South Africa: A DA member suspended for using racist language – BBC.com

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  1. South Africa: A DA member suspended for using racist language  BBC.com
  2. DA suspends Renaldo Gouws after video emerges of him saying 'kill all the k***s'  News24
  3. South Africa MP suspended for racist language  Yahoo! Voices
  4. South Africa's DA party suspends MP after old videos of anti-Black remarks resurface  Reuters
  5. Public pressure mounts to revoke Renaldo Gouws' membership in Parliament  EWN
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US software company Salesforce gave NDIS officials gifts worth more than $100 on 45 occasions

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Documents submitted by the company to a parliamentary inquiry also detail meetings between Salesforce and former minister Stuart Robert at his request

US software company Salesforce has disclosed it gave gifts worth more than $100 to NDIS officials at least 45 times between 2019 and 2023, including wining and dining them at ritzy restaurants and bars in Melbourne and Canberra.

The information – submitted by Salesforce to a parliamentary inquiry scrutinising contract arrangements by the NDIS and Services Australia under the former Coalition government – appears at odds with the disability insurance agency’s earlier answers it had no evidence staff had received gifts or benefits from Salesforce.

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Senate opposition firms against Coalition’s nuclear power plan as David Pocock blasts ‘reckless’ proposal

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ACT senator says he is not ideologically opposed but Coalition’s nuclear proposal is ‘unrealistic’ while Lidia Thorpe says it doesn’t make economic sense

Senate opposition to the Coalition’s nuclear plan is firming, presenting a major hurdle to Peter Dutton’s proposal for seven nuclear power plants on top of state objections.

In addition to Labor and the Greens, independent senators Lidia Thorpe and David Pocock have voiced major criticisms of the policy, while Jacqui Lambie, who has previously expressed support for nuclear to be part of the mix, is investigating the Coalition’s proposal and is concerned nuclear plants are “incredibly expensive”.

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Deadly heat in Mexico and US made 35 times more likely by global heating

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Researchers find extreme heat four times more likely than at turn of millennium and urge reduction in fossil fuels

The deadly heatwave that scorched large swaths of Mexico, Central America and the southern US in recent weeks was made 35 times more likely due to human-induced global heating, according to research by leading climate scientists from World Weather Attribution (WWA).

Tens of millions of people have endured dangerous day – and nighttime temperatures as a heat dome engulfed Mexico – a large and lingering zone of high pressure that stretched north to Texas, Arizona and Nevada, and south over Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.

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French elections: How do they work and why are they so significant? – BBC.com

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  1. French elections: How do they work and why are they so significant?  BBC.com
  2. France Elections: Le Pen's National Rally Backs Arming Ukraine, Bardella Says  Bloomberg
  3. French election: Your guide to a vote that is set to shake the EU and NATO  POLITICO Europe
  4. France’s far-right leader says he will not be PM without absolute majority  The Guardian
  5. A hard-right 28-year-old could soon be France's prime minister  The Economist
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‘This is monumental’: Australia takes first step to world heritage nomination for parts of Cape York

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‘We want this to be on the bucket list of visitors from around the world because it is so special globally,’ environment minister says

Australia has taken the first steps to nominating parts of Cape York for recognition as Unesco world heritage.

The area features 17,000 year-old rock art – some of the world’s largest – and is home to more than 300 threatened species, including the green sawfish, Cape York rock wallaby and southern cassowary.

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Canada lists Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist entity – BBC.com

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  1. Canada lists Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist entity  BBC.com
  2. Canada lists Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as terrorist group  The Guardian
  3. Canada lists Iran Revolutionary Guards as ‘terrorist’ group  Al Jazeera English
  4. Canada puts Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on terror blacklist  The Times of Israel
  5. Iran condemns Canada's listing of Revolutionary Guards as terrorist group  Reuters
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Tokyo election: demographic crisis the top issue as two women vie for job of governor

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Conservative Yuriko Koike is seeking a third term with leftist Renho Murata her main challenger as the city grapples with falling birth rate

The race to become Tokyo’s next governor has kicked off, with two women in the lead to run the world’s most populous city – a rarity in a country where comparatively few women occupy high political office.

Millions of voters in Tokyo will elect their governor early next month. The successful candidate’s most urgent job has a more familiar ring, however: to address the capital’s accelerating demographic crisis.

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Man charged over alleged Queensland shooting murder lost gun licence three years ago, police say

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South Mackay man, 31, charged with murder and attempted murder over Robb Place shootings as police investigate how he allegedly gained access to firearm

A Queensland woman was leaving for a sporting activity when a neighbour allegedly shot her dead in her car in front of two girls.

Ryan Geoffrey Cole, 31, has been charged with murdering the woman and shooting another person who came to her aid in Mackay, north Queensland.

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Ancient Shipwreck Preserves a Deep Bronze Age Time Capsule – The New York Times

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  1. Ancient Shipwreck Preserves a Deep Bronze Age Time Capsule  The New York Times
  2. Cargo from 'most ancient' shipwreck found off Israel  BBC.com
  3. Energy Company Finds Earliest Deep-sea Shipwreck in the World, and It's Canaanite - Archaeology  Haaretz
  4. Ancient sunken ship found off of Israel's Mediterranean coast  The Jerusalem Post
  5. World's Oldest Deep-Sea Shipwreck Discovered 1800 Meters Beneath The Waves  IFLScience
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