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Fatma Abu Awad and her daughter Malak pray in a graveyard where their relatives who were killed by an Israeli airstrike are buried, in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Thursday.

Gaza war death toll 41% higher than estimated, Lancet study finds

The peer-reviewed statistical analysis was conducted by academics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Yale University and other institutions.

  • Maggie Fick

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Would it be the cricket without a beer snake?

School drop-off parking cops, cricket fun police: It’s Australia’s punishment culture

Australians like to think they have a larrikin, rebellious spirit, but they are remarkably tolerant of official intervention and petty-minded bureaucracy.

  • Nick Bryant
Displaced Palestinians line up to collect water, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, in August.

Israel accused of killing Palestinians by denying water, as Gaza bombing continues

Israeli airstrikes have killed dozens of people in Gaza overnight, as Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of genocide and MSF said signs of ethnic cleansing “were undeniable”.

  • Nidal al-Mughrabi
Women’s health is a tricky issue.

Doctors don’t hate women, but we can be idiots when it comes to their health

Just don’t call it medical misogyny. I’m not a misogynist. But it’s fair to say that medicine doesn’t understand women as well as it should.

  • Nicholas Wilcken
A man holds up rope at Sednaya Prison, where thousands of people were said to be detained and tortured.

The race to rescue those trapped in Syria’s ‘human slaughterhouse’

Footage emerging from the liberation of Bashar al-Assad’s most notorious prisons has revealed underground cells and body-crushing iron presses used to detain and torture.

  • Sarah Newey
The Australian judges on Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal have been asked to consider the government’s concerns about a crackdown on political dissent by Hong Kong authorities.

Why four Australian judges have become a hot topic spoken about in hushed tones in Hong Kong

Penny Wong has made her strongest comments yet on the decision by the judges to continue working in Hong Kong amid concerns about a crackdown on political dissent.

  • Lisa Visentin
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Illustration: Andrew Dyson

Trump would love these terrifying laws. Why are we passing them without proper debate?

Entire communities of people, based only on where they are from, could be barred from Australia.

  • Sarah Dale
Premier Jacinta Allan and Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes with members of multicultural and advocacy groups on Tuesday.

‘United against American-style division’: Long-awaited anti-vilification reforms reach parliament

Premier Jacinta Allan has detailed the changes, which include up to five years’ jail for inciting hateful or threatening behaviour.

  • Carla Jaeger and Kieran Rooney
Revealed: LGAs where police strip-searches occur most often

Revealed: LGAs where police strip-searches occur most often

A coalition of justice and health organisations has urged the state government to outlaw such searches of young people due to their traumatic impact.

  • Max Maddison and Cindy Yin
Chang Chun-Ko, a former Shen Yun dancer who joined the group as a child, worked at least 65 hours a week.

Global dance group Shen Yun faces inquiry over underage labour practices

The troupe, operated by the Falun Gong religious movement, requires dancers to train under abusive conditions, former performers say.

  • Michael Rothfeld and Nicole Hong

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