- Lincoln gets 3-7 inches of rain; flood warning in effect Lincoln Journal Star
- Pro-Palestinian protesters say Toronto Pride Parade stopped over refusal to meet demands CTV News Toronto
- 14 photos from NYC's 2024 Pride March that absolutely slay Time Out
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Paris mayor says rise of far right will not dampen Olympics mood
Anne Hidalgo says Paris ‘stands up for freedom’ amid Marine Le Pen success in first round of voting
The Paris mayor has sought to reassure visitors that the festive mood at the Olympics will not be dampened by Marine Le Pen’s electoral successes in France’s snap parliamentary elections, with less than a month to go before the city hosts the Games.
“The party will not be spoilt,” Socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo told broadcaster France 2 on Tuesday. “I say to visitors from the world over – come over! Because Paris is a city that stands up for freedom and is a city of resistance against the extreme right.”
Continue reading...US pays Moderna $176m to develop bird-flu jab
Moderna is being given $176m to work on a bird-flu vaccine, in case there is ever a human pandemic.
Hurricane Beryl reaches record winds of 165 mph as the Category 5 storm barrels toward Jamaica – NBC News
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- Hurricane Beryl tracker map: Projected path as storm makes landfall USA TODAY
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Rudy Giuliani disbarred over false 2020 election claims
A New York court said he made repeated false statements about former President Donald Trump's 2020 election loss.
Report says IDF brass backing truce even if it leaves Hamas in power; PM: Won’t happen – The Times of Israel
- Report says IDF brass backing truce even if it leaves Hamas in power; PM: Won’t happen The Times of Israel
- Israeli Generals, Low on Munitions, Want a Truce in Gaza The New York Times
- Under a Daily Barrage of Scandals, Netanyahu and His Ministers Divert Attention From Israel's Spiraling Crisis - Israel News Haaretz
- Netanyahu says Israel advancing to 'end of the stage of eliminating' Hamas' army in Gaza Yahoo! Voices
- Israel-Gaza war live: Israel reportedly kills senior Hezbollah commander in drone strike The Guardian
Palestinians flee Khan Younis as Israeli forces strike south Gaza
Patients have left a hospital and tent camps as Israel appears poised to launch another assault on the city.
More than 100 killed in crush at India religious event
The incident took place at a Hindu religious event in Hathras district in Uttar Pradesh state.
Iran vows to back Hezbollah in fight with Israel as IRGC general renews threat of imminent missile strike – Fox News
- Iran vows to back Hezbollah in fight with Israel as IRGC general renews threat of imminent missile strike Fox News
- The next terrifying war: Israel v Hizbullah The Economist
- US shifts assault ship to the Mediterranean to deter an escalation of the Israel-Lebanon conflict The Associated Press
- Blinken says war may erupt in Lebanon despite none of the sides wanting one The Times of Israel
- Iran would use 'all means' to back Hizbollah if Israel launches full-blown war, official says Financial Times
Why Hurricane Beryl foretells a scary storm season
Hot sea temperatures are fuelling explosive growth of first ever category 4 storm in June
Hurricane Beryl’s explosive growth into an unprecedented early whopper of a storm shows the literal hot water the Atlantic and Caribbean are in – and the kind of season ahead, experts said.
Beryl smashed multiple records even before its major-hurricane-level winds approached land. The powerful storm is acting more like monsters that form in the peak of hurricane season thanks mostly to water temperatures as hot or hotter than the region normally gets in September, five hurricane experts told the Associated Press.
Continue reading...New twist in clash between US short seller Hindenburg and India’s Adani
India's securities regulator has alleged Hindenburg colluded with another entity to help it short Adani Group.
How dangerous is Hurricane Beryl?
One person has been killed as the Category 5 hurricane flattens islands on its way towards Jamaica.
Doctors dismissed these women as hysterical. Now they’re fighting back
Two thirds of Australian women say they have encountered gender bias or discrimination in healthcare.
Talks with the Taliban – no women allowed
Diplomats say the first talks with Afghanistan's rulers since they seized power were productive.
Vandals in Austria behead sculpture of Virgin Mary giving birth to Jesus
Artist behind controversial piece in Linz cathedral says vandalism shows there are still ‘people who question women’s right to their own bodies’
Vandals have beheaded a sculpture of the Virgin Mary giving birth to Jesus on display in the cathedral in the Austrian city of Linz. The work had drawn criticism from some Catholics, who said it was blasphemous.
The sculpture had been on view at the St Mary Cathedral, Austria’s largest, as part of an art installation about women’s roles, family images and gender equality, the Linz diocese said in a statement. It said the vandalism, which occurred on Monday, had been reported to police.
Continue reading...Former dissenting Labor MP backs Fatima Payman and says party needs to reconsider rules
Last time a Labor MP voted against the party position was 2005 when Tasmanian MP Harry Quick opposed anti-terrorism legislation
The last federal Labor MP to vote against his party has urged Fatima Payman to “stick to her guns” as the senator faces intense pressure to toe the line on Palestinian statehood or leave Labor.
Federal Labor MPs and senators on Tuesday unanimously endorsed Payman’s indefinite suspension from the party’s parliamentary caucus after the 29-year-old said she would cross the floor again if faced with a similar Senate motion to last week’s vote.
Continue reading...Why Israel ordered yet another evacuation of Gaza’s Khan Younis
Quarter of a million Palestinians in Khan Younis are terrified again as a renewed Israeli ground operation looms.
Hungary’s Orban urges Russia-Ukraine ceasefire on surprise visit to Kyiv
President Zelenskyy stresses that Kyiv needs a 'just peace' after more than two years of fighting Russia's invasion.
Older Australians pressured into paying unfair robotax debts will not be compensated, government says
Finance minister Katy Gallagher says people who felt intimidated into paying back ATO debts so old they are impossible to verify will not get their money back
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Older Australians who felt pressured into paying decades-old debts as part of the troubled “robotax” campaign have hit out at a government decision to deny refunds after describing the tax grab as coercive.
The federal government has disclosed it intends to amend laws that will allow the Australian Taxation Office to keep debts put on hold before 2017 on ice indefinitely, rather than extract them from future tax refunds, as was planned.
Continue reading...A third of land set aside for restoration in worse state than before, Australian offset audit finds
Federal review sparks fresh warnings that biodiversity scheme is increasing risk of animals going extinct
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A review of some of the areas chosen for nature restoration as part of Australia’s biodiversity offset system has found a third are in worse condition than before, prompting fresh warnings that the scheme is increasing the risk of animals going extinct.
In one instance, the majority of a site that should have provided grey-headed flying fox and koala habitat was found to be “cleared paddock with negligible foraging value”.
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