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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Mumamee podcast. Hi, I'm Jemma Donna

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Speaker 1: who from Amma MEAs twice daily news podcast The Quickie

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Speaker 1: with your Headlines for Wednesday, November nineteen. The US Congress

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Speaker 1: has voted nearly unanimously to force the release of all

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Speaker 1: unclassified Justice Department files related to the late convicted sex

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Speaker 1: offender Jeffrey Epstein. The House of Representatives passed the measure

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Speaker 1: four hundred and twenty seven to one, and the Senate

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Speaker 1: swiftly approved it, paving the way for the bill to

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Speaker 1: be signed by President Donald Trump, who had previously opposed

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Speaker 1: the release before an abrupt reversal. According to a senior

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Speaker 1: White House official, Trump plans to sign the bill despite

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Speaker 1: the scandal having become a political liability that has fueled

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Speaker 1: conspiracy theories among his base regarding a potential cover up.

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Speaker 1: The move was heavily supported by Epstein survivors, who gathered

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Speaker 1: at the Capital to urge lawmakers to approve the coord's

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Speaker 1: release and cheered the vote's outcome. The immediate release of

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Speaker 1: these documents is now imminent, although Trump continues to deny

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Speaker 1: any wrongdoing. Tropical cyclone Feena has officially formed off the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory's top End coast, intensifying overnight from a tropical

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Speaker 1: low located approximately three hundred kilometers north northeast of Darwin.

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Speaker 1: The category one cyclone is currently moving slowly and is

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Speaker 1: expected to strengthen to a category two intensity by Thursday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: The Bureau of Meteorology's Senior meteorologist, Miriam Bradbury, noted significant

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Speaker 1: uncertainty regarding its path, saying Feena could either make landfall

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Speaker 1: over the weekend or dissipate entirely. Current forecasts suggest the

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Speaker 1: cyclone may head back towards the NT coast, with a

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Speaker 1: Bureau preparing to issue a tropical cyclone watch if the

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Speaker 1: risk of gales increases. While communities are not expected to

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Speaker 1: be impacted immediately, the system poses the first potential cyclone

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Speaker 1: threat to the region's since category two cyclone Marcus in

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. A twenty five year old woman has died

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Speaker 1: after a suspected mass poisoning at the Clandestino hostel in

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Speaker 1: chegu Bali. The Chinese tourist d King Juga collapsed with

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Speaker 1: severe nausea following a communal dinner at the hostel that

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Speaker 1: left ten others violently ill and hospitalized. Miss Juga was

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Speaker 1: later found unresponsive in her bunk on September two, with

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Speaker 1: her cause of death recorded as acute gastro enteratis and

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Speaker 1: hypovlommiemic shock, although a hospitalized friend alleges it was pesticide poisoning.

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Speaker 1: Local police are investigating the hostel, where online reviews also

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Speaker 1: reported pre existing bedbug infestations and poor handling of the

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Speaker 1: health crisis by staff. The tragic death serves as a

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Speaker 1: stark reminder for the millions of tourists visiting Bali annually

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Speaker 1: to research accommodation reviews carefully. The World Health Organization is

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Speaker 1: set to reduce its global workforce by nearly a quarter

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Speaker 1: by June twenty twenty six as eplements major reforms following

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Speaker 1: the announced departure of its largest donor, the United States.

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Speaker 1: A presentation to member states shows the organization's workforce shrinking

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Speaker 1: by over two thousand posts due to job cuts, retirements,

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Speaker 1: and departures, a necessity driven by a significant budget gap.

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Speaker 1: The US withdrawal and its cessation of funding, which accounts

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Speaker 1: for approximately eighteen percent of the organization's budget, have forced

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Speaker 1: the agency to scale back operations and cut its senior

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Speaker 1: management team by half. The cuts come as the Geneva

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Speaker 1: based body faces a substantial one point zero six billion

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Speaker 1: dollar hole in its projected twenty twenty six and twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty seven budget. New data released by the New South

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Speaker 1: Wales Aging and Disability Commission has revealed the widespread abuse,

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Speaker 1: neglect and exploitation of older people and adults with disability

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Speaker 1: across New South Wales communities. The localized data profiles, compiled

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Speaker 1: from over eighteen hundred reports received between July twenty nineteen

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Speaker 1: and June twenty twenty four, underscore that abuse is typically

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Speaker 1: perpetrated by family members or the people of trust in

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Speaker 1: the home and community Setting. Commissioner Jeff Smith expressed deep concern,

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Speaker 1: stating that the figures highlight the ongoing exposure of vulnerable

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Speaker 1: adults to abuse, including coercive control and financial exploitation. He

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Speaker 1: stressed that the true scale of the issue remains hidden

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Speaker 1: due to under identification and barriers to victims speaking up,

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Speaker 1: such as social isolation. The Commissioner urged the entire community

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Speaker 1: to recognize the signs, understand their shared responsibility, and actively

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Speaker 1: work to prevent this pervasive abuse. Magda Zabanski, the beloved

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Speaker 1: star of Kathin Kim, is reportedly maintaining her trademark humor

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Speaker 1: and upbeat spirits six months after being diagnosed with aggressive

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Speaker 1: stage four mantle cell lymphoma. Close friends David and Lisa

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Speaker 1: Campbell shared an update on a podcast revealing the actress

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Speaker 1: is coping well with the ongoing treatment. They highlighted that

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Speaker 1: Zavanski has felt immense support from fans across Australia, which

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Speaker 1: has been instrumental in getting her through everything. David Campbell

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Speaker 1: added that the performer remains irrepressible, noting she laughs at

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Speaker 1: everything and she's also made us laugh at the cancer

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Speaker 1: with her. Zabanski, who began treatment after her diagnosis in May,

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Speaker 1: continues to be lovingly cared for by friends and family

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Speaker 1: in Melbourne. That's your evening news headlines. Women are apparently

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Speaker 1: applying period blood to their skin as a face mask. Plus,

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Speaker 1: as the year draws to a close, the always curious

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Speaker 1: words of the year have started to emerge. But do

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Speaker 1: these words really capture the vibe of twenty twenty five?

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