He’s Australia’s most decorated soldier. Now he’s at the centre of a historic war crimes case
Ben Roberts-Smith's case is not only unprecedented for Australia but "extraordinary" for the globe too, scholars say.
Woman who allegedly attacked Sydney hospital patient with hammer claims he stole her brother’s ashes, court hears
Woman, 46, charged with grievous bodily harm after she allegedly struck 63-year-old RPA patient in head, NSW police say
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A man is fighting for his life after being allegedly attacked with a hammer at a Sydney hospital by a woman he knew who claimed he had stolen her brother’s ashes, a court has heard.
Viki Graham, 46, was refused bail and will spend at least two months in jail after she was charged with wounding the 63-year-old man while he lay in a bed at Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred hospital.
Continue reading...Campaigners demand action to break UK’s ‘addiction’ to controversial herbicide
Use of glyphosate has risen 10-fold in 30 years, raising fears for public health
It was Scottish farmers in the 1980s who pioneered the practice of spraying glyphosate on their wheat just before harvest. Struggling in the damp glens to get their crop to dry evenly, they came up with the idea of accelerating the process by killing it a week or two before harvesting.
Glyphosate, then a revolutionary herbicide that killed everything plant-based but spared animal life, seemed perfect for the job. Soon the practice spread to wetter, colder agricultural regions around the world.
Continue reading...UK man jailed for sexually abusing nine-year-old step granddaughter has Australian visa reinstated by tribunal
The man successfully appealed the automatic revocation of his permanent resident visa after being sentenced to 14 months in prison
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An elderly UK man who served a prison sentence for sexually abusing his step granddaughter when she was nine years old has had his Australian visa reinstated by a tribunal because of his “strong ties to Australia”.
The man was sentenced to 14 months prison in the Western Australia district court in February 2024 for molesting the girl in the presence of another child.
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Continue reading...BBC at the site of Israeli air strikes in Beirut
At least 182 people were killed and 890 others wounded, according to the Lebanese health ministry.
Iran’s Asymmetric Counterair Campaign: Attacking the U.S. Air Force’s Nests and Eggs – War on the Rocks
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- Opinion | Iran’s $30,000 drones are deterring our $2.7 billion warships The Boston Globe
- How long-distance drones from a cornered Iran could threaten NYC New York Post
- JUST IN: Middle East Conflict Shows Defense Harder Than Offense in Modern Warfare National Defense Magazine
- US bases in Kuwait and Iraq under threat from Iranian strikes Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law
Lebanon must be included in US-Iran ceasefire deal, Yvette Cooper to say
Foreign secretary to address City leaders in London as Israel intensifies bombing and Vance says Lebanon is not part of deal
Lebanon must be included in the ceasefire agreement between the US and Iran, the British foreign secretary is to say, as a two-week pause in the conflict hangs in the balance.
Addressing an event at the Mansion House in London, Yvette Cooper is expected to say there “must be no return to conflict” after the ceasefire announced by the US president, Donald Trump, late on Tuesday.
Continue reading...Bruce Lehrmann loses last-ditch legal effort to appeal defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson
The high court has dismissed his bid to clear his name of findings that, on the balance of probabilities, he raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House in 2019
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Bruce Lehrmann has lost his last legal avenue to challenge his failed defamation case against Network 10 and Lisa Wilkinson after Australia’s top court dismissed his case.
The high court dismissed his attempt to challenge the outcome in a short judgment published to its website on Thursday.
Continue reading...Artemis crew returning to Earth with ‘all the good stuff’ from Moon discoveries
The four astronauts said they were returning to Earth with "so many more pictures, so many more stories".
Artemis crew returning to Earth with ‘all the good stuff’ from Moon discoveries
The four astronauts said they were returning to Earth with "so many more pictures, so many more stories".
Middle East crisis live: Red Cross ‘outraged’ as Israeli strikes on Lebanon kill 254 people; Trump says US military to remain in region – The Guardian
Thursday briefing: What difference will the ceasefire in the Middle East make, and will it hold?
In today’s newsletter: The truce offers a reprieve after weeks of turmoil, but unresolved disputes and competing interpretations of what was agreed, threaten to pull the region back toward crisis at a moment’s notice
Good morning. On Tuesday, just an hour before the deadline imposed by Donald Trump for Iran to reopen navigation in the strait of Hormuz or face a wave of “civilisation-ending” strikes, a two-week pause in hostilities was announced. After weeks of US and Israeli attacks on Tehran, and Iranian retaliation across the region, the news prompted relief among world leaders.
