Turn left at the next intersection: Why the US needs a viable third party

Posted on July 3, 2024 by Admin

Under the current system, Americans are forced to choose between two right-wing options.

‘Worst hurricane ever’ – Union Island resident describes Beryl destruction

Posted on July 3, 2024 by Admin

Jeremie Tronet tells the BBC about the devastating destruction of the storm on the island where he has lived for 15 years.

Taiwan says China seizes fishing boat near its coast – Reuters.com

Posted on July 3, 2024 by Admin

Taiwan says China seizes fishing boat near its coast Reuters.com
China Seizes Taiwanese Fishing Boat As Tensions Rise The New York Times
Taiwan backed off confrontation with China over detained vessel Business Insider
China seized Taiwan boat with crew for fishing illegally BBC.com
China’s Seizure of Taiwan Fishing Boat Risks Inflaming Tensions Bloomberg

Gaza policy makes US a ‘target’: Former officials

Posted on July 3, 2024 by Admin

Dozen that quit over US support for Israel accuse US of 'undeniable complicity' in killing and starvation in Gaza.

Asic should be split in two after ‘comprehensively’ failing as regulator, parliamentary inquiry finds

Posted on July 3, 2024 by Admin

Scathing report says commission’s investigations and decisions are ‘opaque’ and it responded to criticism by managing its own reputation

Australia’s corporate watchdog should be split into two after “comprehensively” failing its role as a regulator, including focusing more on managing its reputation than enforcement action, a parliamentary committee inquiry has found.

The economics committee’s report, released Wednesday, delivers a scathing overview of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (Asic) role in ensuring allegations of corporate misconduct are investigated and punished.

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Malaysia’s Najib loses bid to serve corruption sentence under house arrest

Posted on July 3, 2024 by Admin

Jailed former leader claimed the Malaysian king issued a royal order authorising his transfer to house arrest.

Australia’s largest online bookseller Booktopia enters voluntary administration

Posted on July 3, 2024 by Admin

Insolvency advisers are assessing the business while options for its sale or recapitalisation are explored

Booktopia has entered into voluntary administration, but will continue filling orders and selling to the public under supervision from an insolvency adviser.

Australia’s largest online bookseller announced the move on Wednesday, two weeks after it went into a voluntary suspension of share trading.

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Hawksmoor for sale in deal that could value restaurant chain at £100m

Posted on July 3, 2024 by Admin

Investment bank Stephens hired to find suitors for business, which wants to expand overseas operations

The high-end steakhouse chain Hawksmoor has been put up for sale in a deal that could value it at about £100m.

The restaurant chain has hired the investment bank Stephens to start looking for potential suitors for the business, which is hoping to expand its overseas operation.

Pippa White would ‘almost certainly’ have survived had she been given antibiotics in time, NSW inquest hears

Posted on July 3, 2024 by Admin

Two-year-old’s sepsis death would likely have been prevented if necessary treatment had occurred 12-18 hours earlier, doctor tells coronial inquest

A senior doctor at the regional New South Wales hospital where a two-year-old girl died of septic shock says he would have activated the sepsis treatment pathway six hours earlier had he known her condition was deteriorating, an inquest has heard.

Prof Adam Buckmaster said Pippa Mae White may still have died because she already had “overwhelming sepsis”, although she “almost certainly” would have survived had she been treated with antibiotics 12 or 18 hours earlier.

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Australian universities clash over proposed international student cap

Posted on July 3, 2024 by Admin

Regional and smaller universities say they should be exempt from limits on overseas enrolments and elite capital city institutions should be targeted

Australia’s universities have descended into infighting over a proposed international student cap, with some bodies claiming the government is protecting elite institutions.

The draft bill, announced in May, would allow the education minister to limit the enrolment of overseas students by provider, course or location. To enrol more students, institutions would be required to establish additional purpose-built student accommodation.

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Hungary’s Orban pushes cease-fire in surprise Ukraine trip – DW (English)

Posted on July 3, 2024 by Admin

Hungary's Orban pushes cease-fire in surprise Ukraine trip DW (English)
Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary Visits Ukraine The New York Times
Viktor Orbán visits Kyiv for surprise talks with Volodymyr Zelenskiy The Guardian
Ukraine plays both sides to save itself POLITICO
Hungary's Orbán plays peacemaker in Ukraine – POLITICO POLITICO Europe

A tale of two elections: how angry voters in France and UK turned on their leaders

Posted on July 3, 2024 by Admin

The countries are heading in different directions, but voters on both sides of the Channel have similar concerns

It was raining in Calais on election day. A thin, penetrating, miserable drizzle blowing in off the Channel that was entirely in keeping with the mood of a great many voters as they headed to the polls in France’s most momentous ballot in living memory.

“It’s all going to shit,” said Xavier Hembert, voting with his son Arthur on the rue Philippine de Hainaut, named after Edward III of England’s French-born wife, much loved here ever since she persuaded him not to decapitate the port’s Burghers in 1347.