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- Oscar Jenkins jailed in Russia for fighting with Ukraine
- Anthony Albanese arrives in Rome for Pope Leo the fourteenth's inauguration
- Cameron Davis feeling confident as the PGA Championship gets underway in the US
Australia's Oscar Jenkins has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for fighting alongside Ukrainian forces in its war with Russia.
The 33 year old is being sent to a maximum security prison after being found guilty of taking part in an armed conflict as a mercenary.
The court ruled he had taken part in combat operations against Russian troops between March and December last year.
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Anthony Albanese has arrived in Rome ahead of Pope Leo XIV's (the fourteenth's) inauguration.
He will represent Australia in Vatican City at the ceremony, which formally welcomes the first person from North America to be appointed to the position as head of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.
The Prime Minister has flown into Rome from Jakarta, after holding formal meetings with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto in his first overseas trip after his election victory.
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A Thai court has issued multiple arrest warrants over the collapse of a Bangkok skyscraper in March that killed at least 89 workers.
Thai construction tycoon Premchai Karnasuta and 14 others involved in the construction and design of the building have now surrendered themselves to police after the Bangkok Criminal Court ordered they be taken into custody.
Metropolitan Police Bureau deputy commissioner Noppasin Poonsawat says the group is accused of negligence, breaching construction regulations, and irregularities with the use of construction materials.
The partially built State Audit Office tower collapsed from tremors caused by the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck neighbouring Myanmar on March 28.
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A report into the New South Wales health system has found there is potential for substantial risk without more money for primary care.
The report from former senior barrister Richard Beasly has made 41 recommendations after a lengthy Special Commission of Inquiry, with the report highlighting gaps in service provision and under-funding in crucial aspects of the state's healthcare system.
New South Wales Health Minister Ryan Park says he plans to bring this report to the attention of Federal Health Minister Mark Butler.
"I hope this report, is also a point of discussion around the Health Minister's meeting that we will be having soon. I'll be writing to Minister Butler next week to talk to him about what the report says in this space as well as other issues I want on the agenda, very early on in the term as they take on the term in parliament. But aged care and primary care remain a big issue."
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A golf course developer is fighting allegations it interfered with Aboriginal shell midden relics in Tasmania.
Prosecutor Letitia Fox has told Hobart Magistrates Court a gravel road at the site slated for development by the Mary Ann Island’s company had encroached on shell middens, the remains of meals once gathered and eaten by Aboriginal people.
But the developer’s lawyer Craig Mackie has told the court the alleged disturbances were minimal at best and are open to dispute.
He says the company had taken genuine steps to be respectful to Aboriginal heritage and had employed Indigenous people to carry out the weed management.
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A baby born with a one in a million genetic disorder and a fifty per cent chance of survival in the US is now thriving after receiving an experimental gene-editing treatment.
Doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia say they tailored the treatment for KJ using a technique known as “base editing” - changing the letters in a DNA sequence without cutting the DNA itself.
KJ had been born without an enzyme that removes ammonia from the body, and would likely have needed a liver transplant.
Dr Fatwa Adikusuma from the Genome Editing Laboratory at the University of Adelaide has told SBS News his doctors hope the technology could one day help the estimated 350 million people worldwide with rare diseases.
"It's pretty fascinating that they they did that in less than a year only seven months. And that's never happened before with, you know, gene therapy or gene editing therapy treatment."
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To sport and in golf news, Australia's Cameron Davis has fired seven birdies in the opening round of the US PGA Championship at the Quail Hollow Club.
Davis ended the first round tied for second place, but has now dropped on the leaderboard with a 74 that left him at 2 under.
But he says he remains happy with his current form and wants to maintain that momentum.
"I would like to keep shooting five under par. I feel like that's a great way to go around this place. I feel like I rolled extremely well and I hit a lot of really good shots on that score, but I feel like anything is possible out here at the same time."
