Myanmar Earthquake Toll Surpasses 1,600 Dead Amid Search for Survivors – The New York Times

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  1. Myanmar Earthquake Toll Surpasses 1,600 Dead Amid Search for Survivors  The New York Times
  2. Smell of death permeates Myanmar cities after quake kills over 1,600 and leaves countless buried  The Associated Press
  3. After Bangkok Building Collapse, Fearing High-Rises  The New York Times
  4. 'No rescue workers in sight': Death roll rises after Myanmar earthquake  USA TODAY
  5. Why the Myanmar Earthquake Was So Destructive  The Wall Street Journal
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‘He insisted we take him to the graves’: the Palestinian civilians coming home to catastrophe

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Alaa Abu Zeid only discovered his wife and children had been killed after his release from an Israeli prison. His is a story repeated across Gaza

• ‘They don’t want them to know anything’: Gaza civilians held in Israel not told families had been killed

More than a year after his abduction by Israeli soldiers, the first thing Alaa Abu Zeid wanted to do on his return to Gaza was hold his wife and children. He didn’t know that Ali, his brother, would be the only person waiting when he arrived in Khan Younis earlier this month: Alaa’s wife, Hala, and all five of the couple’s children had been killed in an Israeli airstrike last summer.

Abu Zeid, 48, the headteacher of a primary school funded by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) in Bureij in central Gaza, was arrested along with dozens of other men when Israeli troops raided the school turned shelter in December 2023. He would never see his family again.

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Dutton flip-flops on proposals for three separate referendums if Coalition wins election

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Opposition leader floats – then walks back – polls on Indigenous recognition, four-year parliamentary terms and stripping citizenship of dual nationals

Peter Dutton has floated – then quickly walked back – proposals for three separate referendums if he wins office, shutting down ideas he had raised to change the constitution for Indigenous recognition, four-year parliamentary terms and stripping citizenship of dual nationals.

The opposition leader had told The Australian newspaper in an interview published on Saturday that he was open to referendums on the three issues if there could be bipartisanship found with the Labor party. “I hope at some stage there will be common ground,” Dutton told the newspaper.

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Bowen says Dutton ‘making it up as he goes’ on gas plan as experts question lack of detail

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Opposition leader promises to release secret modelling within days as former ACCC chair urges Coalition to explain how they would lower prices

Energy minister Chris Bowen claims Peter Dutton is “making it up as he goes” with his gas plan, as experts question how a Coalition government would force gas producers to sell to Australians at cheaper prices.

In his first public comments on Dutton’s plan to bring more gas into Australia’s energy market, Bowen claimed the Coalition was simply dusting off a plan created under the former Morrison government.

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Gazan man murdered by Hamas after joining protests against terror group, family says – The Times of Israel

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  1. Gazan man murdered by Hamas after joining protests against terror group, family says  The Times of Israel
  2. Gazans Demand End to 18 Years of Hamas Rule  The New York Times
  3. Why Israel should stay quiet on Gaza's anti-Hamas protests  MSNBC
  4. Hundreds join Gaza's largest anti-Hamas protest since war began  BBC.com
  5. Palestinians protest Hamas in a rare public show of dissent in Gaza  The Associated Press
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Gazan man murdered by Hamas after joining protests against terror group, family says – The Times of Israel

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  1. Gazan man murdered by Hamas after joining protests against terror group, family says  The Times of Israel
  2. Why Israel should stay quiet on Gaza's anti-Hamas protests  MSNBC
  3. Hundreds join Gaza's largest anti-Hamas protest since war began  BBC.com
  4. Gaza's anti-Hamas protests are an opportunity for new leadership. Will Israel squander it? | Opinion  Haaretz
  5. Gazans Demand End to 18 Years of Hamas Rule  The New York Times
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‘Expressing your pain in artistic form is not easy’: exiled Russian theatre director builds bridges in London

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Dmitry Krymov, who fled Moscow after the Ukraine invasion, plans Dickens hybrid with UK and Russian actors

The acclaimed Russian stage director Dmitry Krymov the winner of many of Moscow’s top theatre prizes before his exile due to public criticism of the invasion of Ukraine, has spoken angrily of the impact of the war ahead of his first work with British actors. The Moscow-born director, 70, plans to use Dickens’s two stories Great Expectations and Hard Times to create a new performance.

Arriving in London this weekend for a short stay, Krymov, who is regarded by many western theatre pundits as among the best directors in the world, told the Observer he wants to link British and Russian performers and audiences, despite the divisions caused by President Vladimir Putin.

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‘SNL’ Weekend Update Roasts Everyone In White House’s War Chat Scandal – Rolling Stone

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  1. ‘SNL’ Weekend Update Roasts Everyone In White House’s War Chat Scandal  Rolling Stone
  2. ‘S.N.L’: Live From New York, It’s More Military Secrets.  The New York Times
  3. Mikey Madison texts with government officials in ‘SNL’ cold open spoof of Signal group chat leak  CNN
  4. ‘SNL’ Cold Open spoofs Signal chat controversy with Trump officials adding teens to group text  The Hill
  5. In 'SNL' cold open, Pete Hegseth shares war plans with high school girls  USA TODAY
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Queensland premier warns worst flooding yet to come after NSW man swept away by rising waters

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Man had been attempting to cross a causeway through rising flood waters that have now cut off a campsite, stranding more than 20 people

Police have resumed the search for an elderly man who was swept into a flooded river on Saturday night, as authorities warn more heavy rain could isolate inland parts of New South Wales and Queensland for up to six weeks.

Flood warnings remain in place for vast areas of eastern Australia, after a record-breaking rain event.

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‘It means death’: Afghan women’s rights activists face deportation from Pakistan

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Police go door-to-door arresting Afghans as government pledges to send millions back home to Taliban rule

More than 50 prominent female Afghan women’s rights activists sheltering in Pakistan are facing deportation home, where they fear they will be imprisoned or killed under Taliban rule.

Under a draconian policy, the Pakistan government has pledged to deport millions of Afghan nationals, after relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan severely deteriorated and attacks by militants in the border areas surged.

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