Trump wraps NATO summit on a positive note, after meeting Zelenskyy – NPR

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  1. Trump wraps NATO summit on a positive note, after meeting Zelenskyy  NPR
  2. Trump surprises Zelensky with public promise on Patriots – but the missiles may not come soon enough  CNN
  3. Zelenskyy urges urgent efforts in Ukraine to start Patriot production  Al Jazeera
  4. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 8, 2026  Institute for the Study of War
  5. Zelenskiy says Patriot missile licences agreed with US at political level  Reuters
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Trump’s new Greenland threat triggers Europe’s unhealed trauma – Euronews.com

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  1. Trump's new Greenland threat triggers Europe's unhealed trauma  Euronews.com
  2. Denmark Says It Will Defend ‘Every Inch’ of NATO as Trump Eyes Greenland Again  The New York Times
  3. Why Trump wants Greenland  PBS
  4. Greenlanders reject Trump's renewed push for control of island  France 24
  5. Get the Facts: What makes Greenland so valuable — and why President Trump is interested  WBAL-TV
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‘Like a father to us’: pride and protest as thousands flock to see Narendra Modi in Melbourne

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Indian prime minister wows crowd of 25,000 at Marvel Stadium as he praises role of diaspora in the India-Australia success story

The throb of the drum beats intensified as the crowd of 25,000 Indian Australians prepared to welcome India’s prime minister back to Melbourne after more than a decade.

As Narendra Modi and Anthony Albanese stepped on to the red carpet at Marvel Stadium on Thursday night, twinkling phone lights illuminated the feverish audience as they chanted “Modi, Modi, Modi.”

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Taylor defends Sarah Henderson’s triple-zero calls amid questions about claimed Telstra-outage death in SA

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South Australian police say they’re unaware of death despite claim by Liberal senator Kerrynne Liddle

Angus Taylor says his shadow communications minister Sarah Henderson was “doing her job” when she “tested” the triple-zero system by making unnecessary calls to it during Telstra’s nationwide outage.

The opposition leader has also dismissed concerns about Liberal senator Kerrynne Liddle’s claim that an elderly person died as a result of the outage, after South Australian police said they were unaware of any such death.

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Trump Is Remaking Latin America – Foreign Affairs

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  1. Trump Is Remaking Latin America  Foreign Affairs
  2. Pentagon seeks to rally Latin America behind new Monroe Doctrine  Reuters
  3. Pentagon Urges Latin American Countries to Raise Defense Budget  Bloomberg
  4. Remarks by Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby at the Conference of Defense M  U.S. Department of War (.gov)
  5. Trump’s Monroe Doctrine is Back. So is Resistance to It.  Inkstick Media
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ABC and SBS need ‘oversight’ committee to vet Israel coverage, Jillian Segal tells royal commission

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Antisemitism envoy says public broadcasters, which currently have an ombudsman to handle complaints, need an independent oversight committee

The antisemitism envoy, Jillian Segal, wants a new “oversight” committee to vet the ABC and SBS’s Israel coverage, she told the royal commission on Thursday morning.

Both the ABC and SBS have an independent ombudsman to handle complaints.

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US launches strikes on Iran for a second day after Trump says agreement to end the war is ‘over’

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Attacks on three locations across Iran came after three tankers in the strait of Hormuz were targeted on Tuesday

The US military carried out strikes on Iran for a second day, hours after president Donald Trump said that an interim agreement to end the war was “over”.

Late on Wednesday Iranian state media reported explosions in the port city of Bandar Abbas in the strait of Hormuz; in Sirik, another southern coastal city; and the south-western Bushehr province, home to Iran’s nuclear-power-plant complex.

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