South Africa urges cooperation at G20 meeting amid tensions over Ukraine
President Cyril Ramaphosa tells grouping international law is key to solving world crises.
Malcolm X assassinated 60 years ago redux
The Nation of Islam minister was a polarising figure who advocated for Black separatism, self-defence and cultural pride
Spain’s ex-football boss Luis Rubiales fined for World Cup kiss
Luis Rubiales has been found guilty of kissing player Jenni Hermoso without her consent and fined €10,800.
Watch: Tourists warned to stay away from Mount Etna lava
Italian authorities say people have been injured after venturing too close to the red-hot lava.
BBC faces questions over Gaza film’s Hamas link
The documentary Gaza: How To Survive A War Zone was narrated by the son of a Hamas official.
Passengers on crashed Toronto plane offered US$30,000 each
The gesture to the affected travellers - all of whom survived - comes with no strings attached, the airline says.
Marco Rubio: A traditionalist hawk in the age of Trump
The 'might makes right' worldview and ambitions that drive the top US diplomat spearheading Trump's foreign policy.
Reality of war clashes with Trump’s demand for Ukraine vote, analysts say
As Trump joins Russia in tying national elections to any peace deal, analysts question Moscow's true motives.
Spain’s ex-football chief Luis Rubiales found guilty of sexual assault
Rubialies found guilty of sexually assaulting footballer Jenni Hermoso by forcibly kissing her and ordered to pay fine.
Anglo American writes down value of diamond firm De Beers by $2.9bn
Sale of the miner, which is now valued at $4bn, may be delayed following ‘really, really difficult’ market
The world’s biggest diamond miner, De Beers, cost its parent company almost $3bn last year as the growth in lab-grown stones continues to take the shine off the industry.
Anglo American was forced to write down the value of the renowned gem producer for a second consecutive year as its chief executive admitted the diamond markets had proved “really, really difficult for the company”.
Continue reading...Why the billionaire class is kissing Trump’s proverbial ring
The billionaire set and the massive corporations they represent are not showing deference to the president.
Hamas releases bodies of four Israeli captives including Bibas family
Hamas has released the bodies of four Israeli captives who’d been held in Gaza, including the Bibas family.
Children routinely using social media, Australian regulator says
It found they were easily able to bypass age checks on apps, which face being banned for under-16s.
Arab leaders set to meet to counter Trump’s Gaza plan
The closed-door summit in Riyadh will take place tomorrow, Saudi Arabia has said.
Australian public school voluntary fees surge almost 40% in two years
Greens vow to abolish public school fees and accuse major parties of shifting costs on to families struggling with cost of living
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The average amount paid in voluntary fees and contributions by parents with children at public schools has surged by almost 40% in two years, new data shows.
While government schools in Australia are free, they can request parents pay voluntary contributions or donate funding towards the curriculum or extracurricular activities.
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Continue reading...‘Misleading’: Gina Rinehart’s mining firm breached environmental code with ‘clean gas’ job ad, panel rules
Ad Standards Community Panel upholds complaint over Hancock Prospecting’s promotion in the Weekend Australian
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The advertising regulator has found that Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting misled consumers with an unsubstantiated claim that gas was clean, in an online advertisement in The Australian last year.
Ads for Hancock Prospecting’s recruitment webpage futureaustralianjobs.com ran in the digital edition of the Weekend Australian in October 2024.
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Continue reading...Return of bodies marks day of anguish for Israel
Many held out hope that the Bibas family might have still been alive.
Palestinians say the occupied West Bank & Gaza hard to tell apart
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank say the Israel is using the same tactics it used in Gaza to forcibly expel them.
French foreign minister makes rules-based order plea to global south over Ukraine
Jean-Noël Barrot tells G20 to prioritise those who support the law rather than power by force
European powers have made a plea at the G20 in South Africa to countries in the global south that they show unambivalent support for the international rules-based order, including the sovereignty of Ukraine.
Writing in the Guardian, the French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, said the real line of geopolitical division was not between north and south but between those who supported the international rules-based order and those who did not.
Continue reading...‘Sweating like a mafioso’: calls in Italy to bar Estonia’s ‘offensive’ Eurovision entry
Consumer group complains about song’s stereotypes of Italians – but other Italians say the lyrics are ‘no stresso’
The Eurovision song contest is several months away but the drama has already begun, with calls from Italy for Estonia’s catchy pick for the competition to be scrapped due to lyrics poking fun at Italian stereotypes of being coffee-drinking, spaghetti-eating mafiosi.
Espresso Macchiato, by the rapper Tommy Cash, is sung in a blend of broken English and Italian and depicts a life of sweet indulgence. “Ciao bella, I’m Tomaso, addicted to tobacco. Mi like mi coffè very importante,” the first verse begins.
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