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Businesses that have used AI-generated images of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to slam changes to capital gains tax (CGT) have been warned they could face legal action.

The government announced sweeping reforms in the budget that removed a discount on the CGT, meaning those running small businesses could pay up to 47 per cent in taxes to the government if they sell their business.

It has been met with condemnation, with owners around the country criticising the changes, jokingly calling the prime minister a 'shareholder' of the business and using AI images of him "working" for the company.

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While the stunt went viral on social media, legal experts warn that business owners could risk legal action.

"Using an AI-generated image of a politician or celebrity is not automatically illegal in Australia, because there is no broad standalone 'image right' that gives a person complete control over every commercial use of their likeness," lawyer Charlotte Hale from LegalVision said.

"The legal risk starts when a post creates the impression that the person endorsed, approved, sponsored or attended the business."

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Hale warns businesses could still be at risk, even if their intent wasn't to mislead customers.

"Images, social media posts and testimonials can all be misleading if they create a false overall impression, regardless of whether the business intended to mislead," Hale said.

"The safer side is obvious parody, political commentary or clearly labelled AI-generated content that does not imply endorsement or promote a commercial product."

She said businesses can distance themselves from legal problems if they leave a clear disclaimer that the post is parody or that the images of Albanese have been generated by AI.

WATCH: Video shows paraglider's heart-stopping fall after plane collision

However, it may not be enough, referencing how some small businesses may have breached Australian consumer law by creating fake images of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle 'visiting' their stores during their visit to Australia last month.

"A disclaimer helps, but it is not a cure if the overall impression is still misleading," she said.

"Even if intended as a joke, some viewers may believe the visit happened."

"The line is crossed more quickly when the image is commercial, realistic, undisclosed, or tied to a false claim."

A heart-stopping video has captured the mid-air collision of a small plane and paraglider, sending the latter tumbling toward the earth.

The video, posted to Instagram buy user @sab-thi or "Sabrina" shows her soaring through the air in clear skies over northern Austria.

A buzzing sound is heard before a small plane, which Sabrina identified as a Cessna 172, swoops into frame and tears through her paragliding canopy.

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The canopy shredded, Sabrina starts falling toward the faraway ground.

Over muffled exclamations, she manages to deploy her emergency reserve parachute and free her tangled legs from the harness to land safely – even narrowly avoiding hitting a tree.

"I actually still can't believe that I'm sitting here typing this and apart from a few nasty bruises and bruises all around nothing really happened," she wrote in a translated caption.

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The collision took place on May 23, on what apparently was Sabrina's birthday.

Both Sabrina and the plane pilot, a 28-year-old man, escaped serious injury, police said.

"The propeller of the motor plane severely damaged the paraglider, prompting the experienced paraglider to deploy her reserve parachute," police said in a statement.

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Russia has used the powerful hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile during a mass drone and missile attack on Kyiv that killed at least two people, marking the third time the weapon has been used in the four-year war.

The intense aerial assault damaged buildings across the Ukrainian capital, including near government offices, residential buildings, schools, a market and schools, Ukrainian authorities said. At least 83 people were wounded in the attack.

The Oreshnik, which is capable of carrying nuclear or conventional warheads, struck the city of Bila Tserkva in the Kyiv region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on Telegram. The target was not immediately clear.

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Russia's Defence Ministry on Sunday confirmed it used the Oreshnik, as well as other missile types, to strike Ukrainian "military command and control facilities", air bases and military industrial enterprises.

It did not specify where the targets were. The ministry added the attack was retaliation for Ukrainian attacks on "civilian facilities on Russian territory," without giving detail.

In a separate social media statement hours later, it said no civilian sites were targeted in the overnight strike on Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday denounced a drone strike on a college dormitory in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine, which Moscow blames on Kyiv, and ordered the Russian military to submit its proposals for retaliation. He said there were no military or law enforcement facilities near the college.

The death toll from the strike in Starobilsk had risen to 21 as search-and-rescue operations closed, the press service of Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations said late on Saturday. It said 42 other people had been wounded in the attack the previous night. The Kremlin-installed authorities of the Luhansk region announced two days of mourning on Sunday and Monday to honour the victims.

At a UN Security Council emergency meeting on the strike, held at the request of Russia, Ukrainian Ambassador Andrii Melnyk denied his Russian counterpart's accusations of war crimes, calling them a "pure propaganda show" and asserting that the May 22 operations "exclusively targeted the Russian war machine".

Ukraine and its allies have accused Russia of routinely targeting civilians and key civilian infrastructure since the early days of the war. The Kremlin denies this.

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Russia says the Oreshnik is immune to any missile defence system

Russia first used the multiple-warhead Oreshnik on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in November 2024. It was used a second time in January in the western Lviv region.

The latest combined attack included 600 strike drones and 90 air, sea and ground-launched missiles, according to Ukraine's Air Force. Ukrainian air defences destroyed and jammed 549 drones and 55 missiles. Around 19 missiles failed to reach targets, the Air Force said.

Earlier, Zelenskyy warned that Russia was planning to use the Oreshnik, citing intelligence from the US and Western partners.

Kyiv's European allies, including France's Emmanuel Macron and Germany's Friedrich Merz, condemned the Russian strikes and use of the Oreshnik in online statements published on Sunday.

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"Russia hit a dead-end on the battlefield, so it terrorises Ukraine with deliberate strikes on city centres. These are abhorrent acts of terror meant to kill as many civilians as possible," Kaja Kallas, the European Union's foreign policy chief, posted on X.

