‘Locked up for 24 years’: joy and sorrow as Palestinian prisoners and detainees return home – The Guardian

  1. ‘Locked up for 24 years’: joy and sorrow as Palestinian prisoners and detainees return home  The Guardian
  2. Watch: Palestinian prisoners released in West Bank to rapturous crowds  bbc.com
  3. ‘Inhumane’: 154 freed Palestinian prisoners forced into exile by Israel  Al Jazeera
  4. Barghouti Topped Hamas’s Prisoner List. Freeing Him Is a Red Line for Israel  Bloomberg.com
  5. Israel frees 1,968 inmates as part of Gaza ceasefire deal  Le Monde.fr
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Macron accuses rivals of fuelling instability as he dismisses calls to resign

French president says opposition has not ‘risen to the moment’ after reappointment of Sébastien Lecornu as PM

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has accused rival political parties of fuelling instability as he brushed aside calls by the opposition for him to resign amid France’s worst political crisis in decades.

“Many of those who have fuelled division and speculation have not risen to the moment,” Macron said of French opposition parties, as he arrived in Egypt on Monday to attend a summit on Gaza. He said rival “political forces” were “solely responsible for this chaos” after they “instigated the destabilisation” of the prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu.

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Madagascar president says he fled country in fear for his life

Andry Rajoelina does not announce resignation in speech broadcast on social media after military rebellion

Madagascar’s president, Andry Rajoelina, said he had fled the country in fear for his life after a military rebellion but did not announce his resignation in a speech broadcast on social media late on Monday from an undisclosed location.

The 51-year-old has faced weeks of gen Z-led anti-government protests, which reached a pivotal point on Saturday when an elite military unit joined the protests and called for the president and other ministers to step down. That prompted Rajoelina to say that an illegal attempt to seize power was under way in the Indian Ocean island and to leave the country.

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Trio win Nobel economics prize for work on innovation, growth and ‘creative destruction’ – Reuters

  1. Trio win Nobel economics prize for work on innovation, growth and 'creative destruction'  Reuters
  2. Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt Share Nobel in Economics  The New York Times
  3. Joel Mokyr wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences  Northwestern Now News
  4. Brown University economics professor Peter Howitt wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences  Brown University
  5. Joel Mokyr – Facts – 2025  NobelPrize.org
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Albanese urged to ‘secure the future of science’ as CSIRO reckons with ongoing decline in funding

CEO Doug Hilton says the agency’s budget allocation ‘has not kept up with the cost of doing science’

CSIRO will embark on further cost- cutting to research units in a bid to repair a multimillion-dollar budget shortfall, as Australia’s national science and research agency reckons with an ongoing decline in funding.

The institution’s annual funding level as a percentage of GDP has been falling with few exceptions over recent decades and is now at its lowest since 1978, a parliamentary library analysis commissioned by ACT senator David Pocock showed. Pocock requested data from 1980 in the analysis.

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Superannuation tax changes: new rules have been proposed for your super – here’s what you need to know

Major changes announced by Jim Chalmers include indexing superannuation balances to inflation and addition of a new threshold taxing balances between $3m and $10m

The Albanese government has dramatically rewritten its major tax policy, caving in to criticism on its controversial superannuation tax plan by raising thresholds and slashing the amount of money it will rake in.

After a long period of sustained attack from politicians and lobby groups, the government has conceded defeat on all major criticisms, with the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, saying the policy rewrites would “better target superannuation concessions”.

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Trump urges pardon for Netanyahu during Gaza address to Knesset – Axios

  1. Trump urges pardon for Netanyahu during Gaza address to Knesset  Axios
  2. Cigars and Champagne? Pfft! Trump’s call to pardon Netanyahu stuns Israel  politico.eu
  3. Lawmakers ejected from Knesset after disrupting Trump speech  The Hill
  4. Israeli hostages released live updates: Hamas to free prisoners after Trump peace deal, 2 years in captivity  New York Post
  5. Trump calls for Netanyahu pardon after hailing swift removal of left-wing lawmakers by security  Fox News
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Trump urges pardon for Netanyahu during Gaza address to Knesset – Axios

  1. Trump urges pardon for Netanyahu during Gaza address to Knesset  Axios
  2. Cigars and Champagne? Pfft! Trump’s call to pardon Netanyahu stuns Israel  politico.eu
  3. Lawmakers ejected from Knesset after disrupting Trump speech  The Hill
  4. Israeli hostages released live updates: Hamas to free prisoners after Trump peace deal, 2 years in captivity  New York Post
  5. Trump calls for Netanyahu pardon after hailing swift removal of left-wing lawmakers by security  Fox News
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