Gulf states weigh living side by side with Iran as Tehran weaponises Hormuz – Euronews

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  1. Gulf states weigh living side by side with Iran as Tehran weaponises Hormuz  Euronews
  2. Iran war updates: Rubio calls Gulf discussions frank; Iran talks next week  Al Jazeera
  3. Rubio in Bahrain as US-Iran diplomacy ramps up  Yahoo
  4. Rubio’s new job? Selling Trump’s Iran deal to a worried Gulf.  The Washington Post
  5. Gulf FMs say Iran proxies, missiles must be addressed for ‘lasting’ peace  The Times of Israel
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Europe’s heatwave ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change, scientists say – Reuters

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  1. Europe's heatwave 'virtually impossible' without climate change, scientists say  Reuters
  2. Europe’s record-shattering heat wave would have been ‘virtually impossible’ just a few decades ago. Here’s why  CNN
  3. Heat Wave Prompts Paris to Suspend Sports Events and Public Alcohol Consumption  The New York Times
  4. France just hit its hottest day ever recorded  Scientific American
  5. Europe swelters under record June heat  Axios
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Power outages, fuel bans and no summer camps: Ukraine steps up pressure on Russia by targeting Crimea – CNN

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  1. Power outages, fuel bans and no summer camps: Ukraine steps up pressure on Russia by targeting Crimea  CNN
  2. Ukraine’s Attacks on Crimea Expose Limits of Putin’s Protection  Bloomberg.com
  3. Russia’s Crimean conquest is turning into a deadly mess  The Economist
  4. Russia-Ukraine war: Crimea's Sevastopol without power after Ukraine strikes  BBC
  5. Putin’s reign may not survive the impending fall of Crimea  The Hill
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Ukraine’s Growing Drone Armada Is Overwhelming Russia’s Air Defenses – WSJ

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  1. Ukraine’s Growing Drone Armada Is Overwhelming Russia’s Air Defenses  WSJ
  2. What U.S. Special Operations Veterans Are Learning From Ukraine's War  Forbes
  3. Ukrainian commander says the way NATO's trying to develop naval drones makes him uneasy  Business Insider
  4. Kyiv using AI-powered Hornet drones to strike deep into Russian territory  France 24
  5. The Rise of Autonomous Drone Warfare  EE Times
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Australia pledges tougher enforcement of social media ban for teens – Reuters

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  1. Australia pledges tougher enforcement of social media ban for teens  Reuters
  2. Eighty per cent of Australian children escape social media ban  telegraph.co.uk
  3. Federal politics: PM flags strengthening powers of eSafety Commissioner for social media ban — as it happened  Australian Broadcasting Corporation
  4. Australia plans to strengthen laws banning children from social media  News4JAX
  5. Four in five under-16s in Australia using social media despite ban, study shows  The Guardian
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Hundreds in Spain may have died from record heat, agency warns – The Washington Post

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  1. Hundreds in Spain may have died from record heat, agency warns  The Washington Post
  2. Heat records shattered as Spain sets double June high  Euronews.com
  3. Spain Warns of a Possible Spike in Heat-Related Deaths  The New York Times
  4. Spain Records 212 Deaths Due To Heatwave In 4 Days: Report  NDTV
  5. Spain estimates 212 heat-related deaths in 4 days  The Watchers - Watching the world evolve and transform
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Rubio’s new job? Selling Trump’s Iran deal to a worried Gulf. – The Washington Post

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  1. Rubio’s new job? Selling Trump’s Iran deal to a worried Gulf.  The Washington Post
  2. Rubio wraps up Gulf tour as allies share concerns over Iran peace accord  Reuters
  3. Rubio in Bahrain as US-Iran diplomacy ramps up  Yahoo
  4. Rubio Wraps Up Gulf Tour With Message To Reassure Regional Allies  Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
  5. Marco Rubio visits Gulf to pitch Iran deal amid tensions  The Jerusalem Post
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Australian musicians sound warning note after Nick Cave, Kylie and many more slurped into AI training tool

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‘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

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.

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Once again, cardinals uncertain ahead of consistory – The Pillar

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  1. Once again, cardinals uncertain ahead of consistory  The Pillar
  2. Opinion | It’s Time to Put This Catholic Teaching to Rest  The New York Times
  3. Pope moves to clarify when wars are justified. Trump probably won’t like the answer.  politico.eu
  4. Pope Leo XIV says war ‘never blessed by God’ as he opens meeting of world’s cardinals  AP News
  5. Pope Leo opens Consistory, asks Cardinals for frankness, loyalty  Vatican News
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‘No offence detected’: Victoria police close investigation into Moira Deeming allegation of assault by Matthew Guy

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Guy accuses Deeming of making ‘ridiculous and unsubstantiated’ claims as state Liberal party grapples with fallout

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.

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Japan braces for double storms, torrential rains shut down parts of Taiwan – Reuters

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  1. Japan braces for double storms, torrential rains shut down parts of Taiwan  Reuters
  2. Japan weather agency warns typhoon to make landfall over weekend  Japan Wire by Kyodo News
  3. Double-storm risk returns as Typhoon No. 8 strengthens  朝日新聞
  4. Two tropical storms bring heavy rains to parts of Japan  The Japan Times
  5. Heavy rain pounds western Japan as 2 tropical storms approach  WRAL
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