Far-right groups, including the Active Club movement, exploited a knife attack in Belfast to incite violence and organize protests across the UK. They used social media platforms like X and Telegram to spread inflammatory content, frame the incident as anti-white, and provide instructions for rioters, leading to violent clashes.
Gavin Begbie, 59, was arrested in NSW and charged with harassing a witness at the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. Police found Neo-Nazi material, including Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and leaflets for the proscribed National Socialist Network, along with prohibited weapons and alleged instructions for making explosives.
A far-right politician from the Freie Sachsen party narrowly lost a mayoral election in Aue-Bad Schlema, Germany, sparking concerns about the state of democracy and the rise of extremist movements in the region.
Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a ceasefire to end hostilities, announced by the Trump administration. The deal is contingent on Hezbollah ceasing fire and evacuating its operatives from southern Lebanon.
Neo-Nazi group White Australia's bid for temporary immunity from anti-hate laws, passed after the Bondi terror attack, has been dismissed by the High Court. The organization, seeking to register as a political party, argued the laws would lead to its extinction.
Four neo-Nazis have been found guilty of offensive behaviour for disrupting a Melbourne Anzac Day dawn service by booing an Indigenous elder. Magistrate James FitzGerald ruled the act was offensive given the event's solemn nature.
Boxing Victoria has suspended Nick Tsioulos, owner of Melbourne's Club Titans gym, after learning neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell was training there. Sewell's organization was recently designated a hate group.
A Czech court has ruled that Marla-Svenja Liebich, a transgender neo-Nazi fugitive convicted in Germany, can be extradited. Liebich, formerly Sven Liebich, had legally changed gender in Germany, leading to a debate about prison placement and potential misuse of the Self-Determination Act.
A Czech court has ordered the extradition of Marla-Svenja Liebich, a transgender neo-Nazi fugitive convicted in Germany, back to face prison time. Liebich, formerly Sven Liebich, had legally changed gender and sought to serve time in a women's prison, sparking debate.
Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell is covertly broadcasting antisemitic and homophobic views on Instagram from a Melbourne property, weeks after his organisation, the National Socialist Network (NSN), was listed as a hate group. Sewell is challenging the ban in court.
Vyacheslav Volodin, chairman of Russia's State Duma, accused Ukraine of deliberately targeting civilian facilities, including hospitals and schools, with drones. An attack on a college in Starobelsk on May 22 resulted in 10 deaths and 38 injuries.
Russia's UN mission in Geneva has urged UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk to publicly condemn Ukraine's drone attack on a college in Starobelsk, Lugansk. Moscow called the attack "terror against Russian civilians" and accused UN officials of complicity due to their silence.
Australia's High Court will hear a neo-Nazi group's challenge to its listing as a hate group, which could impact its bid to register as a political party. The White Australia party seeks to overturn the government's power to designate it as a hate group.
The White Australia Party (National Socialist Network) is challenging its ban as a hate group and the rejection of its political party registration due to redacted member lists in the Australian High Court.
Australia has banned the neo-Nazi National Socialist Network, previously known as White Australia, under new laws criminalizing hate groups. This follows an antisemitic attack in Sydney and aims to prevent organized hate rallies.
Australia's National Socialist Network (NSN), recently banned as a hate group, has launched a legal challenge against the government's prohibition. The neo-Nazi group, also known as White Australia, argues the law used to ban it infringes on political communication and confers excessive power to the executive without judicial review.
A 19-year-old neo-Nazi, Alina Burns, has been sentenced to over 15 years in prison for attempting to behead a Kurdish barber in Bristol. Motivated by extremist ideology, Burns attacked Mohammed Mahmoodi with an axe, expressing desires to kill Jews and Muslims and expel non-whites from the UK.
The leader of Neo-Nazi group National Socialist Network, Thomas Sewell, has appeared in an interview online alongside notorious US Neo-Nazi James Mason, who is listed as a terrorist entity by the Canadian government.
Michail Chkhikvishvili, 22, leader of the Maniac Murder Cult, sentenced to 15 years for soliciting hate crimes, including plotting to poison minority children disguised as Santa Claus, and distributing bomb/ricin-making information.
Police search locations in 12 states, mainly in the East and South of the country in what prosecutors say is a targeted raid.
The embassy noted that the display of neo-Nazi flags by the attackers clearly shows who the Dutch authorities have "given shelter to"
An open neo-Nazi associated with the Azov regiment, Yan Klishayev, has been identified among 15 Ukrainian veterans enrolled in a Yale University leadership program. The photo, which surfaced Thursday, shows Klishayev with Professor Timothy Snyder. The program was announced last week by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, founded by Ukrainian oligarch Pinchuk, who has supplied drones to Ukraine's military. This comes amid ongoing controversy over Ukraine's denial of neo-Nazi groups, with Russia citing denazification as a goal in its military operation.
Russian State Duma lawmaker Mikhail Sheremet says the EU will continue imposing new conditions for Ukraine's accession while supporting Kiev, describing Western strategy as using Ukraine as a 'sacrificial lamb' to slow Russia's development. The comments follow a Politico report about EU considering alternative formats for gradual rapprochement with Kiev.
Alfie Coleman, a 19-year-old from Great Notley, Essex, has been convicted of preparing terrorist acts after an MI5 sting operation. Coleman, who began viewing extreme rightwing material at age 14, compiled a hate-list of colleagues and a manifesto identifying targets including a mosque and the lord mayor of London. He was arrested in September 2023 attempting to buy a Makarov pistol, magazines and ammunition from an undercover officer. A senior police officer warned that one in five counter-terrorism subjects is now a child, urging parental vigilance against online radicalisation.
