Israel’s War With Iran Has Reordered the Middle East—but Not as Expected – WSJ

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  1. Israel’s War With Iran Has Reordered the Middle East—but Not as Expected  WSJ
  2. The Iran threat will haunt the Gulf for years  Financial Times
  3. Opinion | Is This Really a New Middle East?  The New York Times
  4. US, Israeli strikes on Iran nuclear sites: How big are radiation risks?  Al Jazeera
  5. Live updates: Trump claims US ‘obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear sites as Tehran warns of consequences  CNN
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In Historic ISS Moment, a Unique Toast – Newser

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  1. In Historic ISS Moment, a Unique Toast  Newser
  2. Axiom Mission 4 Astronauts Enter Station, Begin Research Mission  NASA (.gov)
  3. ‘Aspirations of 1.4 billion’: India celebrates as first International Space Station mission gets underway  CNN
  4. Shubhanshu Shukla: Astronaut becomes first Indian to set foot on ISS  BBC
  5. Astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary blast off on a privately funded trip to the space station  AP News
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Queensland public servants forbidden from including acknowledgments of country in email signatures, Labor says

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Government denies it issued directive, but opposition MP Leeanne Enoch says whistleblower has shared document outlining the decision

Queensland’s Labor opposition claims the state’s public servants have been issued a “strict directive” not to include acknowledgments of country in email signatures.

The shadow minister for reconciliation, Leeanne Enoch, tabled a partly redacted document in question time on Thursday which reads: “Departments are no longer permitted to add additional departmental branding elements such as the First Nations acknowledgement.”

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Melbourne’s Savage Club to allow ‘lady guest’ diners as cost of living strikes men-only haven

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Falling attendance at club’s dining rooms is ‘uneconomic and dispiriting for staff members’, president says, as six-month trial starts

“Lady guests” will be welcomed into one of Australia’s oldest private clubs as the cost-of-living crisis pushes the men-only Melbourne Savage Club into a six-month trial of mixed dining.

In a survey of the club’s members last year, just 2% (four men) of respondents voted in favour of admitting women as card-carrying members, but they were keen to allow an increase in guests.

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A rising proportion of Australian students aren’t going to school – and there’s not just one way to get them back, report says

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Exclusive: Report from Independent Schools Australia calls for data collection on student school refusal to better tackle rising absenteeism

A new report has urged the federal government to collect national data on chronic absenteeism and embed layers of support in schools to tackle Australia’s growing student attendance crisis.

The report, provided exclusively to Guardian Australia by Independent Schools Australia (ISA), drew from interviews with academics, mental health clinicians and teachers. It called on the government to implement a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) to better support children struggling to stay in school.

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Visualising 12 days of the Israel-Iran conflict – Al Jazeera

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  1. Visualising 12 days of the Israel-Iran conflict  Al Jazeera
  2. When the Supreme Leader emerges, he'll be leading a changed Iran  BBC
  3. ‘The stars aligned’: Why Israel set out for a war against Iran, and what it achieved  The Times of Israel
  4. The myth of Iran’s invincibility has been shattered, and the fallout could be far-reaching  CNN
  5. What Does Khamenei Do Now?  The Atlantic
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Starmer confirms willingness to make concessions on welfare bill, saying reforms must be fair – UK politics live

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‘We want to see reform implemented with Labour values of fairness,’ the PM says

In his final answer Starmer explained how he thought government and business should work together.

A true partnership is not two people or two bodies trying to do the same thing. It’s two people or bodies realising they bring different things to the table.

Government shouldn’t try to run businesses. It’s done that in the past and it doesn’t work particularly well.

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Met officers’ strip-search of black girl at school was gross misconduct, panel finds

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Disciplinary hearing finds two police officers’ search of Child Q, 15, was disproportionate and humiliating

Two police officers who were involved in the strip-search of a black teenager at her school have been found to have committed gross misconduct.

The search at a school in Hackney, east London, was “disproportionate, inappropriate and unnecessary” and made the girl, known as Child Q, feel degraded and humiliated, a panel concluded at the end of a four-week misconduct hearing.

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Supreme court paves way for South Carolina and other states to defund Planned Parenthood

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Decision could embolden red states in US to block clinics that provide abortions from receiving Medicaid funds

The US supreme court has paved the way for South Carolina to kick Planned Parenthood out of its Medicaid program over its status as an abortion provider, a decision that could embolden red states across the country to effectively “defund” the reproductive healthcare organization.

The case, Medina v Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, centers around a 2018 executive order from South Carolina’s governor, Henry McMaster, that blocked clinics that provide abortions from receiving Medicaid reimbursements. “Payment of taxpayer funds to abortion clinics, for any purpose, results in the subsidy of abortion and the denial of the right to life,” McMaster said at the time, even though the reimbursements could not be used for abortions. Abortions are also now banned in South Carolina after six weeks of pregnancy.

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Top US general gives play-by-play of the Patriot battle to shoot down Iranian missiles launched in retaliation – Business Insider

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  1. Top US general gives play-by-play of the Patriot battle to shoot down Iranian missiles launched in retaliation  Business Insider
  2. June 23, 2025 - Israel-Iran conflict  CNN
  3. Iran’s Attack on a U.S. Base in Qatar Is a Nightmare Come True for Gulf States  The New York Times
  4. Trump got his foreign policy win. Now comes the hard part  GZERO Media
  5. Why Trump thanked Iran after it fired missiles at a U.S. base in Qatar  MSNBC News
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Closing arguments begin in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sex-trafficking trial

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High-profile case enters its final stage after more than a month of testimony from 34 witnesses

Closing arguments began on Thursday morning in the federal sex-trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs, signaling the final stage of the high-profile case.

Assistant US attorney Christy Slavik began her closing argument by describing Combs as the “leader of a criminal enterprise” who “doesn’t take no for an answer”.

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Test developed to identify women at increased risk of miscarriage

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Study discovered abnormal process in womb lining, with potential for new treatments to prevent pregnancy loss

Scientists have developed a test to identify women with an increased risk of miscarriage, which could pave the way for new treatments to prevent pregnancy loss.

About one in six of all pregnancies are lost, most before 12 weeks, and each miscarriage increases the risk of another one happening.

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