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Two Indigenous mothers have settled a trespass case against New South Wales Police after officers visited one of their homes 150 times in 20 months, often between midnight and 4am, to conduct bail checks on the woman's sons. The case, launched in April 2024, was settled on confidential terms three weeks before it was due to go to trial in the NSW Supreme Court.
Three Hong Kong activists who organized annual vigils commemorating the Tiananmen Square crackdown were sentenced Friday to up to seven years in prison under the city's national security law, drawing swift condemnation from the United States.
Ukrainian police are urging civilians to immediately leave the cities of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk in the eastern Donbas region, warning that security has deteriorated so severely that forced evacuations of families with children have already begun. The appeal comes as Russia intensifies its campaign to seize the rest of Donbas, with the two cities facing almost daily glide bomb attacks.
A 20-year-old man is in custody after allegedly being hired to shoot a man multiple times at a home on the NSW Central Coast, in what police describe as a 'crime as service' attack. Bison Zounis was arrested at Gosford train station on Thursday morning and has been charged with 10 offences, including shoot with intent to murder.
Philippine authorities have resumed searching for 84 people missing after a fire swept through a ferry off the tourist island of Coron, with survivors describing how the blaze engulfed the vessel in seconds and forced passengers to jump into the sea. At least 43 people have been rescued so far, the coast guard confirmed.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has released exposure draft legislation for the Innovative Business CGT Concession (IBCC), significantly softening key conditions after fierce criticism from the startup and investment sectors. The revised plan cuts the minimum share holding period from five to three years, removes a proposed $10 million lifetime cap on gains, and extends company eligibility from 10 to 15 years.
More than 100 residents from southern NSW gathered in Deniliquin to protest the permanent end of a firewood permit program in two national parks, saying they depend on the wood to heat their homes and cook. The Riverina Domestic Firewood Program will close when the collection season ends on October 30.
Australian motorists face another 20 to 30 cents per litre increase at the bowser in coming weeks, after the escalating Middle East conflict pushed global oil prices to their highest levels since mid-May, while investors continued dumping stocks and bonds amid mounting financial uncertainty.
Al Jazeera has published a series of video news segments covering topics including anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States 25 years after 9/11, an Israeli documentary on the Gaza conflict, controversy over a BRICS summit red carpet in New Delhi, remarks by Donald Trump about Republican strategies in midterm elections, and a split among young Republicans over potential war with Iran.
A new $15.5m (£11.4m) fund has been launched to generate 'unstoppable momentum' towards ending female genital mutilation (FGM), a practice that has affected more than 230 million women and girls globally. The Her Horizon Fund, backed by frontline activists and leaders, aims to reach $100m and is thought to be the largest single philanthropic contribution to ending FGM.
The U.S. Supreme Court has again blocked a Republican-drawn congressional map in Missouri, deferring to the state’s highest court, which invalidated the map and ordered that voters first approve it in a statewide referendum.
The devastating honey bee parasite Varroa destructor has been found in Far North Queensland, the northernmost detection of the pest in Australia, with Biosecurity Queensland confirming two cases near El Arish and Cardwell and a third suspected near Innisfail.
Daniel Billings, the former partner of Molly Ticehurst, has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for her murder, with a non-parole period of 20 years, after pleading guilty to stabbing her 15 times at her Forbes home in April 2024.
The black silk evening dress famously worn by Princess Diana in June 1994 — the same evening her then-husband Prince Charles publicly admitted to an affair on national television — has been put up for sale, with reports describing it as grossly undervalued.
Luke Sayers, the former president of the Carlton Football Club and former PwC boss, has apologised unreservedly to his ex-wife Cate Sayers and accepted that she was not responsible for posting an explicit photo of him on his X account, as her defamation case against him settled in the Victorian Supreme Court on Friday.
At Trump's convention, four battleground Senate nominees avoided discussing the Iran war and tariffs, focusing instead on tax policy, while a separate video from Al Jazeera shows young Republicans breaking with Trump over Iran, marked by the unveiling of a Charlie Kirk statue that sparked chaos in Times Square.
