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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Mumma Mea podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges

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Speaker 1: the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast

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Speaker 1: is recorded on Hi. I'm Jemma Donna, who from Mma

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Speaker 1: MEA's twice early news podcast, The Quickie with Your Headlines

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Speaker 1: for Thursday July seventeen. Two teenagers have been charged with

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Speaker 1: murder after a man was found stabbed to death outside

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Speaker 1: his Sunshine Coast home in Queensland. The fifty seven year

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Speaker 1: old man, identified in media reports as Zeravco Billick, was

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Speaker 1: found dead on the front of his Urana home on

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Speaker 1: Monday night. Police allege a disturbance occurred at the home,

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Speaker 1: resulting in Billick's sustaining fatal stab wounds. Billick's body was

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Speaker 1: found after his wife had called a neighbor to check

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Speaker 1: on her husband while she was in Melbourne for work,

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Speaker 1: as she had not heard from him. The neighbor found

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Speaker 1: his body and called emergency services, who rushed to the home.

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Speaker 1: Queensland Police have today charged a fifteen year old boy

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Speaker 1: and a seventeen year old boy with his murder. If

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Speaker 1: the teens are convey vited of murder, they will serve

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Speaker 1: mandatory life sentences. Under the Queensland government's controversial adult crime

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Speaker 1: adult time laws. Bilik has been remembered as a well

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Speaker 1: loved man, with his death rocking the community, Detective Inspector

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Speaker 1: Chris Tui said earlier this week. Syria's interim president Ahmed

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Speaker 1: al Shaara says protecting Dru's citizens and their rights is

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Speaker 1: his government's priority as Israel vows to destroy the Syrian government.

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Speaker 1: Israel has continued its strikes on the region for a

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Speaker 1: third day, taking aim at the capital Damascus, including targeting

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Speaker 1: Syria's Defense ministry near the presidential palace. Israel has vowed

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Speaker 1: to destroy government forces attacking drews in southern Syria and

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Speaker 1: demanded they withdraw. The attacks marked a significant Israeli escalation

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Speaker 1: against Shara's Islamist led administration. The Syrian Network for Human

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Speaker 1: Rights says one hundred and sixty nine people have been

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Speaker 1: killed in this week's violence. Security sources put the toll

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Speaker 1: at three hundred, however that number has not yet been verified.

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Speaker 1: The investigation into last month's Air India flight crash is

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Speaker 1: now focusing on the senior pilot. According to The Wall

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Speaker 1: Street Journal, a cockpit recording indicates the captain turned off

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Speaker 1: the switches that controlled fuel flowing into the plane's engines.

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Speaker 1: The report, revealing the first officer who was flying the

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Speaker 1: Boeing seven eight seven Dreamliner, questioned the captain's action in

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Speaker 1: moving the fuel switches to the cutoff position shortly after

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Speaker 1: take off. While the captain remained calm, the first officer

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Speaker 1: was reportedly panicking. This development follows a preliminary report last

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Speaker 1: week from India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, which highlighted confusion

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Speaker 1: in the cockpit regarding the engine fuel cutoff switches before

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Speaker 1: the June twelfth crash. Neither Air India or Indian authorities

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Speaker 1: have immediately commented on the latest report. Donald Trump isn't

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Speaker 1: holding back lash out at some of his own Republican

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Speaker 1: supporters for raising questions about his administration's handling of the

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein case, calling them stupid and weaklings. From social

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Speaker 1: media to the Oval Office. Yesterday, Trump brushed off concerns

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Speaker 1: about the unreleased Epstein documents, claiming it's august a hoax

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Speaker 1: cooked up by Democrats. This comes after his administration surprisingly

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Speaker 1: backed off its promise last week to release files some

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Speaker 1: thought held big secrets about the late Sex offender. Epstein,

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Speaker 1: a rich financer, died by suicide in a jail back

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Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen while facing federal sex trafficking charges. The

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Speaker 1: Justice Department recently said there were no incriminating client list

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Speaker 1: or blackmail evidence, backing the FBI's earlier finding that he

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Speaker 1: died by suicide. Still, some of Trump's staunchiest allies, like

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Speaker 1: former advisor Mike Flynn and House Speaker Mike Johnson, are

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Speaker 1: still pushing for more transparency on the case. Trump, who

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Speaker 1: knew Epstein and socially, has stood by Attorney General Pam

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Speaker 1: Bondie's actions and once he support, is to focus on

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Speaker 1: what he sees as his administration's wins. Prince Harry has

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Speaker 1: once again retraced his mother's iconic footsteps, this time doning

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Speaker 1: a flak jacket to walk through an active landmred field

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Speaker 1: in Angola. The Duke of Sussex is supporting the Halo Trust,

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Speaker 1: the same landmine clearance charity Princess Diana famously championed in

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven. His visit underscores the vital work of

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Speaker 1: removing dangerous explosives left over from Angola's devastating twenty seven

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Speaker 1: year civil War, Diana's powerful advocacy helped mobilize support for

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Speaker 1: a global landmine ban treaty. Harry's Walk this week aims

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Speaker 1: to raise awareness for the ongoing threat these devices pose,

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Speaker 1: which have killed or injured tens of thousands since two

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Speaker 1: thousand and eight, and Taylor Swift has been putting family

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Speaker 1: recovers from major heart surgery. A spokesperson for the singer

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Speaker 1: told TMZ that Taylor, along with her brother Austin and

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Speaker 1: mother Andrea, were present throughout the entire procedure and recovery process.

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Speaker 1: Doctors reportedly discovered an issue during a routine checkup, prompting

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Speaker 1: the operation, although it was not the result of a

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Speaker 1: heart attack. This isn't the first time the close knit

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Speaker 1: Swift family has faced health challenges, with Taylor previously opening

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Speaker 1: up about both her parents' battles with cancer. The family

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Speaker 1: is said to be relieved, with a spokesperson for Swift

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Speaker 1: confirming to Rolling Stone that Scott is doing fantastic. That's

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Speaker 1: your evening news headlines. On tomorrow's episode of The Quickie,

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Speaker 1: we take a close look at Australia's biggest ever climate

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Speaker 1: justice case. Listen to The Quickie wherever you get your podcasts.