‘Patience Is Wearing Thin’: Trump Threatens Iran And Fuels Speculation U.S. Military Will Intervene (Live Updates) – Forbes

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  1. ‘Patience Is Wearing Thin’: Trump Threatens Iran And Fuels Speculation U.S. Military Will Intervene (Live Updates)  Forbes
  2. Iran leader Khamenei sees his inner circle hollowed out by Israel  Reuters
  3. Israel's Netanyahu doesn't rule out targeting Iran's supreme leader and regime change  NBC News
  4. Trump vetoed Israeli plan to kill Iran’s supreme leader, US official tells AP  AP News
  5. In Trumpworld, toppling rulers is taboo  The Economist
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Europe will never return to Russian gas, European Commission insists

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Body unveils plans to ban all gas imports from Russia by January 2028 – but faces backlash from Hungary, Slovakia and Austria

The European Commission has insisted there will be no return to Russian gas, as it published plans to phase out fossil fuel imports from its eastern neighbour by 2028.

The EU energy commissioner, Dan Jørgensen, said a proposed ban on Russian gas imports would remain, irrespective of whether there was peace in Ukraine.

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Underground Halls at Iranian Nuclear Site Suffered ‘Direct Impacts’ From Israel Strikes, U.N. Agency Says – The New York Times

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  1. Underground Halls at Iranian Nuclear Site Suffered ‘Direct Impacts’ From Israel Strikes, U.N. Agency Says  The New York Times
  2. Iran’s secretive nuclear site that only a US bomb could hit  BBC
  3. What to Know About Israel’s Secretive Nuclear Weapons Program  The New York Times
  4. Three Things Will Determine Iran’s Nuclear Future—Fordow Is Just One of Them  CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies
  5. Israel strikes Iran: Is the world close to a nuclear radiation incident?  Al Jazeera
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How Israel used spies, smuggled drones and AI to stun and hobble Iran – The Times of Israel

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  1. How Israel used spies, smuggled drones and AI to stun and hobble Iran  The Times of Israel
  2. One number could define the Iran-Israel conflict’s outcome  CNN
  3. Is Israel trying to destroy Iran’s nukes — or topple its government?  vox.com
  4. Iranian strikes on Israel escalate, killing at least 24 and damaging US Embassy branch in Tel Aviv  Fox News
  5. Desperate Iranians try to flee Israeli bombardments  NBC News
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Man, 80, gets stuck trying to drive down the Spanish Steps in Rome

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Police say the man tested negative for alcohol but did not divulge whether or not he had been using a satnav

An 80-year-old man drove a car down the Spanish Steps in Rome early on Tuesday before getting stuck part way, municipal police said in a statement.

The man tested negative for alcohol, police said. They did not identify the driver or say if the car, a Mercedes-Benz, was his. Nor did they say whether or not he had been using a satnav.

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After 3 years of full-scale war in Ukraine, Europe finally lays out road map to detox from Russian oil and gas – The Kyiv Independent

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  1. After 3 years of full-scale war in Ukraine, Europe finally lays out road map to detox from Russian oil and gas  The Kyiv Independent
  2. Europe will never return to Russian gas, European Commission insists  The Guardian
  3. G7 needs to raise pressure on Russia, von der Leyen says  Reuters
  4. EU Proposes Ban on Russian Oil, Gas Imports by End 2027  WSJ
  5. EU plans to squeeze out Russian gas with tough new rules  politico.eu
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Could US attack Iran’s Fordow nuclear site? Military movements offer a clue

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Refuelling aircraft were tracked heading east, potentially to support B-2 jets carrying bunker-buster bombs

The US has stepped up its military presence in the Middle East since the weekend but has left certain details vague to preserve operational ambiguity for Donald Trump as he considers whether the US will intervene in the Israel-Iran war.

Critically, there has been no new information about the deployment of B-2 bombers that would be used to attack Iran’s deep-lying nuclear enrichment site at Fordow with 13.6-tonne (30,000lb) bunker-buster bombs, designed to penetrate 60 metres of rock.

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Murray Watt ‘personally lobbied’ Unesco over barring of WA rock art from world heritage list

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The environment minister says the report on the Murujuga petroglyphs has been ‘clearly influenced’ by environment campaigners

Australia’s environment minister, Murray Watt, has lobbied national Unesco ambassadors in a bid to overturn a recommendation that ancient rock art in Western Australia’s north-west should not receive world heritage listing unless nearby industrial facilities shut down.

Delegations from the Australian government and the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation, a body established to represent five traditional Indigenous language groups, plan to attend a Unesco meeting in Paris next month to argue for an immediate world heritage listing for the Murujuga cultural landscape.

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Walk for truth: hundreds of people join 486km trek from Portland to Melbourne for reconciliation

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Yoorrook Justice commissioner walked from the site of first settlement in Victoria to state parliament to promote truth-telling about Australian history

Travis Lovett began his 486km journey with a single step and a long-held hope to bring the people of Victoria with him on a journey through the state’s colonial past.

It’s a traumatic past that Lovett has been peering into for the past three years through his work as a commissioner and co-chair on the Yoorrook Justice Commission, the county’s first formal, Indigenous-led truth-telling process.

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Australians could be spared excessive power bills as Labor looks to stamp out price gouging

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Chris Bowen to announce review of default market offer, which guides what retailers can charge households and businesses

Households could be spared unreasonable power bill rises in the future as the Albanese government looks to stamp out price gouging after repeated price hikes.

In an address to the Australian Energy Week on Wednesday, Chris Bowen is expected to announce a review of the default market offer (DMO), which sets a benchmark price for residential and small business electricity bills.

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Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano erupts, alert at highest level – Al Jazeera

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  1. Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano erupts, alert at highest level  Al Jazeera
  2. Alert raised to the highest level after Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano erupts  AP News
  3. Indonesia issues highest alert as Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki erupts  BBC
  4. Mount Lewotobi Volcano Erupts in Indonesia, Spewing Ash Miles High  The New York Times
  5. Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki spews 11 kilometre high ash cloud after eruption  Reuters
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Spanish minister rules out cyber-attack as cause of April blackout, after expert report

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System failure caused by network’s inability to control grid voltage said to be behind outage in Spain and Portugal

The unprecedented blackout that brought the Iberian peninsula to a standstill at the end of April was caused by surging voltages triggering “a chain reaction of disconnections” that shut down the power network, an expert report commissioned by the Spanish government has found.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday afternoon, the country’s environment minister, Sara Aagesen, ruled out a cyber-attack as the cause of the outage on 28 April, saying it had been down to a “multifactorial” system failure caused by the network’s inability to control grid voltage.

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