Three people have been shot and hostages may have been taken at a factory on the outskirts of Sydney, Australian police said on Monday, although it was not immediately clear what had sparked the incident. A spokeswoman for the New South Wales state police said authorities believed three people had[…]
Australian police have revealed that a 12-year-old is on the radar of counterterrorism authorities as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull urged closer cooperation with Muslim leaders to combat a growing “terror” threat. The warnings came on Thursday, just days after the federal government announced controversial plans to bolster its counterterror laws.[…]
This is the fifth part in a series of articles that looks at various BDS movements from around the world and the campaigns that these movements focus on. Inspired by the effective movement against apartheid South Africa, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is directed against the illegal military[…]
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called for calm on Friday as police prepared for clashes between protesters at a planned rally outside a Sydney mosque that was attended by a teenager who killed a police officer a week ago. Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, 15, was shot and killed by police[…]
Australia will have its fifth prime minister in eight years after the ruling Liberal Party on Monday voted out Tony Abbott in favor of longtime rival Malcolm Turnbull, following months of infighting and crumbling voter support. Turnbull, a multi-millionaire former tech entrepreneur, won a secret party vote by 54 to[…]
Australia will accept 12,000 refugees from Syria on top of its current humanitarian intake quota, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Wednesday, bowing to pressure from an angry opposition, and extend air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq into Syria. Abbott had said on Sunday that Australia would allocate more[…]
Seven young Australian men have been arrested by authorities after they attempted to board flights to the Middle East, according to the Australian prime minister. Tony Abbott said on Thursday the arrests were “over suspicions they wanted to join militant Islamist groups”. “We have stopped at the airport seven young[…]
Australia is considering joining air strikes against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters in Syria, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said. Since October last year, Australian jet fighters have been striking ISIL targets in northern Iraq from a base in Dubai. Previously, Australia sent warplanes and military[…]
A series of small anti-Islam rallies have been held across Australia, with police reportedly forced to intervene to separate protesters from rival, anti-racism demonstrators in the city of Melbourne. Between 500-800 people gathered in the pouring rain in Martin Square in Sydney’s central business district on Saturday for one of[…]
Counterterrorism squads have prevented 230 suspected radicals from departing Australian airports for the Middle East this month, including at least three teenage boys, officials said Wednesday. Officials had previously announced that two Sydney-born brothers, aged 16 and 17, were intercepted at Sydney International Airport on March 8 attempting to board[…]
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