Netanyahu: Australia PM a ‘weak politician who betrayed Israel, abandoned Australian Jews’ – The Times of Israel

  1. Netanyahu: Australia PM a ‘weak politician who betrayed Israel, abandoned Australian Jews’  The Times of Israel
  2. Netanyahu slams Australia PM, says he 'betrayed Israel and abandoned Australia's Jews'  Fox News
  3. Netanyahu lashes out at Albanese as ‘weak politician who betrayed Israel’ as diplomatic row escalates  The Guardian
  4. Israel boots Australian diplomats, orders close look at visa requests as ties sour  The Times of Israel
  5. Netanyahu says Israel ‘betrayed’ by Australia as relations plunge  Al Jazeera
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Young chatty workers disturbing older colleagues ‘not age harassment’, tribunal rules

Workers in their 20s and 30s that may annoy by socialising found not to be breaking workplace equality rules

Older employees who are disturbed by younger, more boisterous colleagues in the workplace are not victims of age harassment, an employment tribunal has ruled.

Employees in their 20s and 30s may annoy more mature co-workers by chatting, socialising and looking at their phones but they are not breaking workplace equality rules, the tribunal said.

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Ukraine cuts off Putin’s pipeline profits—Europe’s Druzba oil deliveries halted after yesterday’s drone assault – Euromaidan Press

  1. Ukraine cuts off Putin’s pipeline profits—Europe’s Druzba oil deliveries halted after yesterday's drone assault  Euromaidan Press
  2. Russian oil flows to Hungary and Slovakia halted after Ukrainian attack  Reuters
  3. Ukraine Says It Made Fresh Attack on Russian Oil Pipeline System  Bloomberg.com
  4. Budapest threatens Kyiv with electricity cut after strikes on pipeline  Euronews.com
  5. NATO Ally Issues Warning to Ukraine After Russia Pipeline Strike  Newsweek
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Unraveling claims Russia created online ‘marketplace’ for kidnapped Ukrainian children – Snopes

  1. Unraveling claims Russia created online 'marketplace' for kidnapped Ukrainian children  Snopes
  2. Trump says he discussed missing children with EU chief  The Hill
  3. Allies to push for the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia  Euronews.com
  4. Trump, EU's von der Leyen discuss plight of children in war  Reuters
  5. Ukraine’s first lady demands return of thousands of kidnapped children as peace terms with Russia are considered  New York Post
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Florida man who fatally stabbed friend over Trump convicted of second-degree murder

Donald Jamesbrown Henry and Shawn Popp got into a fight over ‘Trump going bankrupt’ when the latter was attacked

A Florida man who fatally stabbed a friend during an argument in 2022 over Donald Trump’s businesses having gone bankrupt, is facing possibly spending the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of murder.

Donald Jamesbrown Henry, 38, awaits a sentencing hearing tentatively scheduled for October after jurors found him guilty on Friday of second-degree murder in the killing of Shawn Popp, whose death came to be regarded by some as an example of the havoc that politics can wreak on interpersonal relationships in the US.

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The ‘big church move’: Swedish town begins to roll historic building 5km

Kiruna Kyrka’s slow journey is part of effort to stop town being swallowed by Europe’s biggest underground mine

After eight years of planning, a cost of more than 500m kronor (£39m) and an early morning blessing, a church in northern Sweden began a slow-motion 5km journey on Tuesday to make way for the expansion of Europe’s biggest underground mine.

The 672-tonne Kiruna Kyrka, a Swedish Lutheran church inaugurated in 1912, is to be slowly rolled to its new home over two days, at a pace of half-a-kilometre an hour.

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WA government put ‘very rosy spin’ on report into Woodside emissions at Murujuga, scientist’s private email says

Report part of a project used in lobbying effort to dismiss UN concerns that industrial emissions were damaging 50,000-year-old ancient rock art

The Western Australia government “put a very rosy spin” on a summary report of a project checking if pollutants from Woodside were damaging 50,000-year-old rock art, according to a private email sent by the lead scientist.

In an email released to the ABC, Murujuga Rock Art Monitoring Project lead scientist Prof Ben Mullins, of Curtin University, said the WA government had “insisted” on writing the summary report, despite a contract saying that Curtin should write it.

