- King becomes first monarch to reveal tax bill as royal public funding to double to £100m BBC
- King Charles III Has Paid More Than $39.6 Million in Taxes, Palace Discloses in a U.K. First The New York Times
- Taxpayer funding for royals will rise to £138mn amid Buckingham Palace works Financial Times
- Royal tax disclosures raise more questions than they answer The Times
- King Charles reveals his personal tax bill. Spoiler alert: He’s very rich. The Washington Post
Russia reports one of the biggest Ukrainian drone attacks on its soil and annexed Crimea – AP News
- Russia reports one of the biggest Ukrainian drone attacks on its soil and annexed Crimea AP News
- Ukraine unleashes one of its heaviest drone bombardments of Russia NBC News
- Zelenskyy says Russia is shifting air defenses to protect Moscow and other key sites after drone strikes PBS
- Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 18, 2026 Institute for the Study of War
- Russia-Ukraine: Drones Target Russian City With Three Rosneft Oil Refineries Bloomberg.com
Oil prices ease after spiking over halt to Strait of Hormuz evacuation plan – Al Jazeera
- Oil prices ease after spiking over halt to Strait of Hormuz evacuation plan Al Jazeera
- Iran strikes vessel, pausing UN efforts to evacuate ships from Hormuz CNN
- Iran behind attack on cargo vessel near Oman in Strait of Hormuz, U.S. official tells MS NOW CNBC
- UN agency pauses evacuation of ships through the Strait of Hormuz after attack on vessel NPR
- Iran Strikes Vessel in Strait of Hormuz, Pausing Escort Operations Time Magazine
King Charles won’t live in Buckingham Palace, reveals taxes – dw.com
- King Charles won't live in Buckingham Palace, reveals taxes dw.com
- King Charles will not live in Buckingham Palace after costly refit, reveals $17 million tax bill CNN
- King and Queen will not live in Buckingham Palace after renovations BBC
- King Charles will not live in Buckingham Palace after $487 million renovation CBS News
- King and queen will not live at Buckingham Palace after £369m refit The Guardian
Europe’s heatwave ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change, scientists say – Reuters
- Europe's heatwave 'virtually impossible' without climate change, scientists say Reuters
- Europe’s record-shattering heat wave would have been ‘virtually impossible’ just a few decades ago. Here’s why CNN
- Heat Wave Prompts Paris to Suspend Sports Events and Public Alcohol Consumption The New York Times
- France just hit its hottest day ever recorded Scientific American
- Europe swelters under record June heat Axios
Power outages, fuel bans and no summer camps: Ukraine steps up pressure on Russia by targeting Crimea – CNN
- Power outages, fuel bans and no summer camps: Ukraine steps up pressure on Russia by targeting Crimea CNN
- Ukraine’s Attacks on Crimea Expose Limits of Putin’s Protection Bloomberg.com
- Russia’s Crimean conquest is turning into a deadly mess The Economist
- Russia-Ukraine war: Crimea's Sevastopol without power after Ukraine strikes BBC
- Putin’s reign may not survive the impending fall of Crimea The Hill
Ukraine’s Growing Drone Armada Is Overwhelming Russia’s Air Defenses – WSJ
- Ukraine’s Growing Drone Armada Is Overwhelming Russia’s Air Defenses WSJ
- What U.S. Special Operations Veterans Are Learning From Ukraine's War Forbes
- Ukrainian commander says the way NATO's trying to develop naval drones makes him uneasy Business Insider
- Kyiv using AI-powered Hornet drones to strike deep into Russian territory France 24
- The Rise of Autonomous Drone Warfare EE Times
Australia pledges tougher enforcement of social media ban for teens – Reuters
- Australia pledges tougher enforcement of social media ban for teens Reuters
- Eighty per cent of Australian children escape social media ban telegraph.co.uk
- Federal politics: PM flags strengthening powers of eSafety Commissioner for social media ban — as it happened Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Australia plans to strengthen laws banning children from social media News4JAX
- Four in five under-16s in Australia using social media despite ban, study shows The Guardian
Hundreds in Spain may have died from record heat, agency warns – The Washington Post
- Hundreds in Spain may have died from record heat, agency warns The Washington Post
