Peace talks are in parallel universe, say Ukraine front-line troops – BBC.com

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  1. Peace talks are in parallel universe, say Ukraine front-line troops  BBC.com
  2. Are Ukrainians ready for ceasefire and concessions? Here’s what the polls say  The Conversation Indonesia
  3. What if Ukraine decides to fight on without America?  Financial Times
  4. Chicago's Ukrainian community awaits outcome of ceasefire talks  FOX 32 Chicago
  5. Half of Ukrainians say territorial concessions, forfeiting NATO membership in exchange for ending war 'completely unacceptable'  Kyiv Independent
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Argentina minister urged to quit after police violence at pensioner protest

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Photographer in coma and scores injured as police use teargas, rubber bullets and water cannon against retirees

Argentina’s hardline security minister is facing calls to resign after the violent police response to a protest by pensioners left a photographer in a coma and scores of other people injured.

More than 1,000 riot police used teargas, rubber bullets and water cannons to disperse demonstrators late on Wednesday.

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Argentine Journalist In Critical Condition After Violent Anti-austerity Protest – Barron’s

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  1. Argentine Journalist In Critical Condition After Violent Anti-austerity Protest  Barron's
  2. Photographer in coma after Argentina police hit pensioner protest hard  The Guardian
  3. Argentina: Pensioners and soccer fans unite in protests  DW (English)
  4. Video. Protests turn violent in Buenos Aires over Milei’s economic reforms  Euronews
  5. Journalist in critical condition after violent anti-Milei protest  Buenos Aires Times
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Spain’s terrible record on defence spending – The Economist

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  1. Spain’s terrible record on defence spending  The Economist
  2. Spain told European allies it would spend more on defense, faster. Back home, it's a harder sell  The Associated Press
  3. Spain’s Pedro Sánchez calls for cyber and climate to count as defence spending  Financial Times
  4. Spain's PM says military spending will reindustrialise Spain and EU  Euronews
  5. Spain’s economy is booming – but that’s bad news for its military plans  The Telegraph
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Canadians who visit US for more than 30 days will be fingerprinted

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New requirement hardens enforcement of existing law that hasn’t been applied consistently to Canadians entering the United States

Canadians who visit the US for more than 30 days will be required to register with authorities and have their fingerprints taken, as the Trump administration tightens migration rules amid soaring tensions between the North American neighbors.

The new requirement, effective from 11 April, will harden enforcement of an existing law, which states that all foreign nationals 14 years old or older who plan to stay in the US for 30 days or more must register with the authorities.

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‘Bad’ hate crime laws quickly passed after terror ‘con job’ must be reversed, crossbenchers insist

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Independents and legal experts say Labor and the Coalition’s team-up to ‘ram laws through parliament’ was rushed, lacked transparency and was ‘bad politicking’

Labor and the Coalition have been accused of “bad politicking” by teaming up to pass tough hate crime laws in the wake of a series of antisemitic incidents, including one revealed this week to be a “fake terrorism plot”.

Crossbench MPs also backed a review – or a reversal – of the laws, after the revelations about the caravan plot.

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Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier

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About 60% of the 1.2m cars that drove out of the showroom last year were SUVs, but road fatalities reached a 12-year high too

George Upjohn vividly remembers his interaction with the driver of an SUV after a collision that happened while cycling in Sydney’s south.

“I had blood all over my shins and when I hobbled up and asked why she didn’t turn her head to check to her side before veering into my lane, she said she didn’t need to because the sensor in her car would have alerted her to me. She said I must have been at fault and rode into her,” the 32-year-old claims.

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Politics is Clive Palmer’s ‘golf’ – and he’ll keep pouring money into it as long as his wife will let him

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Mercurial mining magnate answers questions at the National Press Club through Tim Tams, telling journalists: ‘It’s my money. If I lose it, I lose it’

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Clive Palmer faced a conundrum in Canberra on Thursday: whether to answer a question on China and Taiwan from one of the press gallery’s most esteemed journalists, or swallow the chunk of chocolate biscuit he’d just bitten into.

In the end, he did both, telling Andrew Probyn from Nine News that “once the American commitment goes, Taiwan wouldn’t be able to defend itself” through a mouthful of Tim Tam.

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Elon Musk’s Starlink could be used to transmit Australian election voting results

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Contract comes to light after questions raised about the increasing role of Musk in Australia’s communications systems

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The Australian Electoral Commission is planning on using Elon Musk’s Starlink services as back up for transmitting voting results information in the upcoming federal election.

In a contract published late last year, the AEC appointed Telstra responsible for the agency’s fixed line and Starlink services until mid-2027, in a deal worth $1.38m. A spokesperson for the AEC confirmed Starlink could be used in the upcoming election for sensitive election data.

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