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Today's headlines include:

• Israel has carried out major strikes on Lebanon, killing at least 250 people, in the first hours of a disputed ceasefire agreement in the war with Iran.
• Bruce Lehrmann has lost his last chance to appeal his failed Federal Court defamation case against Channel 10 and journalist Lisa Wilkinson, with the High Court refusing to hear his appeal.
• A woman has been charged with assault in Sydney after allegedly attacking a man with a hammer in Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in the early hours of Thursday morning.
• And today’s good news! An Australian-Sri Lankan playwright has won the Windham-Campbell prize, a major literary award in the U.S which gives writers 175,000 U.S. dollars - that’s almost a quarter of a million Australian dollars.

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