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 ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — It was the music that changed first. Or maybe that’s just when many people at the pale brick Catholic church in the quiet Wisconsin neighborhood finally began to realize what was happening. The choir director, a fixture at St. Maria Goretti for nearly 40 years, was suddenly ...
Spiralling tensions and cross-border strikes which have killed more than 70 civilians in Lebanon have turned parts of south into ghost towns. Residents have fled, leaving their homes at risk of destruction. The BBC went on patrol with the UN's peacekeeping force there to see what has happened./ ...
, the veteran ABC News meteorologist who provided weather updates for , has been fired by the network, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Daily Beast. ABC News gave Marciano the boot on Tuesday following complaints from multiple network staffers over his behavior, sources noted. ...
Thick murky clouds fill the sky, with freezing winds carrying snow faster than 100 miles per hour. With a frigid –30 degrees Fahrenheit temperature, life-threatening snowstorms and avalanches are frequent. And these are typical conditions on the world’s highest mountain: Mount Everest. The ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Law enforcement officers with an arrest warrant demanded that a man come out of a house in North Carolina before , the victims unable to survive shots coming from inside the dwelling, a witness and officials said Tuesday. — the deadliest against U.S. law enforcement ...
Cheng "Charlie" Saephan holds display check above his head after speaking during a news conference where it was revealed that he was one of the winners of the $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot at the Oregon Lottery headquarters on Monday, April 29, 2024, in Salem, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)/ ...
The US state department has found five units of the Israeli military responsible for gross violations of human rights in individual incidents, but says they will continue to receive US military backing./ All the incidents involved took place outside of Gaza before the current war./ Israel took ...
Nika was just 16 years old when she disappeared during protests against Iran's strict dress code for women [Atash Shakarami]/ An Iranian teenager was sexually assaulted and killed by three men working for Iran's security forces, a leaked document understood to have been written by those forces ...
A popular metro Atlanta Waffle House abruptly shut its doors down for good on Monday, The Waffle House below Eddie’s Attic on Decatur Square closed Monday at 2 p.m. A sign on the door confirms the closure and suggests other nearby Waffle House stores./ Staffers told the publication that they ...
It may be spring, but it’s not too soon to look ahead to summer weather, especially when – is rapidly weakening and will all but vanish by the time the season kicks into gear. El Niño’s disappearing act doesn’t mean relief from the heat. Not when the world is heating up due to climate change. In ...