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Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with

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Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Donald Trump pre warned Katar that

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Speaker 1: Israel was about to launch an air strike aimed at

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Speaker 1: killing Hamas leaders who were there for peace talks. Trump

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Speaker 1: rebuked Israel on social media, saying Katar was a sovereign

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Speaker 1: nation and a close ally of the US, hosting ceasefire negotiations.

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Speaker 2: At the beginning of the war, I promised that Israel

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Speaker 2: would reach those who perpetrated this horror, and today Israel

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Speaker 2: and I have kept that promise.

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Speaker 1: Hamas says the strike missed its top negotiators but killed

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Speaker 1: five of its personnel, including the son of top Hamas

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Speaker 1: official Khalil al Haya. Australia signed a new security pact

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Speaker 1: with Fiji and Palao is warning there already at war

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Speaker 1: with China. It's a huge day of action at the

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Speaker 1: Pacific Islands Forum, where Anthony Alberanezi is joining regional leaders

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Speaker 1: in the Soulman Islands. Vanuatu is dumping a five hundred

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Speaker 1: million dollar security and economic pact with Australia under pressure

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Speaker 1: from pro China members of its own government. Our Foreign

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Speaker 1: Affairs and Defense correspondent Ben Packham is at the forum

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Speaker 1: in Honiara and you can check out his reporting live

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Speaker 1: at the Australian dot Com dot Au National Australia Bank

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Speaker 1: is acting four hundred plus jobs. That's after an z's

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Speaker 1: boss Nunomatos announced he'd be acting three and a half

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Speaker 1: thousand permanent staff and a thousand contractors. You can check

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Speaker 1: out those stories live right now at the Australian dot

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Speaker 1: Com dou and come back to the front tomorrow for

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Speaker 1: our close look at the man they call Nunageddon, the

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Speaker 1: bank boss shaking everything up.