Israel’s New Campaign Against Hezbollah Started With Raid in Syria – The New York Times

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  1. Israel’s New Campaign Against Hezbollah Started With Raid in Syria  The New York Times
  2. To understand the escalation in Lebanon, we must confront what Israelis are thinking  The Guardian
  3. How Israel and Hezbollah Are Slipping Closer to All-Out War  Bloomberg
  4. The myth of Hezbollah has been shattered  The Hill
  5. How Israel’s Spies Got Blindsided by Hamas but Still Hit Hezbollah Hard  The Wall Street Journal
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Israel concealed explosives inside batteries of pagers sold to Hezbollah, Lebanese officials say – CNN

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  1. Israel concealed explosives inside batteries of pagers sold to Hezbollah, Lebanese officials say  CNN
  2. Hizbollah’s exploding walkie-talkies probably among many counterfeits, says radio maker  Financial Times
  3. The Hezbollah Pager Explosions Are More Dangerous Than You Think  Foreign Policy
  4. Editorial: How should Americans feel about Israel’s pager offensive? The issue is the need to pay attention.  Chicago Tribune
  5. Lebanon Pager Attack Marks a New Era of Intimate Warfare and Terror  Bloomberg
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Bottom-breathing turtle among Queensland endangered species under threat from invasive fish

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Record floods propel aggressive Mozambique tilapia throughout Mary River, compromising efforts to save ancient fish and endangered turtles

Record floods have propelled an aggressive invasive fish species across a south-east Queensland river catchment, compromising efforts to save endangered and ancient fishes and turtles.

The Moonaboola (Mary) river catchment is home to several threatened species, including the Mary River turtle, the white-throated snapping turtle (known for breathing through its bottom), the Mary River cod and the Australian lungfish, which has survived for 150m years and is considered a living fossil.

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How the most affluent Australians disproportionately benefit from negative gearing

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Those in the top tax bracket three times more likely to be negatively geared property investor, says economist

Negative gearing helps high-earning Australians the most, with those with income of more than $180,000 annually snaring almost one-quarter of the benefits, despite numbering just 5% of taxpayers.

Data from the Australian Taxation Office showed people who earn more than $180,000 were able to lower their collective tax bill by $1.3bn in 2021-2022 through negative gearing. The $1.3bn was roughly 25% of all the losses on rental properties claimed by taxpayers in that financial year.

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‘People are dying’: rise of nitazenes should be treated as pandemic, injecting centre head says

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Exclusive: Dr Marianne Jauncey says NSW government must make ‘hard decisions’ to combat growing threat of synthetic opioids

The head doctor at Sydney’s medically supervised injecting centre has compared the rise of synthetic opioids to a pandemic and says she is worried the government isn’t willing to make the “hard decisions” necessary to prepare for it.

Dr Marianne Jauncey began raising the alarm about the increasing prevalence of nitazenes earlier this year but was concerned the Minns Labor government had been reluctant to act because it “still feels for many like an emerging news story”.

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Cinema in mafia boss’s Sicily hometown refuses to show film of his life

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Venue owner says Sicilian Letters, about the Cosa Nostra leader Matteo Messina Denaro, ‘doesn’t interest me’

The owner of the only cinema in Castelvetrano, the Sicilian hometown of the notorious Cosa Nostra mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, has refused to screen a film based on his life.

Denaro died of cancer in September last year, nine months after he was arrested following 30 years on the run.

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Libya central bank deal could resolve ‘all political issues’, says head of state

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Mohamed al-Menfi defends dismissal of previous governor and says deal will bring back international accountability

A deal backed by leaders on both sides of Libya’s political divide to appoint a new central bank governor has the potential “to resolve all the political issues” in the country, Libya’s head of state has said.

Mohamed al-Menfi, the president of Libya’s Presidential Council who is largely aligned with the UN-recognised government in Tripoli, was accused of acting unilaterally and propelling the country into fresh turmoil when in August he dismissed the previous long-serving bank governor, Sadiq al-Kabir, who then fled into exile.

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Hezbollah is pounded by Israel, but key ally Iran is reluctant to intervene – The Washington Post

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  1. Hezbollah is pounded by Israel, but key ally Iran is reluctant to intervene  The Washington Post
  2. Israel-Hezbollah conflict: What is behind Iran's restraint?  DW (English)
  3. Iran’s president tells UN Israel’s ‘terrorism in Lebanon cannot go unanswered’  The Times of Israel
  4. Iran’s damage-limitation efforts may not go to plan  The Economist
  5. ‘The king doesn’t lie down to save the pawn’: Why Iran may let Hezbollah face Israel alone  Breaking Defense
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New Chinese nuclear sub sinks before leaving dock – Boing Boing

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  1. New Chinese nuclear sub sinks before leaving dock  Boing Boing
  2. China’s newest nuclear-powered submarine sank earlier this year, US officials say  CNN
  3. Exclusive | China’s Newest Nuclear Submarine Sank, Setting Back Its Military Modernization  The Wall Street Journal
  4. China’s newest nuclear submarine sank in dock, US officials confirm  The Guardian
  5. China concealed sinking of newest nuclear submarine, U.S. says  Nikkei Asia
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