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A cyclist has died after being hit by a bus outside Sydney's Taronga Zoo.

Emergency services were called to the popular attraction on Bradleys Head Road in Mosman about 10.30am.

The cyclist, a man in his 50's, died at the scene.

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The bus driver was not injured but was taken to hospital for mandatory testing, police said.

Four passengers on the bus who were uninjured.

The main entrance to zoo has been closed, with heavy traffic is reported in the area.

Traffic diversions are in place and motorists are urged to avoid the area.

Police are investigating and a report will be prepared for the Coroner.

Taronga Zoo said it remains open.

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An investigation is under way after a man was hit by a police car in Sydney's inner-city while officers were responding to a house party brawl.

A 35-year-old man was hit after running onto William Street in Darlinghurst at the same time officers were travelling under lights and sirens to the incident, police said.

He collided with the police car and was assisted at the scene by officers before paramedics arrived.

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The man was taken to St Vincent's Hospital in a serious condition.

His condition was later upgraded to stable.

The driver of the police car, a constable from Kings Cross Police Area Command, was also treated at the scene for shock.

NSW Police Superintendent Jill Walters said the urgency in which the police car was travelling was "justified".

Walters said the victim was walking across an area of a main road which did not have any traffic lights.

His family live overseas and police are attempting to contact relatives, Walters said.

She said the officer behind the wheel was "understandably [in] immediate shock" and that his welfare remains a priority for police.

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Police are now investigating the circumstances of the crash and an internal investigation will take place.

Anyone with information or who has dashcam footage of the area around the time of the incident is urged to come forward and contact police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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Tesla founder and billionaire Elon Musk has announced the name of his new political party: The America Party.

The South African-born tech entrepreneur has been vocal about his desire to create a third major political party to contest the Republican Party and Democratic Party in the United States.

After pilot-testing the name of his party with a poll on his platform X (formerly Twitter), Musk declared he has now formed The America Party.

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"By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!" Musk said.

"When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy.

"Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom."

Musk spoke about how he would bring his new US party into power in a post late last week on X.

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https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1941584569523732930

"One way to execute on this would be to laser-focus on just 2 or 3 Senate seats and 8 to 10 House districts," he said.

"Given the razor-thin legislative margins, that would be enough to serve as the deciding vote on contentious laws, ensuring they serve the true will of the people."

Musk suggested his party could run during the 2026 midterm elections.

Political parties in the US only need to be registered with the Federal Election Commission if they raise or spend money over a certain threshold.

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Musk spent US$277 million (approx. $422 million) of his own money in support of Donald Trump's 2024 election campaign.

Within months of Trump's re-election, relations soured between the president and the world's richest person.

Musk has publicly opposed Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' which narrowly passed Senate last week and has critiqued the president's economic policy on X.

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Iran’ s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made his first public appearance since the 12-day war between Israel and Iran began, attending a mourning ceremony on the eve of Ashoura.

Khamenei's absence during the war suggested heavy security for the Iranian leader, who has final say on all state matters.

State TV in Iran showed him waving and nodding to the chanting crowd, which rose to its feet as he entered and sat at a mosque next to his office and residence in the capital, Tehran.

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There was no immediate report on any public statement made. Iranian officials such as the Parliament speaker were present. Such events are always held under heavy security.

The 86-year-old Khamenei had spent the war in a bunker as threats to his life escalated.

After the US inserted itself into the war by bombing three key nuclear sites in Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump sent warnings via social media to Khamenei that the US knew where he was but had no plans to kill him, “at least for now.”

On June 26, shortly after a ceasefire began, Khamenei made his first public statement in days, saying in a prerecorded statement that Tehran had delivered a “slap to America’s face” by striking a US air base in Qatar, and warning against further attacks by the US or Israel on Iran.

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Trump replied, in remarks to reporters and on social media: “Look, you’re a man of great faith.

A man who’s highly respected in his country. You have to tell the truth. You got beat to hell.”

Iran has acknowledged the deaths of more than 900 people in the war, as well as thousands of injured.

It also has confirmed serious damage to its nuclear facilities, and has denied access to them for inspectors with the UN nuclear watchdog.

Iran’s president on Wednesday ordered the country to suspend its cooperation with the watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, further limiting inspectors’ ability to track a program that had been enriching uranium to near weapons-grade levels.

Israel launched the war fearing that Iran was trying to develop atomic weapons.

It remains unclear just how badly damaged the nuclear facilities are, whether any enriched uranium or centrifuges had been moved before the attacks, and whether Tehran still would be willing to continue negotiations with the United States over its nuclear program.

Israel also targeted defense systems, high-ranking military officials and atomic scientists.

