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Candles, flags and a howl of pain: Taiwan remembers Tiananmen
Anthony Albanese talks with Timor-Leste leadership as he flies to Indonesia for official visit
North Korea fires ballistic missiles a day after US-South Korean naval drills
Chinese fighter jet’s actions near Australian aircraft ‘very dangerous’, deputy PM says
New shadow foreign minister says he wants to work ‘constructively’ with Penny Wong – as it happened
Peter Dutton sidelines Scott Morrison allies in shadow cabinet as Nationals take six spots
Severe weather warnings for NSW and Victoria as blizzards move in to alpine areas, while SA is lashed by rain
Queensland announces more than $24m for koala population and habitat protection
Man seen walking in traffic on Sydney’s M5 freeway dies after police attempt arrest
Chris Bowen says Labor ‘actively managing’ energy crisis as Dutton criticises response
Russia launches air strikes into Kyiv for first time in five weeks
Woman killed as storms cause chaos across France
Russia-Ukraine war latest: explosions shake Kyiv; Ukraine counterattacks have blunted Russian gains, says UK – live
Mercedes-Benz issues global recall of one million older cars
Britain must end its silence on Egyptian hunger striker Alaa Abd El Fattah, family demand
‘Fear is increasing’: Hindus flee Kashmir amid spate of targeted killings
At least 34 killed and scores injured in Bangladesh depot fire
Queen’s platinum jubilee 2022: millions expected at UK street parties ahead of pageant to Buckingham Palace – live
Don’t ‘over-interpret’ Boris Johnson being booed, says Grant Shapps
People should get automatic refunds for cancelled holidays, says Grant Shapps
Seven queens star in Sotheby’s show of power, prestige and pearls
Boris Johnson prays his number hasn’t come up as Tory grassroots anger grows
Toy story: costume designer launches museum dedicated to children’s play
Biden gives far fewer interviews than his predecessors – could his caution backfire?
Bilderberg reconvenes in person after two-year pandemic gap
Suspected shooter who killed retired Wisconsin judge in ‘targeted’ attack identified

Candles, flags and a howl of pain: Taiwan remembers Tiananmen

Posted: 05 Jun 2022 01:00 AM PDT

Taipei takes on the role of commemoration from Hong Kong as the only Chinese-speaking country to hold vigils

On a steamy summer's night several hundred people gathered at the foot of Taipei's grand Chiang Kai-shek memorial for one of dozens of vigils being held around the world to mark the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

A man walked on to the stage, with the eyes of the crowd upon him, and voiced a timid welcome: "Hello everyone." Then he began to scream.

Anthony Albanese talks with Timor-Leste leadership as he flies to Indonesia for official visit

Posted: 04 Jun 2022 11:58 PM PDT

Ahead of Jakarta trip, PM flagged push for deeper ties with neighbours while 'recognising the challenges' of China's involvement in region

Anthony Albanese had what officials characterised as a "warm and positive" conversation with the Timor-Leste prime minister, Taur Matan Ruak, en route to Jakarta on Sunday.

Ruak congratulated Albanese on his recent election victory, and the Australian prime minister pledged closer cooperation on the climate transition and development support for Timor-Leste.

North Korea fires ballistic missiles a day after US-South Korean naval drills

Posted: 04 Jun 2022 10:50 PM PDT

Pyongyang's 18th round of missile tests this year comes after US aircraft carrier leads exercises in the Philippine Sea

North Korea has fired eight short-range ballistic missiles towards the sea off its east coast, a day after South Korea and the US wrapped up military exercises involving an American aircraft carrier.

Possibly setting a single-day record for North Korean ballistic launches, the missiles were fired in succession over 35 minutes on Sunday from at least four different locations, including from western and eastern coastal areas and two inland areas north of and near the capital, Pyongyang, South Korea's joint chiefs of staff said.

Chinese fighter jet’s actions near Australian aircraft ‘very dangerous’, deputy PM says

Posted: 04 Jun 2022 07:27 PM PDT

Defence reports J-16 jet released 'chaff' including aluminium shards in front of Australian flight in South China Sea region

Australia has complained to China over its interception of a maritime surveillance flight in international airspace in the South China Sea region, which the deputy prime minister labelled "very dangerous".

The defence department has revealed the interception of a "routine maritime surveillance activity" in a statement on Sunday, claiming it resulted in a "dangerous manoeuvre" that risked the safety of the Australian aircraft and its crew.

