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The wreckage of a double decker bus with its top blown off at Tavistock Square in London on July 7, 2005.

‘If I could have amnesia, I would’: The horror day that left 52 dead in London

Thelma Stober was on the Tube when a terrorist standing next to her detonated a bomb. Her thoughts 20 years later are with those who did not make it.

  • David Crowe

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Rabbi Dovid Gurnick speaks to Dvir Abramovich outside the East Melbourne synagogue on Saturday.

Thugs who perform violence over distant atrocities have no place here

Violence carried out in the name of protest but fuelled by hatred of Jewish citizens of Australia is as imbecilic as it is inexcusable.

  • Tony Wright
Sydney academic Vafa Ghazavi with his friend Melissa Hortman, the American Democratic politician who was assassinated with her husband on the weekend.

My friend was assassinated. In a world of shrinking political ideals, she was a beacon

Melissa Hortman, a great American reformer, accepted my invitation to come to Australia. Now, that will never happen.

  • Vafa Ghazavi
Mourners carry the flag-draped coffins of five men, whose names were not immediately available, reportedly killed in Israeli strikes, during their funeral in the city of Khorramabad, Iran, on Monday.

Iranians support Israel assassinating their oppressors – at least for now

Regime change, if that is indeed Israel’s goal, cannot be imposed from outside. It must come from within, and Israel risks alienating the very constituency it needs to get the job done.

  • Kylie Moore-Gilbert
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Five killed in suicide attack on Pakistan school bus

No group has immediately claimed responsibility, though suspicion is likely to fall on militants who Pakistan claims are backed by India.

Agitator Matt Trihey disrupted a Kooyong candidates’ forum at Kew library on April 23.

‘Private intel’: Inside the far-right group disrupting the election

They came asking politicians “reasonable questions”, but they’re really working with a network of extreme-right agitators.

  • Sherryn Groch
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Storm’s Welcome to Country ‘cancelled’ at last minute, says Indigenous elder

Indigenous groups say they have been left dumbfounded and distressed after the Welcome to Country at Melbourne Storm’s Anzac Day NRL match was cancelled at the last minute.

  • Lachlan Abbott, Brittany Busch, Sherryn Groch and Cassandra Morgan
Police lead away white supremacist Jacob Hersant, who heckled the Welcome to Country at the dawn service at Melbourne’s Shrine of Rememberance.

Bipartisan condemnation: Welcome to Country hecklers’ massive own goal

The Anzac Day incidents serve as a warning to mainstream political parties of the risk of fuelling parts of the culture wars when an emboldened far-right movement is ready to pounce.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
A touring exhibition for school kids in Russia compares Ukraine with Nazi Germany and describes Australia, the EU and Nordic countries as supporters of Nazism.

Russian children taught Australia ‘supports Nazism’ in propaganda push

The content falsely equates Western military and financial aid to Ukraine with ideological support for Nazism.

  • Rob Harris
Daniel Jones, who runs a self-defence outfit, has posted pictures and videos of himself wielding guns and even rocket launchers online.

Revealed: the far-right agitators who confronted the PM in a hotel lobby

One of the men said people should train “to be able to kill” and posted footage of himself wielding machineguns and rocket launchers.

  • Sherryn Groch

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