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The prime minister has announced Australian laws will be overhauled to allow the defence force to target more Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq. The move will allow the ADF to target not only Islamic State fighters but the group's logistic and support operations as well. It'll also give defence force members greater legal protection.

US presidential candidate Donald Trump has met the president of Mexico to discuss immigration and trade. Mr trump told president Enrique Pena Nieto that the United States has the right to build a wall along its border to stop illegal immigration. He says the two nations stopped short of discussing who would pay for it.

Sydney man Hamdi Alqudsi has been sentenced to a minimum six years jail for helping young Australians travel to Syria to fight in the county's civil war. The 42-year-old helped the men to fight with extremist jihadist groups, including forerunners of Islamic State. He was found guilty of seven counts of supporting engagement in armed hostilities in Syria.

And new figures paint a grim picture for Africa's elephant population suggesting a third of the animals have disappeared in the last decade. Charity "Elephants Without Borders" estimates around 30 thousand African elephants die each year, mainly due to ivory poaching. At that rate half of Africa's elephants will be gone in less than 10 years.

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澳大利亚总理宣布澳大利亚法律将进行重大改革，允许国防军打击叙利亚和伊拉克境内的ISIS武装分子。此举使澳大利亚国防军既可以打击ISIS武装分子，又可以打击该组织的后勤和支援行动。同时，此举还给予国防军成员更多的法律保护。

美国总统候选人唐纳德·特朗普同墨西哥总统举行会晤，商讨移民和贸易事务。特朗普对恩里克·佩纳·涅托总统表示，美国有权利修建美墨边境墙以阻止移民。他表示，两国未进一步谈及由谁为边境墙买单的问题。

悉尼男子哈米迪·埃库西因协助澳洲年轻人前往叙利亚参加叙利亚内战而被判处最少六年监禁。42岁的埃库西曾协助一些男性参加ISIS等极端圣战组织的斗争。他因支持参与叙利亚境内的武装敌对行为而被判处7项罪名。

新数据描绘出非洲大象种群的严峻现状，过去10年，有三分之一的非洲大象消失。据慈善组织“大象无国界”估计，每年有约3万头非洲大象死亡，主要死因是象牙偷猎。照这种速度，非洲大象的数量将在10年内减少一半。