Sharaa’s arrival in Cairo for Arab summit signals regional shift – The Jerusalem Post

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  1. Sharaa's arrival in Cairo for Arab summit signals regional shift  The Jerusalem Post
  2. Egypt's Sisi meets Syria's Sharaa in Cairo for first time  Reuters
  3. Syria’s new leader calls for pressure on Israel to withdraw troops  The Times of Israel
  4. Syria interim president seeks pressure on Israel to withdraw from south  Yahoo
  5. Syria's al-Sharaa meets European Council chief at Arab summit in Egypt | Daily Sabah  Daily Sabah
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Trump’s stunning string of Putin-friendly moves – Axios

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  1. Trump's stunning string of Putin-friendly moves  Axios
  2. Opinion | Trump’s Sharp Shift on Ukraine and Russia  The New York Times
  3. Opinion | The Zelensky Spat Shows Us How Trump Sees the World  The Wall Street Journal
  4. Trump has fully embraced Russia’s war fantasy, but there’s a hidden trap for Putin  The Independent
  5. With Trump in office, U.S. allies lose standing, security  NPR
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Media, supermarkets and banks: what is the average salary at the big companies and how big is the gender pay gap?

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Radio 2GB Sydney has industry’s worst gender pay gap at 51.1%, while the size of supermarkets helps to narrow their differential

Which Australian radio station pays men twice as much as women? Which bank has a pay gap nearly double the national average? And which large supermarket chain pays the best?*

The answers to these questions – and many more – have been laid bare after the government’s Women’s Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) published its second annual report of company-level gender pay gaps this week.

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Social media firms criticise ‘irrational’ exemption of YouTube from Australia’s under-16s ban

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Meta, TikTok and Snapchat release statements in campaign protesting Labor’s handling of contested legislation

Meta, TikTok and Snapchat have criticised the Albanese government’s handling of the social media ban for under-16s, launching a campaign against what they have labelled an “irrational” and “shortsighted” decision to exempt YouTube from the contested legislation.

The three tech platforms made submissions to a government consultation process on the ban – rushed through parliament at the end of 2024 with little inquiry – calling for a re-evaluation of Labor’s approach and demanding YouTube be subject to the same restrictions they will be.

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Chinese Architect Liu Jiakun Receives the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize – ArchDaily

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  1. Chinese Architect Liu Jiakun Receives the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize  ArchDaily
  2. Chinese Architect Liu Jiakun Wins Pritzker Prize  The New York Times
  3. Chinese architect Liu Jiakun wins the 2025 Pritzker Prize  NPR
  4. ‘I aspire to be like water’: the exquisite buildings of Liu Jiakun, winner of architecture’s top prize  The Guardian
  5. Eleven key projects by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner Liu Jiakun  Dezeen
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Campaigners celebrate court ruling to ‘decolonise’ Kampala

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After a five-year campaign, landmarks and streets honouring British colonialists will be renamed to reflect Ugandan culture

Campaigners have welcomed a court ruling to remove British colonial monuments from Uganda’s capital, Kampala, and to rename streets that honour “crooks and historical figureheads”.

In last week’s high court ruling, Justice Musa Ssekaana directed the city authorities to remove the names of British figures from streets, monuments and other landmarks.

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Saudi Arabia to consider resuming Lebanon imports, lifting travel ban – Al Jazeera English

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  1. Saudi Arabia to consider resuming Lebanon imports, lifting travel ban  Al Jazeera English
  2. Lebanon’s Aoun, Saudi crown prince call for Israeli pullout from all of Lebanon  The Times of Israel
  3. Saudi, Lebanese leaders reaffirm commitment to Taif Agreement and Lebanon’s sovereignty  Arab News
  4. Lebanon President Joseph Aoun meets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman  Al Arabiya English
  5. Lebanon and Saudi Arabia work to improve relations, call for Israeli withdrawal  The Associated Press
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British activist Jagtar Singh Johal acquitted in India terror trial

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Human rights campaigner still faces threat of death penalty if found guilty of further charges

Jagtar Singh Johal, the British human rights activist accused of terrorism has been acquitted on all charges in a case in Punjab, after a court rejected the allegations against him made by Indian authorities.

Johal has been held in detention for seven years awaiting judgment, but must remain in prison since he is facing eight essentially duplicate cases brought by India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) based on the same alleged confession.

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