UK officials hold talks with around 20 countries interested in coalition to support Ukraine – Reuters

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  1. UK officials hold talks with around 20 countries interested in coalition to support Ukraine  Reuters
  2. About 20 countries could join Ukraine coalition, UK says  BBC.com
  3. UK prime minister lays out Ukraine peace deal framework as Zelenskyy responds to resignation calls  Fox News
  4. Europeans embrace Zelensky after he was vilified by Trump  CNN
  5. Europe vows to defend Ukraine, but prays for Trump’s support  The Economist
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Fighter jets accidentally drop bombs during exercises, injuring 8 South Koreans – NPR

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  1. Fighter jets accidentally drop bombs during exercises, injuring 8 South Koreans  NPR
  2. South Korean fighter jets accidentally bomb village  NBC News
  3. South Korea air force jets accidentally drop bombs on homes, injuring 15  Reuters
  4. ‘Like a battle field’: See South Korean city after jets accidentally drop bombs on homes  CNN
  5. South Korean Fighter Jets Mistakenly Bomb Village, Leaving 7 Injured  The New York Times
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Israeli Army Operations Are Making West Bank Refugee Camps Unlivable – Haaretz

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  1. Israeli Army Operations Are Making West Bank Refugee Camps Unlivable  Haaretz
  2. As Israel widens war in West Bank, settlers see their influence pay off  The Washington Post
  3. UNRWA warns Israel's West Bank operation aligns with annexation 'vision'  Yahoo
  4. Morning update  Middle East Eye
  5. Israeli Aggression In Tulkarem Enters 40th Day  International Middle East Media Center
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Nearly A Dozen Students Found Dismembered After Disappearing At Mexican Tourist Spot – Bored Panda

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  1. Nearly A Dozen Students Found Dismembered After Disappearing At Mexican Tourist Spot  Bored Panda
  2. Disappearance of eight young people and the silence of three states highlights opacity of crime in Mexico  EL PAÍS USA
  3. Slain gang leader who 'lured nine Mexican students to cartel-ridden city' jokes on camera before horror murder  Daily Mail
  4. What We Know About Chilling Case of Dismembered Students Found in Mexico  PEOPLE
  5. 9 Students Who Went Missing On Mexico Holiday Found Dismembered With "Bag Of Hands"  NDTV
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Russia Warns European Peacekeepers in Ukraine Would Mark NATO’s Direct Involvement – Novinite.com

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  1. Russia Warns European Peacekeepers in Ukraine Would Mark NATO's Direct Involvement  Novinite.com
  2. Opinion | The Kremlin Keeps Escalating  The Wall Street Journal
  3. Russia blasts France's Macron as it mends fences with Washington  NBC News
  4. Russia’s Lavrov Rejects Compromise on European Troops in Ukraine  Bloomberg
  5. Russia 'will never agree' to European peacekeepers in Ukraine, Lukashenko says  ABC News
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Witkoff met with Hamas leaders, Qatari mediators to advance hostage deal, Egyptian sources say – The Jerusalem Post

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  1. Witkoff met with Hamas leaders, Qatari mediators to advance hostage deal, Egyptian sources say  The Jerusalem Post
  2. What to Know About the State of the Gaza Cease-Fire Deal  The New York Times
  3. A Political Dilemma for Israel's Prime Minister  NPR
  4. Israel’s cutoff of supplies to Gaza sends prices soaring as aid stockpiles dwindle  The Associated Press
  5. Israel’s Gaza aid blockade could breach humanitarian law: European nations  Al Jazeera English
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This Is How Europe Becomes The Military Power That The World Needs Now – Worldcrunch

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  1. This Is How Europe Becomes The Military Power That The World Needs Now  Worldcrunch
  2. Without the US it’s all about us in European defence  International Institute for Strategic Studies
  3. Video. The 'American umbrella': Why European defense is dependent on the US  Le Monde
  4. Europe is still dithering about defense  The Hill
  5. Why It’s Time to Reconsider a European Army  Center for Strategic & International Studies
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Live updates: EU leaders hold emergency Ukraine talks after Trump suspends aid – The Associated Press

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  1. Live updates: EU leaders hold emergency Ukraine talks after Trump suspends aid  The Associated Press
  2. Spooked by Trump and Putin, Europe rushes to rearm  The Washington Post
  3. Europe Races to Craft a Trump-Era Plan for Ukraine and Defense  The New York Times
  4. EU leaders to back defence surge, support Zelenskiy after US aid freeze  Reuters
  5. Ukraine-Russia war latest: Zelensky thanks EU leaders for support at emergency summit  The Independent
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What does Egypt’s post-war Gaza plan mean for Hamas? – Middle East Eye

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  1. What does Egypt’s post-war Gaza plan mean for Hamas?  Middle East Eye
  2. State Department: Arab plan for Gaza not ‘adequate’; Hamas can’t continue to exist there  The Times of Israel
  3. U.S. and Israel reject Arab alternative to Trump's Gaza 'Riviera'  NBC News
  4. 'Obstacles' in Egypt's $53 billion plan to rebuild Gaza, install Palestinian Authority control  CNBC
  5. As Israel and U.S. Align on Gaza, the Arab’s Plan Leaves Issues Unanswered  The New York Times
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‘You just hope for the best’: rarely seen froglets – the length of a grain of rice – released into small patch of Victorian wilds

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Exclusive: More than 3,000 critically endangered Baw Baw frogs set free in a high-altitude forest to bolster dwindling population

More than 3,000 critically endangered Baw Baw frogs have been released in Victoria’s east as part of a record-breaking conservation breeding program.

Zoos Victoria’s reintroduction of 3,000 tiny froglets and 40 adult frogs into the high-altitude forests of the Baw Baw plateau, about 120km east of Melbourne, was the largest in its breeding program for the species.

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Welfare recipients told to perform mutual obligations as Tropical Cyclone Alfred bears down on Queensland

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Disability employment provider Help asked jobseekers to perform telephone appointments before later clarifying they were voluntary

Private employment agencies across Queensland have given jobseekers the impression they still need to perform their mutual obligations, despite there being a pause across large swaths of the state while it prepares for Tropical Cyclone Alfred.

The mutual obligations scheme forces jobseekers to complete tasks such as applying for jobs or attending training, or risk their payments being stopped.

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Surface tension: could the promised Aukus nuclear submarines simply never be handed over to Australia?

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The multi-billion dollar deal was heralded as ensuring the security of the Indo-Pacific. But with America an increasingly unreliable ally, doubts are rising above the waves

Maybe Australia’s boats just never turn up.

To fanfare and flags, the Aukus deal was presented as a sure bet, papering over an uncertainty that such an ambitious deal could ever be delivered.

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Former NSW asbestos investigator calls for more controls on waste disposal

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As chief scientist says state should drop ‘zero tolerance’, former EPA official says many problems could be solved during demolition process

A former senior New South Wales environment watchdog officer says more needs to be done to stop asbestos from being mixed into waste materials as the state government considers overhauling the regime for dealing with the toxic contaminant.

Jason Scarborough, who led an Environment Protection Authority (EPA) investigation that found potentially contaminated soil fill could have been applied to land across the state, said many of these issues could be solved at the time of demolition.

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