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- A Sydney driver charged over the death of a woman and her unborn baby;
- The UN to probe allegations of atrocities in Sudan;
- Scans clear England ace Mark Wood ahead of the first Ashes test against Australia.
A man has been charged over the deaths of a pregnant woman and her unborn baby in a suburban car park in Sydney.
Police allege the 19-year-old was behind the wheel of a BMW that collided with a Kia, causing it to crash into the woman at Hornsby, in the city's northwest.
Assistant Commissioner David Driver says the 33 year old pregnant woman was a pedestrian.
"The lady was walking with her family, which included her husband and three year old son... Any serious crash is confronting for first responders. And particularly tragic when people pass away and indeed when children are involved. This is a terrible, terrible story."
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Australia's farming sector and political leaders have welcomed a backflip by US President Donald Trump to remove tariffs on Australia's agricultural exports, including beef.
Meat is Australia's second largest export to America behind non-monetary gold, with figures from the United States Studies Centre suggesting the US accounted for 30 percent of Australia's beef exports in 2024.
Cattle Australia chief executive Will Evans has called the US an incredibly important market.
Trade Minister Senator Don Farrell has released a statement saying the government never accepted that tariffs on any Australian products were justified.
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Donald Trump has demanded the US Justice Department open an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's alleged ties with Democratic President Bill Clinton and JPMorgan.
Attorney-General Pam Bondi has named Manhattan federal prosecutor Jay Clayton to lead the probe.
The order for the investigation marks the latest in a series of demands by Trump for officials to pursue his perceived political enemies, and two days after the release of thousands of documents that raised new questions for politicians in both parties about the president's relationship with the late financier.
The House will vote on the full release of the so-called Epstein files next week, and Republican congressman Kevin Kiley says he intends to support it.
"I think it'll pass. I think they'll probably pass by a comfortable margin. I think that, you know, everyone generally agrees that the victims deserve answers. The American public deserves answers, and it'd be best to just get total transparency here so that we can all move on."
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The UN Human Rights Council has ordered a full inquiry into allegations of atrocities in Sudan's El-Fasher, after the Rapid Support Force seized control of the key town following an 18-month seige.
The United Nation' independent fact-finding mission on Sudan has already been collecting evidence of violations and killings.
But Fact finding mission member Mona Rishmawi says their probe will be expanded in order to identify perpetrators so they can be brought to justice.
"Much of el-Fasher now is a crime scene... Our fact-finding mission has interviewed witnesses and collected evidence of unspeakable atrocities, deliberate killings, torture, rape, abduction for ransom, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances, all at the mass scale. A comprehensive investigation is required to establish the full picture. But what we already know is devastating."
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Members of Australia's African diaspora community have rallied in Sydney to draw attention to conflicts in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Hundreds have attended the protest at Hyde Park, calling on the media, government and non-profit organisations to do more to help end the violence.
Rally organiser Aroma Makuei says she believes racism has played a role in the under-reporting of conflicts in Africa.
"It really is very upsetting in a sense. It's very depressing to see that we don't get the same media attention as everyone else. But what I will say is, in this situation that we're in, I feel like Sudan is actually getting a lot more media attention than Congo, which is funny to say. Compared to Palestine, you don't really hear much about Sudan and Congo. So I think that's the purpose of what we're doing today as well. Just to urge the international media to be like, 'Hey, talk about our countries as well'."
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AC/DC's return to the stage in Australia has been powerful enough to register on earthquake monitoring equipment.
The Seismology Research Centre, located more than three kilometres away from Melbourne's MCG, says the combination of high-volume sound systems and crowd movement generated sizeable ground vibrations as the iconic band performed on Wednesday, their first Australian concert since 2015.
Chief scientist Adam Pascale says the Centre has previously recorded similar crowd-generated vibrations during major sporting events.
He says AC/DC's performance marked one of the strongest concert-related signals in recent years.
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To sport and in cricket news,
England ace Mark Wood remains an outside chance to feature in the first Ashes Test against Australia.
Wood experienced tightness in his left hamstring after playing at Lilac Hill earlier this week, his first since undergoing knee surgery in March.
Scans have now cleared him of any damage, and although Wood isn't expected to bowl for England on the final day of the warm-up match on Saturday, he will train next week in a bid to prove his fitness for the first Test.
