Nepal Uprising Is Latest Challenge to India’s Backyard Diplomacy – The New York Times

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  1. Nepal Uprising Is Latest Challenge to India’s Backyard Diplomacy  The New York Times
  2. Nepal’s Violent Gen Z Uprising  The New Yorker
  3. How Gen Z-led protests put Nepal's 1st female prime minister in power  NPR
  4. South Asia Lived With Inequality. Then ‘Nepo Babies’ Arrived.  Bloomberg.com
  5. They were shot dead for protesting against corruption in Nepal  BBC
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Canavan claims Coalition ‘on the cusp’ of abandoning net zero as Ley urged to follow Dutton’s voice referendum tactics

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Queensland Nationals senator tells Cpac conference ‘last rites being administered’ and praises Andrew Hastie for threat to quit frontbench over policy

Nationals senator Matt Canavan has claimed the Coalition is “on the cusp of walking away from net zero”, urging Sussan Ley to campaign against the emissions reduction target by taking inspiration from Peter Dutton’s opposition to the Indigenous voice referendum.

The conservative political conference Cpac has heaped more pressure on Ley to dump the climate target, with a host of rightwing Liberal and National politicians calling for the 2050 aspiration – agreed by the former Coalition prime minister Scott Morrison – to be scrapped immediately.

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‘Abhorrent behaviour’: calls for Optus to face stiff penalties after triple-zero outage deaths

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Senior politicians condemn telco, with Coalition urging broader investigation into emergency network ahead of bushfire season

Pressure is mounting on the Albanese government to ensure stiff penalties for Optus over the service outage that has now been linked to at least four deaths, as the federal minister for emergency management blasted the telco as “absolutely disgraceful”.

A botched firewall update at 12.30am on Thursday blocked hundreds of calls to triple zero in South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

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NT attorney general criticised after confirming family link to hit-and-run driver

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Marie-Clare Boothby faces questions after revealing she is related to man spared prison over a crash that killed Aboriginal pedestrian

The Northern Territory’s attorney general, Marie-Clare Boothby, has faced criticism after confirming she is related to a man who was spared prison last week over a hit-and-run car crash that killed an Aboriginal man.

Jack Danby, 24, was sentenced to a 12-month community corrections order in relation to the crash in June 2024. Danby hit two Aboriginal pedestrians, killing one, and fled the scene.

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Qatar said conditioning resumption of mediating role on Israeli apology for Doha strike – The Times of Israel

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  1. Qatar said conditioning resumption of mediating role on Israeli apology for Doha strike  The Times of Israel
  2. Is Turkiye Israel’s next target in the Middle East?  Al Jazeera
  3. Israel’s Attack Blew Up Qatar’s Bet on Being Friends With Everyone  The Wall Street Journal
  4. Scoop: Qatar requests Israeli apology to resume Gaza mediation efforts  Axios
  5. Hamas official who survived Doha strike threatens Israel, warns Gaza op endangers hostages  The Times of Israel
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Ukraine’s Supply Runs Turn to Nightmares as Drones Menace Roads Far Beyond the Front – The Wall Street Journal

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  1. Ukraine’s Supply Runs Turn to Nightmares as Drones Menace Roads Far Beyond the Front  The Wall Street Journal
  2. Ukraine's front-line road nets are catching Russian drones, but gaps leave vehicles exposed to ambush  Business Insider
  3. Russians storm on motorcycles: how Ukrainian drones disrupt the occupiers' plans  112.ua
  4. Dozens of kilometers of anti-drone tunnels are being built in Zaporizhzhia region - RMA  Цензор.НЕТ
  5. Ukrainian Forces Avoid Russian Drones on Zaporizhzhia Front  Военное дело
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