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Israeli killings in Lebanon rise: Is even the pretence of a ceasefire over?
Israel and Hezbollah have increased their attacks on each other, despite official ceasefire.
Victorian politics still exposed to ‘dark money’ and foreign donations as MPs struggle to agree on urgent reforms
Exclusive: state is now without caps on political donations or disclosure requirements, months out from November election
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“Unlimited dark money” will keep flooding into Victorian politics after Labor failed to reach agreement with the Liberals or the Greens about donation reforms the Allan government vowed to fast-track through parliament.
Victoria is now without caps on political donations or disclosure requirements, months out from the November election after the high court struck down the state’s donation laws last month.
Continue reading...Royal Opera House calls for release of Georgian bass singer jailed over democracy protests
Casting director urges Keir Starmer to intervene in case of Paata Burchuladze, 71, jailed for seven years after singing at anti-regime demonstrations
The Royal Opera House in London has urged Keir Starmer to intervene in the case of Paata Burchuladze, a world-renowned bass singer who has been imprisoned in Georgia since October on a charge of leading a coup against the country’s authoritarian leader.
The 71-year-old has performed at the Royal Opera House and the Metropolitan Opera House in New York and collaborated with the likes of Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo and José Carreras. He was arrested after joining a protest outside the presidential palace in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. Last week he was given a seven-year jail sentence which Burchuladze suggested to the court was equivalent to a life sentence given his age.
Continue reading...Muslim Votes Matter says anonymous bid to create political party under same name an attempt to ‘mislead’ voters
Exclusive: Push to register unaffiliated party with identical name to grassroots group follows Avi Yemini’s plan to use ‘Free Palestine party’ to funnel votes to One Nation
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Muslim Votes Matter (MVM) has complained to the Victorian Electoral Commission over an anonymous bid to register a political party under the same name ahead of the state election, accusing it of deliberately misleading voters.
MVM was established before the 2025 federal election as a grassroots advocacy and lobbying movement, responding to concerns about the lack of political representation for Muslim and minority groups in Australia.
Continue reading...Washington dinner shooting suspect pleads not guilty
Cole Tomas Allen, 31, was charged with attempting to assassinate US President Donald Trump.
Washington dinner shooting suspect pleads not guilty
Cole Tomas Allen, 31, was charged with attempting to assassinate US President Donald Trump.
Iran war effect: Why is Modi asking Indians to avoid foreign trips, gold?
PM urges Indians to work from home and avoid foreign trips during the global energy crisis due to the Iran war.
Six people found dead inside train car at rail yard near Texas-Mexico border
Discovery was made by Union Pacific employee inspecting stopped train at the yard in Laredo before it continued its journey north
Rail workers in Texas found six people dead inside a boxcar at a yard close to the Mexican border on Sunday afternoon, officials said.
The discovery was made by a Union Pacific employee inspecting the stopped train at the yard in Laredo before it continued its journey north, a spokesperson for the Laredo police department said, citing the railroad freight company.
Continue reading...Whales could be harmed by diverted ships avoiding Middle East, scientists warn
Ships have rerouted around the Cape of Good Hope since 2023 to avoid conflicts in the Middle East.
Chicago teen who pushed for parents’ release from ICE custody dies of cancer
Kevin González, 18-year-old who had terminal colon cancer, died shortly after reuniting with his parents in Mexico
A Chicago-born teen who advocated for his parents’ release from US immigration authorities’ custody while fighting terminal cancer has died shortly after reuniting with them in Mexico, his family has told media outlets.
The parents of 18-year-old Kevin González had been taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in Arizona in mid-April after they crossed the US border from Mexico without permission in an attempt to see him in Chicago as his health waned. González since then traveled to be with relatives in Mexico, and in recent days he had publicly pleaded for them to be released from ICE custody so they could be with him as he battled metastatic stage four colon cancer.
Continue reading...‘Not normal’: On one April day, all of the planet’s top 50 hottest cities were in a single country – CNN
Bosnia’s powerful peace envoy quits, with questions over role’s future
Christian Schmidt had been in the role since 2021, and departs after appearing to lose the backing of the United States.
ICC confirms it has issued arrest warrant for Duterte ally – Reuters
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- Philippine senator vows to fight International Criminal Court order to arrest him over killings AP News
- Chaos in Philippines as Duterte ally wanted by ICC takes refuge in senate to avoid arrest The Guardian
- Bato dela Rosa: Ex-Philippine leader Duterte's drug war enforcer escapes ICC arrest BBC
Latvian defense minister resigns amid leadership turnover on NATO’s eastern flank – politico.eu
- Latvian defense minister resigns amid leadership turnover on NATO’s eastern flank politico.eu
- Baltic nations seek more NATO defence as drone hits Latvian oil tanks Reuters
- Ukrainian drone strike on empty Baltic fuel depot prompts top-level resignation – in Latvia Defense News
- Russia Rehearsing Tactics Along NATO’s Baltic Frontline The Jamestown Foundation
- Latvian Defense Minister Spruds Resigns After Drone Incursions Bloomberg.com
Watch: Soldier on parachuting to remote island to bring Hantavirus aid
A specialist team helped supply critical medical support to Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic.
Philippine presidential hopeful Sara Duterte impeached for second time
Vice-president is accused of misusing public funds and threatening the lives of President Marcos Jr and his wife
The Philippine vice-president, Sara Duterte, has been impeached over allegations she misused public funds, amassed unexplained wealth and threatened the lives of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and his wife, in a case that could complicate her presidential ambitions.
Duterte, the daughter of the detained former president Rodrigo Duterte, was impeached by an overwhelming majority of lawmakers in the House of Representatives, which is dominated by allies of Marcos.
Continue reading...Iran hangs grad student accused of spying for the CIA and Israel’s intel agency – CBS News
- Iran hangs grad student accused of spying for the CIA and Israel's intel agency CBS News
- Iran executes man convicted of spying for CIA and Mossad Reuters
- Iran executes student who admitted under torture to working with CIA NewsNation
- Tehran executes 29-year-old grad student accused of being CIA and Mossad spy New York Post
- Iran executes young aerospace engineer over CIA and Mossad espionage allegations Euronews.com
Sharp drop in ‘forever chemicals’ in seabird eggs hailed as win for regulation
Levels of Pfas in northern gannet eggs in Canada fell up to 74% over 55-year period of study
Levels of some of the most dangerous Pfas compounds have dramatically fallen in Canadian seabird eggs, which the authors of a new peer-reviewed study say illustrates how regulations are effective.
Researchers looked at Pfas levels in the eggs of northern gannets in the St Lawrence Seaway basin over a 55-year period. Pfas levels shot up from the 1960s through the peak of the chemicals’ use in the late 1990s and early aughts, then fell.
Continue reading...Last passengers leave virus-hit cruise ship as three more test positive
An American and a French national who have returned home have tested positive for hantavirus.