Donald Trump threatens to “annihilate” Iran if Tehran refuses a peace deal; Eleven people hurt in a shooting outside a high school in Türkiye; A 13-year-old makes history as the first Indigenous world surfing champion.
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- Donald Trump threatens to “annihilate” Iran if Tehran refuses a peace deal;
- Eleven people hurt in a shooting outside a high school in Türkiye;
- A 13-year-old makes history as the first Indigenous world surfing champion.
World leaders have gathered in New York for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, with wars in the Miiddle East and Ukraine dominating the annual meeting.
U-S President Donald Trump has used his address to declare he could “annihilate” Iran if Tehran refuses to reach a peace deal with him.
Mr Trump has also defended the U-S campaign against Iran and repeated his demand that Tehran will never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon.
He has called on other countries to economically isolate Iran until it agrees to U-S demands.
“But I have a big decision to make - will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before? Maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or even the world. Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again?"
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Climate change and energy minister Chris Bowen will travel to India and Saudi Arabia this week in a bid to strengthen Australia's fuel security.
Mr Bowen will visit the world's largest oil refinery in Gujarat and convene a roundtable with clean energy industry representatives.
He will also meet with Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud about the situation in the Middle East, including the closure of the East-West pipeline and its implications for global energy security.
Minister Bowen says while Australia's fuel supply remains secure, it's in the national interest that we engage with other nations on global energy security.
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Eleven students have been injured in a shooting outside a school in Turkiye, leaving two in critical condition.
Justice Minister Akin Gurlek says the shooter in the incident, in the western province of Manisa, has been identified as another student.
The Minister says the attacker - along with their parents and grandfather - have all been detained.
An investigation is now underway as to motive, and how the student obtained the rifle used outside the school in the Turgutlu district.
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Police are expanding their search for witnesses as they investigate the shooting of an 11 year old boy earlier this week.
The boy remains in a critical condition after emergency services discovered him with a gunshot wound at a home in Sydney's Hill's District on Monday evening.
Several witnesses are believed to have been at the unit prior to police arrival, and Superintendent Naomie Moore says detectives believe some have links to organised crime.
"This shooting, at this stage, does not appear to be linked directly to current conflicts. However, a number of individuals that were inside the unit at the time are well-known to New South Wales Police, and their association with organised crime is being considered by investigators."
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Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock says Australia's unemployment rate may need to edge a little higher to help get inflation back under control.
Ms Bullock has told a business event inflation is still too high, and lifting the unemployment rate to between 4.5 and 5 per cent could ease the pressure.
Money markets and economists at all four big banks say they expect the central bank to increase interest rates in September for the fourth time this year.
And Ms Bullock says even lowering inflation might not translate to a drop in the cost of many goods.
"I think this is becoming fast evident to people that even if inflation comes down does not mean prices will. They are permanently facing a higher level of prices. So that is the challenge I think and that is why people are feeling it so much. And in many cases their wages are not keeping up with inflation."
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The United Nations says this year's El Nino event is likely to be one of the strongest on record.
El Nino is part of a natural climate cycle of warming ocean temperatures, but this year it's expected to reach new extremes of drought, heat waves, flooding and other climate-related disruptions in South America, Africa and Asia.
Kareff Rafisura from the U.N. Economic and Social Commission says it will likely have global impacts on agriculture.
“So, whatever happens to agriculture really determines whether the people stay below or slightly above the poverty line. So coming back to Southeast Asia, whatever happens here, the extent to which countries can protect production levels, I think will have global impacts.”
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To sport,
A 13-year-old Yued girl from New South Wales has become the first Indigenous world surfing champion.
Leihani Zoric from Byron Bay had headed over to El Salvador as part of an Australian team taking on the world's best junior surfers.
She's now the youngest under-18 World Junior Surfing Champion in sport's history.
It's been a stand out year for Zoric after winning the Junior Girls and Open Women's divisions at the 2026 Indigenous Surfing Titles.
