Scott Morrison silent on open border benchmark.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has refused to reveal the benchmark for reopening the international border, saying only that restrictions will remain in place until it is safe to do anything different.
"It's not safe to take those next steps right now, it's not. But we'll keep working on what the next steps are," he told reporters in Queensland on Monday.
The prime minister is taking comfort in broad support for the closed border.
The Israeli military said in a statement that Harbeed had been "behind several anti-tank missile terror attacks against Israeli civilians" and an Israeli general said his country could carry on the fight "forever".
Militant groups in Gaza also gave no sign that an end to fighting was imminent.
Soon after Harbeed's death, Islamic Jihad fired rockets at the Israeli coastal city of Ashdod and medics said seven people had been injured.
US top court to weigh abortion rights case.
The US Supreme Court has agreed to consider a major roll-back of abortion rights, saying it will take up Mississippi's bid to enforce a 15-week ban on abortion.
The court's order sets up a showdown over abortion, probably in the northern autumn, with a more conservative court seemingly ready to dramatically alter nearly 50 years of rulings on abortion rights.
The court first announced a woman's constitutional right to an abortion in the 1973 Roe v Wade decision and reaffirmed it 19 years later.
The state's ban had been blocked by lower courts as inconsistent with Supreme Court precedent that protects a woman's right to obtain an abortion before the fetus can survive outside her womb.
Aussie IPL contingent in Sydney quarantine.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says an "independent assessment from health and police" cleared Australia's 38-strong Indian Premier League contingent to return to Sydney.
It came almost two weeks after the Twenty20 tournament was suspended because of COVID-19.
Players, coaches and commentators were on board a charter flight from the Maldives that landed in the NSW capital on Monday morning.
Former Test batsman Mike Hussey, who has been self-isolating in India after contracting the coronavirus, is expected to arrive later on Monday via a commercial flight from Qatar.
The cricketers will spend a fortnight in NSW's hotel-quarantine system.
They have been given no exemptions or concessions but are being accommodated outside the state's cap on returned travellers.
Indigenous kids dominate out-of-home care.
Indigenous children continue to be disproportionately represented in Australian out-of-home care statistics, despite overall rates remaining steady.
A 118-page annual report, released on Tuesday by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, shows one in four of the roughly 46,000 children in out-of-home care in mid-2020 were Indigenous.
At the time there were about 18,900 Indigenous children in out-of-home care, which includes living with a relative or foster carer.
That represents one in 18 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australia, and is 11 times higher than the rate for non-Indigenous kids.
Almost two-thirds (63 per cent) of that group were living with family or other Indigenous caregivers, with the rest in other arrangements including foster care.
"In positive news, over 80 per cent of Indigenous children who exited out-of-home care into more stable and permanent arrangements, did not return to care within 12 months," AIHW spokesman Dinesh Indraharan said.
Victoria had the highest reported rate of Indigenous kids in out-of-home care of all states or territories, followed by Western Australia and the ACT.
The UK can sit inside hospitality venues for the first time since January.
People in England, Scotland and Wales can sit indoors in pubs and restaurants and can hug each other again in the biggest single lifting of coronavirus restrictions since the start of the UK's successful vaccination campaign.
While bars and restaurants in England and Wales reopened their indoor seating areas for the first time in months on Monday, Scottish venues where this was already possible can now serve alcohol indoors again.
Across Britain, larger groups of people can also meet socially: for indoors the limit in England is now up to six people or two households; for outdoors the maximum is 30.
After consistent guidance since spring last year to avoid direct contact with people not in their own family or so-called "support bubble," UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson advised citizens that they can now make their own "informed decisions" and be "cautious" when it comes to hugging loved ones.
Other recreational venues such as cinemas, museums, theatres and concert halls were also allowed to reopen in England, Scotland and Wales, although there are capacity limits on large events.
Mexican model crowned 69th Miss Universe.
Andrea Meza of Mexico has been crowned Miss Universe for 2020, after the event was postponed last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Meza, who has a software engineering degree, beat out out Miss Brazil at the end of the night, screaming on Sunday when the announcer shouted "Viva Mexico!"
Previous winner Zozibini Tunzi fit the crown on Meza's head and waited to make sure it would stay in place as Meza beamed and took her first walk to the front of the stage.
Tunzi, a public relations professional who became the first black woman from South Africa to win the contest, had held the title since December 2019.
Around the world.
- India has reported a further decline in new coronavirus cases but experts warn the count is unreliable due to a lack of testing in rural areas. The country is still recording daily deaths above 4000.
- Prince Harry will talk about the trauma he suffered following his mother's death in a new mental health docuseries to be released this week.
- Pop star Ariana Grande, 27, has married realtor Dalton Gomez in a "tiny and intimate" wedding of less than 20 people over the weekend, reports TMZ.
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