US, China seek to avoid trade war escalation, salvage Trump-Xi meeting in Malaysia talks – Reuters

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  1. US, China seek to avoid trade war escalation, salvage Trump-Xi meeting in Malaysia talks  Reuters
  2. US and China Begin Trade Talks in Malaysia to Ease Tensions  Bloomberg.com
  3. "Beijing Will Respond": China's Big Warning To US Amid 155% Tariff Threat  NDTV
  4. China and US must halt escalating weaponisation of trade, Chinese scholar urges  South China Morning Post
  5. China strikes conciliatory tone ahead of expected Trump-Xi meeting  CNBC
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What is the reparations loan for Ukraine and why is the EU stuck with the plan? – Euronews.com

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  1. What is the reparations loan for Ukraine and why is the EU stuck with the plan?  Euronews.com
  2. EU fails to back frozen Russian cash loan - but vows to support Ukraine  BBC
  3. Kyiv's allies say frozen Russian assets should be quickly used to aid Ukraine  Reuters
  4. Using $300 Billion Russian Frozen Assets To Pay For Ukraine War Losses  Forbes
  5. How Belgium’s De Wever derailed the EU’s ‘insane’ €140B Ukraine loan plan  politico.eu
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Presidents Are Limited to Two Terms. He’s Running for His Fourth. – The New York Times

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  1. Presidents Are Limited to Two Terms. He’s Running for His Fourth.  The New York Times
  2. Ivory Coast presidential election: Who’s standing and what’s at stake?  Al Jazeera
  3. Ivory Coast votes with Ouattara's legacy, age in focus  Reuters
  4. ‘Dare to change’: Ivory Coast heads to the polls as rivals seek to oust Ouattara  The Guardian
  5. Ivory Coast election: An ex-first lady, a tycoon and a 'safe pair of hands' vie for power  BBC
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Gaza children dying as they wait for Israel to enable evacuations – BBC

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  1. Gaza children dying as they wait for Israel to enable evacuations  BBC
  2. Gaza’s silent generation: Psychological toll of Israel’s genocide strips children of speech  Middle East Monitor
  3. Speech by Commissioner Lahbib at the UNICEF Exhibition on Children in Gaza  ReliefWeb
  4. People living in Gaza assess damage to key hospital as ceasefire holds  Yahoo News Canada
  5. Arab-American lawyer leads mission to save Gaza's wounded children  thenationalnews.com
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‘We’ll march as many times as necessary’: Peru’s youth protesters defy state of emergency – The Guardian

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  1. ‘We’ll march as many times as necessary’: Peru’s youth protesters defy state of emergency  The Guardian
  2. Opinion | Peru Shows How Democracies Die Even Without a Dictator  The New York Times
  3. Peru declares 30-day state of emergency in Lima to tackle rising crime  Reuters
  4. Protesters and police clash outside Peruvian Congress  BBC
  5. Peru’s president declares state of emergency in capital as it tries to stem surging violence  AP News
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Trump aims to clinch deal with China’s Xi during Asia trip – Reuters

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  1. Trump aims to clinch deal with China's Xi during Asia trip  Reuters
  2. Trump Leaves Behind a Reeling Washington to Chase a Deal With China  The New York Times
  3. When is Trump going to Asia? What to know as president visits Malaysia, Japan, South Korea  USA Today
  4. Trump administration news: Shutdown drags on as president embarks for key meetings in Asia  CNN
  5. Trade tensions hang over Trump's Asia trip, but he still aims to make a deal  NPR
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Turkey likely to be excluded from Gaza stabilisation force after Israeli objection

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Doubts over whether Ankara will be part of 5,000-strong force to be deployed to prevent postwar power vacuum

Turkey will probably be excluded from the 5,000-strong stabilisation force that is to be set up inside Gaza after Israel made clear it did not want Turkish troops taking part.

Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, said it was a requirement that Israel is comfortable with the nationality of the multinational force, set up to prevent a security vacuum when the massive task of reconstruction in Gaza starts. Turkey has said it is willing to offer troops, but Israel has let it be known that it disapproves of Turkish troops taking part in the force.

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Children under 14 are incapable of evil and should be protected from criminal responsibility, NSW review finds

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Review was led by former supreme court judge turned parole authority chair Geoffrey Bellew SC and former NSW police deputy commissioner Jeffrey Loy

A centuries-old legal presumption that children aged between 10 and 14 are not capable of evil should become law, a New South Wales review led by a former supreme court judge and a former senior NSW police figure has recommended.

In NSW, the criminal age of responsibility is 10 but the common law presumption of doli incapax – Latin for “incapable of evil” – can apply up to 14, offering protection for children being prosecuted on the presumption they don’t understand the difference between right and wrong.

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Newspaper headlines: ‘One out… by mistake’ and Prince Andrew ‘dislodged’ – BBC

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  1. Newspaper headlines: 'One out... by mistake' and Prince Andrew 'dislodged'  BBC
  2. Sex offender who sparked summer riots seen boarding London-bound train after release error, police say  The Guardian
  3. Epping migrant Hadush Kebatu's jail release mind-blowing says MP  BBC
  4. Frantic manhunt launched after asylum seeker who sexually assaulted teen accidentally freed from prison  Fox News
  5. Manhunt for Epping hotel asylum seeker, jailed for sexually assaulting girl, after accidental release  Sky News
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Revealed: some Australians have overpaid their Centrelink debt by more than $20,000

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Exclusive: Services Australia spokesperson says automatic BPay payments and Centrelink being unable to contact customers may be to blame

Approximately 44,000 Australians who have a debt with Centrelink have overpaid it, some by $20,000 or more, Guardian Australia can reveal.

It is the latest in a string of scandals to hit Centrelink after hundreds of thousands of people had their payments illegally cancelled, with several reviews concluding the welfare system is not working legally and the government announcing plans to undertake at least three remediation processes for separate issues – the robodebt class action, income apportionment and overpaid debts.

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