Thousands mark Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand
Sydney, Australia Reuters Thousands gathered across Australia and New Zealand on Thursday at Anzac Day services to commemorate those who fought and died in major conflicts in the nations’ history. Anzac Day originally commemorated a battle on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey during World War I. At dawn on 25th April, 1915, thousands of troops […]
Australian police charge five teenagers in Sydney cleric’s stabbing
Sydney, Australia Reuters Australian police said on Thursday they charged five teenagers with terrorism-related offences in investigations following the stabbing of an Assyrian Christian bishop while he was giving a livestreamed sermon earlier this month. The five boys, who were due in children’s court on Thursday, were arrested on Wednesday in the Sydney region. Police […]
Australian police arrest seven alleged teen extremists linked to stabbing of a bishop in a Sydney church
Sydney, Australia AP Australian police arrested seven teenagers accused of following a violent extremist ideology in raids across Sydney on Wednesday, as a judge extended a ban on social media platform X sharing video of a knife attack on a bishop that started the criminal investigation. The seven, aged 15 to 17, were part of […]
Australia PM calls Musk “arrogant billionaire” after court orders X to hide church stabbing posts
Melbourne, Australia Reuters An Australian court has ordered X to hide some posts commenting on the stabbing of a bishop in Sydney, deepening a war of words between the social media platform’s owner Elon Musk and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Australia’s federal court late on Monday granted the country’s cyber regulator, the eSafety commissioner, […]
Teenager charged with terrorism over Sydney bishop stabbing
Sydney, Australia Reuters A 16-year-old boy has been charged with a terrorism offence for allegedly stabbing an Assyrian church bishop in Sydney during a church service, Australian police said on Friday, as investigations continued into a riot after the knife attack. Police from the joint counter terrorism team questioned the boy, who is in a […]
Stabbed Sydney Assyrian bishop says recovering quickly, forgives attacker
Sydney, Australia Reuters An Assyrian bishop who was stabbed during a service at his Sydney church said on Thursday he was recovering quickly and that he had forgiven his attacker. Two knife attacks within three days – at a busy shopping centre near Bondi beach that killed six people on Saturday and at the Assyrian […]
Australian police say Assyrian church stabbing was terrorist attack
Updated: 5:30pm (AEDT) Sydney, Australia Reuters Australian police on Tuesday said a knife attack on an Assyrian church bishop and some followers in Sydney was a terrorist act motivated by suspected religious extremism, as the country reeled from a second stabbing incident in three days. At least four people were wounded in the attack, including […]
Australian police say Sydney knife attacker may have targeted women
Sydney, Australia Reuters Australian police said on Monday the attacker who fatally stabbed six people at a busy shopping centre in Sydney’s beach suburb of Bondi may have targeted women, as the country mourned the victims and hundreds of people laid flowers near the scene. In the attack on Saturday at the Westfield Bondi Junction […]
Family mourns “beautiful mother” killed in Sydney mall stabbing
Sydney, Australia Reuters Young Sydney mother Ashlee Good, who cradled her nine-month old daughter Harriet, was one of the victims of a random shopping mall stabbing attack which killed six people, her family confirmed in a statement on Sunday. Five women and a male security guard were killed in the Saturday attack in the Sydney […]
Sydney stabbing that killed six was not an ideological attack, police say
Sydney, Australia Reuters Sydney police on Sunday ruled out terror or ideology as a motive after a man killed six people in a random stabbing attack on Saturday in one of the city’s busiest shopping centres. People run inside the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre, as they evacuate the scene of an incident, in which […]