- A five month old baby killed in a tragic carpark accident in Sydney
- Qatar hosts an emergency summit after an Israeli strike on Hamas in Doha
- Spain calls for Israel to be banned from future sporting events
A baby has died and a young child is fighting for their life after a tragic accident in Sydney's south-west overnight.
New South Wales Police say the five month old was killed after being pinned by a car in the carpark of a shopping centre in the suburb of Minto.
The second child is understood to be around five years old and is in a serious condition in hospital.
This eyewitness has described the incident, telling Channel Nine it was an awful scene.
"A baby was hit in the stroller, and another toddler was injured. And a lot of shoppers - there were a few people who were traumatised from seeing it."
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The heads of Arab and Islamic states in the Middle East have held a summit to show support for Qatar after Israel's attack on the Gulf state last week.
Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani has told the emergency meeting that's included Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye that practical and decisive steps were required in response to the attack he called "cowardly and treacherous.
At the same time, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to give strong backing for Israel's hardline stance, although Washington has expressed unease over the Qatar strike.
But Mr Rubio says the US still wants a diplomatic end to the war, which he believes the Gulf nations - including Qatar - must play a role in.
"What happens now? What role can Qatar play possibly in reaching an outcome here that leads not just to the end of this hostilities, not just to the release of all of the hostages, both living and deceased, not just the disarmament and elimination of Hamas, but also a better future for the people of Gaza, which isn't possible as long as Hamas exists, which isn't possible as long as 48 hostages are being held. And so we're going to continue to encourage Qatar to play a constructive role in that regard."
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A group of students in Myanmar have reportedly been killed in a military airstrike on their school.
It is unclear how many have died in the incident, but the Arakan Army (a militia battling the military) has put the death toll at around 19 students, who were aged between 15 and 21.
UNICEF says the strike hit a boarding school last week in one of the country’s most troubled states, identified as Kyauktaw township in Rakhine.
The World Food Programme has warned the Rakhine region faces rising hunger and malnutrition, including among the minority Muslim Rohingya community persecuted by successive regional administrations.
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The Greens have accused Labor of failing to mitigate climate risks for Australians by approving the Woodside gas project.
The minor party says the report was supposed to be released in 2024, but the delay meant Labor was aware of Australia's so-called "bleak climate future" before it approving the extension last week.
The claim follows the release of a long-awaited National Climate Risk Assessment that as many as 1.5 million Australians will be at high risk from the damaging affects of climate change in the future.
Party leader Larissa Waters says the report is a wake-up call for Labor.
"Australians have had enough of their safety, their cost of living and their security coming last after the profit of Woodside, of Glencore, of other big coal and gas companies that make big donations to both sides of politics, and get to write their own rules. People are sick of the system being ripped against them, and favours being done for big corporations, while their very security and way of life is at risk."
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Anthony Albanese has marked the golden jubilee of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby, a country that was a colonial territory of Australia's until 1974.
A range of Pacific leaders and former prime minister Scott Morrison are also in Port Moresby for the commemorations.
The PM has hailed the signing of a new defence pact with Papua New Guinea at the jubilee, a landmark agreement will "integrate" forces either side of the Torres Strait and could trigger mutual support in cases of conflict.
He says the deal elevates Australia's neighbour.
"It's an upgrade in our security relationship to a treaty level, to the sort of level that we have with the United States and our important allies."
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To sport and in cycling news,
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called for Israel to be banned from sports events after the final stage of the country's Vuelta cycling race in Madrid was cut short by pro-Palestinian protests.
The protesters opposing the participation of Israeli team Israel Premier Tech threw barriers onto the road and clashed with police near the finish line in the Spanish capital.
Mr Sanchez says organisers should consider whether or not it is ethical for Israel to keep participating in international competitions on the basis of its military campaign in Gaza, when Russia was forced out after the invasion of Ukraine.
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