In retaliation, Iran fired more than 550 ballistic missiles at Israel, most of them intercepted, killing 28 people and causing damage in many areas.

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Ceremony commemorates a death that caused rift in Islam

The ceremony that Khamenei hosted on Saturday was a remembrance of the 7th century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein.

Shiites represent over 10 per cent of the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims, and they view Hussein as the rightful successor to the Prophet Muhammad. Hussein’s death in battle at the hands of Sunnis at Karbala, south of Baghdad, created a rift in Islam and continues to play a key role in shaping Shiite identity.

In predominantly Shiite Iran, red flags represented Hussein’s blood and black funeral tents and clothes represented mourning.

Processions of chest-beating and self-flagellating men demonstrated fervor. Some sprayed water over the mourners in the intense heat.

Reports of problems accessing the internet

NetBlocks, a global internet monitor, reported late Saturday on X that there was a “major disruption to internet connectivity” in Iran.

It said the disruption corroborated widespread user reports of problems accessing the internet.

The development comes just weeks after authorities shut down telecoms during the war.

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A teenage boy was allegedly slashed with a machete after ten people gatecrashed a house party in Sydney's east yesterday evening.

Emergency services were called to an address on Carnegie Street in Chifley about 8.25pm following reports of a brawl.

Police were told around ten people, two of whom were armed with machetes, approached a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old at the front of the house.

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One witness told 9News the uninvited guests were dressed in ski masks.

They allegedly fled the scene before officers arrived.

Police believe the incident was a targeted attack.

Paramedics treated the 16-year-old at the scene for laceration to his back and legs and he was taken to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in a stable condition.

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A crime scene has been established and police have commenced an investigation into the incident.

Anyone with information is urged to contact police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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Rescuers scoured flooded riverbanks littered with mangled trees on Saturday and turned over rocks in the search for more than two dozen children from a girls’ camp and many others missing after a wall of water blasted down a river in the Texas Hill Country.

The storm killed at least 37 people across the state, including 14 children.

Some 36 hours after the floods, authorities still have not said how many people were missing beyond 27 children from Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp along a river in Kerr County where most of the dead were recovered.

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The destructive fast-moving waters rose eight metres on the Guadalupe River in just 45 minutes before daybreak on Friday, washing away homes and vehicles.

The danger was not over as torrential rains continued pounding communities outside San Antonio on Saturday and flash flood warnings and watches remained in effect.

Searchers used helicopters, boats and drones to look for victims and to rescue people stranded in trees and from camps isolated by washed-out roads.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vowed that authorities will be relentless in rescuing and recovering victims.

“We will find every one of them,” he said.

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The number of victims climbed as more rain continued around Austin and a massive search continued in the nearby Hill Country.

At least three people died and 10 others were missing in Travis County, home to the state's capital.

Two people died in Burnet County, where a firefighter was among the missing after he was swept away by floodwaters while responding to a rescue, the county Emergency Management Coordinator Derek Marchio said.

Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said the bodies of 32 people had been recovered so far in the devastated Hill Country: 18 adults and 14 children.

Authorities were coming under growing scrutiny over whether the camps and residents in places long vulnerable to flooding received proper warning and whether enough preparations were made.

The hills along the Guadalupe River in central Texas are dotted with century-old youth camps and campgrounds where generations of families have come to swim and enjoy the outdoors.

The area is especially popular around the July Fourth holiday, making it more difficult to know how many are missing.

“We don’t even want to begin to estimate at this time,” City Manager Dalton Rice said Saturday morning.

Raging storm hit camp in middle of the night

"The camp was completely destroyed,” said Elinor Lester, 13, one of hundreds of campers.

“A helicopter landed and started taking people away. It was really scary.”

A raging storm fuelled by incredible amounts of moisture woke up her cabin just after midnight on Friday, and when rescuers arrived, they tied a rope for the girls to hold as they walked across a bridge with water whipping around their legs, she said.

Frantic parents and families posted photos of missing loved ones and pleas for information.

On Saturday, the camp was mostly deserted.

Helicopters roared above as a few people looked at the damage, including a pickup truck tossed onto its side and a building missing its entire front wall.

Among those confirmed dead were an eight-year-old girl from Mountain Brook, Alabama, who was staying at Camp Mystic, and the director of another camp just up the road.

The flooding in the middle of the night caught many residents, campers and officials by surprise in the Hill Country, which sits northwest of San Antonio.

AccuWeather said the private forecasting company and the National Weather Service sent warnings about potential flash flooding hours before the devastation.

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“These warnings should have provided officials with ample time to evacuate camps such as Camp Mystic and get people to safety,” AccuWeather said in a statement that called the Hill Country one of the most flash-flood-prone areas of the US because of its terrain and many water crossings.

