Welcome to SBS News in Easy English, I'm Camille Bianchi.
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Indonesia and Australia are about to hold joint military exercises, to help strengthen the countries' relationship.
Defence Minister Richard Marles says there will also be training exercises in Australia under the Defence Cooperation Agreement they have signed.
"We are encouraging the TNI on that basis to unilaterally take advantage of Australia's training facilities. The first iteration of that will occur with the TNI conducting training at the Mount Bundey Training Facility in the Northern Territory. That will occur in October of this year.”
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Germany's new Chancellor says his first meeting with Donald Trump about the war in Ukraine, was positive.
Last week, Friedrich Merz hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Berlin.
Mr Merz says he is confident a deal can be made soon for peace in Ukraine.
"You've heard my statement. I said very clearly that this is now particularly in the hands of the American administration, in the hands of the American president, to help bring this war to an end. The goal is clear: we want an end to this war as soon as possible."
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An Australian has been arrested in Bali on drugs charges.
Sinar Subawa, who works for a national drugs agency, says the Australian man has been taken into custody after suspicious items were found in the luggage of an Indian man at Ngurah Rai International Airport.
The other man has also been arrested.
"Furthermore, narcotics officers conducted further investigation and arrested a man - Australian - named PR. During a search of the house occupied by PR, officers found evidence in the form of hashish belonging to suspect PR, which was purchased through the Telegram application."
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An investigation has begun into the death of a man who became trapped underneath a light rail in Sydney this week.
New South Wales Police Inspector Anderson Lessing says the investigation involves a report for the coroner, though they are not treating the death as suspicious.
"I'm sure the rail regulator - and obviously the operator - will review this situation, obviously from the police findings which will be given to the regulator and from the CCTV. They will establish that and work with the operator as to whether there are any recommendations (to improve safety), or is this a case of a really unfortunate misadventure."
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Australia's first Hindu school is being built in Western Sydney.
The federal government has already promised $8.5 million dollars to help pay for building the school at Oakville.
It will be about two years before it is ready.
Rahul Jethi, from the Hindu Education and Cultural Centre, has told SBS this project is community-building.
"We expect to create something which is not just a school for learning, which is a place for people to assemble, to get together and also ensure that the next generation of Australians, Hindu Australians, they basically get a lot of inspiration and education from this place.”
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