- Ukraine-Russia war latest: Macron to deliver missile interceptors to Kyiv as Putin pulls ambassador from UK The Independent
- Ukraine war briefing: Macron focuses on delivery of missile interceptors as Russian attacks intensify The Guardian
- France agrees to accelerate air defence deliveries to Ukraine, Zelenskiy says Reuters
- France to give new interceptor missiles to Ukraine, Macron says Euronews
- Macron says France will deliver interceptor missiles to Ukraine after new Russian strikes France 24
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‘Friday afternoon fraud’: warning for UK homebuyers on bank scams
Victims have lost tens of thousands – and in one case £300,000 – due to fake emails from solicitor or estate agent
You are poised to move house and are awaiting the solicitor’s instructions that things are ready to go and it is time to hand over your deposit. When the email arrives giving you their bank details, you set up the transfer and move the cash. And then the solicitor calls to ask where the money is.
Conveyancing fraud involves criminals getting access to an email chain between homebuyers and their solicitors or estate agents and requesting payment to a bank account they control. Sometimes the solicitor has been hacked, but often the homebuyer has been the victim of a phishing exercise.
Continue reading...Kazakhstan parliamentary elections begin: What’s at stake?
The Central Asian country heads to the polls on August 23.
Ex-Colombian president: Restoring Israeli ties applauds Gaza genocide
Ex-Colombian President, Gustavo Petro, says restoring ties with Israel amounts to applauding the Gaza genocide.
Burnham expected to give mayors new powers over local planning decisions
Move would allow mayors to greenlight large-scale developments and have more say on national housing funding
Andy Burnham is expected to give mayors new powers to take control of local planning decisions and greenlight large-scale developments in proposals to be presented next week.
The move would allow mayors to “call in” the decisions and direct councils to take them forward or refuse them.
Continue reading...Marvel actors join campaign calling for release of Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti – The Jerusalem Post
- Marvel actors join campaign calling for release of Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti The Jerusalem Post
- The Avengers Assemble: For a Mass-Murderer VINnews
- Actors Back Campaign to Free Marwan Barghouti اسلام تايمز
- Marvel stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Ruffalo and others call for Marwan Barghouti's release thenationalnews.com
- More than 20 Marvel stars back call to free Marwan Barghouti The New Arab
A moderate earthquake shakes Japan, injuring more than 30 people in the Tokyo region – AP News
- A moderate earthquake shakes Japan, injuring more than 30 people in the Tokyo region AP News
- A moderate, magnitude 5.9 earthquake shakes eastern Japan. No tsunami alert is issued ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
- Strong Kanto quake injures dozens, triggering warnings of similar shaking over next week The Japan Times
- M5.9 quake shakes eastern Japan, injuring more than 20 people Japan Today
- M5.9 quake strikes eastern Japan including Tokyo, disrupting trains Japan Wire by Kyodo News
Swans fans turn up to support women’s team – as it happened
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Victorian Labor expands on free dental care election promise
The Victorian premier, Ben Carroll, and health minister, Ingrid Stitt, have held a press conference this morning off the back of their announcement yesterday that the Labor government would open 10 free public dental clinics if re-elected in November.
You can’t use a Medicare card for dental unless you’ve got a healthcare card or you are a category of a particular citizen, it is very difficult … I’ve been visiting a lot of dentists over the past few weeks. There [are] waiting lists. People are in enormous, unbearable pain.
This will be a cost of living measure but it will also make sure that we deal with the healthcare of some of the most vulnerable Victorians. This is really going to fill the gap that’s been there for decades.
Continue reading...Liberal plan to split Victorian appeals court attacked as ‘thought bubble’ that would politicise judiciary
Opposition leader Jess Wilson says new dedicated court of criminal appeal would set precedents for tougher sentences
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A radical overhaul of Victoria’s highest court, proposed by the Liberal party to increase sentences, has been criticised by legal and human rights groups who warn it would politicise the judiciary.
The opposition leader, Jess Wilson, on Sunday announced that if elected in November the Coalition would split the court of appeal in two, creating a dedicated court of criminal appeal alongside a separate court of civil appeal.
