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Displaced Palestinians wait near a roadblock after being stopped from returning to northern Gaza.

‘We’re worthless’: Israel blocks Palestinians going home to northern Gaza, kills 22 in Lebanon

Israeli forces opened fire on protesters demanding their planned withdrawal from Lebanon, while in Gaza, a dispute over a hostage appears settled.

  • Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Joseph Krauss

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Displaced Palestinians returning to a destroyed Rafah in the Gaza Strip, a day after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect.

Here’s why Trump’s ‘clean out Gaza’ idea is rejected

The US president said resettling most of the strip’s population of 2.3 million in Jordan or Egypt could be “temporary or long term”. He’s already heard a firm “no”.

  • Joseph Krauss
US President Donald Trump has lashed out at Latin American countries’ refusal to bow to his orders.

Trump claims win over Colombia in stand-off over deportation flights

The tit-for-tat with the South American nation underscores the febrile environment surrounding the US president’s deportation policy.

  • Michael Koziol
US President Donald Trump listens to Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde. “Not too exciting,” he said.

What to know about Trump’s ‘two-sex’ executive order

Donald Trump said his gender-related executive orders were aimed at ending efforts to “socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life”.

A screenshot of a student holding their finger to their nose, appearing to imitate a Hitler moustache.

Outrage after uni finds salute, moustache gesture are not antisemitic

The ANU found there was no case to punish a student who appeared to give a Nazi salute, despite the deputy vice chancellor agreeing it happened “on a superficial level”.

  • Olivia Ireland
Accommodation cells in the Boys’ unit at the Cairns watch-house taken from the ‘Cairns and Murgon watch‑houses inspection report’ delivered September, 2024.

Queensland’s tough youth crime agenda slammed in human rights report

Significant concerns are held for children in contact with Australia’s youth justice system, including those held in custody in adult facilities in Queensland.

  • Courtney Kruk
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A guard walks down a corridor of Regina Coeli prison in Rome.

Italian prisons told to create ‘love rooms’ for sex

The court ruling on sex for prisoners came after an inmate serving time in a prison in the northern city of Asti was denied the right to have sex with his wife.

  • Josephine McKenna
Oscar Jenkins, pictured (left) playing for Toorak Prahran Cricket Club, was captured by Russian forces while fighting for Ukraine (right).

‘All options on the table’ after reports of Australian’s death at Russia’s hands

The government is making urgent inquiries after reports the body of Melbourne man Oscar Jenkins, who was fighting for Ukraine, has been found.

  • Matthew Knott and Nick Bonyhady
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
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

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