Taliban publicly flogs 63 in Afghanistan, including women, drawing UN condemnation – Fox News

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  1. Taliban publicly flogs 63 in Afghanistan, including women, drawing UN condemnation  Fox News
  2. Taliban publicly flogs 63 people accused of crimes, including women  NBC News
  3. World News in Brief: Mass floggings in Afghanistan, refugee resettlement crisis, 'greening education'  UN News
  4. UN condemns Taliban after it publicly flogs at least 60 people  The Guardian
  5. UN's Bennett condemns public floggings by Taliban  Amu TV
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Amanda Knox vows to fight ‘unfair’ rejection of slander appeal

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American says she is ‘sad but determined’ after Italian court upholds her conviction

Amanda Knox has said an Italian court’s decision to uphold her slander conviction for wrongly accusing a bar owner of murdering the British student Meredith Kercher was “unfair and incorrect” and vowed to continue her fight against “this injustice”.

Knox, 36, left through a back exit of a Florence appeals court on Wednesday and cancelled a planned press conference after judges rejected her appeal to have the conviction dropped.

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WATCH: World leaders and veterans mark 80th anniversary of D-Day in France – PBS NewsHour

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  1. WATCH: World leaders and veterans mark 80th anniversary of D-Day in France  PBS NewsHour
  2. Live updates: D-Day 80th anniversary in Normandy  CNN
  3. Pittsburgh-area Army hero who received Medal of Honor for D-Day honored in special exhibit  CBS News
  4. 'As Lonely as a Man Can Get': The True Story of D-Day, as Told by Paratroopers  POLITICO
  5. Dwindling number of D-Day veterans plea to recall WWII lessons on anniversary  The Associated Press
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Robodebt was illegal but were its officials corrupt? This decision means now we won’t know

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The National Anti-Corruption Commission won’t investigate six individuals referred by the royal commission. It’s yet another blow for victims

An email landed in my inbox not long after the National Anti-Corruption Commission announced its refusal to investigate the robodebt scandal.

It was from Michael Griffin, a robodebt victim. Griffin, like countless others, descended into a spiral of shock and shame after he was wrongly told to repay a $3,197 welfare debt in late 2016.

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Border force apologises for failing to prevent ‘misconduct’ after reports found bullying and harassment

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Exclusive: Apology issued to staff includes pledge ‘to foster a safe, inclusive, empowered, accountable and supportive workplace’

The Australian Border Force has apologised to its staff for failing to “prevent workplace misconduct from occurring” after two damning reports found sexual discrimination and harassment rife in the ABF.

The ABF’s senior leadership issued the apology in May, after Australian Human Rights Commission reports into the culture of the marine unit and the broader ABF found bullying and harassment “are normalised” in some sections of the workforce.

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‘I felt your pain’: Wayne Swan criticises Labor’s ‘future gas’ strategy in address to party activists

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Exclusive: ALP president and former treasurer tells environment group he shared their disappointment over the contentious pre-budget announcement

The Labor party’s national president, Wayne Swan, has criticised the Albanese government’s future gas strategy, opposing its encouragement of new gas fields and telling the party’s environment activists they should push for a plan to lessen domestic demand.

In an online address to the Labor Environment Action Network (Lean) on Tuesday night, Swan sympathised with the activists who were dismayed that the strategy, released a week before the budget and which frustrated some inner-city Labor MPs, emphasised a role for gas “to 2050 and beyond”.

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Recreating a jump into Normandy D-Day zone 80 years later, British paratroopers face French customs – The Associated Press

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  1. Recreating a jump into Normandy D-Day zone 80 years later, British paratroopers face French customs  The Associated Press
  2. British paratroopers dropping in French field for D-day event asked for passports  The Guardian
  3. British troops get passports checked after parachuting into French D-Day event  POLITICO Europe
  4. France demands passports from British troops parachuting into Normandy for D-Day  GB News
  5. Watch: Moment British paratroopers have passports checked after D-Day drop in France  The Telegraph
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Israel-Gaza war: dozens reported killed after Israeli strike on UN school in refugee camp – as it happened

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Unrwa chief says 6,000 displaced people were sheltering at school when it was hit and at least 35 have been killed. This live blog is closed

Local authorities report that 37 people have been killed after an overnight Israeli strike on the UN-run Unrwa school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in near Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

Inages from the site show a large number of bodies laid out for burial outside a hospital in Deir al Balah. Unrwa communications director Juliette Touma told Reuters on Thursday that the number of those reported killed in the Israeli offensive on the Nuseirat school is between 35 and 45, but it still cannot confirm the number at this stage, she added.

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