Continue reading...The ‘ordinary’ woman accused of assassinating a Russian commander in Crimea
Friends close to Margarita Reutt are shocked she could allegedly plant bomb that killed Ukrainian defector Robert Shageev, while others recall a stubborn grit to see any plan through
It was just after dawn in Sevastopol when a powerful explosion tore through a quiet square in a residential district of the Russian-occupied Crimean port city.
Hidden inside a rubbish bin, a bomb containing the equivalent of about 500g of TNT detonated on 13 August as Robert Shageev, the deputy commander of a Russian Black Sea fleet submarine brigade, walked past in naval uniform. He was killed on the spot.
Continue reading...‘You just can’t trust Trump’: Canadian premiers fire back in trade war
Provincial premiers have joined Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney, firing back after US President imposed tariffs.
Iran’s new security chief says neighbours who join US economic war will be considered ‘enemies’
Hardliner Mohsen Rezaei also threatens American economic interests in first interview since appointment to supreme national security council
The new leader of Iran’s top security body has warned its neighbours against joining new US efforts to squeeze Tehran’s economy, and threatened US commercial interests in the region, as Donald Trump doubled down on his fanciful view that the strait of Hormuz was a new US territory.
Mohsen Rezaei, the hardline new leader of Iran’s supreme national security council, told state television that Iran would target oil-shipping routes out the Gulf – alternatives to the strait of Hormuz – if its neighbours joined what he called the “economic war” waged by the US. Those neighbours would be “considered an enemy” and “we will target their interests”, he said.
Continue reading...In rural Chad, solar kiosks bring healthcare closer
Solar-powered telemedicine is helping rural Chadians overcome distance and limited access to doctors.
Chinese robot beats Usain Bolt’s 100m world record at humanoid games
A Chinese humanoid robot ran 100m in 9.39 seconds, beating Usain Bolt’s 9.58 second world record.
Hanson forced to intervene after One Nation MP says party’s migration target ‘not too different’ from Labor’s
David Farley says party wants 100,000 migrant rural workers in addition to the 130,000 migration target it considers the ‘true’ number
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The One Nation MP David Farley says the minor party’s net migration target is “not too different” to Labor’s, forcing his leader to issue an urgent clarification amid rising confusion over the policy.
It is the second time Pauline Hanson has had to issue a correction after the member for Farrer seemed to contradict One Nation’s restrictive approach to immigration.
Continue reading...Mayors to get powers to overrule local councils on planning decisions – BBC
- Mayors to get powers to overrule local councils on planning decisions BBC
- Burnham expected to give mayors new powers over local planning decisions The Guardian
- Andy Burnham gives mayors power to overrule nimby protests The Times
- Burnham hands mayors powers to block Nimby protests The Telegraph
- New powers for Mayors karenyoung.uk
Canada to hit US with retaliatory tariffs as trade war escalates
Mark Carney says Canada will impose tariffs starting September 8 on imports of US steel, electronics and other products.
Sydney Marathon admits ‘unfortunate error’ as finisher’s medal depicts Munich stadium as race highlight
‘Landmarks’ side of the medal features the Allianz Arena in German city rather than Allianz Stadium in Sydney
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In a week’s time, the proud runners finishing the Sydney Marathon will receive a medal showing the landmarks they have just sped past – plus one they definitely didn’t.
In what organisers have admitted was an “unfortunate error”, a stadium in Munich, Germany, was erroneously etched on to the event’s participation medal instead of a local Sydney landmark.
Continue reading...Iranian women defy efforts by hardliners to enforce wearing of hijab – CNN
- Iranian women defy efforts by hardliners to enforce wearing of hijab CNN
- Iran state TV analyst suggests mining waters off Florida Iran International
- Morality police fight back in Iran’s war over women’s bodies The Times
- Iranian MPs Warn Pezeshkian Over Hijab Rules GünAz TV
- Iranian Authorities Target Businesses as Women Continue Defying Hijab Rules Межа. Новини України.