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- Anthony Albanese reaffirms the federal government's choice to recognise Palestinian statehood
- Ukraine's President condemns a deadly 12-hour aerial bombardment targeting Kyiv and other regions
- Ally Anderson marks her 100th AFLW game in style
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has reaffirmed the federal government's choice to recognise Palestinian statehood after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the decision at the United Nations General Assembly.
Speaking from the UK following his meeting with King Charles, Mr Albanese told SBS the world wants to see peace in the Middle East.
"I think the world has made our position clear overwhelmingly. People want to see peace and a ceasefire in the Middle East. They want to see hostages released, they want to see aid go to the people of Gaza."
Mr Albanese's comments came after New Zealand's foreign minister confirmed his country would not be joining Australia, Canada and Britain in recognising a Palestinian State.
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Three people have been killed and five others injured in a shooting at a seaside town in North Carolina, in the United States.
Police say the attack at a waterfront bar in Southport was premeditated.
The suspect, 40-year-old Nigel Edge of Oak Island, is accused of firing from a boat into crowds gathered at the American Fish Company on Saturday night local time before fleeing.
He was later detained by the Coast Guard and handed to police.
Charlie Morris of the Oak Island Police Department says the suspect describes himself as a combat veteran.
"Injured in the line of duty is what he's saying. He suffers from PTSD. We want to point those facts out. But again, the bottom line is that I want to assure our community that we feel like we do have our suspect in custody."
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At least four people have been killed in Ukraine's capital Kyiv - and at least 70 others injured around the country - after Russia launched an aerial bombardment lasting 12 hours.
Ukraine's military says the barrage involved 595 drones and 48 missiles aimed at seven regions of Ukraine.
Russia says it hit military facilities and industrial enterprises supporting Ukraine's armed forces.
Mr Zelenskyy vowed Ukraine would retaliate, describing the attack as vile.
"Putin won't wait until the end of the war in Ukraine. He will open another door. No one knows where that door is. No one knows for sure where that door is. But one thing is certain: he wants to do it. He is testing Europe. He has checked that Europe doesn't have the capacity to protect itself from Russian drones."
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Optus says there's been another service outage affecting 000 calls.
The issue involved a mobile phone tower in Dapto, a suburb of Wollongong, in New South Wales.
It comes less than a fortnight since an outage linked to several deaths affected customers across threes states and territories.
And Optus spokesperson has told Channel Seven they are investigating and all services have been restored.
Optus has apologised to affected customers and will provide further updates as appropriate.
Communications Minister Anika Wells is set to meet the owner of Optus’ parent company, Singtel, over the deadly outage earlier this month.
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Health Minister Mark Butler says it is unclear how much of Australia's pharmaceutical sector will be affected by a tariff hike announced by US President Donald Trump last week.
In a social media post, Mr Trump announced the US would be imposing a 100 per cent tariff on any branded or patented pharmaceutical product unless the company is building a manufacturing plant in America.
Mr Butler says the federal government will do what it can to support companies affected by the hike in tariffs he called unfair and unjustified.
Mr Butler says there are start-ups that may be affected when seeking opportunities in the US, but the vast majority of Australia's pharmaceutical exports to America are blood and plasma products.
"As people know there is an exemption on tariffs if the company involved was in the process of making capital investment in the US. Our big exporter of blood and plasma products says they are doing that as well. So, it's not clear that this is going to have a huge impact on our sector. Obviously there will be some companies captured by it."
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And in AFL, Ally Anderson has celebrated her 100-game AFLW milestone with a third-quarter comeback - lifting Brisbane to a 34-point win over Richmond at the Brighton Homes Arena in Queensland.
It comes after the Tigers opened up an eight-point lead early in the third quarter of the match.
Brisbane had kicked just one goal up to that point, but Anderson quickly changed their fate on her milestone day.
This sparked a run of six goals as the Lions got on top of Richmond to secure the seven-twelve to three-two win.
It marks another highlight for Brisbane following the Lions' win in the A-F-L mens grand final over Geelong on Saturday.