She added that top diplomats from EU states will meet within days to "discuss how to dial up the international pressure on Russia".

President Vladimir Putin earlier said the Oreshnik, which means "hazelnut tree" in Russian, streaks at 10 times the speed of sound, or Mach 10, and is capable of destroying underground bunkers "three, four or more floors down".

The weapon travels "like a meteorite" and is immune to any missile defence system, Putin said, adding that several such missiles, even fitted with conventional warheads, could be as devastating as a nuclear strike.

Air raid sirens blared through the night as smoke billowed across the city from strikes. Associated Press reporters heard powerful explosions near the city centre and close to government buildings.

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Damage was recorded in 50 locations across several districts of the capital, including residential buildings, shopping centres and schools, Ukraine's emergency service said in a Telegram post. Police department buildings were also damaged, it said.

Fires continued to rage into the morning, complicating rescue efforts as buildings collapsed from the blasts.

"It was a terrible night, and there had never been anything like it in the entire war," said Kyiv resident Svitlana Onofryichuk, 55, who had worked in the market that was damaged for 22 years.

"I am very sorry that I have to say goodbye to Kyiv now, I am not staying there anymore, there is no possibility," she added.

"My job is gone, everything is gone, everything has burned down."

Yevhen Zosin, 74, a Kyiv resident who witnessed the attack, said the moment he heard the explosion he rushed to grab his dog.

"Then there was another explosion and she and I were thrown back like a pin by the shock wave. We both survived, she and I. My apartment was blown to pieces," he said.

Attack highlights Ukraine's air defence missile shortage

Zelenskyy said not all the ballistic missiles were intercepted and that most of the strikes hit Kyiv, which was the primary target of the attack.

The attack and the apparent interception failures underscored Ukraine's chronic shortage of air defence missile systems capable of downing ballistics. Kyiv relies heavily on US Patriot air defence systems to intercept such weapons, but interceptor missiles remain in critically short supply and are among Ukraine's most urgent requests to its Western partners.

Developing a domestically produced alternative has become a top priority for Ukraine's Defence Ministry, though doing so will require significant time and funding.

By saturating Kyiv with large numbers of ballistic missiles on Sunday, Russia may also be seeking to deplete Ukraine's limited stocks ahead of what could be an even more intense wave of attacks this summer.

In Kyiv's Shevchenko district, a five-storey residential building was hit, which caused a fire, and one person was killed, Ukraine's state emergency service reported.

A school building was damaged by an attack while people sheltered inside, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. Local authorities reported supermarkets and warehouses across the city also were damaged.

Multiple communities recorded damage throughout the Kyiv region, according to Mykola Kalashnyk, the regional governor.

Elsewhere, a Ukrainian drone killed a civilian in the Russian town of Grayvoron, in the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine, local authorities reported on Sunday morning.

Russia's Defence Ministry said its forces shot down or jammed 33 Ukrainian drones overnight into Sunday, including over the Moscow region, western and southwestern Russia, and Russian-occupied Crimea.

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A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near a railway track as a train carrying passengers passed through the south-western Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 70 others, officials say.

The force of the explosion on Sunday caused two of the train cars to overturn and catch fire, sending thick black smoke into the air, according to footage shared online.

The attack happened in an area where security forces are usually stationed, badly damaging several nearby buildings and smashing more than a dozen vehicles parked along the road, according to witnesses and images circulating on social media.

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Doctors at local hospitals said they had received the wounded, with 20 in a critical condition.

Three security officials told The Associated Press at least 16 bodies were transported to hospitals following the attack. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to be able to speak to the media.

The outlawed Baloch Liberation Army, or BLA, which demands independence from Pakistan's central government, has claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement sent to reporters. The militant group said it targeted a train carrying security personnel.

Quetta is the capital of insurgency-hit Balochistan province. The oil- and mineral-rich region has long been the scene of a low-level insurgency.

The insurgents have frequently targeted security forces, government installations and civilians in the province and elsewhere in the country.

"We strongly condemn the targeting of innocent civilians and are deeply saddened by the loss of precious human lives. Terrorist elements deserve no leniency," said Shahid Rind, Balochistan provincial government spokesman.

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He said following the explosion, a medical emergency was declared at hospitals in Quetta, and an investigation has been launched.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif strongly condemned the attack, calling it a "cowardly act of terrorism" in a post on X and offering condolences to the families of the victims.

Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti strongly condemned the attack in Quetta, saying the militants targeted "innocent civilians, including women and children", vowing in a post on X to "hunt (them down)".

Bugti and the federal government in Islamabad often use the phrase "Fitna al-Hindustan" to refer to the BLA, which they allege is backed by India. New Delhi denies the allegation.

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari denounced the bombing, saying militants and their backers sought to undermine Pakistan's role in regional and international peace efforts.

The attack came a day after Pakistan said the United States and Iran were close to reaching a memorandum of understanding to end the war in the Middle East that began on February 28 after the US and Israel attacked the Islamic Republic, upending global travel and spiking oil prices.

US President Donald Trump had said a deal related to the conflict had been "largely negotiated" following calls with regional allies, including Pakistan.

Zardari promised in a statement that his country "will defeat terrorists, their facilitators, financiers and those providing them safe havens".

Pakistan and India have long had strained relations and have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir, which is claimed by both in its entirety.

Although Pakistani authorities say they have quelled the insurgency, violence in Baluchistan has persisted.

At least 26 people, including soldiers, were killed in 2024 when a suicide bomber attacked a train station in Balochistan.

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