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President Joe Biden didn't elaborate after he said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not doing enough to reach a hostage deal. Photo: AFP / NurPhoto By Jeff Mason and Matt Spetalnick, Reuters President Joe Biden said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not doing enough to secure a deal for the release of hostages held in Gaza by Hamas and the US was close to presenting a final proposal to negotiators working on a hostage and ceasefire agreement. Biden was speaking to reporters at the White House after Israeli forces over the weekend recovered the bodies of six hostages, including 23-year-old American Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin, from a tunnel in Gaza. Israel's military said they were recently killed by Palestinian Hamas militants. That has sparked criticism of the...

Photo: AFP / Tertius Pickard A trained tiger handler has been hospitalised after she was attacked by one of the animals at Dreamworld. Paramedics say the woman in her 30s suffered several deep cuts and scratches to her arm. She was taken to Gold Coast University Hospital in a stable condition at about 9am local time. "Dreamworld acknowledges an incident that occurred involving one of the park's tigers and a trained tiger handler," a spokesperson from the themepark said in a statement. "Dreamworld's immediate focus is on the support of the team member. "This was an isolated and rare incident, and we will conduct a thorough review accordingly." The Gold Coast theme park is home to nine Sumatran and Bengal tigers. - This story was first published by ABC Source link

By Kellie Scott, ABC Lifestyle Parents worried about protecting their child's identity are getting creative with how they share images online. (file image) Photo: Pexels As great as the internet is, it can also be a wild and sometimes scary place. It is why increasingly parents are getting creative with how they share their images of their children online. Such as using emojis to cover their face in an attempt to protect their privacy. "There is this tension parents are trying to navigate around wanting to tell their story to their peer network, of their kids and what they are up to … but wanting to protect their child's visibility," said Nicholas Carah, the director of the Centre for Digital Cultures and Societies at the University of Queensland. But does covering or blurring our ch...

By Emily Rose and Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters Photo: Gili Yaari / NurPhoto via AFP Dozens of thousands of Israelis protest against the Israeli government, calling for the immediate release of the hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza, outside the Ministry of Defence in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 1 September 2024. Protests gripped Israel on Sunday following the death of six hostages in Gaza as frustration mounted with the country's leadership for failing to secure a ceasefire deal that would free Israeli captives. Crowds estimated by Israeli media to number up to 500,000 strong demonstrated in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and other cities, demanding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu do more to bring home the remaining 101 hostages. Israel estimates about a third of them are dead. Labour leaders ...

By Riham Alkousaa and Sarah Marsh, Reuters Alice Weidel, leader of the AfD parliamentary group, speaks a day before the state elections in Thuringia. Photo: AFP / DPA The Alternative for Germany (AfD) was on track on Sunday to become the first far-right party to win a regional election in Germany since WWII, projections showed, but was almost certain to be excluded from power by rival parties. The AfD was set to win 33.1 percent of the vote in the state of Thuringia, comfortably ahead of the conservatives' 24.3 percent, broadcaster ZDF's projection showed. In the neighbouring state of Saxony, the conservatives led on 31.9 percent, around half a percentage point ahead of the AfD. With a year to go until Germany's national election, the results look punishing for Social Democrat Chance...

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...

Flooding has been seen around Tasmania. Photo: TAS SES - Kentish Unit / Facebook Tens of thousands of people in Australia's Tasmania state were without power on Sunday after a cold front brought damaging winds and heavy rains, sparking flood warnings. "Around 30,000 customers are without power across the state this morning," Tasnetworks, a state-owned power company, said on Facebook on Sunday morning. The nation's weather forecaster said a cold front over Tasmania, an island state of around 570,000 people, was moving away "although bands of showers and thunderstorms continue to pose a risk of damaging wind gusts." "Yet another strong cold front will cross the state on Sunday night into early Monday morning, likely impacting the western and northern coasts," the forecaster said on its w...

Puja Patel Photo: New York music journalist Puja Patel says it's a complete accident her Mixtape song selections are all about "the complicated nuances of love". "It's possible that the heat and the airport - two things that make me kind of nostalgic - infiltrated my brain and sent me down this path," she tells Music 101's Charlotte Ryan. Patel, who recently spent six years as editor-in-chief at Pitchfork, says music journalism was quite an unusual path for a first-generation Indian American girl. This audio is not downloadable due to copyright restrictions. Living between two cultures, she understood early on though that "cool" was chronicled through music and that she could study this by reading the Rolling Stone Album Guide and Spin magazine at the local library. "Honestly, I th...