Nigeria rejects US pressure to accept deported Venezuelans – DW

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  1. Nigeria rejects US pressure to accept deported Venezuelans  DW
  2. Nigeria says it won't accept deportees from U.S.: 'We have enough problems of our own'  NPR
  3. Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon and Ethiopia hit by US cuts to visa duration.  BBC
  4. Nigeria says US pressuring Africa to accept Venezuelan deportees  Reuters
  5. Trump Admin Announces Major Visa Restrictions for Four Countries  Newsweek
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Thousands gather in Srebrenica on 30th anniversary of Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since WWII – NBC News

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  1. Thousands gather in Srebrenica on 30th anniversary of Europe's only acknowledged genocide since WWII  NBC News
  2. Srebrenica, a Massacre Foretold, Still Casts Its Shadow  The New York Times
  3. Reliving History: How the Srebrenica genocide unfolded 30 years ago today  Al Jazeera
  4. The Duchess of Edinburgh visits Bosnia and Herzegovina  The Royal Family
  5. Germany updates: Bundestag remembers Srebrenica massacre  DW
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Barnaby Joyce vows to wind back ‘lunatic crusade’ of net zero with private member’s bill

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Coalition’s decades-long brawl over climate change and energy policy laid bare as former deputy prime minister sends out clarion call on Facebook

Barnaby Joyce has vowed to wind back the “lunatic crusade” of net zero by 2050 in a private member’s bill once parliament resumes later this month.

The former deputy prime minister and Nationals backbencher’s clarion call on Friday afternoon laid bare the Coalition’s decades-long brawl over climate change and energy policy.

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Detection of fire ants in Queensland 800km from closest infestation sparks fury over gaps in eradication funding

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Businesses and industry urged to stay alert after invasive species discovered at coalmine in Moranbah, about 150km inland from Mackay

Fire ants have been detected in central Queensland for the first time in history after a major outbreak at a BHP Broadmeadow coalmine.

The discovery has prompted fury among the Invasive Species Council, who have questioned how the invasive pest had travelled almost 800km from the closest known infestation zone.

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‘Russia targets life’ — Russian attacks kill 9, injure 42 over past day, damaging maternity hospital in Kharkiv – The Kyiv Independent

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  1. 'Russia targets life' — Russian attacks kill 9, injure 42 over past day, damaging maternity hospital in Kharkiv  The Kyiv Independent
  2. Russian attack on Kharkiv damages maternity hospital, sending patients fleeing  Reuters
  3. Ukraine war: Russian strikes damage Kharkiv maternity ward  DW
  4. Russian drones strike Ukraine's 2nd-largest city, damaging a maternity hospital  ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
  5. Russia drone attack on Ukraine damages maternity hospital, sends patients fleeing  New York Post
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Israel’s Military Lawyers Raise Concerns About New Plan to Move Hundreds of Thousands of Gazans – The Wall Street Journal

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  1. Israel’s Military Lawyers Raise Concerns About New Plan to Move Hundreds of Thousands of Gazans  The Wall Street Journal
  2. Our Duty to Explain Israel’s Operation to “Concentrate and Move Population” in Gaza is a Manifest War Crime  Just Security
  3. Israel’s defense minister plans to relocate displaced Palestinians to restricted area in southern Gaza, Israeli media reports  CNN
  4. Israel's Planned 'Humanitarian City' in Gaza Constitutes War Crime, Legal Experts Say  Haaretz
  5. Column | Israeli plans for Gaza draw criticism of ‘concentration camps’  The Washington Post
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Rubio meets China’s Wang amid trade tensions, says good chance of Trump-Xi talks – Reuters

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  1. Rubio meets China's Wang amid trade tensions, says good chance of Trump-Xi talks  Reuters
  2. US secretary of state meets Chinese counterpart in Malaysia  DW
  3. Rubio and China’s Top Envoy Vie for Influence in Asia Over Trump’s Tariffs  The New York Times
  4. Secretary of State Marco Rubio Remarks to the Traveling Press  U.S. Department of State (.gov)
  5. ‘High probability’ Trump and Xi will meet this year, Rubio says  CNN
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