Beijing alongside North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

“Biotechnology is developing at a rapid rate. Human organ transplantation is possible continuously. As the Russian leader and Xi walked toward Tiananmen Square’s rostrum in Chinese, the interpreter said, “The longer you live, the younger you become, and you can even become immortal.”

According to Xi, “some people believe that people will reach 150 years old by the year 2050.”

A massive military parade in the Chinese capital to mark the 80th anniversary of World War II was being led by a delegation of more than 20 foreign officials.

The Reuters video of Putin and Xi’s conversation was filmed and licensed by CCTV and made into a four-minute video that was distributed to more than 1, 000 global media clients.

Broadcasters and social media users alike shared the unusually candid exchange between the major world leaders.

The letter from the legal representative for CCTV stated that the “editorial treatment” of the material “resulted in a clear misrepresentation of the facts and statements contained within the licensed feed.”

What specifically did CCTV object to, according to the letter?

Reuters removed the video from its website and issued a “kill” order to its clients, claiming that this was because it no longer had the right to publish the copyrighted material.

The news agency, however, defended its position and said it is confident in “the accuracy of what we published.”

A prominent US news outlet reports that US Navy SEALs shot and killed several North Korean civilians in a blundered mission to install a listening device in the nuclear-armed nation in 2019.

The US Navy’s SEAL Team 6 conducted the classified mission, according to The New York Times on Friday during high-stakes diplomatic negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang in the first half of 2019.

The elite special forces unit, which also killed former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in 2011, was assigned to station a listening device in North Korea to spy on its leaders.

However, a number of errors caused civilians to accidentally come across the US special forces while they splashed ashore while working in the dead of night with blackout communications.

The SEALs opened fire, killing everyone aboard a small fishing boat, according to the Times report, without giving a number of casualties.

According to officials familiar with the mission, US soldiers “pulled the bodies into the water to conceal them from the North Korean authorities.” According to one source, SEAL members “punctured the boat crew’s lungs with knives to ensure their bodies would sink.”

The Times claimed to have been able to learn about the flawed mission from dozens of interviews, including with members of the first Trump administration, current and former military personnel, and former and current military personnel.

Due to the mission’s classified status, none of them spoke on condition of anonymity, according to the news outlet. Many people claimed their decision to provide details was motivated by concern that the US military’s special operations failures are “often hidden by government secrecy.”

According to sources, President Trump gave the mission its final approval during his first year in office.

When reporters on Friday questioned Trump about the report, he denied having any knowledge of the operations.

Trump said, “I could look, but I don’t know anything about [it].”

He claimed that this is the first time he has heard it.

Whether Pyongyang ever pieced together what transpired in 2019 was “uncertain,” according to US officials.

As part of its operations against Latin American drug cartels that Washington has labeled “narco-terrorist,” sources in the US reported to news agencies on Friday that 10 of the most advanced fighter jets are being flown to a Puerto Rican airfield.

According to a report from American broadcaster CNN on Friday, the Trump administration is considering attacking drug trafficking organizations in Venezuela, which would mark a dramatic escalation of Washington and Caracas’ already-increasing tensions.

Nicolas Maduro, president of Venezuela, demanded on Friday that the US abandon its “violent regime change plan in Venezuela and throughout Latin America.”

According to Maduro, the US should respect “sovereignty, the right to peace, and independence.”

Trump deserves my respect. He claimed that no military conflict can be caused by any of the differences we have experienced.

Venezuela has always been open to dialogue and converse.

In the wake of weeks of US threats, Maduro has mobilized Venezuela’s military, which has 340 000 soldiers, as well as reservists and militia members, who he claimed had more than 8 million.

Maduro warned reporters earlier this week that “if Venezuela were attacked, it would immediately start an armed struggle.”

Trump claimed on Friday that Venezuela’s regime change was not being discussed by the US.

Trump referred to Maduro’s return to office in January after allegations of irregularities in the country’s presidential election as “we are talking about the fact that you had an election that was very strange, to put it mildly.”

Trump: “They’ll be shot down.”

In addition to the reported US naval expansion in the southern Caribbean, where American warships, a number of Marines, and a large number of fast-attack submarines powered by nuclear power, have been stationed just outside Venezuelan territorial waters, comes the reported deployment of F-35 warplanes.

The US Department of Defense charged Venezuela on Thursday that it was “highly provocative” by flying two F-16 fighter planes close to the USS Jason Dunham, a guided-missile destroyer.

More than 4,500 sailors and marines are on board the Dunham, one of at least seven US warships stationed in the Caribbean.

Trump later said to Venezuela that if ship commanders believe they pose a threat to their vessels, “they’ll be shot down if they put us in a dangerous position.”

A request for comment on Venezuela’s communication ministry’s response to claims that Venezuelan fighter jets flew over a US warship was not received.

Trump claimed Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan criminal organization that he had tied to Maduro, belonged to, and that US forces blew up a speedboat in the Caribbean on Tuesday.

Law experts have questioned the legality of Trump’s claim that 11 people were killed in the US attack, which Caracas characterized as an “extrajudicial killing” of civilians.

Trump’s military strategy toward what Washington calls “narco-terrorist” groups was defended by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio this week.

Rubio spoke about drug cartels while in Mexico on Wednesday, saying that “what will stop them is when you blow them up and when you get rid of them.”