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Security officers stand guard outside Orthodox Assyrian church in Sydney, Australia, Monday, April 15, 2024.

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A knife attack in Australia is being treated as terrorism

Australian police say a knife attack in Sydney that wounded a bishop and a priest during a church service as worshippers watched online and in person, and sparked a riot was an act of terrorism.

April 16, 2024
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A woman brings flowers to an impromptu memorial at Bondi Junction in Sydney, Sunday, April 14, 2024, after several people were stabbed to death at a shopping center Saturday.

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  • Asia

Police in Australia identify the Sydney stabbing attacker who killed 6 people

Police have identified the assailant who stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center before he was fatally shot by a police officer.

April 14, 2024
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People are led out from the Westfield Shopping Centre where multiple people were stabbed in Sydney on Saturday.

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  • Asia

Man stabs 6 people to death in Sydney shopping center before fatally shot by police

Eight people, including a 9-month-old, were injured in the attack in Sydney's eastern suburbs before a police inspector shot the suspect after he turned and raised a knife, police said.

April 13, 2024
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A thick blanket of smoke hangs over parts of the Sydney, Sept. 14, 2023, following New South Wales Rural Fire Service hazard reduction burns in the past week.

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  • Environment

Australian wildfire danger causes fire ban in Sydney and closes schools

Authorities have forecast the most destructive wildfire season during the approaching Southern Hemisphere summer in Australia's populous southeast since the fires of 2019-20 that killed 33 people.

September 19, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft corporate vice president of modern Llife, search, and devices speaks during an event introducing a new AI-powered Microsoft Bing and Edge at Microsoft in Redmond, Wash., earlier this month.

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Microsoft's new AI chatbot has been saying some 'crazy and unhinged things'

After Microsoft's powerful AI chatbot verbally attacked people, and even compared one person to Hitler, the company has decided to rein in the technology until it works out the kinks.

March 02, 2023
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  • Bobby Allyn
People look Tuesday at the flooded Windsor Bridge at Windsor on the outskirts of Sydney, Australia.

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  • Asia

Sydney floods worsen as 50,000 Australians are warned to evacuate or be ready to

Days of torrential rain have caused dams to overflow and waterways to break their banks, bringing a fourth flood emergency in 16 months to parts of the city of 5 million people.

July 05, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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More than 3 feet of rain triggers evacuation warnings in Australia's largest city

Parts of Sydney's 5 million people are facing a fourth flooding emergency in less than a year and a half after torrential rain caused dams to overflow and waterways to break their banks.

July 04, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The Manly Ferry makes its way through heavy swells across Sydney Harbour, Australia, Sunday, July 3, 2022.

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  • World

Heavy rains, floods prompt evacuations of Sydney suburbs

Thousands of residents in Sydney suburbs were told to evacuate their homes on Sunday after heavy rains caused floodwaters to rise and rivers to overflow.

July 03, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Steve Johnson with his sisters, Terry, left, and Rebecca and his wife Rosemarie, second right, arrive at the Supreme Court in Sydney on Monday for a sentencing hearing in the murder of Scott Johnson — Steve, Terry and Rebecca's brother.

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  • World

Sydney man admits to pushing a gay American off a cliff in 1988

The defendant faces a potential sentence of life in prison on sentencing scheduled for Tuesday.

May 02, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A surfer carries his board into the water next to a sign declaring a shark sighting on Sydney's Manly Beach, Australia, November 24, 2015.

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  • World

A swimmer died in the 1st fatal shark attack at a Sydney beach in nearly 6 decades

The incident, in which someone saw a man in a wetsuit get dragged underwater, is the city's first fatal shark attack since 1963. Beaches are closed while lifeguards patrol for further shark sightings.

February 16, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
Mounted police officers patrol around the edge of Sydney Harbor on Friday as the Australian city has been locked down amid a new surge in coronavirus infections.

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  • Asia

Australian Troops Will Help Enforce A Coronavirus Lockdown In Sydney

About 300 unarmed soldiers are joining local police in the city of 6 million to enforce coronavirus restrictions as authorities try to quell a new outbreak linked to the delta variant.

July 30, 2021
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  • Scott Neuman
A normally busy shopping area in Sydney is nearly empty of people, Wednesday, July 7. Sydney's two-week lockdown has been extended for another week due to the vulnerability of an Australia population largely unvaccinated against COVID-19, officials said.

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  • World

Australia's Largest City Sydney Locks Down For A Third Week

The city's initial two-week lockdown has been extended, officials say, because only 9% of Australia's population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

July 07, 2021
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  • The Associated Press

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