New shadow foreign minister says he wants to work ‘constructively’ with Penny Wong – as it happened

Posted: 05 Jun 2022 01:07 AM PDT

Simon Birmingham says Australian foreign policy should work with 'one voice'; Anthony Albanese says Australia has 'raised concerns' with China after P-8A Poseidon intercepted by Chinese J-16 fighter aircraft; at least 30 Covid deaths recorded. This blog is now closed

NSW records five Covid deaths

The climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen, has just shot back at Coalition criticisms of how Labor is handling the energy crisis.

We're managing them very actively. As I said, the gas supply guarantee has already been activated and it's already had an impact and I'm working very closely with my state and territory energy minister colleagues.

But, you know, advice from the previous government – which Angus Taylor has been happy to give out, and I noticed Peter Dutton has been giving out – is about as effective as advice from the captain of the Titanic on navigation skills.

Peter Dutton sidelines Scott Morrison allies in shadow cabinet as Nationals take six spots

Posted: 05 Jun 2022 12:08 AM PDT

Angus Taylor becomes shadow treasurer, but Alex Hawke gets no position in a shadow cabinet with 10 women

Allies of Scott Morrison have been dumped from the shadow cabinet and senior conservatives promoted in a reshuffle stamping Peter Dutton's mark on the Liberal party.

Dutton and the Nationals leader, David Littleproud, announced the shadow ministry in Brisbane on Sunday, revealing it will include 10 women, with six Nationals in cabinet.

Severe weather warnings for NSW and Victoria as blizzards move in to alpine areas, while SA is lashed by rain

Posted: 04 Jun 2022 09:03 PM PDT

Residents urged to avoid travel as cold front brings frigid temperatures, rain and damaging winds to several states

Blizzard conditions are on their way for large parts of New South Wales and Victoria's alpine areas as a "vigorous" cold front brings cold showers, strong winds and frigid temperatures, while South Australia has been hit by torrential rain.

The Bureau of Meteorology issued severe weather warnings for damaging wind gusts and blizzard conditions for southern NSW and across much of Victoria, with peaks gusts of up to 130km/h likely over Alpine areas.

Queensland announces more than $24m for koala population and habitat protection

Posted: 04 Jun 2022 08:34 PM PDT

Conservation groups welcome Palaszczuk government's funding injection as part of broader threatened species package

The Queensland government will inject more than $24m into protecting koala populations and habitats in the state's south-east as part of a threatened species funding package.

The almost $40m funding announcement coincided with World Environment Day on Sunday. Queensland's environment minister, Meaghan Scanlon, said the state had "good conservation success stories" such as bilbies and green turtles.

Man seen walking in traffic on Sydney’s M5 freeway dies after police attempt arrest

Posted: 04 Jun 2022 08:21 PM PDT

Police said the man lost consciousness after they deployed pepper spray while struggling with the man near the Moorebank Avenue off-ramp

A critical incident investigation is under way after the death of a man arrested after he was found wandering in traffic on a Sydney motorway.

Police were called to the M5 at Moorebank about 3.30am on Sunday in response to reports from motorists the shirtless man was walking in the middle westbound lane of the road.

Chris Bowen says Labor ‘actively managing’ energy crisis as Dutton criticises response

Posted: 04 Jun 2022 07:10 PM PDT

Bowen blames decade of inaction on renewables and limitations on gas trigger for preventing a swifter fix

Chris Bowen has rejected Coalition claims Labor is not doing enough to fix the energy crisis, labelling its input "as effective as advice from the captain of the Titanic on navigation skills".

The climate change and energy minister told Sky News on Sunday the new government was "actively managing" the crisis but a decade of inaction on renewables and limitations on the gas trigger was preventing swifter fixes.

Russia launches air strikes into Kyiv for first time in five weeks

Posted: 05 Jun 2022 04:04 AM PDT

One person injured on Sunday, as Putin warns of more strikes if western weapons deliveries continue

Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates

Russia launched air strikes into Kyiv for the first time in five weeks on Sunday, claiming it had destroyed western-supplied tanks – while the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, warned more targets would be struck if weapons deliveries continued.

Several explosions were heard around the eastern Kyiv suburbs of Darnytskyi and Dniprovskyi early on Sunday morning, wounding one person. The strikes represented a change of tack on the part of the invading forces.

Woman killed as storms cause chaos across France

Posted: 05 Jun 2022 03:51 AM PDT

Many more people injured as thunder and hail lead to flooding, power cuts and flight delays

One woman has been killed and 14 people injured in France as thunder and hailstorms hit the country, ravaging vineyards and delaying flights.

Residents of south-west France posted photos online of hail the size of tennis balls, and drivers in the Paris region shared images of flooded roads and daytime skies blackened by thunder clouds.

