China Blacklists More Japan Entities as Takaichi Feud Deepens – Bloomberg.com

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  1. China Blacklists More Japan Entities as Takaichi Feud Deepens  Bloomberg.com
  2. China widens Japan export curbs, targeting drone makers, nuclear firms and defense institutes  CNBC
  3. China imposes export controls on 40 Japanese entities as tensions with Tokyo rise  ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
  4. China restricts exports to Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Komatsu units  Nikkei Asia
  5. China blacklists more Japanese entities as row deepens  The Japan Times
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Pakistani airstrikes kill dozens in eastern Afghanistan

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Pakistan says strikes were aimed at a terrorist group while Taliban condemn ‘cowardly act of aggression’

Pakistani airstrikes in three eastern provinces of Afghanistan killed 36 civilians and wounded 163 others, Afghan officials have said, as attacks between the two countries showed no sign of abating.

Pakistan’s information minister, Attaullah Tarar, said the operations on Sunday night were aimed at a terrorist group his country blamed for a deadly militant attack in Karachi that killed three security personnel over the weekend.

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Extreme heat continues in central and eastern Europe with temperatures of 38C expected – Europe live

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Germany, Czechia, Poland and Hungary reached record temperatures of more than 40C on Sunday

Good morning, or dzień dobry, from Warsaw, Poland as the heatwave that affected much of the continent last week continues to impact central and eastern Europe.

It’s 9am local time and already 32C. I have seen two people cycling home with large fans, trying to get back before the heat hits the fan again. None of this is normal.

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Liberal frontbencher calls for party ‘rebrand’ after drop in polls, prompting ridicule from Labor

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Melissa McIntosh’s comment comes after Angus Taylor’s claim Morrison government ‘breached trust’

Liberal frontbencher Melissa McIntosh has said the party might need a “rebrand” to win back voters who continue to desert the opposition, with the Coalition hitting a new historic polling low.

Her comments came after the opposition leader, Angus Taylor, claimed the Morrison government – of which he was a senior minister – had “breached trust” with the electorate during the Covid pandemic by supporting “big government”.

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Bruce Lehrmann loses bid to get footage from documentary featuring Brittany Higgins ahead of rape trial

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Judge says ‘no legitimate forensic purpose’ to former Liberal staffer’s subpoena requesting footage, ahead of his Queensland trial

Former political staffer Bruce Lehrmann has lost a legal bid to access copies of all footage from a documentary featuring Brittany Higgins.

Lehrmann had subpoenaed the producers of the documentary Silenced and signalled a possible attempt to ban its broadcast before his Queensland trial for rape.

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New campaign urges public to reduce water use as UK emerges from heatwave

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Exclusive: £75m publicity drive will ask people to treat water as precious resource and cut daily use by 28 litres

The biggest ever campaign to encourage the public to reduce their water use will launch this week, as the UK emerges from record temperatures attributed to the climate crisis.

The £75m publicity drive, called Let’s Save Water, will advise and encourage people to treat water as a precious resource and has a target for everyone to cut their daily use by 28 litres – or two large buckets – from the current average use of about 140 litres a day.

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Australia to double potential fines over child social media accounts – NPR

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  1. Australia to double potential fines over child social media accounts  NPR
  2. Australia Says It Will Toughen Its Social Media Ban for Children  The New York Times
  3. Australia gives regulator more power to pursue Big Tech over under-16 ban  Reuters
  4. Australia to double penalties for platforms in breach of social media ban  BBC
  5. Social media giants face fines for failing to hand over documents  Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Victorian premier accused of ‘nonsense’ for blaming inflation amid gangland allegations over cost blowouts

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Jacinta Allan resists calls for royal commission into state’s $100bn Big Build infrastructure project as pressure mounts following new reports

An integrity expert says Jacinta Allan blaming “inflationary pressures” rather than corruption for cost blowouts on the state’s $100bn Big Build is “nonsense”, as the Victorian premier resists growing calls for a royal commission.

Allan on Monday declared that “inflationary pressures on projects is not corruption” after Nine newspapers and 60 Minutes reported allegations that money from the state’s Big Build infrastructure projects was being paid to gangland figures and that the state government was warned about cost blowouts due to Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) demands.

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