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The brother of a woman who was killed by her abusive boyfriend says justice has been served after her murderer was jailed for 28 years.

Toby Loughnane, 45, looked up and nodded as he was sentenced in the Victorian Supreme Court today to a minimum of 20 years behind bars for Maryam Hamka's murder.

Hamka's brother Hassan said the family were happy with the outcome and felt like justice had been done after four years of waiting.

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"But the justice will never bring Maryam back," he told reporters outside court.

Loughnane claimed the 37-year-old died of a drug overdose in the early hours of April 11, 2021, and his only crime was not calling an ambulance.

But a jury rejected that theory, instead accepting the prosecution's case that Loughnane fatally assaulted Hamka with murderous intent.

Neighbours heard a woman screaming and sobbing from Loughnane's Brighton apartment for hours before the noises stopped about 3am on April 11.

Loughnane then sent two messages to Hamka's friend from her phone at 4.37am.

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The killer left Hamka's naked body in a bathtub for days before moving it into his friend's car and scrubbing his apartment clean with bleach.

Loughnane then drove to Cape Schanck in Melbourne's south-east and dumped Hamka's body in a shallow grave.

When police knocked on his door, Loughnane claimed he had not seen his girlfriend and even said it was disgraceful Hamka's family were not helping officers more.

He was arrested and charged with her murder in August 2021.

Loughnane finally told police where Hamka's remains were two years later after his friend implicated him in the murder.

But Loughnane continued to maintain his innocence, claiming his only crime was not calling an ambulance when Hamka overdosed on drugs.

Justice Christopher Beale rejected that story today as he sentenced Loughnane to 28 years behind bars.

He will be eligible for parole after 20 years but has already served nearly four years of pre-sentence detention.

Justice Beale said the murder happened in the context of protracted family violence, which was an aggravating feature.

"The fatal violence you inflicted on her was not an isolated incident," he said on Friday.

Family and friends reported seeing Hamka with bruises during the couple's 15-month relationship, and the 37-year-old disclosed his threats to kill her.

Justice Beale noted the "torrent of highly abusive" text messages and voicemails Loughnane sent Hamka, where he threatened to shoot her, drown her, set her on fire or slice her face off.

"You told her you would make her scream in agony," the judge noted.

"The text messages made for appalling reading."

Loughnane also filmed Hamka while she was drug-affected in the hours before her death and made degrading comments to her, Justice Beale said.

He noted Loughnane had an extensive history family violence against Hamka and other partners, as well as prior convictions for drug offences.

He found Loughnane's prospects for rehabilitation were guarded and there was no evidence of remorse.

"I am not satisfied that you are truly remorseful as opposed to feeling sorry for yourself and those around you," Justice Beale said.

But Loughnane should receive some discount on sentence because he revealed the location of Hamka's body to police, the justice said.

Loughnane will be aged in his 60s before he is eligible for parole.

Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732).

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The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track its course. But the chance of an impact is still quite slim.

New calculations suggest there's a 2 per cent chance the space rock 2024 YR4 will smack Earth in 2032.

This also means there's a 98 per cent chance it will safely pass our planet.

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The odds of a strike will almost certainly continue to go up and down as the asteroid’s path around the sun is better understood, and astronomers said there's a good chance the risk likely will drop to zero.

NASA and the European Space Agency's Webb Space Telescope will observe this near-Earth asteroid in March before the object disappears from view. Once that happens, scientists will have to wait until 2028 when it passes our way again.

What's an asteroid?

Asteroids are space rocks orbiting the sun that are considerably smaller than planets. Scientists believe they're the leftovers from the solar system's formation 4.6 billion years ago.

There are so many asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter — millions of them — that this region is known as the main asteroid belt. They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and can end up all over the place — like this one.

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How do scientists track potentially dangerous asteroids?

A telescope in Chile discovered the asteroid 2024 YR4 in December. It’s estimated to be 40 metres to 90 metres across. Observations by the Webb telescope should provide a more precise measurement, according to NASA.

NASA and the European Space Agency initially put the odds of a strike at just over 1%. By Thursday, it had risen to roughly 2 per cent. NASA describes that as still “extremely low.”

Until scientists have a better understanding of the asteroid's path around the sun, they caution the odds will continue to fluctuate — and quite possibly fall to zero.

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“You don’t have to be worried about anything. It’s a curiosity,” said Larry Denneau, senior software engineer with the University of Hawaii's asteroid impact alert system that first spotted the asteroid.

“Don’t panic. Let the process play out, and we’ll have a for-sure answer.”

In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled out any chance of it hitting Earth in 2068.

Should we worry about asteroid 2024 YR4?

It's way too soon to fret over this asteroid, according to the experts.

“No one should be concerned that the impact probability is rising. This is the behaviour our team expected,” Paul Chodas, director of NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, said in an email.

"To be clear, we expect the impact probability to drop to zero at some point.”

Since the asteroid's size and orbit are uncertain, it's unclear where it might hit and what the possible impacts would be should it strike Earth.

If the asteroid is on the smaller end, ESA said any potential impacts would be local similar to the Tunguska event that flattened thousands of square miles of forest in remote Siberia in 1908.

