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Stock image. A powerful cold front is moving eastwards across the state, bringing some of the most severe weather conditions of the year. Photo: RNZ/Sally Round A woman is dead after a tree fell on a cabin in Moama, on the Victoria-New South Wales border, during a night of severe weather that affected the entire state. Emergency services were called to Merool Road at 3.50am on Monday. The body of the 63-year-old was found inside. She is yet to be formally identified. A man, also 63, was treated by paramedics for injuries to his hand and taken to Echuca Hospital for further treatment. Winds reaching 146km/h have battered Victoria overnight, with the State Emergency Service (SES) receiving more than a thousand calls for help A powerful cold front is moving eastwards across the state, brin...

Italian divers retrieve the body of one of the victims of the Bayesian sinking. Photo: AFP The captain of a superyacht that sank off the coast of Sicily, killing seven, says he did everything possible to save those on board, according to local media. New Zealander James Cutfield was at the helm of the Bayesian when it went down in August during a storm. British tech magnate Mike Lynch, the yacht's owner, and his teenage daughter Hannah were among those killed. Cutfield is now under investigation by Italian authorities for manslaughter and shipwreck, along with two other crew members. Being investigated does not imply guilt and does not mean formal charges will follow. Cutfield was now suffering through the darkest days of his life, sources close to him told the Italian newspaper Corrier...

By Stephanie Kelly, Reuters Hersh Goldberg-Polin, pictured in a video released by Hamas in April. Photo: AFP/ Hamas Media Office Biden says he is 'devastated and outraged' Israel releases names of others recovered Biden, Harris vow to work to free remaining hostages Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages in Gaza, including that of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, U.S. President Joe Biden said late on Saturday (local time). "Earlier today, in a tunnel under the city of Rafah, Israeli forces recovered six bodies of hostages held by Hamas," Biden said in a statement issued by the White House. "I am devastated and outraged." The Israeli military said in a statement early on Sunday that the bodies of Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi and Or...