Teenage boy charged with murder after allegedly stabbing man during Brisbane house party

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Boy, 15, charged with one count of murder after alleged stabbing of 58-year-old at Clayfield home on Thursday

Distressed teenagers are being spoken to by police after a man’s fatal stabbing at a Brisbane house party packed with dozens of young people.

Police have charged a 15-year-old boy with murder after the 58-year-old’s body was found inside a large home in the upmarket inner-city suburb of Clayfield on Thursday night.

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How Blunders by Hamas and the Ayatollah Regime Enabled Netanyahu’s Iran Offensive – Haaretz

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  1. How Blunders by Hamas and the Ayatollah Regime Enabled Netanyahu's Iran Offensive  Haaretz
  2. Opinion | I Detest Netanyahu, but on Some Things He’s Actually Right  The New York Times
  3. Why is it time for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to retire?  The Jerusalem Post
  4. Netanyahu sees redemption in Iran war, but Gaza looms large  Reuters
  5. The Netanyahu paradox Even his opponents supported the war in Iran  UnHerd
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EU leaders try to out-bully Trump, floating world trade club without US – politico.eu

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  1. EU leaders try to out-bully Trump, floating world trade club without US  politico.eu
  2. EU leaders on WTO: We need to ‘come up with something else’  CNN
  3. Von der Leyen proposes setting up EU-led alternative to WTO  Financial Times
  4. Von der Leyen touts EU-led alternative to mired WTO  Euronews.com
  5. Germany's Merz: Von der Leyen suggested Europeans build a new trade organisation  Forex Factory
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Ceasefire in Iran gives rise to new calls for a deal to end Gaza war – The Washington Post

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  1. Ceasefire in Iran gives rise to new calls for a deal to end Gaza war  The Washington Post
  2. There Is Only One Way to End the Gaza War and Prevent Future Bloodbaths  Haaretz
  3. The fighting has stopped between Israel and Iran. Families of hostages now hope for a deal in Gaza  AP News
  4. Hostage families hope Iran truce yields Gaza deal: ‘Hamas is at its weakest point’  The Times of Israel
  5. While the world watched Iran and Israel, what happened in Gaza?  Al Jazeera
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Indian investigators download black box data from fatal Air India crash – Reuters

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  1. Indian investigators download black box data from fatal Air India crash  Reuters
  2. Investigators begin analyzing black boxes from fatal Air India crash  The Washington Post
  3. India denies entry to UN aviation investigator in Air India crash probe, say sources  The Economic Times
  4. Air India C.E.O.’s Remarks After Plane Crash Draw Scrutiny  The New York Times
  5. Air India crash authorities give first major update on recovery of black box data  The Independent
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India denies entry to UN aviation investigator in Air India crash probe, say sources – Reuters

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  1. India denies entry to UN aviation investigator in Air India crash probe, say sources  Reuters
  2. Air India: India begins downloading data from recorders of crashed Dreamliner  BBC
  3. Flight Recorder Work Offers Hope For Air India Probe Progress  Aviation Week Network
  4. Aviation Oversight Flaws: Air India Crash Was a Consequence, Not an Accident  Deccan Herald
  5. Air India crash authorities give first major update on recovery of black box data  The Independent
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Home owned by Brad Pitt broken into in Los Angeles

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LA police say suspects broke in through the front window, ransacked the home and fled with property

Police are investigating a break-in at a home reportedly owned by Brad Pitt, who has been on a globe-spanning promo tour for his new movie, F1, after three people allegedly “ransacked” the property.

The Los Angeles police department confirmed they responded to a break-in Wednesday night at a house on the 2300 block of North Edgemont Street in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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Lalo Schifrin, composer of Mission: Impossible theme and more than 100 film and TV scores, dies aged 93

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The Argentinian composer also wrote the scores for Cool Hand Luke and Dirty Harry, and wrote one of the biggest-selling works in the history of classical music

Lalo Schifrin, the composer who wrote the endlessly catchy theme for Mission: Impossible and more than 100 other arrangements for film and television, has died aged 93.

Schifrin’s sons, William and Ryan, confirmed the composer died on Thursday of complications from pneumonia.

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Trump makes case for ‘big, beautiful bill’ and cranks up pressure on Republicans

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President calls for passage of signature tax bill but it’s not yet clear whether Senate Republicans have sufficient votes

Donald Trump convened congressional leaders and cabinet secretaries at the White House on Thursday to make the case for passage of his marquee tax-and-spending bill, but it remains to be seen whether his pep talk will resolve a developing logjam that could threaten its passage through the Senate.

The president’s intervention comes as the Senate majority leader, John Thune, mulls an initial vote on Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” on Friday, before a 4 July deadline Trump has imposed to have the legislation ready for his signature.

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The art of Trump’s ceasefire Could Iran’s regime change come from within? – UnHerd

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  1. The art of Trump’s ceasefire Could Iran’s regime change come from within?  UnHerd
  2. If Iranian regime collapses or is toppled, 'what's next?'  Responsible Statecraft
  3. Opinion | What Bombs Can’t Do in Iran  The New York Times
  4. Experts Agree: Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Have Been Obliterated  The White House (.gov)
  5. If not a war, what has Trump started?  CNN
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