A man has been found guilty of murder over the shooting death of his 81-year-old mother, one hour after he killed his brother.

Paul Cohrs shot dead his brother in NSW and then his mother in Victoria, in October 2018, following a years-long family dispute.

He faced a 10-day trial in Victoria's Supreme Court over his mother Bette Schulz Cohrs' death, denying he had murdered her and arguing he was mentally impaired.

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The relationship between Cohrs and his brother Raymond became strained in 2012 as they had conflicting ideas over the family business, the jury was told.

Raymond, who had the support of his mother, decided to get appraisals on properties connected to the family business, including a NSW border property that Cohrs and his wife were living in.

On October 30, 2018, Raymond and a real estate agent went to the property for the evaluation and were met at the gate by Cohrs.

The men drove to the shearing shed and Cohrs grabbed his shotgun and fired two rounds into his brother.

He then drove 120km to his mother's home, at Red Cliffs in Victoria's northwest, and shot her in the chest one hour later.

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Cohrs' barrister claimed he had delusional disorder, urging the jury to find him not guilty on the basis of mental impairment as he could not have understood his actions were wrong.

But prosecutors said another psychiatrist had found Cohrs had the mental capacity to comprehend what he had done.

Jurors retired to deliberate on Monday morning, and returned within three hours with a guilty verdict for the murder charge.

Cohrs will face a pre-sentence hearing on September 10.

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Colombia has launched the initial phase of an underwater expedition to explore a Spanish warship that sank in the Caribbean more than 300 years ago and is believed to contain billions of dollars worth of artifacts – the rights to which are under heated dispute.

Discovered in 2015 in waters off the coast of the port city of Cartegena by the Colombian government, the San José is often called the "holy grail of shipwrecks."

The 62-gun, three-masted ship – the flagship and largest galleon of a Spanish fleet – was believed to have been carrying gold, silver, emeralds and other valuable goods from the mines of Potosi, Peru. It was said to have been travelling from Panama to Colombia when it sank with 600 people reportedly on board on June 8, 1708, during a battle with British ships in the War of the Spanish Succession.

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The first stage of the expedition will focus on photographing the ship using "non-intrusive" remote sensors, the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History (ICANH) said, adding that results of the initial expedition could pave the way for subsequent explorations, which would include recovering archaeological materials from the shipwreck.

The images will then be used to build an inventory of the archaeological discoveries on the seabed.

ICANH has also declared the discovery site a national "protected archaeological area" to "preserve its scientific and archaeological value."

Researchers say they also plan to use an underwater vessel with acoustic positioning technologies, as well as a remote operation vehicle with various sensors and tools that can descend to the depth of the site.

"This government is doing something that is unprecedented … exploring the sinking of the galleon as the possibility of understanding history and culture," Culture Minister Juan David Correa said in Cartagena last Wednesday, where the expedition was also launched.

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Billion-dollar legal battle over rights

The San José's discovery has been significant for Colombia because of the ship's treasure of cultural and historical artifacts – and clues they may provide about Europe's economic, social and political climate during the early 18th century.

But it has also sparked a multi-billion dollar legal battle.

Colombia maintains that it first discovered the San José in 2015 with help from international scientists.

But their claims have been disputed by a US-based marine salvaging company named Sea Search-Armada (SSA), formerly known as Glocca Morra, which argues that they were the ones who had discovered the shipwreck in the early 1980s.

SSA has launched a legal battle against the Colombian government in the Permanent Court of Arbitration, claiming it is entitled to approximately $US10 billion ($15 billion) – half the estimated value of the shipwreck's treasure.

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The Colombian government disputes SSA's claims.

The loss of the San José and its cargo was said to have caused financial hardships to merchants throughout Europe and the New World, according to reports released by SSA.

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A prehistoric species dubbed an "echidnapus" has been unearthed in rare opal fossils in New South Wales.

The 100-million-year-old fossils "foreshadow" the modern platypus and echidna – the only monotremes (egg-laying mammals) in the world today, according to Australian Museum Research Institute director and chief scientist, Professor Kris Helgen.

