Teen is charged with Anzac Day plot

A teenager has been charged with plotting a terrorist attack on an Australian Veteran’s Day ceremony — the second year in a row that authorities say they have thwarted an attack linked to the national holiday.

The 16-year-old boy was charged with one count of planning a terrorist act after being arrested at his home in western Sydney on Sunday, a day before Australians gathered at ceremonies to mark Anzac Day.

The day commemorates the April 25, 1915 Gallipoli landings in Turkey, the first major military action fought by the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during the First World War.