A destructive pest insect, the flower thrips Frankliniella intonsa, has been detected in Australia for the first time and is causing millions of dollars in damage to berry crops in south-east Queensland, with authorities unable to determine how it evaded national biosecurity measures.
A class action has been launched against BHP subsidiary Operations Services (OS), months after the Federal Court found the company improperly required employees to work on public holidays. The action, run by Sydney-based AEN Legal on behalf of two lead plaintiffs and funded by the Mining and Energy Union (MEU), potentially covers about 7,000 employees who worked for OS between December 2019 and March 2023.
A new documentary film citing testimony from 24 Israeli military insiders has revealed the existence of secret systems used in the mass killing of Palestinian civilians during the war on Gaza. Titled NAZA and directed by Oscar-winning Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, the film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival on Thursday, where it is the only documentary competing for the prestigious Golden Lion award.
An investigation is under way after more than 150 critical hospital referrals were forgotten in cardboard boxes for 16 months, leading to potentially catastrophic delays for cancer patients, with one patient having died.
A judge in Vinton County, Ohio, has found Gary Siders Sr. mentally incompetent to stand trial on 16 counts of child endangerment, following the discovery of his grandchildren living in appalling conditions in a small, confined room. The 73-year-old's attorney said his client's mental health is not restorable.
The Israeli military says it has destroyed key Hezbollah tunnels in southern Lebanon, including those leading to a strategic fortress, in an operation that began in June and continues against the backdrop of escalating conflict between the United States and Iran.
A man was filmed throwing bacon and ham at the entrance of the Warragul Mosque in regional Victoria on Wednesday afternoon, in an act that Muslim leaders have condemned as hateful and Islamophobic.
The Republican Party held its first-ever midterm convention in Dallas this week, a two-day rally designed to boost turnout ahead of November's elections, but the event was overshadowed by a fake convention website that redirected visitors to the Justice Department's Epstein files page for weeks.
Hospitals across Gaza are being forced to ration electricity as fuel shortages reach critical levels, threatening the operation of life-saving medical equipment and basic services.
Ukrainian officials have confirmed that five people were killed and 67 others wounded when a Russian drone struck a shopping mall in the central city of Pavlohrad on 10 September, according to Interior Minister Ivan Vyhivskyi, who said the attack occurred during daylight hours when the streets were full of people.
Dozens of approved but yet-to-be-built AI data centre projects will escape the federal government's proposed restrictions on energy and water use because the new rules are not expected to be retrospective, according to an ABC News analysis of planning records and company documents. The analysis reveals that the new generation of data centres will be significantly larger and more power-hungry than existing ones, with a combined computing capacity of at least 2.9 gigawatts — nearly double the 1.5 gigawatts of the 162 centres already operating across Australia as of March this year.
The Sydney Swans demonstrated their depth and resilience last weekend, overcoming the suspensions of the so-called 'Pullman Five' to defeat Brisbane with a display of pressure, sacrifice and unwavering commitment to the team system.
Jimmy Kimmel's interview with Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico aired on YouTube on Thursday as planned, after the late-night host announced he would not broadcast it on television because of what he described as threats from the Federal Communications Commission under the Trump administration.
A woman with a 30-year history of an eating disorder says she spent 55 hours in an emergency department waiting for a mental health bed that never came, before being discharged without being admitted to the specialist unit.
Al Jazeera's video news feed for September 10, 2026, featured a range of stories from conflict zones including Yemen, Gaza, eastern DR Congo, and Syria, with segments examining the potential for Pakistani intervention in Yemen, the killing of a family in Gaza, a deadly school fire in DR Congo, and the exclusion of Kurdish women fighters from Syria's new army.
Russian drone strikes targeting warehouses and ports in Ukraine killed at least nine people on Thursday, while Russia separately announced the detention of a Russian security guard working at Britain's embassy in Moscow, alleging he was recruited by Ukraine to carry out a false flag attack on the UK ambassador.
