sydney siege

Australians marked the one-year anniversary of a cafe siege by an attacker which left two hostages dead and shocked the nation.

The Sydney cafe at the centre of a deadly siege has been vandalised with police investigating Wednesday after rocks were thrown through five of its windows.

Man Haron Monis may have suffered from chronic schizophrenia, a psychiatrist who had treated him told an inquest on Wednesday.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott admitted Sunday "the system" had let the public down by failing to protect it from the "monster" who carried out a deadly siege in a Sydney cafe.

Survivors of a 16-hour siege in a Sydney cafe on Sunday told of their terror during the deadly standoff, as a jihadist gunman threatened to kill people "one by one".

An inquest into the deadly siege at Lindt cafe in Sydney opens Thursday, amid expectation it will officially lift the lid on how two hostages died.

Australia will built a permanent memorial to remember the victims of the Sydney cafe siege, officials said Sunday as they vowed never to forget the two hostages who died in the stand-off.

Mourners were to attend emotional services for the victims of the Sydney cafe siege as volunteers and workers removed a giant sea of flowers laid in their memory amid plans for a permanent memorial.

A Muslim bride took a detour on her big day to lay her wedding bouquet at Martin Place, as onlookers broke into applause.

Lawyers who defended the Sydney siege gunman on a string of charges and the magistrate who bailed him have received deaths threats, officials said Friday.

Police stormed the Sydney cafe where a gunman had taken hostages and displayed an Islamic flag, television footage showed early Tuesday.

Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has voiced solidarity with the Australian Government and its people, following a hostage stand-off at a cafe in Sydney.

Two hostages killed in a siege at a central Sydney cafe Tuesday were hailed as heroes "willing to lay down their lives so others might live" in a church service mourning their deaths.

Support continues to pour in via #illridewithyou to combat Islamophobia despite the conclusion of the hostage drama in Sydney today.

Australian PM Tony Abbott called the Sydney siege a "brush with terrorism" and said that the gunman was mentally unstable.

The Dutch state, as a signatory to the 1948 Genocide Convention, has a duty to take all reasonable measures at its disposal to prevent genocide.

Moves by Trump and his appointees to eliminate existing rules will be met with legal challenges, as many progressive groups and Democratic officials have made clear.

Consultations on PTPTN loans and admission to IPTA are among services provided at the Higher Education Ministry booth.

Almost 200 residents from 60 homes in Kampung Tanjung Kala have ended up stuck when their 200-metre (m) long concrete bridge flooded.

The draft finance deal criticised by both developed and developing nations.

This was following the discovery of a suspected prohibited item in luggage.

Kelantan has reminded the public in the state to refrain from outdoor activities with the arrival of the Northeast Monsoon season.

Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern was given a global leadership award by the United Nations Foundation.

The decision of the ICC to issue arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant is apt, said Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

KTMB will provide two additional ETS trains for the KL Sentral-Padang Besar route and return trips in conjunction with the holidays.