More part-time bosses and co-CEOs could keep women in leadership and narrow Australia’s pay gap

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Uneven caring responsibilities combined with a lack of flexible work options have prevented women from staying in senior positions, research suggests

More part-time bosses and “co-CEOs” could keep women in leadership and narrow Australia’s gender pay gap, the federal government’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency says.

WGEA warned resistance to gender equality was growing and urged employers to make management more flexible to reduce the gender pay gap, where women earn $0.79 for every $1 a man makes on average.

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Rescued turtles return home after NSW government cut flows to wetland

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Environmental water to the area was halted after a complaint from a private landholder, leading to the deaths of wildlife and sheep

Freshwater turtles rescued from a dried-up water hole in western New South Wales after the state government cut environmental water to the area are being returned home.

Late last month, 10 broad-shelled turtles and three Murray River turtles were released back into the Gingham water hole in the state’s Gwydir region.

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Julie Inman Grant may be able to limit Australians seeing a livestreamed US execution – but it could start a diplomatic incident

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A history of tech giant legal challenges and US political criticism shows there’s no easy solution for the eSafety commissioner

Australia’s online safety regulator has a few levers to limit the public seeing the US’s planned livestream of an execution, but history suggests it will lead to a very public fight.

The US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, announced last week the planned execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan would be livestreamed when the military execution is carried out in early December.

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Australian democracy campaigner detained in Vietnam on alleged terrorism offences uncontactable, wife says

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Tran Hiep spent his 51st birthday alone in a notorious detention centre in Ho Chi Minh City after his sudden arrest last month

Tran Hiep spent his 51st birthday alone in a notorious detention centre in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City after his sudden arrest last month.

The Melbourne-based Vietnamese-Australian democracy campaigner hasn’t been heard from since mid-September when Vietnamese authorities detained him for alleged terrorism and forging identity documents.

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Rent-tech platforms sidestepping credit card surcharge ban with new fees and paid ‘memberships’

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Tenants encouraged to seek free options after online property platforms respond to Reserve Bank’s credit card payment reform

Online property management platforms are charging renters new fees or pushing them on to paid “memberships” to avoid processing costs associated with card payments in the wake of the ban on surcharges.

Tenants have been encouraged to challenge or bypass additional fees charged by so-called rent-tech platforms, including in Victoria, where fees on rent payments are banned.

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Ukraine’s Strikes on Yandex Data Centers, Explained – The Moscow Times

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  1. Ukraine’s Strikes on Yandex Data Centers, Explained  The Moscow Times
  2. Did Ukraine’s strikes on data centers really silence Russian bots?  Mashable
  3. Ukraine hits second major tech site, expanding range of targets inside Russia  Reuters
  4. Ukrainian strikes on data centres and Russian bot activity in freefall  Euronews.com
  5. Ukraine strikes Yandex data centre in third attack on Russian tech giant  BBC
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Coast-to-coast cleanup after three storms batter North America – NBC News

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  1. Coast-to-coast cleanup after three storms batter North America  NBC News
  2. Hurricane Simon lashes Mexico's Pacific coast, pounds resorts and vulnerable towns  CBS News
  3. 2 Pacific Storms Barrel Toward Mexico  The New York Times
  4. Hurricane Simon crawls along Mexico's Pacific coast, bringing floods and evacuations  Reuters
  5. Two deaths reported as Hurricane Simon, storm Rachel batter Mexico’s coast  Al Jazeera
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Azerbaijan’s school hijab ban: What’s behind it, and what’s next? – Al Jazeera

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  1. Azerbaijan’s school hijab ban: What’s behind it, and what’s next?  Al Jazeera
  2. Azerbaijan reportedly blocks social media access as hijab protests continue  OC Media
  3. Monitoring of compliance with dress code rules in state general education institutions has begun  1News.az
  4. Student protests over headscarf ban  Yeni Şafak English
  5. Saakashvili backs Azerbaijan: “A courageous step!”  TodayPress.tv
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Fugitive businessman taken into US custody in Venezuela bribery case

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A businessman wanted in the US for allegedly bribing top Venezuelan officials has been taken into custody

A businessman wanted for years in the US for allegedly paying bribes to top Venezuelan officials in exchange for lucrative state contracts in Venezuela has been taken into custody.

Alvaro Pulido was indicted in Miami federal court in 2019 and again in 2021 as part of an investigation into his longtime business partner, Alex Saab, a one-time ally of ousted Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the state department had been offering a reward of up to $10m for information leading to his arrest.