- Heat records shattered as Spain sets double June high Euronews.com
- Spain Warns of a Possible Spike in Heat-Related Deaths The New York Times
- Spain Records 212 Deaths Due To Heatwave In 4 Days: Report NDTV
- Spain estimates 212 heat-related deaths in 4 days The Watchers - Watching the world evolve and transform
Rubio’s new job? Selling Trump’s Iran deal to a worried Gulf. – The Washington Post
- Rubio’s new job? Selling Trump’s Iran deal to a worried Gulf. The Washington Post
- Rubio wraps up Gulf tour as allies share concerns over Iran peace accord Reuters
- Rubio in Bahrain as US-Iran diplomacy ramps up Yahoo
- Rubio Wraps Up Gulf Tour With Message To Reassure Regional Allies Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- Marco Rubio visits Gulf to pitch Iran deal amid tensions The Jerusalem Post
Australian musicians sound warning note after Nick Cave, Kylie and many more slurped into AI training tool
‘It’s all just rendered useless’, Something For Kate’s Paul Dempsey says as AI scrapes millions of songs to learn how to make music
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Paul Dempsey and Bernard Fanning are among big-name Australian musicians upset that their original songs have been found in datasets used to train artificial intelligence.
A dataset search tool recently created by US publication The Atlantic reveals millions of creative works have been scraped from the internet to train the disruptive technology.
Continue reading...Once again, cardinals uncertain ahead of consistory – The Pillar
- Once again, cardinals uncertain ahead of consistory The Pillar
- Opinion | It’s Time to Put This Catholic Teaching to Rest The New York Times
- Pope moves to clarify when wars are justified. Trump probably won’t like the answer. politico.eu
- Pope Leo XIV says war ‘never blessed by God’ as he opens meeting of world’s cardinals AP News
- Pope Leo opens Consistory, asks Cardinals for frankness, loyalty Vatican News
UN pauses Strait of Hormuz evacuation plan after cargo ship attacked
The ship was reportedly struck by an "unknown projectile" near Oman but no casualties were reported.
‘No offence detected’: Victoria police close investigation into Moira Deeming allegation of assault by Matthew Guy
Guy accuses Deeming of making ‘ridiculous and unsubstantiated’ claims as state Liberal party grapples with fallout
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Police have concluded their investigation into Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming’s allegation that her colleague Matthew Guy assaulted her, making the finding “no offence detected”.
Deeming had reported to police on 16 June that Guy, the opposition’s public transport spokesperson, had assaulted her at a Macedonian community event in Sunshine on 23 May.
Continue reading...Paris restricts alcohol consumption and sales as Europe’s heatwave shifts east
Temperatures in Germany could hit 40C in some areas while French officials bring in alcohol restrictions to ease pressure on hospitals.
Who is Tommy Robinson? The Karl Stefanovic guest who has cost Australia’s famed TV host his job
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is an anti-Islamic, far-right political activist well known in the UK and Europe
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The man who calls himself Tommy Robinson has roared into prominence in Australia after the morning TV mainstay Karl Stefanovic posted an interview with Robinson for his podcast.
The fallout was swift. Nine Entertainment, Australia’s largest locally owned media empire, has severed ties with Stefanovic, and he will not appear on a radio show with Eddie McGuire on Friday.
Continue reading...UN: Venezuela earthquakes will deepen already severe humanitarian crisis
The UN says it is scaling up its response after twin earthquakes devastated Venezuela.
Why the trail went cold in Nancy Guthrie case
The lack of a breakthrough in the abduction of a famous TV anchor's mother is puzzling given the huge publicity.
The abundant but expensive energy source that’s under your feet
Start-ups are taking fresh approaches to geothermal energy, but will the economics work?
India defeat Bangladesh to maintain Women’s T20 World Cup semifinal bid
Shafali Verma's half-century helps the 50-over world champions reach the target inside 17 overs at Old Trafford.