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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said two gunmen who killed 15 people at a Jewish holiday celebration were motivated by the Islamic State.

He said the people in the house were relatively new to the area and largely kept to themselves.

It remains unclear what the two men did there last month.

More than a dozen Bornean elephants have been killed — including five beheaded — in Malaysia in the past 18 months, authorities say.

For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when humans stay home.

The police said on Monday that they expected to bring criminal charges against the surviving suspect, who is in a coma after being shot by the police.

The two men who killed 15 people on Sunday were driven by “Islamic State ideology,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told Australia’s public broadcaster.

The European Union has mounted an “air bridge” effort, with at least eight aid flights planned to Sudan. But getting supplies to the areas with the most dire need is an enormous challenge.

As it tries to demonstrate its continuing ability to fight, Ukraine said it had used drones to inflict serious damage on a Russian Kilo-class submarine at a Black Sea port.

José Antonio Kast, who was elected president on Sunday, is the latest conservative to rise to power promising strict law and order measures.