Fears grow for 26-year-old German backpacker missing in rural Western Australia
Friends last heard from Carolina Wilga on 29 June in the Beacon area of WA’s Wheatbelt regionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFears are mounting for the safety of a German backpacker who has been missing for more than a week in rural Western Australia.Friends last heard from Carolina Wilga on Sunday 29 June while she was known to be in the Beacon area in the north-east of WA’s Wheatbelt region.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...
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Wildfires Scar Syria Anew
The country is experiencing its worst drought in decades, which has set the conditions for the blazes to scorch an area the size of Washington, D.C.
Children among 20 people reported killed overnight by Israeli strikes on Gaza – Middle East crisis live
Latest deaths come as humanitarian workers and doctors in Gaza say they have been overwhelmed by almost daily ‘mass casualty incidents’At least six aid seekers have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, Al Jazeera reports. A medical source told journalists at Al Jazeera Arabic that Israeli forces have shot six Palestinians dead and injured several more as they waited for aid north of Gaza’s southern city of Rafah.This comes as medical officials, humanitarian workers and doctors in Gaza say they have been overwhelmed by almost daily “mass casualty incidents” as they struggle to deal with those wounded by Israeli fire on Palestinians seeking aid. Continue reading...
Far-right conspiracy theories spread online in aftermath of the Texas floods
Some social media users falsely claimed that the extreme weather was being controlled by the US governmentDisasters and tragedies have long been the source of American conspiracies, old and new. So when devastating flash floods hit Texas over the Fourth of July weekend, and as the death toll continues to rise, far-right conspiracists online saw their opportunity to come out in full force, blurring the lines of what’s true and untrue.Some people, emerging from the same vectors associated with the longstanding QAnon conspiracy theory, which essentially holds that a shadowy “deep state” is acting against president Donald Trump, spread on X that the devastating weather was being controlled by the government. Continue reading...
Sauce Boss the rodeo bull becomes latest US animal escape artist
Bull also known as Twinkle Toes eluded capture for days in Colorado after reportedly escaping through a fence gapAnimals that have proven themselves to be escape artists as of late in the US have included a terrier and nearly four dozen monkeys. And now a rodeo bull reportedly referred to by the names of Sauce Boss and Twinkle Toes can join their ranks after breaking free from his handlers and spending four days at large.The bull in question was being unloaded in preparation for the Snowmass Village, Colorado, rodeo on 2 July when he somehow got away, local police chief Brian Olson told the state’s Aspen Times. Olson suspected the creature found and forced his way through a gap in the fencing that was being used during the unloading. Continue reading...
Russia launches major attack on Ukraine after Trump’s criticism of Putin – Europe live
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia attempted to strike 741 targets with 728 drones and 13 missilesMeanwhile, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has just arrived in Rome, AFP reported, where he is expected to meet with Pope Leo XIV, the Italian president, Sergio Mattarella, and US president Donald Trump’s envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg.Zelenskyy is in Rome to take part in the Ukraine Recovery Conference 2025 starting tomorrow. Continue reading...
After Decades of Hostility, Israeli-Syrian Relations Begin to Thaw
The longtime enemies have opened contacts, reflecting a power shift across a Middle East in which they have newfound common ground: antipathy for Iran.
Minister rejects claims UK not doing enough to deter small boat crossings ahead of Starmer-Macron talks – UK politics live
UK prime minister to face Kemi Badenoch in the Commons before talks with french presidentThe Conservatives have said that preventing access to jury trials for offenders charged with certain offences would be “a big, backward step”.Responding to the Leveson report (see 10.35am), Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, told Times Radio:[Leveson] can see no limit to the type of case that can be taken out of jury trials. So this is a slippery slope. If you begin to take away jury trials for these cases, the relatively limited number of cases that he’s proposing, where will it end? It could just keep rising and rising and rising. And you see a serious diminution over the years in jury trials. And I think that’s a big, backward step because we should trust the public. We should trust our system that has served us well for generations. Continue reading...
Who better than Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize?
A war criminal nominating his enabler is peak Nobel Peace Prize history.
Philadelphia Public Workers Reach Deal to End Strike
The city’s largest public sector union and the mayor reached a tentative deal, ending a work stoppage that led to piles of trash on the streets.