Author: Aidan
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Anthony Albanese says asylum seeker boat arrival ‘unfortunate’ but government not to blame
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the arrival of a boat carrying several asylum seekers to Western Australia’s far north coast is “unfortunate” but not a failure of Operation Sovereign Borders. The federal opposition has gone on the offensive over the arrival of 39 men who say they travelled by boat from Indonesia to remote communities in WA’s north-west on…
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The head of the UN’s lead agency helping Palestinians accuses Israel of seeking to destroy it
The head of the main United Nations agency supporting people in Gaza alleged that Israel is intent on “destroying” the organization along with the idea that Palestinians are refugees and have a right to return home one day. Philippe Lazzarini accused Israel in an interview with the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger of having a “long-term political goal” of…
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US to send weapons to Israel amid invasion threat in Gaza’s Rafah
The United States is preparing to send more bombs and other weapons to Israel even as it pushes for a ceasefire in the war on Gaza and has said it opposes Tel Aviv’s plans for a ground invasion in southern Rafah where more than half the enclave’s displaced population is trapped. The proposed arms delivery…
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ATAR bonuses scrapped for WA secondary school students studying more difficult subjects
Students studying more difficult ATAR subjects in Western Australia will no longer have additional bonuses counted as part of their scores, under new changes announced by education authorities. From 2026, students studying Maths Methods, Maths Specialist and languages other than English will not receive any bonus to their ATAR score. The changes will effectively alter…
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Sora: OpenAI launches tool that instantly creates video from text
OpenAI revealed a tool on Thursday that can generate videos from text prompts. The new model, nicknamed Sora after the Japanese word for “sky”, can produce realistic footage up to a minute long that adheres to a user’s instructions on both subject matter and style. According to a company blogpost, the model is also able…
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Fired Dozens Of “Rockets” Into Israel, Says Hezbollah
Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, a Hamas ally, said Thursday it had fired dozens of rockets into northern Israel, a day after Israeli raids killed 15 people including a Hezbollah commander. “In a first response to the massacres in Nabatiyeh and Sawaneh, Islamic resistance fighters fired dozens of Katyusha-type rockets at Kiryat Shmona,” an Israeli town…
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Israel escalates aggression against southern Lebanon
Israel launched a series of airstrikes against Lebanon on February 14, killing four, including a woman and her two children. According to Al Mayadeen the attacks targeted the villages of Souaneh, Adshit, and Chehabiyeh. Israel’s attacks are believed to be in response to an operation carried out by Hezbollah earlier in the day against the Israeli military command base…
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New Report Suggests The Games Industry Is Failing LGBTQ Players
I’ve known that representation in games mattered ever since that day in 1987 when I finished Metroid and discovered that intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran was that rarest of things (for the time): a cool female video-game protagonist. I loved playing as Mario, or Link, or any intrepid hero, but I was particularly thrilled to see a game say that women…