Baby wombat-snatching US influencer apologises and says she was ‘concerned’ for Australian animal – The Guardian
- Baby wombat-snatching US influencer apologises and says she was ‘concerned’ for Australian animal The Guardian
- Outrage in Australia After American Woman Grabs a Baby Wombat The New York Times
- Wombats are cute, furry marsupials — that shouldn’t be picked up The Associated Press
- Influencer Who Stole a Screaming Baby Wombat from Its Mom Leaves Australia After Facing Backlash PEOPLE
- Wombat video may cause Montana influencer to lose visa Daily Montanan
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs pleads not guilty to updated indictment
‘You can’t make a deal with Russia’: Do Ukrainians believe in a ceasefire?
UK steel industry calls for capped energy prices amid Trump trade war
British steelmakers lobby for government to set limit to compete with France and Germany
The British steel industry has called for capped energy prices for heavy industry in order to match France and Germany, as companies grapple with the fallout from Donald Trump’s trade war.
UK Steel, a lobby group, has proposed the government set a maximum price for energy through a contract for difference (CfD), before an announcement of a new steel strategy.
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No, Russia Has Not Surrounded Thousands Of Ukrainian Troops In Kursk – Forbes
- No, Russia Has Not Surrounded Thousands Of Ukrainian Troops In Kursk Forbes
- Russia says it has recaptured key Kursk region town, as Trump says peace is ‘up to Russia now’ CNN
- Russian forces closing in on Ukrainian troops in Kursk, official says NBC News
- Putin demands Kursk total victory ahead of Moscow talks with Trump envoy ABC News
- Ukraine loses a ceasefire bargaining chip as its troops cede ground in Russia The Associated Press
US says South African ambassador ‘no longer welcome’
Female prisoner allegedly sexually abused for years by prison guard settles with NSW government
Woman alleged she was raped when the department of justice already knew Wayne Astill was ‘abusing his position towards female inmates’
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A female prisoner allegedly sexually abused for years by a senior prison guard will be paid an undisclosed sum as part of a New South Wales government settlement in an ongoing class action.
Court documents filed to the NSW supreme court reveal that the woman, known as GP1, alleged she was raped when the department of justice already knew Wayne Astill, a prison guard, “was abusing his position toward female inmates”.
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US had productive talks with Putin over Ukraine war, Trump says
Baby wombat-snatching US influencer apologises and says she was ‘concerned’ for Australian animal
Sam Jones, who left Australia on Friday, posted a 900-word statement questioning outrage in country where ‘slaughter of wombats’ is permitted
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A US hunting influencer who caused outrage in Australia after grabbing a baby wombat from its mother says she is sorry for the incident but was only trying to ensure its safety by removing it from a road.
Sam Jones left the country on Friday morning after the home affairs minister, Tony Burke, said immigration authorities were checking if she had breached the conditions of her visa.
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Continue reading...AP report: U.S. and Israel look to Africa for permanent relocation of Palestinians from Gaza – PBS NewsHour
- AP report: U.S. and Israel look to Africa for permanent relocation of Palestinians from Gaza PBS NewsHour
- AP Exclusive: US and Israel look to Africa for moving Palestinians uprooted from Gaza The Associated Press
- US, Israel want to displace Palestinians from Gaza to East Africa: Report Al Jazeera English
- Somalia and Somaliland say no talks on resettling Palestinians from Gaza Reuters
- Sudan rejects US request to discuss taking in Palestinians under Trump’s Gaza plan The Guardian US
G7 Foreign Ministers Agree on Ukraine Policy Amid Tensions Over Trump Tariffs – The New York Times
- G7 Foreign Ministers Agree on Ukraine Policy Amid Tensions Over Trump Tariffs The New York Times
- G-7 overlooks Trump’s brash insults to find agreement on Russia, China The Washington Post
- G7 allies avoid divisions with Rubio playing 'good guy' role Reuters
- People Are Laughing At The Red Carpet Used For Marco Rubio's Canada Visit Yahoo Entertainment
- G7 warns Russia of expanded sanctions unless it backs ceasefire Financial Times
‘Tortured and terrified’ – BBC witnesses the battle for Khartoum
Extreme weather and powerful winds predicted for 100m Americans
Sprawling storm system to affect vast swath of territory from Canada to Texas with tornadoes threatening in south
The National Weather Service has predicted extreme weather across a vast swath of the US encompassing more than 100 million people, with powerful winds gusts up to 80mph (130km/h) being forecast from the border with Canada to Texas.
A sprawling storm system crossing the US on Friday overturned semitrucks on highways and fanned wildfires in Texas and Oklahoma, where officials called for evacuations in at least one town. Tornado threats loomed for the Mississippi valley into the night and the deep south on Saturday.
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Trump’s environmental rule-shredding will put lives at risk, ex-EPA heads say
Former agency leaders, including two Republicans, say rollbacks by Lee Zeldin could cause ‘severe harms’
Three former Environmental Protection Agency leaders sounded an alarm on Friday, saying rollbacks proposed by the EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, endanger the lives of millions of Americans and abandon the agency’s dual mission to protect the environment and human health.
Zeldin said on Wednesday he planned to roll back 31 key environmental rules on everything from clean air to clean water and climate change. The former EPA administrator Gina McCarthy called Zeldin’s announcement “the most disastrous day in EPA history”.
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