Nine injured including two children in shooting at public splash pad in Michigan

Police say eight-year-old shot in head is in critical condition and shooter Michael William Nash died by suicide

Nine people, including two children, have been shot and wounded at a city-run water park near Detroit in what appeared to be a random attack, police have said.

Two children were among the victims, including an 8-year-old who was shot in the head and is in critical condition, after a shooter opened fire at the Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad park, where families had gathered to escape the summer heat.

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Biden’s pledge with G7 leaders clouded by Trump’s possible return, right-wing EU wins – USA TODAY

  1. Biden's pledge with G7 leaders clouded by Trump's possible return, right-wing EU wins  USA TODAY
  2. Trump’s possible return looms over deals Biden cut at G7 summit  NBC News
  3. G7 Summit: Meloni, at Odds With Macron, Pivots to Global South  Bloomberg
  4. G7 Leaders, Expanding the Circle, Shift Focus to Migration and the South  The New York Times
  5. Potential of a Trump return inspires Biden and G7 rush to guarantee long-term support for Ukraine  CNN
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‘Youth is the future’: gen Z should be celebrated, says Prada

The house’s menswear show drew on youthful spirit, while Fendi got ready to mark 100 years with a new crest

They have been been ridiculed as snowflakes and “too woke” by some, but Prada’s co-creative designers think gen Z are a generation to be celebrated.

Speaking backstage after their latest menswear show, which took place on Sunday afternoon at the Prada Foundation in Milan, Miuccia Prada said: “Youth is the future. It is hope. We wanted to do something that would express youthful optimism because the times are so bad.”

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FAA investigates after Southwest plane drops to ‘within 400ft’ of Pacific Ocean

News comes as US regulators investigate separate incident after Boeing 737 Max 8 plane did a ‘Dutch roll’ in May

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after a Southwest Airlines flight reportedly plunged to “within 400ft” of the Pacific Ocean during a flight.

A memo distributed to Southwest pilots, obtained by Bloomberg, said that the Boeing 737 Max 8 plunged at a rate of 4,000ft a minute off the coast of Hawaii, coming within hundreds of feet of the ocean before climbing to safety.

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Key global powers fail to sign up to Ukraine peace summit communique

Brazil, India and Saudi Arabia among countries not to endorse text supporting Ukraine’s territorial integrity

Key regional powers including Brazil, India, South Africa and Saudi Arabia have failed to sign up to a joint communique issued at the end of a Ukraine peace conference in which more than 80 countries and international organisations endorsed its territorial integrity in the face of Russia’s invasion.

Speaking at the end of the two-day summit in Switzerland, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, welcomed the “first steps toward peace” but acknowledged that not all attenders had come onboard. “Unfortunately there are people who are still balancing,” he said, adding that Russia was trying to divide the world.

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Playbook: Will Lewis has some explaining to do – POLITICO

  1. Playbook: Will Lewis has some explaining to do  POLITICO
  2. Washington Post Publisher and Incoming Editor Are Said to Have Used Stolen Records in Britain  The New York Times
  3. New 'Washington Post' chiefs can't shake their past in London  NPR
  4. Jeff Bezos once saved the Washington Post. Now he needs to do it again  The Guardian
  5. Can Will Lewis Survive at the Washington Post?  New York Magazine
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Hezbollah bigger challenge than Hamas to Israel: ‘Crown jewel in the Iranian empire of terror’ – Fox News

  1. Hezbollah bigger challenge than Hamas to Israel: ‘Crown jewel in the Iranian empire of terror’  Fox News
  2. Israeli Military Says Hezbollah 'Bringing Us to Brink of Escalation' - Israel News  Haaretz
  3. The Memo: Biden faces new Mideast crisis as tensions in Lebanon begin to boil  The Hill
  4. Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah stir U.S. fears of wider conflict  CBS News
  5. Israeli Military Says Hezbollah 'Bringing Us to Brink of Escalation'  U.S. News & World Report
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Flies, mosquitoes, raw sewage and mountains of garbage threaten to worsen Gaza’s health crisis – CNN

  1. Flies, mosquitoes, raw sewage and mountains of garbage threaten to worsen Gaza’s health crisis  CNN
  2. Israel's Blockade Has Caused Accumulation of 330000 Tons of Solid Waste in Gaza  Truthout
  3. Media invitation: Seminar with UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)  Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
  4. UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini on Humanitarian Fault Lines about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza  unrwa
  5. Solid waste in Gaza causes hygiene and sanitation issues  USA TODAY
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Muted mics, no props: CNN details rules for Biden and Trump debate

Network says no studio audience in Atlanta and moderators ‘will use all tools at disposal to ensure a civilized discussion’

The first US presidential debate between incumbent Joe Biden and Republican rival Donald Trump on 27 June will include two commercial breaks, no props and muted microphones except when recognized to speak, CNN said Saturday.

