A knife attack during a service at an Assyrian church in Sydney was a terrorist act motivated by suspected religious extremism, Australian police said.

Iran did not provide warnings to the United States last week about its timeframe for launching an attack on Israel or its potential targets, the White House said.

At least four people were wounded, including a bishop with a global online following, in a knife attack during a service at a church in a suburb of Sydney yesterday, police and witnesses said, triggering clashes between angry residents and police.

New York prosecutors asked a judge at the start of Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial to fine him and remind him he could go to jail for violating a gag order that bars him from interfering with potential witnesses.

Turkish, Jordanian and Iraqi officials said on Sunday that Iran gave wide notice days before its drone and missile attack on Israel, but U.S. officials said Tehran did not warn Washington and that it was aiming to cause significant damage.

The man who went on a stabbing rampage in a Sydney shopping centre appears to have targeted women, police say.

One of the victims of the Sydney mall stabbing rampage was on the phone to her boyfriend when the attack happened.

The man who fatally stabbed six people in Sydney had mental health issues in the past.

Leaders of the G7 nations condemned Iran’s attack on Israel and said they would work to try to prevent an “uncontrollable regional escalation” in the Middle East.

President Joe Biden warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the U.S. will not take part in a counter-offensive against Iran.

The United Nations Security Council is set to meet after Israel requested the council condemn Iran’s attack on Israel and designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said it launched dozens of drones and missiles at Israel on Saturday, in an attack that could lead to a major escalation between the regional archenemies.