SBS News in Ukrainian - 5/09/2022

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5/09/2022. The latest SBS news from Australia, Ukraine, and from rest of the world. Ten dead in a series of stabbings in Canada. The country recorded 53 more coronavirus-related fatalities at the weekend, bringing the national COVID-19 death toll to 14,067 - but this does not include figures from Queensland and the Northern Territory, which have stopped reporting weekend statistics. The federal government has continued to resist calls to increase the Jobseeker payment even further, after announcing an indexation increase to welfare payments that will begin on September 20. More News: SBS Ukrainian


Ukraine says the tide is beginning to turn in its war with Russia, announcing it has retaken territory in the south and the east. Speaking in his daily address, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy did not specify exactly where the territories were and provided no timeline. But he says he has received "good reports" from his military commanders and head of intelligence that two settlements in the south have been captured, as well as a settlement and territory in the east. Zelenskky says they will keep pushing forward til Crimea is free.


A search underway for a missing skier in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains. Debate has begun in the Australian senate on a bill to give the nation's territories the power to make laws on voluntary assisted dying.


An inquest into the death of an Indigenous man during an arrest over three years ago has begun in the Northern Territory.

And Australian rider Jay Vine is inching closer to becoming King of the Mountain at the La Vuelta race in Spain, after more than doubling his lead in the latest stage through the Sierra Nevada mountains


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