SYDNEY — The threat of a terror attack in Australia is "real", Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said after the so-called Islamic State group urged followers to target Sydney’s beachside Bondi and the Melbourne Cricket Ground. "We have a threat level of ’probable’, so it is a real threat," he said late Tuesday when speaking to reporters in Vientiane, Laos. Australia’s Justice Minister Michael Keenan said the latest threat did not change the fundamentals in Australia, where the terror threat was lifted to high in 2014. Officials say they have stopped 10 terror attacks in Australia in the past two years. Ashton said while police were taking the comments seriously, there was nothing to suggest any specific threat to the places mentioned.

Source: Viet Nam News September 07, 2016 03:45 UTC