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Police in the state of New South Wales say around 1,000 people were at an event celebrating the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah when the attack took place.
They say one of the suspects is among the dead and a second is in critical condition.
More than two dozen people, including two police officers, are in hospitals across Sydney.
New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon says the investigation into the incident will be extensive.
Police are also investigating a possible third suspect and suspected improvised explosive devices found in a vehicle near the beach.
For NPR News, I'm Christina Kukola in Melbourne.
Police in the state of New South Wales say around 1,000 people were at an event celebrating the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah when the attack took place.
They say one of the suspects is among the dead and a second is in critical condition.
More than two dozen people, including two police officers, are in hospitals across Sydney.
New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon says the investigation into the incident will be extensive.
Police are also investigating a possible third suspect and suspected improvised explosive devices found in a vehicle near the beach.
For NPR News, I'm Christina Kukola in Melbourne.
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has hailed the ban as a reform that will change the lives of parents and children and reverberate around the world.
Facebook, TikTok and X are among 10 platforms required to bar children under 16 from holding social media accounts.
But 14-year-old Elliot Swan from Melbourne says he's not confident it will work.
Digital rights activists have launched a challenge to the ban in Australia's highest court, which is expected to be heard next year.
For NPR News, I'm Christina Kukola in Melbourne.
New Zealand police say search teams have recovered the bodies of the two men who died on Aoraki Mount Cook on Monday evening local time.
Police are yet to publicly identify the American citizen who's reported to have died together with his mountain guide, who's said to be a French national.
Two other climbers who were with them were rescued by helicopter.