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Tens of thousands of Palestinians have begun returning to the north of Gaza and Gaza City, after Israeli forces agreed to withdraw from a main corridor that bisects the bombed-out enclave.
On one road at Wadi, drone footage showed a column of people on foot carrying bundled belongings and infants as they returned to their homes for the first time in 15 months.
19-year-old Mohammed Adas was one of those who made his way home.
"I haven’t seen my family for a year and a half, I want to go back to see them. I've been waiting for three days to go to my parents. We are tired, I want to go to Gaza City, we're not coming back here."
Around 650,000 displaced Palestinians are expected to travel north as the fragile ceasefire holds.
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Survivors of the Holocaust have made an emotional return to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, on the 80th anniversary of its liberation.
The group of 50 include men and women who were children and young adults when they were imprisoned in the concentration camp during World War Two.
Six million European Jews and at least five million prisoners of war were systematically murdered by Nazi Germany in what's become known as the Holocaust.
World leaders and politicians were at the remembrance event, among them King Charles and an Australian delegation represented by Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus.
Auschwitz survivor, 86-year-old Tova Friedman says that as a child in the 1940s, the Jewish population were "victims in a moral vacuum" - and she condemned what she called a huge rise in antisemitism, saying the "world is again in crisis".
"Today, however, we all have an obligation not only to remember, which is very, very important, but also to warn and to teach, that hatred only begets more hatred."
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Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has urged the government to look into designating the National Socialist Network as a terrorist organisation under Australian law.
It comes after police arrested 16 members of the neo-Nazi group as they attempted to disrupt a Survival Day rally in Adelaide yesterday.
Among those arrested was a 25-year-old Western Australian man charged with displaying a Nazi symbol.
Another was charged with assaulting police.
Senator Hanson-Young thanked the police for their swift response, adding neo-Nazis should face the full force of the law.
“We need a proper investigation, a thorough investigation into their planned activities and their intent. We need a review by the government to consider whether these neo-Nazi thugs are indeed a terrorist group. terrorizing our local community is not, on whipping up fear and hate and terror is unacceptable. It's un-Australian."
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Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers is confident that Wednesday's inflation figures could finally give Australians some much needed cost-of-living relief.
He says the government has made progress on inflation in areas like electricity, petrol, furniture and textiles, as wages increase while unemployment stays low.
The Treasurer says he expect headline inflation will fall within the Reserve Bank's target 2-per-cent range, after it peaked higher than 6 per cent two years ago*.
But he says he can't promise the RBA will cut interest rates, even if these predictions prove true.
"The Reserve Bank will weigh up all the data in the economy - Wednesday's inflation numbers, recent jobs numbers, what's going on around the world and around our country. They will make their decision independently. I don't want to preempt or predict the decision that they will take."
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And in sport, Cricket Australia insists it is doing everything within its power to support Afghanistan's female cricketers, despite continuing to play against the country's men's team at ICC tournaments.
Australia has refused to take part in bilateral series against Afghanistan on moral grounds, citing "deteriorating human rights for women and girls in the country under Taliban rule".
However, the Australian men's team did play against Afghanistan at last year's T20 World Cup, and the two teams are set to meet again for next month's Champions Trophy in Pakistan and the UAE.
Cricket Australia chief executive Nick Hockley denied accusations of hypocrisy, saying Australia has no choice but to play all scheduled fixtures at I-C-C events.
His comments come as Cricket Australia launches a historic match in Melbourne for an Afghanistan women's team, featuring exiled players living in Australia, including Firoza Amiri.
She called on the ICC to give the team more support.
"We left Afghanistan just to play cricket. We start a new beginning of cricket here. And we expected ICC to reach out to us. We sent a couple of letters to ICC and we never got a response from them."