Spain’s attorney general guilty of leak in tax fraud case against partner of political rival – AP News

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  1. Spain’s attorney general guilty of leak in tax fraud case against partner of political rival  AP News
  2. Spain's attorney general convicted in controversial leak case  BBC
  3. Spain's attorney general guilty of leak in tax fraud case against partner of political rival  ABC News
  4. Spain's Supreme Court finds chief prosecutor guilty in leak case  Reuters
  5. Blow to Spanish PM as attorney general found guilty in leak case  The Guardian
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Statistically, there’s a reliable way to predict a domestic violence homicide like Hannah Clarke’s

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Queensland researchers studying intimate-partner killings found one thing common to more than half the cases

When researchers in Queensland catalogued data from seven years of intimate-partner killings, they found one thing common to more than half of those cases – a victim’s own sense of fear about their impending death.

Statistically, the most reliable way to predict a domestic violence homicide is to believe the victim.

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‘Gobsmacking’ solar farm that could power AI datacentres ‘possibly unparalleled’ in Australia or world

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SunCable says massive energy project proposed in NT could position Australia as global leader but critics are concerned about scale

Energy company SunCable says a massive solar farm it has proposed building in the Northern Territory could power an AI datacentre precinct in the region to position Australia as a global leader in “green industrial development”.

The development would be Australia’s largest solar farm and would generate up to 20GW of electricity, or 10 times the output of a large coal-fired station. It would add to the company’s plans to build a 12,000ha solar farm at Powell Creek Station, south of Elliott, as part of its proposed Australia-Asia Power Link project.

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Hurricane Melissa winds hit record-breaking 252 mph, data confirms – CBS News

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  1. Hurricane Melissa winds hit record-breaking 252 mph, data confirms  CBS News
  2. Hurricane Melissa's 252 mph wind gust sets historic record  USA Today
  3. Record-breaking 252 mph wind reading verified from historic Hurricane Melissa  FOX Weather
  4. It’s official: Hurricane Melissa produced highest measured wind gust for tropical system  WKMG
  5. Record-breaking winds confirmed for Hurricane Melissa  University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
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Spanish PM calls for nation to heed past lessons on anniversary of Franco’s death

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Pedro Sánchez says his country must defend the democratic freedom ‘wrenched from us for so many years’

Spain has marked the 50th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s death with an absence of official events but a call from the prime minister to heed the lessons of the dictatorship and defend the democratic freedom “wrenched from us for so many years”.

Franco, whose military coup against the elected republican government in 1936 triggered a civil war and brought about four decades of dictatorship, died in Madrid on 20 November 1975.

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Israeli airstrikes kill 33 people in Gaza in escalation of post-ceasefire attacks

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Medical officials say 17 people killed in Khan Younis area and 16 in strikes on Gaza City

Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed 33 people and injured many more, according to medical officials, in one of the most serious escalations of violence since the US-backed ceasefire came into effect last month.

Officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said they received the bodies of 17 people, including five women and five children, after four Israeli airstrikes targeted tents sheltering displaced people. In Gaza City, medical officials said two airstrikes killed 16 people, including seven children and three women.

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