The rules, agreed outside the Commission on Presidential Debates, are designed to reduce fractious interruptions and cross-talk that have often marred TV encounters in recent presidential election cycles.

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Russia-Ukraine war: Saudi Arabia, India and South Africa among countries opting out of Ukraine declaration – as it happened

Nations also including Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico and United Arab Emirates did not sign final communique at summit on peace, says Swiss government

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy has thanked leaders and officials for attending this weekend’s peace summit as today’s talks get under way.

“A united world is a world of peace, a world that knows how to do the right thing. I thank everyone who worked for this day – every leader, all the teams and advisors of the leaders, all the countries. Our unity here proves that the very idea of international law remains alive and effective,” Zelenskiy said in a tweet.

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An affair, a hunting trip and two people dead at a high country camp: how the Greg Lynn case unfolded – a timeline

The former Jetstar pilot pleaded not guilty to murdering Russell Hill and Carol Clay in the Wonnangatta Valley in 2020. Here’s everything you need to know in the lead-up to the verdict

Former pilot Gregory Stuart Lynn, 57, has faced a four-week trial after pleading not guilty to murdering campers Russell Hill, 74 and Carol Clay, 73 in Victoria’s high country in 2020.

As the jury considers a verdict, here’s everything to know about how the missing person investigation and trial unfolded:

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Labor urged to put human rights record before trade as Chinese premier visits Canberra

Anthony Albanese should seek commitments for concrete action in his talks with Li Qiang, campaigners say

Human rights advocates have called on Anthony Albanese to place China’s human rights record ahead of economic and trade discussions in his meeting with China’s second most powerful leader on Monday.

They said it was time for Australia’s Labor government to demand concrete action from China in addressing human rights complaints against it as “statements of concern” were not achieving results.

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Climate 200 names nine new Coalition seats where it hopes to replicate teal wave at next election

Exclusive: After months of speculation the fundraising giant has identified more electorates where independent campaigns meet its criteria for support

Climate 200, the fundraising giant that bankrolled the teal independent wave at the last election, has thrown its support behind independent campaigns in nine more Coalition-held seats.

After months of speculation, the group said it would support independent campaigns in the Queensland electorates of McPherson, Moncrief, Fisher and Fairfax as well as the New South Wales electorates Cowper and Bradfield, and Casey, Monash and Wannon in Victoria.

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From social housing to $1.5m for a studio: minister hits out at ‘dud deal’ sale of Sydney’s Sirius building

Exclusive: Rose Jackson says losing public housing in expensive central suburbs leaves society worse off, and this week’s state budget will address issue

A decade ago the only way to secure a bed in Sydney’s brutalist icon, the Sirius building, was a proven need and time on the social housing waitlist. Now the price of admission starts at $1.55m – for a studio apartment.

The last of the 76 apartments in the redeveloped complex in the shadow of the Harbour Bridge are on the market after the building was sold to a developer by the former Coalition state government for $150m in 2019.

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Pornography and social media driving rise in labia surgery, Australian report finds

More than half a million people have had or considered having the procedure due to lack of education and diverse representation, survey shows

Pornography and social media are driving a rise in people having or considering labia surgery, with images and videos distorting perceptions of what genitalia look like, a new report has found.

The surgery, known as labiaplasty, is one of the fastest growing cosmetic procedures among young people in Australia and worldwide.

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Staines: Police driver who rammed cow removed from duty – BBC.com

  1. Staines: Police driver who rammed cow removed from duty  BBC.com
  2. Surrey police officer who rammed cow removed from frontline duties  The Guardian
  3. Farmer's partner says officer who rammed cow in police car should be sacked  Sky News
  4. Police officer who rammed Surrey cow under investigation as farmer gives update  The Independent
  5. UK government demands an explanation after police ram a runaway cow with a squad car  ABC News
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