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Kyiv Independent editor: ‘Our readers want Russia to suffer but we can’t be propagandists’
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Australia news live: Anika Wells named in Time’s ‘influential rising stars’; NSW seeks to join Queensland in ‘from the river to the sea’ ban case
Follow the day’s news live. Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Queensland’s state government has missed a deadline to sign up to the federal government’s Thriving Kids program before its rollout begins today. Under the program, state governments will provide supports to children up to 8 years old with mild to moderate autism or developmental delays. They will be made ineligible for federal aid through the NDIS in 2028. This scheme is helping Australians, particularly young Australians, get their foot in the door and achieve the dream of home ownership. When it comes to housing challenges, we’re tackling it from every angle – making it easier for first home buyers, boosting supply and helping renters get a better deal. Continue reading...
BBC News
US death row inmate Christa Pike taken to hospital after surviving two lethal injections, says lawyer
Her lawyer says Pike is being "provided life-saving measures" after two syringes of pentobarbital.
The Guardian
Daredevil Jaan Roose completes slackline walk high above central Seoul
Estonian completed first of two attempts to navigate narrow ribbon, 160 metres long and 120 metres high, near the city’s famous Gyeongbokgung palace on Thursday Estonian aerial athlete Jaan Roose has completed his first crossing of a 160-metre long highline suspended 120 metres above central Seoul on Thursday. Roose , a three-time slackline world champion, will step out on to a narrow polyester ribbon between the Koreana hotel and the Dong-A Media Center, near the capital city’s famous Gyeongbokgung palace and Gwanghwamun square. Continue reading...
Al Jazeera
Pakistan says 22 fighters killed in air attacks on Afghanistan hideouts
Kabul says the strikes on Kunar and Helmand provinces killed nine women and children.
Al Jazeera
South Korea’s exports hit record high on AI boom
Exports jump 83.5 percent to top $120bn for the first time amid ferocious semiconductor demand.
The Guardian
‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years
Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution Switzerland has lost almost one-fifth of its ice in just five years, research has found, in a dramatic reshaping of the Alpine country whose big white glaciers have been reduced to moonlike rock deserts, scientists say. Swiss glaciers shrank by 5.5% in the first eight months of 2026, according to an annual monitoring report, after a summer of scorching heatwaves that followed a winter with little snow. The reduction in ice volume falls just shy of the record set in 2022 and brings the total loss of glacier ice since 2021 to 19.4%. Continue reading...