"Opalios splendens sits on a place in the evolutionary tree prior to the evolution of the common ancestor of the monotremes we have today," Helgen said.

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"Its overall anatomy is probably quite like the platypus, but with features of the jaw and snout a bit more like an echidna – you might call it an 'echidnapus'.

"The story of how our egg-laying mammals evolved is 'toothy to toothless' on the oldest monotreme, teinolophos trusleri, which dates back to Victoria 130 million years ago.

"What we see at Lightning Ridge is that by 100 million years ago, some of the monotremes still have five molars but some of them are down to three."

The echidnapus – opalios splendens – is one of three previously-unknown prehistoric monotreme species discovered in the Lightning Ridge region.

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The fossils were found by Elizabeth Smith and her daughter Clytie of the Australian Opal Centre in Lightning Ridge, who have spent decades working and searching over the opal fields.

"Opal fossils are rare, but opalised monotreme fossils are infinitely more rare, as there's one monotreme fragment to a million other pieces," Elizabeth Smith said.

"We don't know when, or exactly where, they'll turn up."

The research was published today in Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology.

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Rocket sirens have sounded across central Israel, including in Tel Aviv, for the first time in months, as Hamas claimed to have fired a barrage of rockets from Gaza.

The militants have continued to fire projectiles at communities around Gaza more than seven months into the war but have not fired longer-range rockets in months. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from the latest barrage.

Earlier on Sunday, aid trucks entered Gaza from southern Israel through a new agreement to bypass the Rafah crossing with Egypt after Israeli forces seized the Palestinian side of it earlier this month. It was unclear if humanitarian groups would be able to access the aid because of ongoing fighting in the area.

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Egypt refuses to reopen its side of the Rafah crossing until control of the Gaza side is handed back to Palestinians. It agreed to temporarily divert traffic through Israel's Kerem Shalom crossing, Gaza's main cargo terminal, after a call between United States President Joe Biden and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.

But that crossing has been largely inaccessible because of fighting linked to Israel's offensive in the nearby city of Rafah. Israel says it has allowed hundreds of trucks to enter, but United Nations agencies say it is usually too dangerous to retrieve the aid on the other side.

The war between Israel and Hamas, now in its eighth month, has killed nearly 36,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials. About 80 per cent of the population's 2.3 million people have fled their homes, severe hunger is widespread and United Nations officials say parts of the territory are experiencing famine.

Hamas triggered the war with its October 7 attack into Israel, in which Palestinian militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and seized some 250 hostages. Hamas is still holding some 100 hostages and the remains of around 30 others after most of the rest were released during a cease-fire last year.

Hamas claimed to have captured an Israeli soldier during fighting in northern Gaza and released video late on Saturday showing a wounded man being dragged through a tunnel.

The Israeli military denied any of its soldiers had been captured, and Hamas did not provide any other evidence to substantiate its claim.

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In a separate development, the Israeli military said it had detained a suspect over a widely circulated video in which a man dressed as an Israeli soldier threatens mutiny.

In the video, the man said tens of thousands of soldiers were ready to disobey Defence Minister Yoav Gallant over his suggestion that Palestinians should govern Gaza after the war and pledged loyalty to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alone.

It was not clear if the man was on active duty, or when or where the video was made. Yair Netanyahu, the prime minister's son, had shared the video on social media, sparking criticism from political opponents.

The prime minister's office released a brief statement condemning all forms of military subordination.'

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Southern Gaza largely cut off from aid

Egypt's state-run Al-Qahera TV aired footage of what it said were trucks entering Gaza through Kerem Shalom.

Khaled Zayed, head of the Egyptian Red Crescent in the Sinai Peninsula, which handles the delivery of aid from the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing, told The Associated Press that 200 aid trucks and four fuel trucks are scheduled to be sent to Kerem Shalom on Sunday.

It was not immediately clear if the UN was able to retrieve the aid from the Gaza side.

