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- Australia and France to discuss Palestinian statehood at the UN next month;
- Tech giants accused of failing to tackle crimes against children online;
- A Portuguese football star dies of a heart attack at 53.
The leaders of Australia and France have made plans to meet at a United Nations gathering in September, where Palestinian statehood and the crisis in Gaza will be major issues.
It's been confirmed in a phone call between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and French President Emmanuel Macron, their first call since France declared plans to recognise Palestine at the U-N gathering in September.
Mr Albanese has said Australia will eventually recognise Palestine, describing it as a matter of when, not if.
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Tech giants have been accused of failing to tackle crimes against children online, despite figures suggesting more than 16 million photos and videos were found on the platforms.
An eSafety report has found that Apple and Google's YouTube aren't tracking the number of user reports about child sexual abuse, nor could they say how long it took to respond to the allegations.
It's also found that none of the giants had deployed tools to detect child sexual exploitation livestreaming on their services, three years after the regulator first raised the alarm.
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To Tasmania,
And Jeremy Rockliff has met with the Tasmanian governor to ask for his Liberal government to be re-commissioned, after an election with no clear winner.
Mr Rockliff has not secured supply and confidence agreements with key crossbenchers, who are needed if a party hopes to govern in minority.
But he's previously indicated he thought it was "not necessary" in this instance.
In the meantime, Labor Leader Dean Winter is still vying for his party to form government, after revealing he had stepped up negotiations with crossbenchers - in particular independents - in recent days.
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Two of the Great Barrier Reef's three regions have recorded their sharpest declines in coral coverage in four decades.
A 2024 spike in ocean temperatures has been largely blamed for the result in the Australian Institute of Marine Science's latest annual survey.
Report co-author Dr Daniela Ceccarelli says the increasing frequency of such events is cause for alarm, and that successive bleaching incidents were once considered highly unusual.
That initial report concluded the platforms weren't proactively detecting stored abuse material or using measures to find live-streams of child harm.
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In the US, the FBI could be asked to help find and arrest Democratic politicians who left the state to frustrate what they called a partisan redrawing of seats in Texas.
At President Donald Trump's urging, Texas Republicans had proposed new congressional districts aimed at flipping five Democrat-held U.S. House seats in next year's midterm elections, further skewing what is already considered a deeply partisan map in that state.
The Democrats went to Illinois to prevent the plan going to a vote, because the legislature fell short of a quorum.
Donald Trump has said the FBI "may have to get involved, because local officials don't have any authority past state lines, while House Speaker Dustin Burrows earlier said the governor of Texas had offered to use the Department of Public safety to bring them back.
“I have signed the civil arrest warrants. We will work with DPS to locate members. I saw, for instance, there is one member who said that they are doing a fundraiser here in Austin tomorrow, and I've sent that fundraising letter to DPS and said they should be invited to attend as well. We'll see how that goes forward."
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Japan is marking 80 years since the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing an estimated 140,000 people by the end of 1945.
The bombing was followed three days later by another in Nagasaki, prompting Japan’s surrender and ending World War Two.
Rebun Kayo is a Hiroshima University researcher who regularly searches for the remains of those who have never been found in the years since.
"Even though 80 years have passed, as fellow human beings, we first need to bring out the remains to light. Then, we must give them a proper, human burial. Right now, it’s just soil covering them - it can’t really be called a burial. They should be placed respectfully in an urn and laid to rest somewhere appropriate. And unless we all come together, put our hands together in prayer, and honour them, I believe, for these individuals the war still hasn’t truly ended.”
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Former Porto captain Jorge Costa has died at the age of 53 after suffering a cardiac arrest at the club's training centre.
The former defender, who was serving as Porto's Director of Professional Football in his second season in the role, was rushed to hospital but could not be saved.
Costa played 530 games in all competitions including 383 for Porto and 50 for Portugal's national team.
