Arab Leaders Meet at Emergency Summit to Form Plan on Gaza Crisis – The New York Times

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  1. Arab Leaders Meet at Emergency Summit to Form Plan on Gaza Crisis  The New York Times
  2. Egypt’s Gaza plan excludes Hamas from future governance  CNN
  3. Arab leaders meet to discuss Egypt’s Gaza plan  Al Jazeera English
  4. Arab summit on Gaza counterproposal begins; Sissi says he’s sure Trump can bring peace  The Times of Israel
  5. Gaza: Arab leaders set to back alternative to Trump's plan  BBC.com
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As Trump cozies up to Putin, Russia offers to mediate US-Iran nuclear talks – The Times of Israel

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  1. As Trump cozies up to Putin, Russia offers to mediate US-Iran nuclear talks  The Times of Israel
  2. Kremlin says Iran’s nuclear program will be subject of future Russia-US talks  The Times of Israel
  3. Kremlin says Iran's nuclear programme will be subject of future Russia-US talks  Reuters
  4. Putin Agrees to Help Trump Broker Nuclear Talks With Iran  Bloomberg
  5. Russia seeks to serve as mediator between US and Iran  AOL
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Ukraine: Who is in Europe’s ‘coalition of the willing’? – DW (English)

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  1. Ukraine: Who is in Europe's 'coalition of the willing'?  DW (English)
  2. Who Will Join Europe’s ‘Coalition of the Willing’ to Help Ukraine?  The New York Times
  3. Starmer and Macron step up to shape European security as Trump roils relations  The Associated Press
  4. U.K. prime minister unveils steps toward a Ukraine peace deal, urges U.S. cooperation  NPR
  5. European leaders ‘doubling down’ on backing Zelensky after Trump blowup  The Washington Post
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Sharaa’s arrival in Cairo for Arab summit signals regional shift – The Jerusalem Post

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  1. Sharaa's arrival in Cairo for Arab summit signals regional shift  The Jerusalem Post
  2. Egypt's Sisi meets Syria's Sharaa in Cairo for first time  Reuters
  3. Syria’s new leader calls for pressure on Israel to withdraw troops  The Times of Israel
  4. Syria interim president seeks pressure on Israel to withdraw from south  Yahoo
  5. Syria's al-Sharaa meets European Council chief at Arab summit in Egypt | Daily Sabah  Daily Sabah
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Trump’s stunning string of Putin-friendly moves – Axios

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  1. Trump's stunning string of Putin-friendly moves  Axios
  2. Opinion | Trump’s Sharp Shift on Ukraine and Russia  The New York Times
  3. Opinion | The Zelensky Spat Shows Us How Trump Sees the World  The Wall Street Journal
  4. Trump has fully embraced Russia’s war fantasy, but there’s a hidden trap for Putin  The Independent
  5. With Trump in office, U.S. allies lose standing, security  NPR
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Media, supermarkets and banks: what is the average salary at the big companies and how big is the gender pay gap?

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Radio 2GB Sydney has industry’s worst gender pay gap at 51.1%, while the size of supermarkets helps to narrow their differential

Which Australian radio station pays men twice as much as women? Which bank has a pay gap nearly double the national average? And which large supermarket chain pays the best?*

The answers to these questions – and many more – have been laid bare after the government’s Women’s Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) published its second annual report of company-level gender pay gaps this week.

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Social media firms criticise ‘irrational’ exemption of YouTube from Australia’s under-16s ban

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Meta, TikTok and Snapchat release statements in campaign protesting Labor’s handling of contested legislation

Meta, TikTok and Snapchat have criticised the Albanese government’s handling of the social media ban for under-16s, launching a campaign against what they have labelled an “irrational” and “shortsighted” decision to exempt YouTube from the contested legislation.

The three tech platforms made submissions to a government consultation process on the ban – rushed through parliament at the end of 2024 with little inquiry – calling for a re-evaluation of Labor’s approach and demanding YouTube be subject to the same restrictions they will be.

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Chinese Architect Liu Jiakun Receives the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize – ArchDaily

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  1. Chinese Architect Liu Jiakun Receives the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize  ArchDaily
  2. Chinese Architect Liu Jiakun Wins Pritzker Prize  The New York Times
  3. Chinese architect Liu Jiakun wins the 2025 Pritzker Prize  NPR
  4. ‘I aspire to be like water’: the exquisite buildings of Liu Jiakun, winner of architecture’s top prize  The Guardian
  5. Eleven key projects by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner Liu Jiakun  Dezeen
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Campaigners celebrate court ruling to ‘decolonise’ Kampala

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After a five-year campaign, landmarks and streets honouring British colonialists will be renamed to reflect Ugandan culture

Campaigners have welcomed a court ruling to remove British colonial monuments from Uganda’s capital, Kampala, and to rename streets that honour “crooks and historical figureheads”.

In last week’s high court ruling, Justice Musa Ssekaana directed the city authorities to remove the names of British figures from streets, monuments and other landmarks.

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