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Australia to Recognize Palestinian Statehood

After similar announcements by France, Britain and Canada, Australia said it would act at the United Nations General Assembly session next month.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia, right, and Penny Wong, the country’s foreign minister, at a news conference in Canberra on Monday.
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Bite Club: The Fraternity That Awaits You After a Shark Attack

Very few people know what it’s like to recover, physically and emotionally, from a shark bite. But some of the ones who do are ready to help.

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Anika Craney, whose foot was bitten by a shark in the Great Barrier Reef, resolved not to let the attack change her lifelong love of the ocean.
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What is the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’?

Many of the world’s biggest earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis occur along a chain of seismologically active regions that encircle the Pacific Ocean.

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An image released by NASA showing the atmospheric plume from a volcano eruption in the Pacific island nation of Tonga in 2022.
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