- Hamas will release U.S.-Israeli hostage, Israel says no ceasefire Reuters
- Hamas Says It Will Release Its Last American Hostage The New York Times
- IDF confirms freed hostage to meet family at Re’im base after handover via Red Cross The Times of Israel
- Israel committed to ‘intensified’ Gaza operation despite US captive release Al Jazeera
- Hamas to release Israeli-American hostage as a gesture to Trump Axios
Cash plays: Trump heads to Middle East seeking deals – Politico
- Cash plays: Trump heads to Middle East seeking deals Politico
- Middle Eastern states compete to wow Donald Trump The Economist
- Trump Faces $2 Trillion Hurdle to Win Money From Saudi Prince Bloomberg.com
- Donald Trump live: US President heads to Saudi Arabia on Middle East trip Al Jazeera
- The Latest: The White House releases Trump's schedule for Monday Yahoo
PM promises tougher visa rules to fix ‘broken’ migration system – BBC
- PM promises tougher visa rules to fix 'broken' migration system BBC
- Starmer, Under Pressure From the Right, Pledges to Cut Immigration to U.K. The New York Times
- UK risks becoming ‘island of strangers’ without more immigration curbs, Starmer says The Guardian
- Struggling care providers say overseas worker crackdown 'short-sighted' BBC
- Keir Starmer unveils migration curbs Financial Times
Kurdish P.K.K. Says It Will End Conflict with Turkish State – The New York Times
- Kurdish P.K.K. Says It Will End Conflict with Turkish State The New York Times
- Is Turkey’s four-decade Kurdish insurgency coming to an end? Financial Times
- Kurdish PKK ends 40-year Turkey insurgency, bringing hope of regional stability Reuters
- PKK disbands, potentially ending decades of conflict in Turkiye Al Jazeera
- Kurdish PKK militants announce decision to dissolve after decades of conflict with Turkey CNN
India great Kohli retires from Test cricket
Legendary India batter Virat Kohli retires from Test cricket with immediate effect.
US says ‘deal’ reached with China after trade talks
The US treasury secretary calls the talks "productive", while China's vice premier describes them as "candid".
Kurdish PKK to disband, potentially ending decades of conflict Turkey
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Do Israel’s attacks make a difference to Yemen’s Houthis?
The US and the Houthis have come to a ceasefire agreement, but Israel continues to trade attacks with the Yemeni group.
Climate crisis threatens the banana, the world’s most popular fruit, research shows
Fourth most important food crop in peril as Latin America and Caribbean suffer from slow-onset climate disaster
The climate crisis is threatening the future of the world’s most popular fruit, as almost two-thirds of banana-growing areas in Latin America and the Caribbean may no longer be suitable for growing the fruit by 2080, new research has found.
Rising temperatures, extreme weather and climate-related pests are pummeling banana-growing countries such as Guatemala, Costa Rica and Colombia, reducing yields and devastating rural communities across the region, according to Christian Aid’s new report, Going Bananas: How Climate Change Threatens the World’s Favourite Fruit.
Continue reading...Modi addresses nation for first time since start of India-Pakistan strikes
His speech comes after a ceasefire was agreed between the two countries following days of intense shelling by both sides.
Trump backs Putin’s proposal for Ukraine talks, undermining allies – The Washington Post
- Trump backs Putin’s proposal for Ukraine talks, undermining allies The Washington Post
- Uncertainty and tension ahead of possible Ukraine peace talks The Economist
- Zelensky Agrees to Talks With Russia, After Trump Intervention WSJ
- Putin proposes direct peace talks with Ukraine to end war Fox News
- Kremlin focuses on draft 2022 deal for proposed peace talks Reuters
Australia news live: Anthony Albanese says Tanya Plibersek ‘very positive’ about new role after being shifted from environment portfolio
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Labor’s Tanya Plibersek has avoided comment about her ministerial desires or expectations, offering little other than general remarks when pressed this morning on the issue of the forthcoming cabinet announcement from Anthony Albanese.
Plibersek, who previously held the environment portfolio, told Sunrise this morning that cabinet decisions were “completely a matter for the prime minister” and that she was just “very grateful” to be on the front bench, and to have won the election, and to get to do “a good job for the government and for the people of Australia” again … and, well, you get the idea.
Continue reading...Green party must choose again between election-focused or activist leaders
Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns will be up against Zack Polanski, who is calling for ‘eco-populism’ mass movement
So here we are again. Much as was the case in 2021, the last time the Greens picked their leaders, members have a choice that could be broadly presented as the more sober, election-focused professionals versus insurgent activists.
