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(CNN) — Australian police said emergency services were called to Campbell Parade – the road that runs along Sydney’s Bondi Beach, where Sunday’s deadly mass shooting occurred – just before 7 p.m. local time, to reports of gunshots.

Less than two hours before, more than 1,000 people had started to gather at a Hanukkah event near the beach, some dancing and banging drums. Others were swimming in the ocean.

But the jubilant mood was soon to change, when two armed men opened fire on the crowds, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens more in what would become Australia’s worst mass shooting for almost 30 years.

Here’s what we know about how the incident unfurled:

Two individuals opened fire on a “crowded group of families” at 6:47 p.m. local time, according to New South Wales (NSW) Police.

Ten minutes later, at 6:57 p.m. local time, police said on social media they were responding to a “developing incident” at the beach and urged the public to avoid the area.

In an update at 7:14 p.m. local time, police said their “operation” was continuing and asked people in the area to “take shelter until we can determine what is happening.”

Social media footage geolocated by CNN shows how the deadly event unfolded over a 10-minute period, although it is unclear exactly what time the video was filmed.

The footage shows the two gunmen positioned on a small bridge next to Campbell Parade, shooting toward the Hanukkah celebrations.

One gunman then walks down the steps of the bridge and toward a grassy area where the celebrations were being held. Another video geolocated by CNN captures the outstanding moment a bystander, who has since been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, then wrestles the gun off the shooter, before the gunman retreats to the bridge.

After nearly five minutes of footage capturing the chaotic scenes, one gunman is shot dead and falls to the ground while the other shooter continues to fire from the bridge.

Minutes after the first gunman is shot, police can be seen in the video arriving at the bridge. At 7:37 p.m. local time, police announced on social media that two people were in custody at the beach.

At 9 p.m. local time, police confirmed an initial death toll of nine people, which would later increase to at least 15.

Police also confirmed at this time that an alleged gunman was killed and the second alleged gunman was in a critical condition.

Around half an hour later, at 9:36 p.m. local time, a terrorist incident was declared. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese later denounced the shooting targeting the Jewish community, calling it “an act of pure evil.”

CNN’s Catherine Nicholls, Hilary Whiteman, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Helen Regan contributed to this report.

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Los ministros de Exteriores de la Unión Europea (UE) prolongaron este lunes un año, hasta el 10 de enero de 2027, las sanciones del club comunitario por la crisis en Venezuela, en la reunión que celebran en Bruselas.

La decisión se tomó “a la vista de las persistentes acciones que socavan la democracia y el Estado de Derecho, así como las continuas violaciones de derechos humanos y la represión de la sociedad civil y la oposición democrática, también en relación con la celebración y los acontecimientos que siguieron a las elecciones presidenciales del 28 de julio de 2024”, indicó el Consejo de la UE, que reúne a los miembos.

En la actualidad, las sanciones afectan a 69 individuos, que están sujetos a una congelación de activos. También está prohibido suministrarles fondos o recursos económicos directa o indirectamente. Además, no se les permite viajar al territorio de la Unión Europea (UE).

El Consejo recordó que la UE introdujo sanciones sobre Venezuela en noviembre de 2017. Esas medidas incluían un embargo de armas y equipamiento para la represión interna, así como la imposición de prohibiciones de viaje y congelación de activos a los individuos afectados.

También apuntó que el objetivo de las sanciones del club comunitario es “apoyar una solución negociada y democrática para la crisis en Venezuela”.

“La UE no ha adoptado medida alguna que pueda causar daño a la población venezolana o la economía. La responsabilidad para terminar la crisis en Venezuela recae en sus autoridades”, comentó en un comunicado.

Igualmente, recalcó que el levantamiento de las sanciones “dependerá del progreso tangible en los derechos humanos y el Estado de Derecho en Venezuela, junto con pasos significativos hacia un diálogo genuino y una transición democrática”.

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(CNN) — Hundreds gathered to say goodbye when 700-year-old Pizol died. The funeral in Switzerland in 2019 was solemn. Mourners wore black; flowers were laid; a priest spoke. It was a symbolic moment: Pizol had been a glacier, but human-driven climate change had reduced it to some scattered chunks of ice.

Pizol is far from the first glacier death. Thousands have vanished over the past few decades and as the world continues to heat up, they are expected to disappear at an increasing pace. New research gives a glimpse of just how quickly that might happen, and it’s stark.

By the middle of the century, the number of glaciers disappearing is set to peak at up to 4,000 a year, if humans keep pumping out climate pollution, according to a study published Monday in Nature Climate Change. That’s equivalent to losing all the glaciers in the European Alps in just one year.

Research has tended to focus on the total amount or area of ice lost from glaciers as temperatures tick upward, rather than changes to their total number. This is partly because the number of glaciers is a less clearly defined metric. It depends on assessments of what constitutes a glacier and current inventories sometimes struggle to detect smaller or debris-covered ice bodies. Best estimates say there are currently more than 200,000 glaciers on Earth.

But the study authors say knowing where and when individual glaciers will vanish is important. It shows “climate change does not just lead to some ice melt, but it leads to the complete extinction of many glaciers,” said Matthias Huss, a study author and a glaciologist at the Swiss university ETH Zürich, who spoke at Pizol’s funeral back in 2019.

The scientists looked at the planet’s glaciers using a global database to pin down “peak glacier extinction,” meaning the period during which the largest number of glaciers disappear.

They used models to determine when each individual glacier would become too small to be classified as a glacier: defined as when its area falls below 0.01 square kilometers (0.4 square miles), or it reaches less than 1% of its initial volume, as measured around the year 2000.

Their analysis found that glacier extinction will peak around mid-century, with the exact timing and extent dependent on the level of global warming.

If the world manages to keep warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, something it is not on track to do, the number of individual glaciers disappearing will peak around 2041, at roughly 2,000 per year.

At 4 degrees of warming, that peak shifts to the mid-2050s and intensifies to around 4,000 a year. This is 3 to 5 times higher than the present rate of global loss, the report says.

The world is currently on course for around 2.7 degrees of warming if climate pledges are met. At this level, peak extinction will happen over a longer period, with the world losing around 3,000 glaciers a year between 2040 and 2060.

The researchers also drilled down to specific regions. In areas where