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Woman sexually assaulted on flight challenges UK rules on compensation

Woman who was attacked on flight from Qatar to London was denied payout because plane was not registered in UK

A woman who was sexually assaulted while sleeping on a flight to London is challenging UK government rules that disqualify her from a compensation scheme because the plane was not registered in Britain.

She was attacked on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha, Qatar, to Gatwick in September last year.

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Zelenskyy’s new outfit was not a response to difficult first White House visit, says designer

Ukrainian designer Viktor Anisimov said outcome of crucial meeting with Trump was more important than fashion

On Monday evening, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, garnered compliments from Donald Trump and the White House press pool for his formal jacket and trousers.

But for the ensemble’s designer, Viktor Anisimov, the outcome of the meeting, not the verdict on the outfit, was of more concern.

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Ukrainian Drone Attack Sparks Fire at Volgograd Oil Refinery – The Moscow Times

  1. Ukrainian Drone Attack Sparks Fire at Volgograd Oil Refinery  The Moscow Times
  2. Drone Strikes on Refineries Push Russia’s Gasoline Prices to Record Highs  The Moscow Times
  3. Fuel fallout  Meduza
  4. Ukraine’s Drones Torch Strategic Lukoil Refinery in Volgograd—Russia’s Fuel Hub at a Standstill  UNITED24 Media
  5. In Russian-occupied Crimea, petrol can only be bought using coupons  Українська правда
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NSW daily rainfall could ‘nudge triple figures’ with wet weather forecast to intensify

Flood concerns along east coast and severe weather warning for west coast amid national cold snap

Daily rainfall in parts of New South Wales could hit triple figures this week, as Australia’s east and west coasts brace for more wet and cold weather.

Several places along the NSW coastline saw rainfall of more than 50mm overnight into Tuesday, according to the Bureau of Meteorology, which warned that the wet weather would persist and intensify on Wednesday and Thursday.

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Tuesday briefing: What last night’s meeting between Trump, Zelenskyy and Europe means for the war in Ukraine

In today’s newsletter: The Ukrainian president and fellow continental leaders descended on the White House to squeeze support from the US – did they get it?

Good morning. Last night, Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the White House flanked by a dream team of hastily assembled European heavyweights. Their aim: to coax Donald Trump out of pro-Russian positions he adopted after his Alaska meeting with Vladimir Putin last Friday.

The meeting was a sign of both panic and resolve from Europe. The fact Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and more cleared their diaries at such short notice to fly to Washington is an indication of how alarmed they are by Trump’s desire to move straight to a peace deal without a ceasefire – and his insistence that Zelenskyy give up Ukrainian territory.

Tax | Rachel Reeves is considering replacing stamp duty with a new property tax that would apply to the sale of homes worth more than £500,000, the Guardian has been told.

UK news | Exposure to pornography has increased since the introduction of UK rules to protect the public online, with children as young as six seeing it by accident, research by the children’s commissioner for England has found.

Conservatives | Leaked WhatsApp messages show Conservative MPs are worried that their party’s “piss-poor” messaging over asylum-seeker hotels is making the party look silly. It follows the release of an advert by Conservative campaign headquarters last week, making claims that have since been challenged as exaggerations, such as that asylum seekers receive free driving lessons and free PlayStation consoles.

Bolivia | Bolivia’s presidential election will go to a runoff, with two rightwing candidates seemingly the top runners. It’s an unprecedented scenario after nearly two decades of leftist rule by the Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas).

Environment | Relentless heat and disastrous wildfires continue to ravage southern Europe, with one-quarter of weather stations in Spain recording 40C temperatures and above, the latest in a series of disasters exacerbated by climate breakdown amid a continental rollback of green policies.

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Newborn baby found dead in Perth storm water drain placed there in recent days, police say

WA premier describes ‘horrifying scenario’ after workers found child’s body while cleaning drain on Monday

A newborn baby boy found dead in a suburban storm water drain was placed there in recent days before being discovered, police have said.

The horrifying discovery of the infant’s body was made in Alexander Heights in Perth’s north on Monday afternoon.

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