Man Haron Monis, the Iranian-born self-styled cleric, died along with two of the people he had taken hostage. (Courtesy: AP)/ Iran repeatedly warned Australia about the criminal past of the perpetrator of the Sydney cafe siege and called for him to be kept under surveillance, top officials in ...
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday ordered an urgent enquiry into why a deranged Islamic gunman was not under surveillance and how he obtained citizenship, as security was stepped up after a fatal cafe siege./ Iranian-born Man Haron Monis, 50, had a history of extremism and ...
SYDNEY (AP) — A gunman responsible for a deadly siege in a Sydney cafe was once on the national security agency's watch list — but was dropped off it years ago for reasons that remain unclear, Australia's prime minister said Wednesday./ Man Haron Monis, a 50-year-old Iranian-born, self-styled ...
Tough new security laws and the bail system failed to prevent a deadly hostage crisis in the heart of Sydney, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Wednesday, as the country debated if and how similar attacks could be stopped in future. Three people were killed, including hostage-taker ...
Tough new national security laws failed to prevent a deadly hostage crisis in the heart of Sydney this week, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Wednesday, raising questions about the usefulness of such measures. Three people were killed, including hostage-taker Man Haron Monis, when ...
SYDNEY (AP) — Horror over a deadly siege morphed into anger Tuesday as leaders of a grieving nation demanded to know how a man with a violent criminal history slipped through the cracks and ended up in the downtown Sydney cafe where he took 17 people hostage./ The 16-hour siege ended in a ...
SYDNEY (AP) — He wrote letters to the grieving families of troops killed in Afghanistan that compared them to "Hitler's soldiers." He was accused of assisting a woman kill his ex-wife, whose body was found stabbed and set alight./ But the social media postings of 50-year-old Man Haron Monis, the ...
The self-styled sheikh behind a siege at a Sydney cafe had been charged as an accessory to murder and with multiple sexual offences. He also harbored deep grievances against the Australian government and had found little kinship in the city's large Muslim community, where he was seen as deeply ...
The commissioner of police in Australia's New South Wales state, Andrew Scipione, said on Wednesday he was concerned that the man who took hostages in a Sydney cafe siege had been granted bail on earlier charges, leaving him free in the community. Man Haron Monis, a self-styled sheikh who ...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — In the deadliest slaughter of innocents in Pakistan in years, Taliban gunmen attacked a military-run school Tuesday and killed 141 people — almost all of them students — before government troops ended the siege. The massacre of innocent children horrified a country ...
Armed police and paramedics take out injured people following an operation at a cafe in the central business district of Sydney on December 16, 2014 (AFP Photo/Saeed Khan)/ Tehran (AFP) - Tehran on Monday condemned the deadly hostage-taking in Australia reportedly by an Iranian-born gunman, ...
Authorities are investigating how an unstable Iranian migrant out on bail was able to seize hostages in a Sydney cafe./ ’s Muslim community were among thousands of people who laid flowers and other tributes yesterday at a makeshift memorial in downtown after a violent siege left two hostages and ...
Iran warned Australia about the psychological condition of Sydney hostage taker Man Haron Monis on many occasions, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Marzieh Afkham said on Monday./ Monis moved from Iran to Australia in 1996 and received political asylum there in 2001. He was on bail facing a ...
SYDNEY (AP) — Tearful Australians laid mounds of flowers at the site where a gunman held hostages for 16 hours at a popular Sydney cafe. The siege ended early Tuesday with a barrage of gunfire that left two hostages and the Iranian-born gunman dead, and a nation that has long prided itself on ...
The Iranian Foreign Minister on Monday condemned the multiple kidnapping by an "Iranian refugee" at a cafe in downtown Sydney which ended with two hostages and the kidnapper desad and four people wounded. "Resorting to inhumane measures and creating terror in the name of the compassionate ...
Man Haron Monis, the Sydney hostage-taker killed in a 16-hour siege, was a self-styled sheikh with his own Wikipedia entry who was on bail when he emerged as a lone wolf gunman./ Born in Iran, the 50-year-old was named in reports hours before being gunned down as the "cleric" who triggered a ...
Iranian Police Chief Esmaeil Ahmadi-Moqaddam has announced that Tehran had earlier warned Australia of the bad record of Sydney hostage taker Man Haron Monis and had sought his extradition to Iran, but the Australian police rejected the request./ “We collected evidence and sent it to the ...
"Since we did not have an agreement on the extradition of criminals with Australia, the Australian police refused to extradite him," Iranian police Gen. Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam told reporters following the identification of Sydney hostage taker Man Haron Monis./ In the aftermath of a deadly ...
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The owner of a suburban Detroit business that , killing a man, was arrested at a New York airport as he was preparing to depart for Hong Kong on a one-way ticket, authorities said Friday. U.S. Customs and New York Port Authority personnel arrested Noor Noel Kestou, ...
The first grand opera to be produced in Saudi Arabia has had its opening performance in Riyadh - part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's massively ambitious plans to shift the kingdom into a new era, economically and socially./ Zarqa Al Yamama is the story of a blue-eyed tribal matriarch with ...
A baby rescued from her dying mother's womb after an Israeli air strike in southern Gaza has died, the BBC has learned./ Baby Sabreen al-Sakani was delivered by Caesarean section in a Rafah hospital shortly after midnight on Sunday./ Amid chaotic scenes doctors resuscitated the baby, using a ...
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A brawl involving three people on a busy Los Angeles freeway was captured on video earlier this week and shared with KTLA. The incident occurred around 2 p.m. Tuesday on the 10 Freeway near Normandie Avenue in the Adams-Normandie neighborhood, according to “I was stuck in traffic and came upon a ...
A sign for the Chipotle restaurant in Pittsburgh's Market Square is pictured Feb. 8, 2016. Last week, the Newport Beach, California-based Mexican chain asked its U.S. and Canadian employees to temporarily select another protein option for their meals to preserve its supply of chicken. But the ...
Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court in Los Angeles, Oct. 4 2022. (Etienne Laurent/Pool Photo via AP, File)/ NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned ’s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with ...
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In interviews with investigators last year, former aides and national security officials who were close to Trump in the White House described a president who could erupt in anger when presented with intelligence he didn't want to hear, who routinely reviewed and stored classified information in ...
Bettersten Wade speaks to the attendees of her son Dexter Wade's funeral service in Jackson, Miss. Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. Looking on are the Rev. Al Sharpton, right, who delivered the eulogy, civil rights attorney Ben Crump, background, and one of her son's daughters, Jaselyn Thomas. Bettersten ...