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WATCH: Local Coverage Of Australian Hostage Siege

A gunman was holding an unknown number of hostages at a downtown chocolate cafe in Sydney. Early on Tuesday morning, Australian time, police moved in and said the siege was over.

We're following the news here. Below is a feed of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's news coverage. ABC is the country's national public broadcaster:

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Eyder Peralta is NPR's East Africa correspondent based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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