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Australia and Japan will meet for gold in both the men’s and women’s draws after all four won their semifinals on day five of the 2026 Asia-Pacific Sixes Lacrosse Championships on Australia’s Sunshine Coast. Australia was dominant on both sides. The men routed China 22-4 and the women beat Korea 15-4, with goalkeeper Elizabeth “Buzzy” Hinkes named MVP. The Japanese men were pushed hard by the Philippines before winning 14-10, while the Japan women were too strong for the Philippines, winning 23-5 to complete an Australia vs. Japan final on both sides.

Israeli settlers have attacked European diplomats, including a French mayor, near the Palestinian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank. The delegation was visiting Palestinian olive harvesters on Saturday when the Israeli attackers confronted the group. The attack comes a day after settlers assaulted a US journalist north of Ramallah. In Saturday’s incident, the settlers targeted Belgium’s consul general, French and Polish diplomats and Catholic representatives, Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said. “A French mayor was assaulted and a Belgian vehicle damaged,” Prevot said, linking the attack to what he called Israel’s “illegal settlement policy” and pledging to push for further European Union sanctions. French mayor Bernard Baudoux, who was assaulted, told the AFP news agency that the violence suggests that “there is a tolerance on the part of the Israeli government” towards settler violence. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Ramallah, said the settlers surrounded the diplomats’ vehicles, pelted them with stones and smashed their windows.