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By Praveen Menon SYDNEY (Reuters) – Phone lines at 13Yarn, a national Indigenous helpline in Australia, are ringing off the hook. National Program Manager Marjorie Anderson’s team is receiving three times more calls each week from distressed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people, as the country prepares to vote on a landmark referendum on Saturday …

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By Anthony Deutsch and Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Conflict between Israel and Palestinian forces since militant group Hamas’ weekend assault have created a huge and rising death toll on both sides. The war falls under a complex international system of justice that has emerged since World War Two. WHAT LAWS GOVERN …

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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australians are set to overwhelmingly say ‘No’ to a proposal to constitutionally recognise the country’s Indigenous people in a referendum on Saturday, one of the final opinion polls ahead of the vote showed. Australians have to vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to a question asking whether they agree to alter the 122-year-old constitution …

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By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -NASA on Wednesday gave the public a first glimpse of what scientists found inside a sealed capsule that was returned to Earth last month carrying a carbon-rich soil sample scooped from an asteroid’s surface, including water-bearing clay minerals. A small quantity of the material collected by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft three years …

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forged an emergency government on Wednesday to direct war against Hamas, and his defence minister vowed to wipe the Palestinian militant group “off the face of the earth” over its deadly weekend attack. Islamist Hamas gunmen invaded Israel from the Gaza Strip on Saturday in a surprise assault …

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By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan and Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -Egypt is moving to avert a mass exodus from the Gaza Strip into its Sinai Peninsula, as Israeli bombardment halted crossings at the main exit point from the Palestinian enclave on Tuesday, Gaza officials and Egyptian security sources said. Israel’s assault on Gaza has caused alarm …

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Powerful Iraqi and Yemeni armed groups aligned with Iran have threatened to target U.S. interests with missiles and drones if Washington intervenes to support Israel in its conflict with Hamas in Gaza that already shows signs of expanding to further fronts. The comments come amid strong support by the United States for Israel’s …

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By Humeyra Pamuk and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel on Wednesday to meet with senior Israeli leaders, U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Tuesday, in a solidarity visit following an unprecedented Hamas attack that killed more than 1,000 Israelis over the weekend. “It will be a …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) – Gazan rescuers on Tuesday pulled the body of a four-year-old girl and other dead from the rubble of a municipal building where she and many others were sheltering, and which was damaged during an Israeli air strike. The girl was named as Shahid Abu Rokbah, and rescuers said her …

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