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Katy Watson

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Sep 28, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Katy Watson

    Stuck between superpowers: How Australia navigates the China-US rivalry (opens the original)

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    Snipers shatter the silence of the Australian bush. Then the missiles hit, the smoke rising in the distance. The buzz of drones starts up, soon to be drowned out by helicopters flying overhead. Every piece of hardware is being deployed, no expense spared. But this is no war zone – the last time Townsville saw conflict was during World War Two. This is a show of military might. " We live in a volatile world," says Australian Army Brigadier Ben McLennan. "Training an army to be prepared to fight a

  2. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Katy Watson

    Why Australia chose the world's biggest political stage to reveal OpenAI hack (opens the original)

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    Australia made a dramatic revelation on Wednesday during the United Nations General Assembly. Rogue AI agents had hacked one of its government bodies - the first known incident of its kind in the world. Private data, but not sensitive information, was taken from Medicare, Australia's universal healthcare scheme. The breach happened in June, but OpenAI says it only became aware of it in August - and then took until 10 September to alert Australia's government, by sending an email to an address us

  3. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Katy Watson

    Algae bloom that crippled Israel's desalination plants raises water security concerns (opens the original)

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    A recent outage of nearly all of Israel's major desalination plants has sparked concern over the country's future water security, with experts warning the war in Gaza is making the situation worse. A vast bloom of microalgae in the Mediterranean Sea that grew to 100km (62 miles) long and 7km wide at its peak clogged the filters of five of the six major plants that convert seawater into drinking water. While they are now up and running again (although only at up to 50% capacity) the microalgae re

  4. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Katy Watson

    Israel's Netanyahu to sue Haaretz over claim UAE warned him of 7 October attack (opens the original)

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    Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told lawyers to begin defamation proceedings against an Israeli newspaper over reports that the leader of the United Arab Emirates warned him that Hamas was planning an operation just days before the 7 October 2023 attacks. According to book extracts published by Haaretz, UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan had a phone call with Netanyahu that September. The report said Netanyahu was warned that the then-Hamas chief in Gaza, Yahya Sinw

  5. Article · Aug 30, 2026 · Katy Watson

    UK raises detention of British activist with Israeli authorities (opens the original)

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    The UK Foreign Office says it has raised the detention of a British national in the occupied West Bank with Israeli authorities. Finn Joughin, a 22-year-old student activist, was arrested in Umm Al-Kheir on Saturday after he was forcibly detained by Israeli settlers who had advanced on the Palestinian village. There has been a surge in attacks by settlers on Palestinians and their property in the West Bank since the start of the Gaza war, which was triggered by the Hamas-led attack on Israel on

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