But unanswered questions are piling up. Israel’s assault on Lebanon continues, with Trump describing that conflict as a separate skirmish not included in the deal, despite Iran seeming to think otherwise. Overnight the US president has used social media to warn that “the ‘shootin’ starts,’ bigger, and better, and stronger than anyone has ever seen before” unless Tehran complies with “the real agreement”.
Middle East | The fate of the two-week ceasefire in the Iran conflict looked in peril as both sides gave divergent versions of what had been agreed. Iran halted the passage of oil tankers because of an alleged Israeli ceasefire breach.
Middle East | Israel carried out its largest attack on Lebanon since its war with Hezbollah began, killing at least 254 people and wounding 837.
Middle East | The UK has a “job” to help reopen the strait of Hormuz, Keir Starmer said on arriving in the Middle East, as Iranian reports said the key shipping route was closed again just hours after the supposed US-Iran ceasefire.
Ukraine | The US has ignored compelling evidence that Russia has been helping Iran to target US bases in the Middle East because it misguidedly “trusts” Vladimir Putin, according to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Education | Many English universities are taking excessive financial risks with borrowing and expansion of student numbers, threatening not only their own survival but that of others in the sector, the thinktank Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) has warned.
Continue reading...Airstrikes, turmoil in Strait of Hormuz imperil ceasefire with Iran – The Washington Post
- Airstrikes, turmoil in Strait of Hormuz imperil ceasefire with Iran The Washington Post
- Iran warns it will respond if Israeli attacks on Lebanon don't stop immediately BBC
- Iran war: Oil tankers passage halted in Hormuz after Israeli strikes on Lebanon, Fars reports 6abc Philadelphia
- Disagreement Over Lebanon’s Inclusion in Cease-Fire Threatens to Unravel It The New York Times
- The Latest: Ceasefire at risk over Israel's attacks in Lebanon, possible mines in Strait of Hormuz ClickOnDetroit | WDIV Local 4
Man rescued after two weeks trapped in collapsed Mexico mine
A man trapped for nearly two weeks in a flooded gold mine in Sinaloa, Mexico, has been rescued by military divers.
Trump slams NATO over Iran after meeting Rutte, renews Greenland threat
US president meets NATO chief, expresses disappointment over member states failing to back war on Iran.
Hundreds search for wolf that escaped from zoo in South Korea
Local school closes in Daejeon city as hundreds of emergency service and military personnel scour area around O-World theme park where the wolf escaped from
Authorities are hunting for a wolf after it escaped from a zoo in Daejeon, a South Korean city with a population of 1.5million.
More than 300 people – including firefighters, police and military personnel – are taking part in the search operation, an official from the Daejeon fire headquarters said.
Continue reading...President Trump’s ceasefire with Iran draws praise from world leaders – Fox News
- President Trump’s ceasefire with Iran draws praise from world leaders Fox News
- Iran reveals 10-point plan for peace with the US – here's what's in it Fox News
- For Gulf states, Hormuz uncertainty casts shadow over fragile US-Iran truce Al Jazeera
- After Cease-Fire, Iranians Are Left to Pick Up the Pieces The New York Times
- How Trump went from threatening Iran's annihilation to agreeing to a 2-week ceasefire with Tehran AP News
George Clooney calls Donald Trump’s ‘a whole civilization will die tonight’ threat to Iran a war crime
White House says only person committing war crimes is actor ‘for his awful movies and terrible acting ability’
The long-running war of words between George Clooney and the White House has ignited again after the Oscar-winning actor criticised Donald Trump’s threat to Iran that “a whole civilization will die tonight”.
On Wednesday, in a speech to 3,000 high school students in Cuneo, Italy, Clooney said the US president had committed a war crime with his threat.
Continue reading...Watch: BBC asks Artemis II crew a question in space
The BBC’s Science Editor Rebecca Morelle has spoken to the Artemis II crew ahead of their likely splashdown on Saturday.
13-year-old girl captures terrifying moment Israel bombed Beirut
A 13-year-old girl on Snapchat captured the moment Israel began its assault on Beirut.