Australia Terror Attack

Australia on Monday raised its terror threat level to "probable" from "possible", citing an increase in extremist views in the country leading to a more than 50% chance of the planning of an onshore attack in the next 12 months.

Australia police said on Tuesday a knife attack during a service at a church in Sydney that injured at least four people, including a bishop with a global online following, would be considered as a terror incident.

Five people were killed in an attack at a busy shopping centre in Sydney's Bondi Junction today. The attacker entered the mall when it was packed with shoppers and stabbed several people, local media said.

Police in Pakistan's Punjab province have arrested a suspect for issuing a threat to carry out a terror attack on the Australian cricket team during its Lahore tour early this month.

Test cricket returns to Lahore on Monday for the first time since a terror attack on the visiting Sri Lankan team in 2009, with winner takes all for the Pakistan vs Australia series finale.

A Bangladeshi student who enrolled in an Australian university with the aim of killing someone in the name of ISIS was jailed for 42 years Wednesday for stabbing her local host as he slept.

A swoopy-haired teen, dressed in a T-shirt, positions himself behind Australian Sen. Fraser Anning during a news conference in Melbourne and raises his phone with his left hand. Then, he lifts his right hand and cracks a raw egg on the back of Anning's head.

Australia today issued a strong statement, demanding that Pakistan take "urgent and meaningful action" against terrorist groups in its territory, including Masood Azhar's Jaish-e Mohammed and Hafiz Saeed's Lashkar-e-Taiba. Both organisations carried out multiple terror strikes in India but enjoy a free run in Pakistan.

The government briefed the representatives of 12 nations about the pre-dawn air strikes on Jaish-e Mohammad camps located across the Line of Control which were conducted by the Indian Air Force this morning. Diplomats from the US, UK, Russia, Australia, Indonesia, Turkey and six ASEAN nations are in a meeting with Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhle.

India were asked to bat in the first T20I as Australia skipper Aaron Finch won the toss and elected to field.

Three men were arrested early Tuesday for allegedly plotting terror attacks in Melbourne less than two weeks after a terror-related stabbing rampage left two dead in Australia's second largest city, police said.

Hollywood superstar Russell Crowe led tributes Saturday to "true gentleman" 74-year-old Sisto Malaspina, a doyen of Melbourne's thriving cafe culture who was stabbed to death in Friday's rush hour terror attack.

A man who set fire to a gas-laden truck in the centre of Melbourne and fatally stabbed one person before he was shot by police was inspired by ISIS but did not have direct links with the group, Australian police said on Saturday.

Australian police on Friday said they are now treating a deadly knife attack in Melbourne as an act of terror, adding that the suspect was originally from Somalia and was known to intelligence authorities.

Australia has arrested and charged a Sri Lankan man with planning a terror attack after finding "symbolic locations within Sydney" listed as possible targets in his notebook, police said on Friday.

Australia on Monday raised its terror threat level to "probable" from "possible", citing an increase in extremist views in the country leading to a more than 50% chance of the planning of an onshore attack in the next 12 months.

Australia police said on Tuesday a knife attack during a service at a church in Sydney that injured at least four people, including a bishop with a global online following, would be considered as a terror incident.

Five people were killed in an attack at a busy shopping centre in Sydney's Bondi Junction today. The attacker entered the mall when it was packed with shoppers and stabbed several people, local media said.

Police in Pakistan's Punjab province have arrested a suspect for issuing a threat to carry out a terror attack on the Australian cricket team during its Lahore tour early this month.

Test cricket returns to Lahore on Monday for the first time since a terror attack on the visiting Sri Lankan team in 2009, with winner takes all for the Pakistan vs Australia series finale.

A Bangladeshi student who enrolled in an Australian university with the aim of killing someone in the name of ISIS was jailed for 42 years Wednesday for stabbing her local host as he slept.

A swoopy-haired teen, dressed in a T-shirt, positions himself behind Australian Sen. Fraser Anning during a news conference in Melbourne and raises his phone with his left hand. Then, he lifts his right hand and cracks a raw egg on the back of Anning's head.

Australia today issued a strong statement, demanding that Pakistan take "urgent and meaningful action" against terrorist groups in its territory, including Masood Azhar's Jaish-e Mohammed and Hafiz Saeed's Lashkar-e-Taiba. Both organisations carried out multiple terror strikes in India but enjoy a free run in Pakistan.

The government briefed the representatives of 12 nations about the pre-dawn air strikes on Jaish-e Mohammad camps located across the Line of Control which were conducted by the Indian Air Force this morning. Diplomats from the US, UK, Russia, Australia, Indonesia, Turkey and six ASEAN nations are in a meeting with Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhle.

India were asked to bat in the first T20I as Australia skipper Aaron Finch won the toss and elected to field.

Three men were arrested early Tuesday for allegedly plotting terror attacks in Melbourne less than two weeks after a terror-related stabbing rampage left two dead in Australia's second largest city, police said.

Hollywood superstar Russell Crowe led tributes Saturday to "true gentleman" 74-year-old Sisto Malaspina, a doyen of Melbourne's thriving cafe culture who was stabbed to death in Friday's rush hour terror attack.

A man who set fire to a gas-laden truck in the centre of Melbourne and fatally stabbed one person before he was shot by police was inspired by ISIS but did not have direct links with the group, Australian police said on Saturday.

Australian police on Friday said they are now treating a deadly knife attack in Melbourne as an act of terror, adding that the suspect was originally from Somalia and was known to intelligence authorities.

Australia has arrested and charged a Sri Lankan man with planning a terror attack after finding "symbolic locations within Sydney" listed as possible targets in his notebook, police said on Friday.