Donald Trump says he sees recognition of a Palestinian state as a ‘reward’ for Hamas.

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A 17-year-old boy has been charged following a crash that left a 51-year-old pedestrian with serious injuries before the teen allegedly attempted to flee the scene in Brisbane's south-east.

At around 8.30pm, officers were alerted to a Holden Commodore that had allegedly hit two parked cars and a 51-year-old pedestrian on James Street in Beenleigh.

The 17-year-old driver from Yarrabilba was alleged to have attempted to flee on foot before being found a short distance away from the scene.

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The 51-year-old pedestrian from Rathdowney sustained serious leg conditions and was taken to Princess Alexandra Hospital in a stable condition.

The teen was charged with one count of dangerous operation of a vehicle causing grievous bodily harm.

He will face Beenleigh Magistrates Court on Monday.

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US Congressional Democrats have released daily schedules belonging to the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from 2014 to 2019, which show Epstein had plans to meet with Republican donors Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and conservative commentator Steve Bannon.

The documents, which Democrats on the House Oversight Committee said came from Epstein's estate in response to a congressional subpoena, also showed Britain's Prince Andrew flew on Epstein's private jet in 2000.

There were no accusations of any wrongdoing by Musk, Thiel, Bannon or Andrew in the documents released on Friday. The daily calendars do not indicate whether Epstein's meetings with Musk, Thiel and Bannon in fact took place.

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In an X post on Friday referencing a news story about the documents' release, Musk wrote: "This is false."

A spokesperson for Thiel and lawyers who have represented Bannon and Andrew did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

President Donald Trump has been facing criticism in recent months from his conservative base and congressional Democrats over his administration's handling of the Epstein case.

The Justice Department in early July said it would not make public files from its sex trafficking investigation into Epstein, reneging on earlier promises from Trump and his allies to do so.

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The Democrats said the documents showed Epstein was friends with "some of the most powerful and wealthiest men in the world," and called on the Justice Department to release all the documents from its probe.

"Oversight Democrats will not stop until we identify everyone complicit in Epstein's heinous crimes," Sara Guerrero, a spokesperson for the committee, said in a press release accompanying the documents.

FBI Director Kash Patel said in congressional testimony earlier this month that there was no credible information that Epstein trafficked women and underage girls to anyone but himself.

Epstein died by suicide in 2019 in jail while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, to which he had pleaded not guilty.

The calendar entries for Epstein's meetings with Musk, Thiel and Bannon referenced periods that came after he pleaded guilty to state-level prostitution charges in 2008 but before he was indicted on federal sex trafficking charges in 2019.

One calendar entry dated December 6, 2014, reads: "Reminder: Elon Musk to island December 6 (is this still happening?)." Epstein at the time owned a private island in the US Virgin Islands, where many women say Epstein abused them.

The documents released on Friday included a passenger list showing Britain's Prince Andrew flew on Epstein's private jet from the New York area to Palm Beach, Florida, on May 12, 2000, with Epstein and his longtime partner Ghislaine Maxwell.

Flight logs presented as evidence during Maxwell's 2021 sex trafficking trial showed Andrew had flown on Epstein's plane on other occasions.

Andrew in 2022 settled a US lawsuit brought by the late Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's most prominent accusers. In the lawsuit, Giuffre accused Andrew of sexually abusing her when she was a teenager. Andrew has denied wrongdoing and said he regrets his past association with Epstein.

Maxwell was convicted of recruiting and grooming underage girls for Epstein to abuse, and is serving a 20-year sentence. She had pleaded not guilty and is asking the US Supreme Court to overturn her conviction.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken aim at Anthony Albanese's decision to recognise Palestine, warning that a two-state solution will never happen.

Speaking in front of the United Nations, Netanyahu lambasted countries, including Australia, for the recent decision.

"I have a message for these leaders," he said.

"When the most savage terrorists on earth are irrefutably praising your decision, you didn't do something right, you did something wrong."

The Israeli Prime Minister's speech was broadcast live across Gaza after IDF soldiers set up speakers across the strip.

Israel's Prime Minister was defiant as he recounted the events of October 7 and listed off the nation's military achievements in the nearly two years since.

Encircled by critics and protesters at the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told fellow world leaders that his nation "must finish the job" against Hamas in Gaza, giving a defiant speech despite growing international isolation over his refusal to end the devastating war.

"Western leaders may have buckled under the pressure," he said.

"And I guarantee you one thing: Israel won't."

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He spoke after dozens of delegates from multiple nations walked out of the UN General Assembly hall en masseon Friday as he began.

Responding to countries' recent decisions to recognise Palestinian statehood, Netanyahu said: "Your disgraceful decision will encourage terrorism against Jews and against innocent people everywhere."

"It will be a mark of shame against all of you."

As the Israeli leader spoke, unintelligible shouts echoed around the hall. Applause rang out in other quarters as he spoke.

The US delegation, which has backed Netanyahu in his campaign against Hamas, stayed put.

The few world powers in attendance, the United States and the United Kingdom, did not send their most senior officials or even their UN ambassador to their section. Instead, it was filled out with more junior, low-level diplomats.

