Syrian Officers Who Hid in Plain Sight Face War Crime Charges in Austria – The New York Times

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  1. Syrian Officers Who Hid in Plain Sight Face War Crime Charges in Austria  The New York Times
  2. Former general for Syria’s Assad pleads not guilty in torture trial  Al Jazeera
  3. Austria puts Syrian ex-intelligence chief in Raqqa on trial for torture  Reuters
  4. Former Syrian general under al-Assad faces torture trial in Vienna  Yahoo
  5. Two Syrians deny civil war torture accusations in Austria trial  France 24
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Vickrum Digwa jailed for life for murdering Henry Nowak in Southampton – BBC

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  1. Vickrum Digwa jailed for life for murdering Henry Nowak in Southampton  BBC
  2. Southampton man jailed for life for murder of student with ‘religious’ knife  The Guardian
  3. English cops cuffed teen stabbing victim after attacker claimed racial assault  Fox News
  4. Vickrum Digwa sentencing as it happened: Angry shouting in court as killer jailed for murder of student  Sky News
  5. Henry Nowak’s father: Police left our son to die then treated his killer with decency  The Telegraph
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‘A shock to all Lebanese’: Israel sends a message as it takes ancient fort

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Conquering of Beaufort Castle for first time in 26 years brings back memories of occupation of south

When Hussain Alawieh used to take tourists to Beaufort Castle, they would marvel at the view. The ancient hilltop fort, captured nearly 1,000 years earlier by Crusaders, still offered the same sweeping panoramic views of south Lebanon and the Litani River that empires fought over for a millennia.

On Sunday, the view from the castle was obscured by white phosphorus smoke, the toxic incendiary munition providing a smoke screen for advancing Israeli soldiers. Out of the fog rose an Israeli flag, and the castle, for the first time in 26 years, was once again conquered.

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Trump’s War Story Blown Up by Jaw-Dropping New Evidence – The Daily Beast

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  1. Trump’s War Story Blown Up by Jaw-Dropping New Evidence  The Daily Beast
  2. Iran attacks damage 20 US military sites since start of war, satellite images show  BBC
  3. Another Battle Damaged KC-135 Tanker Seen Passing Through RAF Mildenhall  The War Zone
  4. Iran’s Strike on U.S. KC-135 Tanker Exposes Hidden Vulnerability in American Airpower as Battle-Damaged Aircraft Emerges from Israel War  Defence Security Asia
  5. “MVP of Iran War”: U.S. Air Force Boss Calls MQ-9 Reaper Drones the Most Valuable Player Despite 24 Losses  EurAsian Times
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Fuel Rationing Hits Moscow as Ukraine Strikes Russian Refineries and Exports Are Curbed – Kyiv Post

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  1. Fuel Rationing Hits Moscow as Ukraine Strikes Russian Refineries and Exports Are Curbed  Kyiv Post
  2. Crimea short of fuel as Ukraine expands attacks on Russian oil facilities  CNN
  3. Annexed Crimea’s Largest Gas Station Chain Suspends Fuel Vouchers as Shortage Worsens  The Moscow Times
  4. Ukrainian drones disrupt land corridor to occupied Crimea, triggering fuel shortage on peninsula  Meduza
  5. Crimea fuel crisis spooks Russians, compounding fears of a new mobilisation (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,558)  EUobserver
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Scientists reveal the origin of the Euphrates — a river that fed the ‘cradle of civilization’ – Live Science

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  1. Scientists reveal the origin of the Euphrates — a river that fed the 'cradle of civilization'  Live Science
  2. Late Miocene Euphrates River drained into a partially desiccated eastern Mediterranean  Nature
  3. Scientists may have just solved the Euphrates River’s mysterious origins  National Geographic
  4. The Origin of the Euphrates Discovered: The Great River of Mesopotamia Was Born 6 Million Years Ago and Flowed Into an Almost Dry Mediterranean  La Brújula Verde
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Scientists reveal the origin of the Euphrates — a river that fed the ‘cradle of civilization’ – Live Science

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  1. Scientists reveal the origin of the Euphrates — a river that fed the 'cradle of civilization'  Live Science
  2. Late Miocene Euphrates River drained into a partially desiccated eastern Mediterranean  Nature
  3. Scientists may have just solved the Euphrates River’s mysterious origins  National Geographic
  4. The Origin of the Euphrates Discovered: The Great River of Mesopotamia Was Born 6 Million Years Ago and Flowed Into an Almost Dry Mediterranean  La Brújula Verde
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Linda Reynolds repays nearly $9,000 after partner billed taxpayers to visit son in Melbourne

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Former Liberal senator initially labelled ruling by parliamentary expenses authority ‘patently ridiculous’, saying visits were necessary

Former Liberal senator Linda Reynolds has paid back nearly $8,800 in parliamentary expenses after her partner claimed family reunion allowances to visit his son in Melbourne while en route to meet her in Canberra.

Reynolds accepted the ruling of the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority (IPEA) but initially disputed their ruling, saying her partner’s visits to his son – her stepson – were necessary after “high profile (and false) 2021 workplace allegations made against me”, seemingly a reference to her long-running court dispute with former staffer Brittany Higgins.

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Yes Australia’s house prices may fall – but the decades of unchecked property price growth were the true policy failure

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Instead of relying on tax-enhanced speculation, investors must now look at established properties based on actual profitability – leaving space for first home buyers

For decades, Australia’s property market has been defined by relentless price rises, reinforcing the old adage that real estate investment is “as safe as houses”.

There’s now a wrinkle in that wisdom.

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Trump admirer’s surprise first-round win is a blow to Colombia’s traditional conservatives

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Success of far-right presidential candidate, Abelardo de la Espriella, suggests some voters are ‘fed up with politics’

The far-right lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella and the leftwing senator Iván Cepeda have just under three weeks to compete for the roughly 3.6m votes that did not go to either of them in the first round of Colombia’s presidential election.

That is no insignificant number, given that De la Espriella’s lead over Cepeda amounted to little more than 670,000 votes – 43.7% to 40.9%.

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Alberta’s Movement to Separate from Canada Gets Its Moment – The New York Times

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  1. Alberta’s Movement to Separate from Canada Gets Its Moment  The New York Times
  2. Opinion: Central Canadian elites are as much to blame for Alberta’s separatist movement as anyone else  The Globe and Mail
  3. Danielle Smith’s dangerous referendum rhetoric threatens Canada’s Constitution and Indigenous treaty rights  The Conversation
  4. Gillian Steward: It is up to Albertans to shut the separatist movement down  Toronto Star
  5. Hundreds brave rain for Forever Canadian lawn sign pop-up event in Calgary  Calgary Herald
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