The National Weather Service sent out a series of flash flood warnings in the early hours Friday before issuing flash flood emergencies – a rare alert notifying of imminent danger.

Officials defended their actions while saying they had not expected such an intense downpour that was the equivalent of months' worth of rain for the area.

One National Weather Service forecast earlier in the week "did not predict the amount of rain that we saw,” said Nim Kidd, chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management.

Helicopters, drones used in frantic search for missing

Search crews were facing harsh conditions while "looking in every possible location,” Rice said.

Authorities said about 850 people had been rescued. US Coast Guard helicopters were flying in to assist.

One reunification center at an elementary school was mostly quiet on Saturday after taking in hundreds of evacuees the day before.

“We still have people coming here looking for their loved ones. We’ve had a little success, but not much,” said Bobby Templeton, superintendent of Ingram Independent School District.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem arrived and pledged that the Trump administration would use all available resources.

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Residents clung to trees, fled to attics

In Ingram, Erin Burgess woke to thunder and rain in the middle of the night Friday. Just 20 minutes later, water was pouring into her home, she said. She described an agonising hour clinging to a tree with her teenage son.

“My son and I floated to a tree where we hung onto it, and my boyfriend and my dog floated away. He was lost for a while, but we found them,” she said.

Barry Adelman said water pushed everyone in his three-story house into the attic, including his 94-year-old grandmother and nine-year-old grandson.

“I was having to look at my grandson in the face and tell him everything was going to be OK, but inside I was scared to death,” he said.

Local resident know it as "flash flood alley."

“When it rains, water doesn’t soak into the soil,” said Austin Dickson, chief executive of the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country, which was collecting donations. “It rushes down the hill.”

‘No one knew this kind of flood was coming’

The forecast for the weekend had called for rain, with a flood watch upgraded to a warning overnight Friday for at least 30,000 people.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said the potential for heavy rain and flooding covered a large area.

“Everything was done to give them a heads up that you could have heavy rain, and we’re not exactly sure where it’s going to land," Patrick said. "Obviously as it got dark last night, we got into the wee morning of the hours, that’s when the storm started to zero in.”

Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly, the county's chief elected official, said: “We do not have a warning system.”

When pushed on why more precautions weren't taken, Kelly said no one knew this kind of flood was coming.

More pockets of heavy rains expected

The slow-moving storm brought more rain Saturday and had the potential for pockets of heavy downpours and more flooding, said Jason Runyen, of the National Weather Service.

The threat could linger overnight and into Sunday morning, he said.

Anthony Albanese seemingly made a subtle attempt to distance Australia's reliance on the United States during a keynote speech made in Sydney overnight.

The prime minister was predicted to "ruffle feathers" in Washington ahead of his address where he dusted off the playbook used by wartime Labor PM John Curtin, who died in office 80 years ago.

Albanese used his speech to lionise Curtin and his legacy forming an alliance with the US, before emphasising that Australia is in control of its own future.

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"Curtin's famous statement that Australia 'looked to America' was much more than the idea of trading one strategic guarantor for another," Albanese said.

"Or swapping an alliance with the old world for one with the new.

"It was a recognition that Australia's fate would be decided in our region."

Albanese said Curtin ensured that Australians "spoke for ourselves, as a sovereign nation".

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He also praised the former PM for championing Australia's interests on the global stage while also maintaining our independence.

"So we remember Curtin not just because he looked to America. We honour him because he spoke for Australia," he added.

"For Australia and for Labor, that independence has never meant isolationism. Choosing our own way, doesn't mean going it alone."

The PM reminded listeners that Australia was not "shackled" by its history.

Instead, he said the nation should learn from and build on its political past.

He ended by echoing Curtin's policy of independently deciding how Australia deals with overseas threats and global issues.

"We can choose the way we engage with our region and deal with the world," the PM said.

"The stability and prosperity we build and defend with our partners, the peace and security we seek for ourselves."

Australia has seen eight decades of an enduring US friendship and strategic partnership.

However experts believe yesterday's speech could be a bold move from the PM to change how that partnership plays out.

"Undoubtedly, Albanese is sending a message to Washington and the Trump administration that Australia is ultimately in control of its own destiny," Professor James Curran of University of Sydney told 9News.

Several months after Donald Trump's inauguration, Anthony Albanese is yet to book a face-to-face with the president.

"I don't believe Mr Albanese has done all he can here to strengthen Australia's position in relation to the United States," Shadow Attorney-General Julian Leeser said.

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Curtin re-wrote Australia's foreign policy playbook and is honoured as the founding father of Australia's alliance with the US.

"Here we are talking about the opportunity to run a more independent course from Washington," Curran added.

"I'd say this will ruffle feathers of Uncle Sam."

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