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"Anti-semitism dies hard. In fact, it doesn't die at all," Netanyahu said. Netanyahu routinely accuses his critics of antisemitism.

Netanyahu faces international isolation, accusations of war crimes and growing pressure to end a conflict he has continued to escalate. Friday's speech was his chance to push back on the international community's biggest platform.

As he has often in the past at the United Nations, Netanyahu held up a visual aid — a map of the region titled "THE CURSE."

He marked it up with a large marker.

He ascended the podium wearing a special hostages pin with a QR code that leads to a site about Oct. 7 that was established specially for international public diplomacy needs.

The members of the prime minister's delegation, ministers and those accompanying him also wore identical pins.

Netanyahu also frequently praised President Donald Trump, his chief ally in his political and military approach in the region.

Netanyahu said the changes across the Mideast have created new opportunities.

He said Israel has begun negotiations with Syria aimed at reaching security arrangements with the country's new government.

Back in the Mideast, the Israeli government was taking steps to ensure that those in Gaza and others heard what he had to say.

The military set up loudspeakers at the Israel-Gaza border to blast his words into the territory.

And in an "unprecedented operation," the prime minister's office said the Israeli army would take over the mobile phones of Gaza residents and Hamas operatives and his speech would be broadcast live through the mobile devices.

It was not immediately clear if that happened, or to what extent.

AP journalists inside Gaza saw no immediate evidence of Netanyahu's speech being broadcast on phones there.

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A closely watched speech

Netanyahu's annual speech to the UN General Assembly is always closely watched, often protested, reliably emphatic and sometimes a venue for dramatic allegations.

But this time, the stakes are higher than ever for the Israeli leader.

In recent days, Australia, Canada, France, the United Kingdom and others announced their recognition of an independent Palestinian state.

The European Union is considering tariffs and sanctions on Israel.

The assembly this month passed a nonbinding resolution urging Israel to commit to an independent Palestinian nation, which Netanyahu has said is a non-starter.

The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant accusing Netanyahu of crimes against humanity, which he denies.

And the UN's highest court is weighing South Africa's allegation that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, which it vehemently refutes.

Against that backdrop, Netanyahu sounded resolute on Thursday as he boarded a plane in Israel to head for the UN's annual meeting of top-level leaders in New York.

"I will tell our truth," Netanyahu said. "I will condemn those leaders who, instead of condemning the murderers, rapists and burners of children, want to give them a state in the heart of Israel."

Opposition to Netanyahu's approach is growing

At a special session of the assembly this week, nation after nation expressed horror at the 2023 attack by Hamas militants that killed about 1,200 people in Israel, saw 251 taken hostage and triggered the war.

Many of the representatives went on to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and influx of aid.

Israel's sweeping offensive has killed more than 65,000 Palestinians in Gaza and displaced 90 per cent of its population, with an increasing number now starving.

While more than 150 countries now recognise a Palestinian state, the United States has not, providing Israel with vociferous support.

But President Donald Trump pointedly signalled on Thursday there are limits, telling reporters in Washington that he wouldn't let Israel annex the occupied West Bank.

Israel hasn't announced such a move, but several leading members in Netanyahu's government have advocated doing so.

And officials recently approved a controversial settlement project that would effectively cut the West Bank in two, a move that critics say could doom chances for a Palestinian state.

Trump and Netanyahu are scheduled to meet during his visit.

Back in the Mideast, in addition to the phone takeover, Israel said on Friday it would broadcast Netanyahu's speech from southern Israel into Gaza, carrying his remarks across the border to Palestinians in the besieged enclave.

His office "instructed civilian groups in cooperation with the army to place loudspeakers on trucks on the Israeli side of the border," it said in a statement, noting that the broadcasts would be arranged so they would not endanger soldiers.

Palestinians had their UN say the day before

Netanyahu was preceded on Thursday by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who addressed the General Assembly via video, since the US denied him a visa.

He welcomed the announcements of recognition but said the world needs to do more to make statehood happen.

"The time has come for the international community to do right by the Palestinian people" and help them realize "their legitimate rights to be rid of the occupation and to not remain a hostage to the temperament of Israeli politics," he said.

Abbas leads the internationally recognised Palestinian Authority, which administers portions of the West Bank.

Hamas won legislative elections in Gaza in 2006 before seizing control from Abbas' forces the following year.

Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war, then withdrew from Gaza in 2005.

The Palestinians want all three territories to form their envisioned state, part of a "two-state solution" that the international community has embraced for decades.

Netanyahu opposes it robustly, maintaining that creating a Palestinian state would reward Hamas.

"This will not happen," he said at the airport on Thursday.

Sara Jane Moore, who was imprisoned for more than 30 years after she made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, has died. She was 95.

Moore died Wednesday at a nursing home in Franklin, Tennessee, according to Demetria Kalodimos, a longtime acquaintance who said she was informed by the executor of Moore's estate. Kalodimos is an executive producer at the Nashville Banner newspaper, which was first to report the death.