But if it's close to 100 metres, "the consequences would be significantly worse."

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Chodas said once Webb pinpoints the asteroid's size, NASA can predict “how serious an impact this asteroid could produce and how difficult a task it might be to deflect this asteroid.”

NASA already has some experience nudging an asteroid. The space agency's Dart spacecraft deliberately rammed a harmless asteroid in 2022 in the first planetary defence test of its kind, altering its orbit around its larger companion asteroid.

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Scarlett Johansson is condemning antisemitism and calling for legislation to protect the public from artificial intelligence after a deepfake video of her and other celebrities, created with the technology, widely circulated on social media this week.

The AI video showed an image of Johansson in a T-shirt emblazoned with a hand and middle finger extended, a Jewish star and Kanye West's name.

Though fake, the video implied she and others were responding to West's most recent antisemitic remarks and a swastika shirt he was selling on his Yeezy website, before it was pulled down by Shopify.

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"It has been brought to my attention by family members and friends, that an AI-generated video featuring my likeness, in response to an antisemitic view, has been circulating online and gaining traction," Johansson said in a statement obtained by CNN.

"I am a Jewish woman who has no tolerance for antisemitism or hate speech of any kind. But I also firmly believe that the potential for hate speech multiplied by AI is a far greater threat than any one person who takes accountability for it. We must call out the misuse of AI, no matter its messaging, or we risk losing a hold on reality."

Johansson's statement continued, "I have unfortunately been a very public victim of AI, but the truth is that the threat of AI affects each and every one of us. There is a 1000 foot wave coming regarding AI that several progressive countries, not including the United States, have responded to in a responsible manner. It is terrifying that the US government is paralyzed when it comes to passing legislation that protects all of its citizens against the imminent dangers of AI."

The fake video also included AI-generated imagery of Adam Levine, Mila Kunis, Lenny Kravitz, Mark Zuckerberg, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Stiller, Natalie Portman, David Schwimmer and others, set to "Hava Nagila," a Jewish folk song that is typically played at celebratory cultural events.

Johansson has been one of the most vocal celebrities to take a stand against the use of AI without consent.

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Last year, the Marvel star lawyered up in a fight against OpenAI as she spoke out about a synthetic voice "eerily similar" to hers being used for ChatGPT.

In her statement on Wednesday, Johansson called on elected officials to take legislative action against AI abuses.

"I urge the U.S government to make the passing of legislation limiting AI use a top priority," she said.

"It is a bipartisan issue that enormously affects the immediate future of humanity at large."

The AI video was created by Ori Bejerano, who describes himself as a generative AI expert on his Instagram bio.

His original post of the video includes a notice that reads, "This content was digitally crated or altered with AI to seem real."

"It's time to stop being silent and response to antisemites like Kanye West in the strongest way possible," Bejerano's Instagram caption, written in Hebrew and translated to English by CNN, read in part.

"We must demand from the social networks to stop giving stage to antisemitism and hatred."

While Johansson is the only celebrity in the fake video to speak out against the use of AI so far, some others have previously spoken out against West.

Over the weekend, before his Super Bowl ad aired, "Friends" star Schwimmer pleaded with Elon Musk to block West from X.

"We can't stop a deranged bigot from spewing hate filled, ignorant bile… but we CAN stop giving him a megaphone, Mr. Musk," Schwimmer wrote on Instagram.

"Kanye West has 32.7 million followers on your platform, X. That's twice as many people than the number of Jews in existence. His sick hate speech results in REAL LIFE violence against Jews."

West, who now goes by Ye, deactivated his X account late Sunday night.

Hen Mazzig, co-founder of the Tel Aviv Institute, an organization that works to combat Jewish hate and misinformation across social media, weighed in on the AI video.

"Misusing AI is dangerous, no doubt," Mazzig wrote on X.

"But you know what's even more dangerous? Unchecked antisemitic hate being platformed to millions every single day."

Anti-wind farm campaigners have heckled Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as he held a media conference on the NSW South Coast.

Demonstrators accused Albanese of lying while they protested their opposition to planned offshore wind farms as he spoke in Lake Illawarra.

Their interruption started when the prime minister was asked about the impact of US tariffs on Australian exports.

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"My message is clear, which is we have got your back. We support blue-collar jobs," Albanese said.

A heckler called out "another lie" as others booed him when the prime minister continued speaking.

Albanese, whose visit to the region included a visit to the BlueScope Steelworks plant in nearby Port Kembla, gave a comeback to the hecklers.

"There will always be people who think that politics is yelling and shouting, rather than reasoned argument," Albanese said.

"[Wind] turbines are made of steel, by the way."

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After three months of community consultation in 2023, the federal government declared the Illawarra an offshore wind zone last June.

But some residents remain unhappy about potential environmental impacts of offshore wind farms.

Just minutes earlier, the prime minister introduced the Labor candidate for the federal seat of Whitlam in the Illawarra, Carol Berry.

She is contesting the seat after Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones announced he would retire from politics.

"We have brought in someone who has worked for decades and is embedded in this local community," Albanese said.

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