On one side of the equation are Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns, both MPs, and in the case of Ramsay, already a co-leader. Four years ago, he and Carla Denyer saw off Amelia Womack and Tamsin Omond with a self-stated mission to change the party and win elections.
Continue reading...Adrian Ramsay to stand for re-election as Greens co-leader with Ellie Chowns
Exclusive: Waveney Valley MP and North Hereforshire MP likely to go up against party’s deputy leader Zack Polanski
Adrian Ramsay is to stand as Greens co-leader with another of the party’s MPs, Ellie Chowns, amid what the duo describe as an unprecedented fracturing of political allegiances that meant it was vital to have leaders in Westminster with a proven record of winning.
Ramsay has already been co-leader for four years, alongside Carla Denyer, who with Ramsay, Chowns and Siân Berry were elected to parliament last year in the party’s greatest electoral triumph.
Continue reading...Hamas to release US-Israeli hostage as part of efforts to reach Gaza ceasefire
Edan Alexander, 21, is believed to be the last living captive with US nationality in Gaza.
Anthony Albanese reveals new cabinet with Tanya Plibersek named as minister for social services
PM has named his new frontbench, including Michelle Rowland as the new attorney-general, after a factional brawl over positions
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Tanya Plibersek has been named the minister for social services as the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, revealed his new frontbench after Labor’s emphatic election victory.
The biggest changes in the new cabinet include Michelle Rowland, as the new attorney-general; health minister Mark Butler getting the NDIS added to his portfolio; Amanda Rishworth being named the new employment and workplace relations minister; Anika Wells being promoted to the communications portfolio; and Murray Watt taking on the environment portfolio.
Richard Marles – deputy prime minister, minister for defence
Penny Wong – minister for foreign affairs
Jim Chalmers – treasurer
Katy Gallagher – minister for finance, minister for the public service, minister for women, minister for government services
Don Farrell – minister for trade and tourism, special minister of state
Tony Burke – minister for home affairs, minister for immigration and citizenship, minister for cybersecurity, minister for the arts
Mark Butler – minister for health and ageing, minister for disability and the national disability insurance scheme
Chris Bowen – minister for climate change and energy
Catherine King – minister for infrastructure, transport, regional development and local government
Amanda Rishworth – minister for employment and workplace relations.
Jason Clare – minister for education
Michelle Rowland - attorney general.
Tanya Plibersek – minister for social services.
Julie Collins – minister for agriculture, fisheries and forestry
Clare O’Neil – minister for housing, minister for homelessness and minister for cities
Madeleine King – minister for resources, minister for northern Australia
Murray Watt – minister for the environment and water
Malarndirri McCarthy – minister for Indigenous Australians
Anika Wells – minister for communications, minister for sport
Pat Conroy – minister for defence industry, minister for Pacific Island affairs
Anne Aly – minister for small business, minister for international development, minister for multicultural affairs
Tim Ayres – minister for industry and innovation, minister for science
Continue reading...Pope Leo XIV’s message emphasised “building bridges and peace”
“It’s a mission going out from the Church, not in but out, what they call going to the existential peripheries.”
Nurse who treated Joel Cauchi for schizophrenia threw up when told about Bondi Junction stabbings, inquest hears
Health worker describes 40-year-old as ‘compliant’ and ‘diligent’ patient but recalls 2020 phone call and a possible ‘warning sign’ of mental health relapse
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A nurse at the Queensland medical practice where Joel Cauchi was treated for schizophrenia remembers him as a “compliant” and “diligent” patient, telling an inquest she vomited when she learned he had fatally stabbed six people at a Sydney shopping centre.
Cauchi, 40, killed Ashlee Good, 38, Jade Young, 47, Yixuan Cheng, 27, Pikria Darchia, 55, Dawn Singleton, 25, and Faraz Tahir, 30, and injured 10 others at Westfield Bondi Junction on 13 April last year before he was shot and killed by police inspector Amy Scott.
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Continue reading...Taiwan ex-president Tsai Ing-wen to visit UK as China ratchets up threats against Taipei
Former leader had been due to visit in October but trip was cancelled when it coincided with David Lammy’s trip to Beijing
Former Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will visit Britain this week at the invitation of British politicians, a trip that comes as London is trying to improve ties with Beijing and China ramps up efforts to diplomatically isolate the island.
Britain, like most countries, has no official diplomatic ties with Taiwan, but the economic and political exchanges between the two sides have increased as Beijing ratchets up military threats to force Taipei to accept its sovereignty claim over the democratic island.
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