Moore seemed an unlikely candidate to gain national notoriety as a violent political radical who nearly killed a president. When she shot at Ford in San Francisco, she was a middle-aged woman who had begun dabbling in leftist groups and sometimes served as an FBI informant.

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Sentenced to life, Moore was serving her time at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, when she was unexpectedly paroled December 31, 2007. Federal officials gave no details on why she was set free.

She lived largely anonymously in an undisclosed location after that, but in broadcast interviews she expressed regret for what she had done. She said she had been caught up in the radical political movements that were common in California in the mid-1970s.

"I had put blinders on, I really had, and I was listening to only … what I thought I believed,"" she told San Francisco television station KGO in April 2009. "We thought that doing that would actually trigger a new revolution."

Moore was often confused with Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a disciple of cult murderer Charles Manson who aimed a semi-automatic pistol at Ford in Sacramento, California, on September 5, 1975. A Security Service agent grabbed the gun before any shots could be fired, and the president was unharmed.

Just 17 days later, on September 22, Moore shot at Ford as he waved to a crowd outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco's Union Square. Oliver Sipple, a 33-year-old former Marine, knocked the .38-calibre pistol out of her hand as she fired, causing the shot to go astray and hit a building.

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"I'm sorry I missed," Moore said during an interview with the San Jose Mercury News seven years later. "Yes, I'm sorry I missed. I don't like to be a failure."

But in later interviews, before and after her release, she repeatedly said that she regretted her actions, saying she was convinced that the government had declared war on the left.

Asked by KGO in 2009 what she would say to Ford if that had been possible, she replied that she would tell him, "I'm very sorry that it happened. … I'm very happy that I did not succeed." Ford died in 2006, about a year before her release.

Her family did not publicly comment on her death. Geri Spieler, who wrote a biography of Moore titled "Housewife Assassin," said she had abandoned her children and was estranged from all her living relatives.

Moore was born Sara Jane Kahn on February 15, 1930, in Charleston, West Virginia. Her confusing background, which included multiple failed marriages, name changes and involvement with both leftist political groups and the FBI, baffled the public and even her own defence attorney during her trial.

"I never got a satisfactory answer from her as to why she did it," retired federal public defender James F. Hewitt once said. "There was just bizarre stuff, and she would never tell anyone anything about her background."

Ford insisted that the two attempts on his life should not prevent him from having contact with the people, saying, "If we can't have the opportunity of talking with one another, seeing one another, shaking hands with one another, something has gone wrong in our society."

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His other attacker, Fromme, also was freed from prison eventually. She had no comment as she left a federal lockup in Texas in August 2009 at age 60.

It was in 1974 that Moore began working for People in Need, a free food programme for the poor established by millionaire Randolph Hearst as ransom after his daughter Patty was kidnapped by the radical Symbionese Liberation Army.

Moore soon became involved with leftists, ex-convicts and other members of San Francisco's counterculture. At this time, she became an FBI informant.

Moore said she shot at Ford because she thought she would be killed once it was disclosed that she was an FBI informant. The agency ended its relationship with her about four months before the shooting.

"I was going to go down anyway," she said in the 1982 interview with the San Jose Mercury News. "And if I was going to go down, I was going to do it my way. If the government was going to kill me, I was going to make some kind of statement."

Moore was sent to a West Virginia women's prison in 1977. Two years later she escaped but was captured several hours later.

She was later transferred to a prison in Pleasanton, California, before going to Dublin.

In 2000 she sued the warden of her federal prison to prevent him from taking keys given to inmates to lock themselves in as a security measure.

In an interview after the July 2024 assassination attempt on President Donald Trump, Moore told the Nashville Banner that part of what motivated her was that Ford, who became president after Richard Nixon resigned, was not elected president.

"He wasn't elected to anything. He was appointed," Moore said. "It wasn't a belief, it was a fact. It was a fact that he was appointed."

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A man has died after his car crashed into a pole and flipped, leaving him trapped inside the car in Sydney's east.

At around 11.50 last night, emergency services were called to Bellevue Park Road after reports that a vehicle had crashed into a power pole.

A man – who is yet to be identified – was the only person in the car and was found unresponsive and trapped in the vehicle.

He was assessed by paramedics and declared deceased at the scene.

Police have since established a crime scene and are investigating the crash.

An aerial appliance and command unit were brought in to support firefighters.

The pou was begun in 1910 by Māori carver Tene Waitere and finished by his descendant.

An out-of-control bushfire is ripping through Springbrook in the Gold Coast Hinterland.

Residents have been told to prepare to leave as the slow-moving blaze moves towards homes in between Little Nerang Dam and Mount Nimmel Road.

However there are fears the situation could worsen with some of the flames reaching several metres high.

Firefighters are expected to work throughout the night to put in fire breaks and contain the blaze.

Residents are being told some properties are at risk.

The advice for those in the area is to keep their phones charged and keep items such as medication and personal documents close in case they need to leave.

Visit the Queensland Fire and Emergency Service website and social media pages for the latest warnings and advice.