‘Only pirates do this’: Philippines accuses China of using bladed weapons in major South China Sea escalation – CNN

  1. ‘Only pirates do this’: Philippines accuses China of using bladed weapons in major South China Sea escalation  CNN
  2. 'Only Pirates Do This': China Wields Axes and Knives in South China Sea Fight  The Wall Street Journal
  3. Philippine officials say Chinese forces seized 2 navy boats in disputed shoal, injuring sailors  The Associated Press
  4. In South China Sea dispute, Philippines' bolder hand tests Beijing  Reuters
  5. Video shows China Coast Guard wielding ax in naval clash with Philippines  Business Insider
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Israeli Military Says Hamas Can’t Be Destroyed, Escalating Feud With Netanyahu – The Wall Street Journal

  1. Israeli Military Says Hamas Can't Be Destroyed, Escalating Feud With Netanyahu  The Wall Street Journal
  2. Israeli army spokesman says Hamas ‘can’t be defeated’  Al Jazeera English
  3. Israel-Hamas War in Gaza: Latest Updates  The New York Times
  4. IDF spokesman says Hamas can’t be destroyed, drawing retort from PM: ‘That’s war’s goal’  The Times of Israel
  5. Israel-Gaza war live: Netanyahu rebukes IDF after army spokesperson warns that Hamas cannot be eliminated  The Guardian
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‘Face to face’: Mother of Hamas hostage confronts UN rights officials in Geneva – The Times of Israel

  1. ‘Face to face’: Mother of Hamas hostage confronts UN rights officials in Geneva  The Times of Israel
  2. ‘Israeli army is one of the world’s most criminal’ says UN expert  Al Jazeera English
  3. UN says Israel’s use of heavy bombs in Gaza is potential war crime; Israel rejects allegations  The Hill
  4. Israel-Gaza war: Hezbollah fires more projectiles at Israel despite warning – as it happened  The Guardian
  5. Israel war: UN officials accuse Israelis of 'extermination' attempt  USA TODAY
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Hezbollah leader warns Israel of war with ‘no red lines,’ threatens Cyprus – CNBC

  1. Hezbollah leader warns Israel of war with 'no red lines,' threatens Cyprus  CNBC
  2. Israel Vs Hezbollah: Cyprus' Fiery Response After Nasrallah Issues Dire Warning | Watch  Hindustan Times
  3. Hezbollah leader in Lebanon threatens Israel and Cyprus  USA TODAY
  4. Hezbollah releases video showing Israeli military and civilian locations  CNN
  5. Head of Lebanon's Hezbollah threatens Israel and Cyprus  Reuters
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Airfield with Taylor Swift’s private jet targeted by climate activists using orange paint – CBS News

  1. Airfield with Taylor Swift's private jet targeted by climate activists using orange paint  CBS News
  2. Climate activists arrested for spray-painting private jets orange at London airport  NBC News
  3. Climate Protestors Target UK Airfield Hosting Taylor Swift's Private Jet  Forbes
  4. Just Stop Oil spray paint private jets and 'target Taylor Swift's plane' at Stansted  The Independent
  5. Two people arrested after activists spray private jets with paint at Stansted  The Guardian
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Gambling regulator looking into second Tory candidate over bet on general election timing – live

BBC names candidate as Laura Saunders and says she is married to party’s director of campaigns

In case you missed this late yesterday: Conservatives are projected to slump to their “lowest seat tally in the party’s almost 200-year history” at the General Election, according to the latest YouGov poll.

YouGov said its latest study projects Labour to secure 425 seats, the Tories 108, the Liberal Democrats 67, SNP 20, Reform UK five, Plaid Cymru four and the Green Party two. It noted such a scenario would hand Keir Starmer a 200-seat majority while it added Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is “likely” to win in Clacton.

The findings are similar to those from the Guardian’s Ipsos MRP poll on Tuesday, which showed the Conservatives winning just 115 seats, with Labour on 453.

YouGov used a technique known as multi-level regression and post-stratification (MRP) to model the outcome of the election in every constituency across Britain, PA reports.

It said the estimated seat projections were based on modelled responses from 36,161 adults in England and Wales, and 3,818 in Scotland, between June 11 and 18. Several high-profile Conservatives, including Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, would lose out if the projection played out at the ballot box on 4 July.

YouGov wrote:

Our new MRP has the Conservatives on their lowest seat tally in the party’s almost 200-year history.

Our latest model has 109 seats as toss ups – meaning that the winning party’s lead is less than five points. Sixty five marginal seats are contests between the Conservatives and Labour.”