Russia-Ukraine war latest: explosions shake Kyiv; Ukraine counterattacks have blunted Russian gains, says UK – live

Posted: 05 Jun 2022 03:37 AM PDT

Powerful blasts felt in Ukraine's capital, says mayor Vitaly Klitschko; foreign minister angry at Macron's comment that Russia must not be 'humiliated'

President Vladimir Putin said Russia would strike new targets if the United States started supplying Ukraine with longer-range missiles, the TASS news agency reported on Sunday.

The TASS news agency reports:

Putin said that if such missiles are supplied, that Russia will strike at those targets which we have not yet been hitting", in an Rossiya-1 state television channel

Putin did not name the targets Russia planned to pursue if western countries began supplying Ukraine with longer-range missiles.

Mercedes-Benz issues global recall of one million older cars

Posted: 04 Jun 2022 03:06 PM PDT

German carmaker says move due to a potential problem with the braking system

Mercedes-Benz has announced it is immediately recalling nearly one million older vehicles worldwide due to a potential problem with the braking system.

Germany's federal transport authority (KBA) said that the recall affected cars built between 2004 and 2015 of the SUV series ML and GL, and the R-Class luxury minivan.

Britain must end its silence on Egyptian hunger striker Alaa Abd El Fattah, family demand

Posted: 05 Jun 2022 02:00 AM PDT

'Time is running out' for blogger and activist who was given UK citizenship last year

Inside Alaa Abd El Fattah's cell in the Wadi al-Natrun prison complex – once nicknamed "the valley of hell" for its location in the middle of the desert – fluorescent lights stay on 24 hours a day, along with CCTV to monitor his every move. Now 65 days into a hunger strike, the blogger and activist has become a symbol of resistance against Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi's regime.

But despite becoming a British citizen last year, he is no closer to being released. His family fear that foreign secretary Liz Truss is failing to do enough to free him. "You would think that the moment he became a British citizen, something would change, not just because of the leverage of another citizenship but also the good relations between Egypt and the UK," said activist Mona Seif, Abd El Fattah's sister, who also acquired British citizenship last year.

‘Fear is increasing’: Hindus flee Kashmir amid spate of targeted killings

Posted: 05 Jun 2022 01:50 AM PDT

Increase in violence prompts protests and biggest exodus of Kashmiri Pandit families for two decades

Hundreds of minority Hindus have fled from Indian-administered Kashmir, and many more are preparing to leave, after a fresh spate of targeted killings stoked tensions in the disputed Himalayan region.

Three Hindus have been killed by militants in Kashmir this week alone, including a teacher and migrant workers, prompting mass protests and the largest exodus of Hindu families from the Muslim-majority region in two decades.

At least 34 killed and scores injured in Bangladesh depot fire

Posted: 04 Jun 2022 11:53 PM PDT

Huge blaze breaks out at container storage facility 40km from country's main sea port, Chittagong, with toll expected to rise further

At least 34 people have died after a fire that sparked a huge chemical explosion and was still blazing on Sunday at a shipping container depot in Bangladesh.

The toll was expected to rise with over 300 people injured, some of them seriously, and eyewitnesses said they had seen unrecovered bodies in the facility near the major southern port of Chittagong.

Queen’s platinum jubilee 2022: millions expected at UK street parties ahead of pageant to Buckingham Palace – live

Posted: 05 Jun 2022 04:19 AM PDT

Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, at the Oval for lunch as more than 10,000 people due to take part in procession

Football, The Archers; the Queen: constants in 70 years of change

Platinum jubilee: the enigma of Elizabeth II

Two bus preservation enthusiasts have described their delight at taking part in the Platinum Jubilee pageant.

Richard Dixon, 63, and Ivan Fisher, 42, co-own one of the buses – the 1950s bus – with their friend John Stewart, which is taking part in the decorated open-top double-decker bus parade for the decade-by-decade celebration.

It took us nine hours to get here from Norwich as she's got a top speed of 32mph.

We came Thursday last week so that they could decorate them and put the wraps on them. It took nine men nine hours for each bus.

Don’t ‘over-interpret’ Boris Johnson being booed, says Grant Shapps

Posted: 05 Jun 2022 04:16 AM PDT

Minister says government shouldn't be distracted by clips such as that of PM arriving at jubilee service

The transport secretary, Grant Shapps, has said "politicians don't expect to be popular all the time" and people are "over-interpreting" the boos directed at Boris Johnson when he attended a service for the Queen's platinum jubilee.

