The United Nations says Australia is in breach of the human rights convention; The U-S Supreme Court agrees to hear Donald Trumps appeal against state ballot disqualifications; Australia is denied the change to play a maiden match in the US.
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- The United Nations says Australia is in breach of the human rights covenant.
- The U-S Supreme Court agrees to hear Donald Trumps appeal against state ballot disqualifications.
- Australia is denied the change to play a maiden match in the US, with all of their T-20 World Cup group games to be in the West Indies...
The United Nations Human Rights Committee is criticizing the Australian Federal Court for decisions made regarding Aboriginal native title claims that it says breach the human rights convention.
The Human Rights Committee says Australia breaches the rights of the Wunna Nyiyaparli people, who lodged a native title claim in 2012 and were shortly dismissed.
The claims covered land in the Pilbara region that includes three iron ore mines owned by several of Australia's richest people - including billionaires Gina Rinehart and Andrew Forrest.
The U-N decision is not binding but rather intends to place pressure on the Australian government.
They also suggested that until effective participation was allowed in legal proceedings, the Australian government should refrain from activities which might adversely impact the interests of the Wunna Nyiyaparli, review any mining concessions granted over the traditional lands, and pay the Wunna Nyiyaparli adequate compensation for the harm they have suffered as well as reviewing legal aid funding to native title matters.
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The United States Sumpre Court has agreed to hearing former President Donald Trump's appeal of a decision barring him from entering state Republican primary ballots.
The Supreme Court in Colorado made a ruling in December that exercised the rarely invoked language of the U-S Constitution's 14th Amendement, disqualifying him from the ballot on the grounds of insurrection.
Since the Colorado ruling, the U-S state of Maine's Supreme Court also made the decision to disqualify Trump from the ballot.
Trump filed his appeal on Wednesday [[3rd]] and the justices quickly made the decision to hear the case.
Despite the many charges and legal challenges being brought against Donald Trump, many of his supporters, including Becky Gee from South Carolina, say they're not deterred.
"He is going to win this time because people are going to flood the polls. So how do you stop that? Well, you try to get him off the ballot. You try all these different things, you try to have these frivolous lawsuits against him. It's all political-based. And if he were to say today, 'I'm dropping out of the race,' all that stuff would go away."
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The government of Azerbaijan has announced the appointment of Mukhtar Babayev as the president of this years U-N COP29 climate talks in November.
Mr Babayev is the minister for ecology and natural resources and spent twenty six years working for Azerbaijan's state oil company SOCAR.
Azerbaijan is a large exporter of natural gas, which accounted for over 92 percent of the countries export revenue last year.
This appointment continues the contentious trend of countries and individuals with strong ties to fossil fuel industries hosting climate talks.
Climate scientists, like renowned expert Michael Mann from the University of Pennsylvania, say they are disappointed in the allowance of oil and gas industry links to take control of the summit.
Michael Mann says the COP summit has become a shameless exercise and that what he calls 'petro-states' should not be allowed to host the summits.
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The United Nations says Gaza has come a place of death and despair.
Associate spokesperson for the U.N. Secretary-General, Stephanie Tremblay called attention to the severity of the situation in Gaza on Friday, outlining the challenges aid organisations were facing.
Tremblay says the security risks and mobility constraints are making the delivery of aid and support very difficult and dangerous, echoing the statements of the Secretary General Antonio Guteres.
"As the SG said repeatedly, really, what is important is really to work towards the two-state solution, to have first a humanitarian ceasefire, to try to find a way to address the immense and growing needs of the population there, to facilitate the aid of humanitarian delivery, to release all the hostages and to resume work seriously towards a two-state solution."
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In rowing, Australia's men's eight rowing team are feeling hopeful about their chances at winning Australia's first gold medal in their event at this years Paris Olympics.
No Australian eight has ever made the top of the podium at the Olympics but a gold at the third World Cup regatta in Switzerland last July has the teams spirits high.
The Eight's Angus Widdicombe says that fierce competition for seats ahead of the Paris Games, and "clarity" under coach Mark Prater will enable the boat to perform.
