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The Australian Islamic House Masjid

Teen charged over alleged mass shooting threats against new Sydney mosque

The alleged threat referencing the massacre in Christchurch was left on the Instagram page of the Australian Islamic House Masjid.

  • Sally Rawsthorne and Amber Schultz

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A random luggage search at San Francisco International Airport allegedly uncovered 21kg in methamphetamine en route to Brisbane.

Brisbane woman accused of hauling bags of meth for $15k and a free trip

The 25-year-old was allegedly caught with 21kg of drugs at San Francisco International Airport before she could get home.

  • Sean Parnell
Investigators found 2.5kg of cocaine inside Jae Young Choi’s suitcases at Sydney Airport in March 2023

‘That can look suspicious’: how a drug smuggler came undone

Saddled with a $450,000 debt and a serious addiction to gambling, Jae Young Choi was in trouble.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
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Crime gangs attempted to use caravan explosives for leverage over police

The blast material discovered in the caravan was up to 40 years old, a key clue about the origins of the plot.

  • David Crowe and Perry Duffin
Cocaine smuggling at Port Botany

Cocaine smugglers use dangerous new tactic to infiltrate Sydney

Federal police fear a novel cocaine importation tactic will end with gangsters killing security guards to secure the illegal drugs in Sydney.

  • Perry Duffin
A Victorian man has been charged with allegedly making death threats towards federal and state MPs.

Man charged over sending federal, state MPs antisemitic death threats

A Reservoir man, 33, was charged on Thursday for allegedly contacting a federal MP making death threats and antisemitic comments.

  • Olivia Ireland
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An alleged bandit of a criminal gang of Sao Paulo, Brazil, appears in a recorded message that was broadcast on O Globo television early on Sunday, Aug. 13, 2006. Brazil’s most notorious organized crime group, the PCC, kidnapped O Globo television reporter Guilherme Portanova and forced his station to broadcast a video early Sunday in which the gang calls for improvements in the country’s prison system. (AP Photo) .

The feared Brazilian crime gang targeting Australia

Closely tied to Italy’s ’Ndrangheta and organised crime groups across the Balkans, the Primeiro Comando da Capital is thought to be Latin America’s largest gang.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw declined to answer questions about whether he briefed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese about the caravan discovery.

‘Damage control’: AFP boss dodges questions on caravan plot briefing

The Coalition and the Greens accused the government and federal police of dodging scrutiny over whether the prime minister was briefed over the caravan plot.

  • Matthew Knott and Olivia Ireland
Displaying Nazi symbols will be punished with mandatory minimum sentences of a year. These swastikas were graffitied on a Sydney synagogue.

Albanese defends backflip on mandatory minimum sentences for antisemitism offences

A communications breakdown between state and federal police kept Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in the dark over the discovery of a caravan full of explosive, inflaming debate on antisemitism.

  • Paul Sakkal
Counter Terrorism and Special Investigations Command Assistant Commissioner Stephen Nutt, pictured in 2023.

Man accused of hurling antisemitic comments at political organisation

A 64-year-old Victorian man has been arrested after he allegedly levelled antisemitic and abusive statements at a political organisation.

  • Cassandra Morgan

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