Al Jazeera has published a video newsfeed report exploring whether Pakistan might enter the Yemen conflict under the framework of the Mecca agreement. The brief report, titled 'What’s happening in Yemen and how did we get here?', does not provide further details on the claim at this stage.
The ACT Coroner's Court has recorded the territory's first death with an established link to a novel psychoactive substance — the synthetic opioid protonitazene — following the overdose of a 42-year-old woman in Ainslie in July 2022.
Swiss police have confirmed that five people died and dozens were injured when a Dutch tourist coach crashed and overturned in the Swiss Alps on Thursday afternoon, with the other 40 passengers transported to hospitals by helicopter and ambulance.
The leader of a coalition representing 9/11 victims' families has said it has 'taken way too long' to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for its alleged support of the terrorists who carried out the attacks, as the 25th anniversary of September 11, 2001, was observed across the US on Friday.
Al Jazeera's latest video newsfeed covers a deadly school fire in eastern DR Congo, Israeli air raids in Gaza, a Houthi advance along Yemen's Red Sea coast, a protest outside the Israeli embassy in Bangkok over tourist behaviour, and a family killed in Gaza while they slept.
Victorian Premier Ben Carroll now faces the prospect of Labor's promised work-from-home legislation not being passed before the November state election, following a surprise move by a former Labor minister.
A Philippine court has acquitted former first lady Imelda Marcos of corruption charges, according to a report from The Diplomat. The decision marks the latest legal chapter for the 96-year-old widow of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, who has faced a series of graft cases over alleged ill-gotten wealth accumulated during her husband's two-decade rule.
Liberal MP Andrew Hastie is facing political attacks from One Nation after complying with a subpoena to testify in the failed 2022 Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case, a role the former SAS soldier has described as deeply reluctant.
Two Labour MPs who voted on opposite sides of the assisted dying bill have jointly warned their colleagues not to take what they call an ‘extraordinary risk’ by forcing the legislation through Parliament using an obscure procedure if the House of Lords continues to block it.
Nearly 50,000 civilians have fled a sudden Houthi advance along Yemen's Red Sea coast, with Iran-aligned forces seizing the port city of Mocha and reaching the Hanish Islands, threatening control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait — one of the world's most vital shipping routes. The displacement, reported by aid workers, has emptied entire villages and left families trapped near frontline fighting with depleting food supplies, as the conflict becomes entangled with the broader US-Iran war.
Rebel-appointed authorities in Bukavu have released a provisional death toll of at least 24 schoolchildren killed in a stampede as they fled a fire that engulfed two schools in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said on Thursday. Adults are also reported to have died, and fears remain that the toll will rise in the densely populated Kadutu commune.
Yemen's Houthi movement has captured the strategic Red Sea port city of Mokha from Saudi-backed pro-government forces, military sources have confirmed. The seizure brings the Iran-backed group closer to controlling the Bab al-Mandab strait, a critical waterway linking the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, and has coincided with a surge in global oil prices amid an escalating conflict with neighbouring Saudi Arabia.
The Greens have struck a deal to support a carbon credits scheme for forest protection, defying intense lobbying from former leaders Bob Brown and Christine Milne to vote against a Nationals motion to abolish the program.
Iran has captured a US Navy drone submarine in the Strait of Hormuz, according to Iranian media reports. The vessel, described by Iranian sources as a 'sail drone', is one of the US Navy's hi-tech unmanned submarines. The critical waterway has become a testing ground for new technologies. Iranian military officials are expected to release footage of the seizure in the coming days.
Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers has in recent weeks sought to create controversy over old tweets from his Democratic opponent, Abdul El-Sayed, about the September 11 attacks, but congressional records show Rogers twice voted against providing healthcare and other benefits to 9/11 first responders and survivors, and helped kill similar bills for first responders nationwide.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife, Sara Netanyahu, has been hit with a defamation lawsuit worth nearly $1.2 million after she insinuated that opposition leader Yair Golan had advance knowledge of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks. Golan, a former IDF deputy chief of staff and leader of the centre-left Democrats party, is widely credited with saving lives at the Nova Music Festival that day.