Shapps, one of the prime minister's closest cabinet allies, also argued that the government should focus on running the country rather than be distracted by short clips.

People should get automatic refunds for cancelled holidays, says Grant Shapps

Posted: 05 Jun 2022 03:33 AM PDT

Transport secretary says he wants scheme similar to delay repay, as he rules out sending in army amid half-term travel chaos

Travellers should get automatic reimbursement for cancelled foreign holidays like the delay repay scheme for trains, the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, has said.

Shapps ruled out sending in the armed forces to help process holidaymakers after scenes of travel chaos over the half-term break, saying it was up to airlines and airports themselves to hire and train more staff. He said there should be a campaign "to attract people to the sector and make sure that people are properly paid".

Seven queens star in Sotheby’s show of power, prestige and pearls

Posted: 05 Jun 2022 02:00 AM PDT

Exhibition brings together portraits, many held in private collections, of queens from Tudor times onwards

Seven queens of these islands have been gathered this month in an extraordinary grouping to mark the unrivalled length of Elizabeth II's reign.

Sotheby's auction house has assembled portraits of all the regnant queens from the Tudors onwards, with the exception of Lady Jane Grey, the teenager who claimed the throne for just nine days.

Boris Johnson prays his number hasn’t come up as Tory grassroots anger grows

Posted: 05 Jun 2022 02:00 AM PDT

If 54 Conservative MPs have turned against him, the PM will soon face a survival test. But it may be about more than winning

Much as the British people and their elected representatives may have wanted a break from politics during the platinum jubilee celebrations, the issue of the country's political leadership has cropped up at many a street and garden party.

"I would say that at all the events I have been to – and it is a lot – the vast majority have tried politely to avoid it where they can," said one Tory MP with a southern constituency.

Toy story: costume designer launches museum dedicated to children’s play

Posted: 05 Jun 2022 12:00 AM PDT

Oscar-winner John Bright will put his vast collection of antique puppets, dolls and trains on show at new venue in East Sussex

John Bright is an Oscar-winning film costume designer whose talent for creating period clothing is well known to the likes of Emma Thompson and Judi Dench, or fans of Downton Abbey and Pirates of the Caribbean. But it is his collection of antique toys and puppets that is about to take centre stage.

This week hundreds of highlights from the 82-year-old's vast personal collection – including rare wooden dolls from the 1800s, a Steiff ride-on elephant and a train set last seen on the BBC's adaptation of The Borrowers – will go on display for the first time at a museum and nearby puppet theatre he has founded in East Sussex.

Biden gives far fewer interviews than his predecessors – could his caution backfire?

Posted: 04 Jun 2022 11:00 PM PDT

With op-eds and speeches but no one-on-ones, observers say the president risks losing the public's trust and reporters' good will

He delivered a primetime address to the nation. He wrote two columns in leading newspapers. And he took some off-the-cuff questions from reporters. But once again Joe Biden did not this week sit down for an interview with a broadcaster or newspaper. Nor did he hold a press conference.

The US president, who promised to rebuild trust and transparency after Donald Trump's adversarial tenure, is facing criticism as Sunday marks 116 days since his last press interview.

Bilderberg reconvenes in person after two-year pandemic gap

Posted: 04 Jun 2022 02:52 PM PDT

The Washington conference, a high-level council of war, will be headlined by Jens Stoltenberg, NATO's secretary general

Bilderberg is back with a vengeance. After a pandemic gap of two years, the elite global summit is being rebooted in a security-drenched hotel in Washington DC, with a high-powered guest list that includes the heads of NATO, the CIA, GCHQ, the US national security council, two European prime ministers, a healthy sprinkle of tech billionaires, and Henry Kissinger.

What a difference those two years have made. The western world order, which the Bilderberg group has been quietly nudging into shape for the best part of 70 years, is in all kinds of flux.

Suspected shooter who killed retired Wisconsin judge in ‘targeted’ attack identified

Posted: 04 Jun 2022 02:15 PM PDT

John Roemer, who sat on the Juneau county circuit court bench for 14 years, was found dead in his home by police

A retired Wisconsin judge was gunned down and killed in his home on Friday, and his suspected killer – a former defendant in his courtroom – shot himself in the basement, a government official familiar with the investigation said Saturday.

The official confirmed John Roemer, 68, who sat on the Juneau county circuit court bench for 14 years beginning in 2004, was found shot dead in his home in the community of New Lisbon about 6.30am Friday. His alleged killer, identified Saturday as 56-year-old Douglas Uhde, was then discovered in the basement with a self-inflicted bullet wound, and was brought to a hospital.

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