From the Daily Os i'm emma, i'm lucy. It's Tuesday, the eighteenth of March. Here's what's making headlines this evening.
Israel has launched its largest attacks in the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire took hold in January. On Monday local time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nettnah who said he had instructed the army to quote take strong action following Hamas's repeated refusal to release the hostages. It comes as negotiations on the next phase of the ceasefire remained stalled. Hammas said Israel has resumed their aggression and decided to overturn the
ceasefire agreement. Early reports indicate at least one hundred people have been killed in the air strike so far.
Nearly one in two murders in New South Wales last year was related to domestic violence. New data shows, according to the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Recas Search, there were eighty five murders recorded in the state in twenty twenty four, the highest annual number of victims since twenty fourteen. Of those deaths, forty six percent were domestic violence related, while rates of domestic assault and
sexual violence have increased. Boxer found overall crime rates remained stable in the two years to December twenty twenty four.
After more than nine months in space, stranded NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sanita Williams are officially on their way back to Earth. The pair traveled to the International Space Station in June on a Boeing mission. They were scheduled to return after eight days, but technical difficulties made it unsafe for the pair to make the journey on the Boeing craft. SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, offered to help
bring them home. It's since center Craft to the ISS, which undocked with Wilmore and Williams on board a short time ago. The journey is expected to take a r around twelve hours, with the astronauts expected to splash down off the coast of Florida at eight am tomorrow, Australian Eastern daylight time.
And today's good news, researchers say a newly discovered fish fossil in central New South Wales provides an quote unprecedented opportunity to understand Australia's ancient ecosystem. The unusually well preserved small freshwater fish were found by a team led by Australian Museum and UNSW paleontologist doctor Matthew McCurry in Gulgong
near Mudge. McCurry said the fossils formed between eleven and sixteen million years ago and provide a window into the past, proving the dry area where they were found was once an abundant, temperate wet rainforest. Researchers attribute the remarkable level of detail scene in the fossil to the iron rich rock which it is encased in.
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