China’s Five-Year Plan Puts Quantum and AI at the Center of Its Tech and Market Strategy – TipRanks

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  1. China’s Five-Year Plan Puts Quantum and AI at the Center of Its Tech and Market Strategy  TipRanks
  2. China Outlines 5-Year Plan to Double Down on Global Tech Ambitions  The New York Times
  3. How China’s 15th five-year plan signals a new phase of strategic adaptation  The World Economic Forum
  4. China signals sharper pivot to consumption as imbalances worsen  Reuters
  5. China calls for faster, wider adoption of advanced tech to strengthen industry  South China Morning Post
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Australians still betting big on Melbourne Cup, despite many saying they’re losing interest in race

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But money spent betting on horse racing overall has sharply declined amid cost-of-living pressures and regulation

Australians say they are losing interest in the Melbourne Cup and the animal welfare campaign against it has never wavered, but the amount of money gambled on the race has barely changed since the pandemic.

Wagering turnover on the Melbourne Cup has fallen only slightly from the $221m recorded in 2020 to $214m last year. The five-year average spend, according to Racing Victoria figures, remains $220m.

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Australian scientist who made global name during Covid wins top prime minister’s prize

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Prof Lidia Morawska says recognition of her research comes at a fraught time – an ‘age of anti-science’

When the World Health Organization announced – incorrectly, as became apparent later – in March 2020 that the Covid-19 virus was not airborne, Prof Lidia Morawska knew she had to do something.

A renowned expert in air quality and health, Morawska, of the Queensland University of Technology, began contacting international colleagues. She eventually gathered 239 scientists globally to highlight the risk of airborne transmission of Sars-CoV-2.

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Nearly 90% of jobseekers unable to get long-term work despite millions spent on private job agencies

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Employment department’s annual report shows just 11.7% of jobseekers ended up with jobs lasting at least 26 weeks last year

Australia’s private employment services are failing to get jobseekers into long-term work, despite costing taxpayers millions of dollars each year, department documents show.

Just 11.7% of jobseekers in Australia found long-term employment through a job provider in the latest financial year, according to the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations’ annual report.

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Rome: worker trapped and one injured after part of medieval tower collapses

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Three others rescued at the Torre dei Conti, which was undergoing restoration works

A medieval tower in central Rome has partly collapsed twice during renovations, injuring one worker and trapping another.

Falling debris from the initial collapse of the Torre dei Conti, just after 11.30am (0930 GMT), close to the Roman Forum ruins, hit a 64-year-old worker, the Ansa news agency reported. He was taken to San Giovanni hospital in a critical condition although Francesco Rocca, Lazio’s regional president, said his injuries were not life threatening.

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Russia looks to cosy up with China after Trump’s meeting with Xi – CNBC

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  1. Russia looks to cosy up with China after Trump’s meeting with Xi  CNBC
  2. China pledges to defend shared security interests with Russia  Reuters
  3. China's and Russia's heads of government meet in Hangzhou  Reuters Connect
  4. Russian premier Mikhail Mishustin begins ‘very important’ China visit  The Independent
  5. Chinese, Russian heads of govt hold regular meeting, eyeing closer all-round cooperation  news.cgtn.com
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Avalanche on Nepal mountain Yalung Ri kills 7 including foreign climbers – CNN

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  1. Avalanche on Nepal mountain Yalung Ri kills 7 including foreign climbers  CNN
  2. 7 Climbers Are Killed After Avalanche Hits Base Camp in Himalayas  The New York Times
  3. Three climbers dead and four missing after Nepal avalanche  BBC
  4. Avalanche in Nepal kills 7 climbers on Mount Yalung Ri  Fox News
  5. Five climbers and two guides killed in Nepal avalanche, say officials  The Guardian
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Disabled NT man died naked in cell wearing spit hood and cuffs, inquest told

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Wayne Hunt was kept in detention after a seizure instead of being taken to hospital, coroner hears

An inmate who suffered a seizure was put in handcuffs and a spit hood by prison guards who left him naked in an “at-risk cell” before he died two days later.

At an inquest into his death in Darwin on Monday, Northern Territory corrections and health departments apologised to the family of Wayne Hunt for the way he was treated and told the coroner, Elisabeth Armitage, that procedural changes would be made.

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Israel and Hamas hand over bodies as part of Gaza ceasefire deal

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Hamas hands remains of three soldiers to Israel and bodies of 45 Palestinians are returned to Gaza amid fragile ceasefire

Israel has announced that the remains of three soldiers killed by Hamas during its raid into Israel on 7 October 2023 have been handed over by the militant group.

The transfer is the latest since the precarious ceasefire in Gaza came into effect just over three weeks ago.

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PM rules out granting safe passage to 200 Hamas gunmen stuck in IDF-held Rafah – The Times of Israel

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  1. PM rules out granting safe passage to 200 Hamas gunmen stuck in IDF-held Rafah  The Times of Israel
  2. Benjamin Netanyahu: No safe passage for Hamas without disarming  The Jerusalem Post
  3. Netanyahu will not allow ‘safe passage’ for 200 Hamas terrorists trapped in Gaza tunnels  New York Post
  4. Scoop: U.S. offered Hamas militants safe passage out of Israel-controlled Gaza zone  Axios
  5. Report: Hamas Agrees to Retreat From Gaza Yellow Line via Red Cross Corridors, Avoid IDF Troops  Haaretz
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Pregnant British teen arrested for drug smuggling in Georgia released after guilty verdict – AP News

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  1. Pregnant British teen arrested for drug smuggling in Georgia released after guilty verdict  AP News
  2. Bella Culley freed from Georgian prison  BBC
  3. Georgia frees pregnant UK teenager who smuggled drugs from Thailand  Reuters
  4. Pregnant British teen finally transferred from Georgia jail where she was forced to ‘toast bread with candle’  The Independent
  5. Pregnant British teen accused of drug-smuggling moved to baby unit in Georgian prison  The Guardian
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Trump, 79, Now Has Printed Out Tweet Listing Wars He Says He’s ‘Solved’ but Can’t Remember – The Daily Beast

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  1. Trump, 79, Now Has Printed Out Tweet Listing Wars He Says He’s ‘Solved’ but Can’t Remember  The Daily Beast
  2. The president wanted to keep reminding people of all the wars he’s supposedly ended, but he couldn’t recall the names of the countries.  Yahoo News UK
  3. Trump Waves Around News Printouts Rather Than Talk About Ukraine War  The New Republic
  4. CBS viewers blast Trump's printout of 'wars he ended' in 60 Minutes interview  Irish Star
  5. ‘I’m the peace president—tariffs ended eight of nine wars’, says Trump [VIDEO]  TVP World
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Czech billionaire Babiš clinches coalition deal with the far right – politico.eu

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  1. Czech billionaire Babiš clinches coalition deal with the far right  politico.eu
  2. Czech Eurosceptic Andrej Babiš agrees coalition deal with far-right  Financial Times
  3. Czech vote winner Babis signs coalition deal with eurosceptic partners  Reuters
  4. Babiš to form new Czech government after right-wing coalition deal  Euronews.com
  5. Analysis: How Babiš’s Orbán-lite coalition will keep EU close  TVP World
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