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Peter Dutton’s plan to move to Sydney instead of Canberra if elected ‘arrogant’, Labor says

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Opposition leader confirms he would move into Kirribilli House if elected PM – a statement Anthony Albanese says shows ‘a fair bit of hubris’

Labor frontbencher Katy Gallagher has accused Peter Dutton of “arrogantly measuring the curtains at Kirribilli House” and disrespecting the national capital.

Peter Dutton has confirmed he and his family would move into Sydney’s Kirribilli House – a harbourside mansion overlooking the Opera House – rather than the Lodge in Canberra if elected on 3 May.

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Red Cross outraged over killing of eight medics in Gaza – BBC.com

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  1. Red Cross outraged over killing of eight medics in Gaza  BBC.com
  2. Bodies of missing aid workers found in Gaza ‘mass grave’ following Israeli attacks  CNN
  3. LIVE: Israel continues attacks on Gaza on second day of Eid al-Fitr  Al Jazeera English
  4. Red Cross federation ‘outraged’ at deaths of Red Crescent medics in Gaza  The Guardian
  5. Bodies of 8 Red Crescent medics found a week after Israeli soldiers fired at ambulances  CBS News
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Ben Roberts-Smith demands defamation retrial citing alleged recording of Nine investigative journalist

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Federal court hears Nick McKenzie allegedly told a witness that Roberts-Smith’s ex-wife and her friend were ‘actively briefing us on his legal strategy’

Ben Roberts-Smith has argued his case should be retried because there was a “miscarriage of justice” caused by the alleged “misconduct” of Nick McKenzie, the Nine journalist whom Roberts-Smith unsuccessfully sued for defamation.

In an interlocutory application, published by the federal court in Sydney on Monday, Roberts-Smith claimed that McKenzie “engaged in wilful misconduct in the proceedings by improperly and unlawfully obtaining and retaining information concerning [Roberts-Smith’s] legal strategy concerning the trial that was confidential and privileged”.

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Greenland’s new PM rejects Trump’s latest threat: ‘We do not belong to anyone else’

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Newly sworn in Jens-Frederik Nielsen says ‘Trump says that the United States is getting Greenland. Let me be clear: the United States won’t get that’

The US will not get Greenland, its new prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, has said in response to Donald Trump’s latest statements that he wants to take control of the vast Arctic country.

“President Trump says that the United States is getting Greenland. Let me be clear: the United States won’t get that. We do not belong to anyone else. We determine our own future,” Nielsen said.

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German space rocket explodes seconds into test flight – DW (English)

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  1. German space rocket explodes seconds into test flight  DW (English)
  2. Rocket crashes back to Earth just moments after launch in Norway  BBC.com
  3. Spectrum takes flight and clears the launch pad  European Space Agency
  4. Orbital Rocket Crashes After First Launch From Continental Europe  The New York Times
  5. Isar Aerospace completes first orbital launch vehicle test flight in Norway  Euronews
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Baulkham Hills stabbing: woman arrested and three children in hospital after alleged attack in Sydney suburb

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Two girls, boy in stable condition and 46-year-old woman under guard in hospital after alleged attack in Baulkham Hills

A mother has been arrested after she allegedly stabbed her three children multiple times in their home in Sydney’s north-west.

New South Wales police Det Supt Naomi Moore said on Monday that the children’s father woke to yells in their Baulkham Hills home, and secured the kitchen knife from his partner.

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Some progress made in recovering U.S. Army soldiers submerged in Lithuanian swamp – NPR

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  1. Some progress made in recovering U.S. Army soldiers submerged in Lithuanian swamp  NPR
  2. US military working to recover 70 ton vehicle from Lithuanian swamp as 4 Army soldiers remain missing  Fox News
  3. Lithuania recovers US army vehicle, soldiers' fate unknown  DW (English)
  4. US armored vehicle missing in Lithuania pulled from swamp but fate of 4 soldiers is still unknown  ABC News
  5. PRESS RELEASE — Recovery Operations in Lithuania March 30 Update  U.S. Army Europe
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Hundreds of thousands of Canadians face power outages due to ice storm

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More than 300,000 without power as storm, expected to continue overnight, pummels Ottawa, Quebec and Ontario

More than 300,000 Canadians faced power outages in parts of Ontario on Sunday as an ice storm pummeled the region over the weekend, according to electricity provider Hydro One.

Environment Canada issued winter storm warnings for freezing rain in Ottawa, parts of Quebec and Ontario, with the risk of snow mixed with or transitioning to ice pellets expected to continue until Monday morning in some regions.

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Police offer £10,000 reward for information on boy who disappeared in London in 2008

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Alexander Sloley was a 16-year-old college student when he went missing from Islington

Police seeking information about a 33-year-old man who disappeared 17 years ago have offered a £10,000 reward.

Alexander Sloley was 16 and studying accountancy at college when he disappeared from Islington, north London, in August 2008. His family and friends have not heard from him since, despite issuing an efit of what he might look like in his late 20s when the police investigation was reopened in 2019.

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Trump says ‘there are methods’ for seeking third term in White House

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In interview Trump said he wasn’t joking when he alluded to a purported loophole for a third term as president

Donald Trump has said there are “methods” – if not “plans” – to circumvent the constitutional limit preventing US presidents from serving three terms.

In an interview aired Sunday on NBC, Trump was asked about his trying to stay in office beyond his second presidency, a specter he has repeatedly raised while sometimes claiming he is just joking.

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Volunteer rescuers race to find survivors two days after Myanmar earthquake

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Red Cross says devastation is of a level not seen in Asia for over a century as more than 1,700 people killed

Rescue volunteers, many of them poorly equipped local people, raced to find survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings across central Myanmar, two days after a huge earthquake killed more than 1,700 people in the country and at least 18 in neighbouring Thailand.

Red Cross officials said Myanmar was facing “a level of devastation that hasn’t been seen over a century in Asia”, after a 7.7-magnitude quake struck near the centre of the country on Friday afternoon, followed minutes later by a 6.7-magnitude aftershock.

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