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Super El Nino could make 2026 record hottest year: climate monitor – Yahoo

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  1. Super El Nino could make 2026 record hottest year: climate monitor  Yahoo
  2. Surface air temperature for September 2026  Copernicus Climate Change
  3. September 2026: 2nd-hottest September for Earth, hottest for the U.S.  Yale Climate Connections
  4. September 2026 was the third-warmest September for Europe  https://eu-space.europa.eu/
  5. Record sea temperature recorded in the central Pacific — BBC News  UA.NEWS
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Europe is finally confronting China – Financial Times

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  1. Europe is finally confronting China  Financial Times
  2. China State Media Warns EU Against ‘New Tricks’ After Car Deal  Bloomberg.com
  3. The EU’s China dilemma: how to counter Beijing without alienating friends  South China Morning Post
  4. Germany shifts toward tougher EU trade defenses as pressure from Chinese competition grows  DW.com
  5. EU Trade Defence: 44 Industry Groups Push for Stronger Measures - News and Statistics  IndexBox
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NAZA: Netanyahu orders identification and prosecution of film’s interviewees

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Israeli PM calls for criminal investigation into soldiers and officers interviewed in Guardian-produced documentary

The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has ordered the country’s attorney general and the head of the Shin Bet security service to reveal the identities of soldiers and officers interviewed in the investigative documentary NAZA and prosecute them for causing “harm to Israel’s diplomatic and security interests”.

The award-winning documentary, directed by the Oscar-winning film-makers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor and produced by the Guardian, details Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza. The film is in cinemas, including in the UK and the US, and will be shown in more than 50 countries.

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Air Force Maj. Jason Watson is in Solitary 24 Hours Daily After Publicly Calling For Trump’s Impeachment – Military.com

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  1. Air Force Maj. Jason Watson is in Solitary 24 Hours Daily After Publicly Calling For Trump’s Impeachment  Military.com
  2. Air Force major in 24-hour solitary after calling for Trump’s impeachment: attorney  Raw Story
  3. U.S. Air Force Member Locked in Solitary Confinement 24 Hours a Day After Publicly Calling for Donald Trump's Impeachment  AOL.com
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Pope Leo to be hospitalized Tuesday for surgery to remove a lung nodule – NBC News

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  1. Pope Leo to be hospitalized Tuesday for surgery to remove a lung nodule  NBC News
  2. Pope Leo Will Have Surgery to Remove Growth on Lung  The New York Times
  3. How worried should Catholics be about the pope’s health?  The Pillar
  4. Pope Leo to be admitted to Gemelli Hospital on October 13  Vatican News
  5. What to know about Pope Leo’s planned lung nodule surgery  CNN
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Ukraine passes minority rights law to end Hungary’s EU veto – Euronews.com

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  1. Ukraine passes minority rights law to end Hungary’s EU veto  Euronews.com
  2. Ukraine says EU set to open next accession stages after Kyiv passes minority rights law  Reuters
  3. Ukraine passes amendments to education law to secure Hungary's consent for EU accession clusters  Українська правда
  4. Update: Zelensky signs minority schools bill to appease Hungary, advance EU talks  The Kyiv Independent
  5. EU States Unanimously Agree to Open 2 New Accession Clusters for Ukraine  Kyiv Post
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Protesters Say India’s Democracy Is “Rotten” as Modi Gov’t Purges Voter Rolls, Arrests Thousands – Democracy Now!

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  1. Protesters Say India’s Democracy Is “Rotten” as Modi Gov’t Purges Voter Rolls, Arrests Thousands  Democracy Now!
  2. What to Know About the Protests in India  The New York Times
  3. Indian police crack down on 'Cockroach' protest in Delhi  DW.com
  4. India’s ‘million mutinies’ are puncturing Modi’s aura of invincibility  Al Jazeera
  5. As protestors in India are detained by the thousands, dozens gather in Vancouver in solidarity  CBC
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Palantir CTO says some AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer – Business Insider

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  1. Palantir CTO says some AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer  Business Insider
  2. Transcript: Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer of Palantir, on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Oct. 11, 2026  CBS News
  3. Palantir’s Shyam Sankar says the Pentagon has replaced Anthropic’s AI  The Next Web
  4. Palantir CTO Says Some AI Researchers Are So Sure It Will Cure Cancer They’ve Started 'Smoking' — Warns Both AI Extremes Reflect ‘Social Delusion’  Yahoo Finance
  5. Palantir’s answer to a deadly targeting failure was more AI  TheStreet
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The bourgeois war of annihilation against Israel – Spiked

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  1. The bourgeois war of annihilation against Israel  Spiked
  2. Three years of war, 100,000 targets struck: IDF releases new conflict data  Breaking Defense
  3. A Small Portland Gathering Speaks of Gazan Suffering on Oct. 7 Anniversary  Willamette Week
  4. Seven Reasons for Hope on October 8  Aish.com
  5. Three years after Oct. 7, Israeli strikes in Gaza grind on and deaths climb  The Washington Post
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