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- The International Court of Justice orders Israel to take action to prevent genocide
- Tens of thousands of people attend Invasion Day rallies across the country
- Danil Medvedev storms back from two sets down to book a spot in his third Australian Open final
Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan has criticised the International Court of Justice and the United Nations for not standing up in support of Israel and against Hamas.
Mr Erdan also criticised the World Court decision to order Israel to take action to prevent genocide in its war against Hamas in Gaza.
As part of the ICJ ruling, 15 of the 17 panel judges voted for emergency measures which covered most of what South Africa asked for, with the notable exception of ordering a halt to Israeli military action in Gaza.
Mr Erdan says it's shocking.
"The UN has become one of the weapons in the arsenal of modern day Nazis: Against us! Every UN body has become weaponized against the Jewish state, exploited as an instrument to aid in the elimination of my people. How symbolic it is? How symbolic is it that on International Holocaust Remembrance Day it was exposed that UNRWA employees took part in the massacre?”
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Tens of thousands of people have showed solidarity with First Nations people by joining Invasion Day and Survival Day rallies, with events and marches held in all major cities across the country .
Demonstrators in Melbourne gathered in the thousands at state parliament before marching to Flinders Street Station where they staged a sit in.
Thousands joined the Invasion Day rally in Sydney, meeting at Belmore Park before marching through the city to the Yabun festival.
And in Darwin, protesters gathered to call for land to be returned to First Nations people and for improved youth justice laws.
Larrakia Tiwi woman, Malill Mammay was an organiser of the event in Darwin.
She says it's important for Traditional Owners to be able to manage and protect the land.
"Our theme for today is land back and that basically summarizes the prioritizing of traditional owners voices and their wisdom and their knowledge and also the rights that they have to protect country and to manage country. When we're talking about carrying or protecting country what we mean is really thought out, intricate management of country that has been led by indigenous people for millennia."
Organisers and guest speakers across the country also urged for an end to Aboriginal deaths in custody, to end the forced removal of Indigenous children from their families and for the closure of youth prisons.
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Six members of a neo-Nazi group have been arrested after around sixty balaclava clad men holding Australian flags stormed a train in New South Wales.
The group boarded a train in Artarmon and were stopped by police officers at North Sydney Station heading towards the CBD.
Prominent Australian neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell was among those stopped by police and was filmed receiving a public safety order banning him from attending any Australia Day events in Sydney.
Mr Sewell defended the right of who he called "proud white Australians" to attend Australia Day events.
New South Wales Premier, Chris Minns says normal people don't attend Australia Day events in balaclavas.
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An international group of scientists called BioRescue say they’ve shown IVF techniques could save the northern white rhino from extinction.
They've reported that a southern white rhino became pregnant with a southern white rhino embryo, which shows they can use IVF to preserve the more endangered and near extinct northern white rhino sub-species.
The embryo was produced in vitro from collected eggs and sperm and transferred to the surrogate mother in Kenya.
Professor Thomas Hildebrandt is the project lead, and he says the results are giving scientists much hope.
“Now we have the clear evidence that an embryo that is frozen, thawed, produced in a test tube can produce new life and that is what we want for the Northern white rhinos.”
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Russian ice-man Daniil Medvedev has stormed back from two sets down to break the heart of Alexander Zverev and book a spot in his third Australian Open final.
The Number.3 seed will chase his second major title on Sunday against rising Italian superstar Jannik Sinner, who earlier on Friday ended super Serb Novak Djokovic's perfect 10-from-10 semi-final record at Melbourne Park with a commanding four-set win.
With Zverev in early command, Medvedev looked on the verge of a straight-sets exit when he dropped the opening two sets of the night semi-final on Rod Laver Arena.
But the 27-year-old hung tough to win the next two sets in tiebreaks.
