Five dead after severe storms in eastern Australia. Israel's military chief says the war in Gaza will last for many more months, And the Sydney to Hobart fleet reduced to 98 boats
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- Five dead after severe storms in eastern Australia
- Israel's military chief says the war in Gaza will last for many more months
- And the Sydney to Hobart fleet reduced to 98 boats
Rescue crews in Queensland will resume their search for a person missing in a stormwater drain in Gympie.
Deputy Commissioner of Queensland Fire and Emergency Services Kevin Walsh has told the ABC a total of three people entered the drain.
Severe storms across Australia's east have claimed six lives, including a nine-year-old girl swept into a flooded drain at Rochedale, south of Brisbane.
A man's body has been found following a search at a newly opened beach in Sydney's west.
Emergency services were called to Penrith Beach on Boxing Day after a man was seen going underwater and not resurfacing.
Three rescue boats and two helicopters joined the police search and the waterway was closed to the public.
Emergency crews found the body of a man believed to be in his 30s.
A report will be prepared for the coroner.
The man-made beach at Penrith Lakes opened to the public one week ago.
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A man's body has been found following a search at a newly opened beach in Sydney's west.
Emergency services were called to Penrith Beach on Boxing Day after a man was seen going underwater and not resurfacing.
Three rescue boats and two helicopters joined the police search and the waterway was closed to the public.
Emergency crews found the body of a man believed to be in his 30s.
A report will be prepared for the coroner.
The man-made beach at Penrith Lakes opened to the public one week ago.
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Israel's military chief says the war in Gaza is likely to go on for many more months.
Chief of the General Staff Herzi Halevi says defeating Hamas will require determined and persistent fighting.
"This war has necessary and not easy goals to achieve, it takes place in complex territory. Therefore the war will go on for many months and we will employ different methods to maintain our achievements for a long time."
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says almost 21,000 Palestinians have now been killed since the war began in early October.
Footage filmed by Associated Press shows dozens of bodies being buried in a mass grave in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
The bodies had been loaded into a truck after being held by Israeli forces in northern Gaza so they could be transferred back to local authorities for burial.
Workers put the bodies onto a front-end loader which took the remains to a mass grave.
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Police in France have arrested a 33-year old man who is suspected of murdering his wife and four children.
Authorities found five bodies inside a flat in Meaux about 40 kilometres north-east of Paris.
A prosecutor says the suspect had spent time in a psychiatric hospital in 2017 and attempted suicide that same year.
In 2019, the prosecutor says the suspect attacked his partner with a knife.
The local mayor, Jean-Francois Cope, described the deaths as an absolute horror.
"The human toll is horrifying, a whole family was killed, stabbed in atrocious conditions. It’s an absolute horror.”
I measure the feeling of helplessness in such an event, but on a national level we need to have a deep assessment and rethinking of the consequences of psychiatric troubles on the families of these individuals.”
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The opposition is accusing the Federal Government of failing to help Australians over the rising cost of groceries.
Labor said it was planning to review the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct in October, but as yet no-one has been appointed to lead the review.
Nationals leader David Littleproud told 2-G-B it's time that supermarkets were held to account:
"When you see a 60, 70 percent reduction in sheep and lamb prices and only an 8 per cent reduction at the checkout - someone is cleaning up and that's the supermarket. And then you look at even watermelons - a dollar a kilogram they're paying the farmers but they're charging $4, $4.50 a kilogram."
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The Sydney to Hobart fleet has been reduced to 98 boats after overall honours contender Maritimo 52 was one of two retirements on a stormy first night of racing.
The 50-footer Sticky pulled out with electrical issues.
Rival supermaxis Andoo Comanche and LawConnect are the race leaders some 35 nautical miles ahead of their nearest challengers.
In cricket, David Warner wants Australia to put the foot down in search of a first-innings score in excess of 400 in the second Test against Pakistan, but acknowledges it will be a tough ask.
Australia will resume at 3-187 at the MCG with Marnus Labuschagne and Travis Head at the crease.
A three-hour rain delay frustrated both sides and means Australia will look to increase their run rate on day two.