Southern Gaza has been largely cut off from aid since Israel launched what it says is a limited incursion into Rafah on May 6. Since then, over 1 million Palestinians have fled the city, with most having already been displaced from other parts of the besieged territory.

Northern Gaza, which has been largely isolated by Israeli troops for months and where the UN's World Food Program says famine is already underway, is still receiving aid through two land routes that Israel opened in the face of worldwide outrage after Israeli strikes killed seven aid workers in April.

A few dozen trucks have also been entering Gaza daily through a US-built floating pier, but its capacity remains far below the 150 trucks a day that officials had hoped for. Aid groups say the territory needs a total of 600 trucks a day to meet colossal humanitarian needs.

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Netanyahu resists pressure to end war

Netanyahu has said Israel must take over Rafah in order to eliminate Hamas' last remaining battalions and achieve its goal of "total victory" over the militants, who have recently regrouped in other parts of Gaza where the military had already operated.

Netanyahu faces growing pressure from the Israeli public to make a deal with Hamas to free the remaining hostages, something Hamas has refused to do without guarantees for an end to the war and the full withdrawal of Israeli troops. Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders have ruled that out.

Scuffles broke out between Israeli police and protesters in Tel Aviv on Saturday after thousands gathered to demonstrate against the government and demand the return of the hostages. The protesters called for Netanyahu's resignation and demanded new elections.

International pressure is also growing, as the war leaves Israel increasingly isolated on the world stage.

Last week, three European countries announced they would recognize a Palestinian state, and the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court requested arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, along with three Hamas leaders.

On Friday, the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to end its military offensive in Rafah. The top United Nations court also said Israel must give war crimes investigators access to Gaza.

Israel is unlikely to comply with the orders, and has sharply condemned the ICC's move toward arrest warrants for its leaders. Israel says it makes every effort to avoid harming civilians and blames their deaths on Hamas because the militants operate in dense, residential areas.

The Gaza Health Ministry said Sunday that the bodies of 81 people killed by Israeli strikes have been brought to local hospitals over the past 24 hours. That brings the overall Palestinian death toll from the war to at least 35,984. The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and fighters in its count.

The Israeli government has said that 14,000 militants and 16,000 civilians have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war, without providing evidence.

The principal of Melbourne's biggest Jewish school says his students are terrified after a death threat was sprayed across its fence.

Jewish leaders say they're experiencing the worst antisemitism in decades and the government needs to step in.

The statement, "Jew die", was sprayed across the entrance of Mount Scopus Memorial College late on Friday night.

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School principal Dan Sztrajt was notified early on Saturday.

"What's happened here is a product of the massive rise in antisemitism we've seen across Australia over the last few months," he said.

Sztrajt said his students no longer felt safe and the school had to increase its security.

Jewish Community Council of Victoria president Philip Zajac condemned the graffiti.

"It's [not] acceptable to have hatred being used as a way of terrorising school children," he said.

"This school was set up 75 years ago by Holocaust survivors, and their intention was to create a school that was safe for Jewish people, and unfortunately, that's as true now as it was 75 years ago."

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A police investigation is underway.

Last year the public display of the swastika and the Nazi salute was outlawed.

But Jewish leaders want the government to do more.

"Sadly I think it continues to go on because the government are not being strong enough, are not doing anything to try and stamp it out," Zajac said

Premier Jacinta Allen also condemned the threat.

"The biggest victims of anti-Semitism are children," she said, in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

"This is unacceptable in any community, in any school – anywhere.

"Sending strength to Scopus and the whole community."

A man has escaped a car wreckage with minor injuries after a horror crash at a roundabout in Adelaide this morning.

Emergency services were called to Britannia Roundabout about 2am after a Toyota station wagon lost control and crashed into a pedestrian island.

The car became airborne and smashed into a large gum tree at the centre of the roundabout, causing the car to flip and roll.

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The 28-year-old male driver managed to free himself from the wreckage.

He was taken to hospital for treatment of minor injuries and will undergo mandatory testing.

The roundabout was closed for more than two hours while emergency services cleared the scene.

All roads have since reopened.