Six personnel killed in attack on Somali border: Kenyan police
Police said the attack was carried out by suspected al-Shabab fighters who launched an assault at dawn.
Alcohol safety ads to target young Australian travellers amid push for answers over methanol deaths
Penny Wong says families of Laos poisoning victims Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles ‘foremost in mind’ as Smarttraveller campaign announced
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The Australian government will launch a new alcohol safety campaign targeting young travellers as the families of Melbourne teenagers Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles, who died after drinking alcohol tainted with methanol while on holiday in Laos, continue to push for answers.
The friends, both 19, died in November last year while on holiday in Laos, in a suspected mass methanol poisoning that resulted in the deaths of six foreign tourists.
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Continue reading...‘Apoplectic’ environment groups halt Coalition attack ads to take aim at Albanese over species’ ‘death warrant’
Exclusive: Australia’s top green organisations suspend anti-nuclear power ads to fund campaign against Labor’s move to protect salmon industry
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Australia’s leading environment organisations have abruptly suspended advertising campaigns attacking the Coalition’s plan to introduce nuclear power and are instead funding ads accusing Anthony Albanese of signing “the death warrant” of an endangered species.
The shift from criticising the Coalition to Labor on the cusp of an election campaign was agreed by the bosses of green groups – including the Australian Conservation Foundation, Greenpeace, the WWF Australia and the Climate Council – at what campaigners described as an emergency meeting on Saturday.
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Continue reading...What a $5,000 ticket will and won’t get you at one of Canberra’s budget night fundraising soirees
As you decipher how the budget may alter your life on Tuesday night, your politicians will be raking in the cash by wining and dining donors and lobbyists
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As you decipher how the federal budget may alter your life on Tuesday night, your politicians will be raking in the cash by wining and dining donors and lobbyists in Canberra.
This year’s budget night fundraisers – often concealed from the general public – could be something of a final hoorah. New laws capping campaign spending will soon make these budget night soirees less important, at least financially.
Tickets will have to be publicly disclosed as gifts, meaning there will be a record of those who sipped champagne with politicians and filled the party coffers. But these changes won’t apply until 2026. For now, the show goes on.
Continue reading...Trump threatens to seize Panama Canal, chief defiant
Ricaurte Vasquez defends Panama's sovereignty as Trump pledges to reclaim the canal, raising fears of US intervention.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed 50,000 Palestinians since October 2023
Number of people killed tops 50,000 as Israel intensifies attacks on Gaza, causing further suffering to Palestinians.
Gaza medics issue malnutrition alert as total Israeli blockade enters fourth week
Israel continues to batter territory in renewed offensive as death toll from nearly 18 months of war passes 50,000
Malnutrition is spreading in Gaza, medics and aid workers in the devastated Palestinian territory are warning, as a total Israeli blockade of all supplies enters its fourth week.
There has been no sign that Israel will open entry points to allow essential aid to flow or ease its new offensive in Gaza, which started on Tuesday with a wave of airstrikes that killed 400 people, mostly civilians, ending two months of relative calm. On Sunday, Palestinian officials said the total death toll from nearly 18 months of conflict had passed 50,000.
Continue reading...Gaza medics issue malnutrition alert as total Israeli blockade enters fourth week – The Guardian
- Gaza medics issue malnutrition alert as total Israeli blockade enters fourth week The Guardian
- Children in Gaza ‘deeply traumatized’ as Israel expands military operations again PBS NewsHour
- 'My son cries all night from hunger': Gazans face food shortage as Israel resumes bombing Haaretz
- Gaza is being starved and bombed again. Why are we allowing it? Al Jazeera English
- Gaza and Israel’s Renewed Policy of Deprivation Just Security
The battle for Khartoum: Sudan war comes full circle – Financial Times
- The battle for Khartoum: Sudan war comes full circle Financial Times
- Sudan’s Military Sweeps Across Capital, Hoping to Turn the War The New York Times
- Five key moments in the battle for Khartoum BBC.com
- Sudan army close to reclaiming Presidential Palace from militia as two-year war rages CNN
- Sudan's military says it has retaken Khartoum's Republican Palace, seat of country's government Fox News
As Israel Expands Offensive, Death Toll in Gaza Passes 50,000, Health Ministry Says – The New York Times
- As Israel Expands Offensive, Death Toll in Gaza Passes 50,000, Health Ministry Says The New York Times
- Israel ups risk of ‘all out war’ in Gaza as it escalates campaign NBC News
- Israel’s Renewed Offensive in Gaza Displaces Palestinians Once Again The New York Times
- With the IDF's rapid advance into Gaza, Hamas may be facing a real challenge - analysis The Jerusalem Post
- At least 19 killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza, including senior Hamas leader Fox News
More than 50,000 killed in Gaza since Israel offensive began, Hamas-run ministry says
More than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed during Israel's military campaign in Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry says.
Chinese premier meets pro-Trump senator and calls for ‘dialogue over confrontation’
Meeting comes as China hopes to reach a deal to avert further tariff pressure from Washington
Republican senator Steve Daines, a staunch supporter of Donald Trump, met Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing on Sunday, as China hopes to reach a deal to avert further tariff pressure from Washington.
The meeting marks the first time a US politician has visited China since Trump took office in January. Earlier this month, China’s ministry of foreign affairs promised that China will “fight to the end” with the US in a “tariff war, trade war or any other war”.
Continue reading...FACT CHECK: The New Syrian Government and Minorities
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China reportedly mulling participation in Ukraine peacekeeping mission – POLITICO Europe
- China reportedly mulling participation in Ukraine peacekeeping mission POLITICO Europe
- China considering sending peacekeeping forces to Ukraine, German media say TVP World
- China is considering deploying a contingent to Ukraine - media Українські Національні Новини
- China seeks a role in Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction South China Morning Post
- China Towards the Coalition of the Willing? Here's Why Beijing Wants to Help Ukraine. Anti-... FIRSTonline (English version)
What the assault on Columbia University is really about
The right is trying to take ideological control over US higher education under the guise of fighting anti-Semitism.
Israel kills senior Hamas official in latest attacks on Gaza
Israel has killed top Hamas official Salah al-Bardawil and his family in an air strike that targeted his tent in Gaza.
Pope Francis makes first public appearance since admission to hospital
Pope Francis waved to well-wishers from a hospital balcony in Rome as doctors were to discharge him after treatment.
More US states report measles cases amid vaccine misinformation
Ohio, Maryland and Alabama among states to report new cases, with 378 confirmed in first few months of 2025
More US states are reporting measles cases as the Texas outbreak expands, surpassing last year’s total, amid vaccine misinformation and hesitancy.
The Texas outbreak could take a year to get under control, one health official said – during which time it may spread to more states. Yet the parents of the six-year-old girl who died of measles in Texas have spoken against measles vaccination as misinformation continues to proliferate, including from figures such as the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr.
Continue reading...Why are there protests in Turkiye? What to know
Tens of thousands around Turkiye protested on Satuday evening against the arrest of Ekrem Imamoglu.
Pope Francis greets crowds in Rome before discharge from hospital
Pontiff says he has ‘had the opportunity to experience the Lord’s patience’ and pays tribute to ‘tireless care’ of medics
Pope Francis greeted a large crowd of pilgrims gathered outside Gemelli hospital in Rome in his first public appearance in more than five weeks, before being discharged from the hospital on Sunday.
The pontiff, who is recovering from pneumonia in both lungs, made the brief greeting and blessing from the balcony of his hospital room shortly after the release of the text for his Sunday Angelus.
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