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CANADA

Three Indians held over killing of Sikh leader

Canadian police said they have arrested three Indian men in the killing of a Sikh leader last year that became the center of a diplomatic spat with India. Police charged the three on Friday over the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar and said they were probing whether the suspects had links to the Indian government. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sparked a diplomatic feud with India in September when he said there were "credible allegations" of Indian involvement in Nijjar's death. India has dismissed the accusations as "absurd". "It is their political compulsion in Canada to blame India," Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Saturday.

AUSTRALIA

Police shoot youth after man stabbed

Australian police said on Sunday they had shot dead a 16-year-old boy after he stabbed a man in Western Australia's capital Perth. State authorities said they received calls from concerned members of the local Muslim community before the attack, which occurred on Saturday night. "There are indications he had been radicalized online," Western Australian Premier Roger Cook said. The victim, stabbed in the back, was stable in hospital, authorities said. The Perth attack comes less than a month after a knife-wielding assailant killed six people in a shopping mall in Sydney.

Agencies Via Xinhua