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Albanese calls Coalition nuclear policy a ‘fantasy’

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has slammed the Coalition’s nuclear power policy, calling it a “fantasy” and saying it was “Peter Dutton and the Seven nuclear reactors.”

What you have here is something that I’ve never seen before. I mean, this is just a fantasy, instead of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs this is Peter Dutton and the seven nuclear reactors.

This is just absurd, to have a big buildup for an announcement and then say we won’t give you the details. I’ll make this prediction. All the details won’t be out there before the election. It will be just “trust me”, just the same as Peter Dutton said that [for the] 2030 target when it comes to emissions reduction, “I will let you know all of that after the election.”

Well, our energy policy will and is absolutely focused on driving down prices as we did in government at … this is the important point. And that is because of a range of technologies, not one, nuclear needs to be part of that mix. You need to have every horse in this race. This is a hard race to win. And we want to have every horse in the race. Nuclear is an important one, gas is an important one.

Everyone wants to sort of say there’s one technology this the answer to everything. No. I’m just wondering. It’s a balance of technologies and right now, what is clear is Chris Bowen’s strategy is not getting us to where we need to go.

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Boys accused of raping 12-year-old Jewish girl, in an act of antisemitism in France – NBC News

  1. Boys accused of raping 12-year-old Jewish girl, in an act of antisemitism in France  NBC News
  2. French PM lashes out at leftist leader Mélenchon after antisemitic assault  POLITICO Europe
  3. Emmanuel Macron wants action against antisemitism in French Schools  The Jerusalem Post
  4. French rivals Macron, Le Pen decry Jewish girl’s gang rape as antisemitic attack sends pre-election shockwave  Fox News
  5. French teens charged with anti-Semitic rape in attack condemned by political leaders  FRANCE 24 English
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Just Stop Oil: Paint sprayed on Stonehenge removed ahead of summer solstice – BBC.com

  1. Just Stop Oil: Paint sprayed on Stonehenge removed ahead of summer solstice  BBC.com
  2. 2 climate activists were arrested after spraying orange paint on Stonehenge  NPR
  3. Stonehenge not visibly damaged by protest paint. It’s clean and ready to rock the solstice.  The Hill
  4. Stonehenge spray-painted orange by Just Stop Oil protesters  The Washington Post
  5. Climate activists spray Stonehenge with orange powder, demanding end to fossil fuels in UK  Fox News
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Activists spray planes with paint at UK airfield where Taylor Swift jet landed

Two Just Stop Oil activists broke into private airfield at Stansted airport on Thursday before targeting jets

Just Stop Oil activists have sprayed orange paint over private jets at Stansted airport on the airfield where Taylor Swift’s plane is stationed, the environmental group has said.

Two activists, Jennifer Kowalski, 28, a former sustainability manager from Dumbarton, and Cole Macdonald, 22, from Brighton, broke into a private airfield in Stansted at 5am on Thursday before targeting the jet.

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Three-eyed koalas and Dutton as Snow White: how Simpsons memes have been weaponised in nuclear debate

Labor MPs tweet Simpsons jokes about nuclear policy after Dutton earlier conceded research found people ‘didn’t want a Springfield’ in their back yard

Three-eyed koalas, Peter Dutton masquerading as Snow White in a “seven nukes” fairytale, and an arsenal of Simpsons gags to boot.

The Coalition is objecting about what they say are “juvenile” online memes from government MPs attacking its nuclear policy, as Labor MPs mount a social media attack on the opposition’s controversial and uncosted nuclear proposal.

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Israel-Gaza war: Netanyahu rebukes IDF after army spokesperson warns that Hamas cannot be eliminated – now closed

Prime minister’s office says the IDF is committed to the defeat of Hamas, after Daniel Hagari said Hamas is an ‘ideology’

French authorities have detained an Iranian citizen after he posted remarks about Israel-Gaza war posted on social media, a police source said on Thursday, in a case his lawyer has denounced as “political” amid tensions between Paris and Tehran.

Bashir Biazar has been described by London-based Iran International television channel as a former official for the Iranian state broadcaster IRIB. Iranian state media call him a “cultural figure”.

There is nothing, in terms of law, that justifies this measure. Bashir Biazar expressed himself on his Instagram account, as anyone could do freely in a state governed by the rule of law.

I think this procedure is political, and politics has no place in law.

The arrest of an Iranian citizen by the French police for having defended the oppressed Palestinian people (is) another scandal for France in the domain of human rights.

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