Labor dropped their long-awaited gambling report on budget day. Were they betting no one would notice? pred 12 urami in 37 minutami The government’s response to the Murphy report is hardly dynamite. Harm advocates, gambling operators and advertisers are all waiting to see whether Labor’s rhetoric will be matched by action The Labor government decided to release its contentious, much-delayed response to Peta Murphy’s report on gambling on one of the biggest political news days of the year.They dropped it while the nation’s federal political journalists were trapped in budget lockup. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Chaos in Philippines as Duterte ally wanted by ICC takes refuge in senate to avoid arrest pred 12 urami in 38 minutami Former police chief Ronald dela Rosa spends night at senate office after another Duterte ally offers protective custodyThe unusual pursuit was captured on CCTV cameras inside the Philippine senate. Ronald dela Rosa, a longtime ally of the former president Rodrigo Duterte, raced along the hallways of the upper house complex, stumbling on the staircase, as he fled government agents.“They want to forcibly bring me to The Hague, to surrender me there,” Dela Rosa said later on a Facebook livestream, pleading for public support. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Internal displacements caused by violence or conflict at record high in 2025 pred 12 urami in 57 minutami The 32.3m surpasses those caused by disasters for the first time, as 82.2m people displaced in total around worldThe number of internal displacements triggered by conflict or violence around the world reached a record high in 2025, surpassing the number of disaster-driven internal displacements for the first time.A report published by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) shows that by the end of 2025 there were 32.3m conflict-driven internal displacements. That is 60% higher than those recorded the previous year, and – for the first time since data collection began in 2008 – above displacements driven by natural disasters, which reached 29.9m in 2025. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Man charged over 'arson attack' on former synagogue in London as part of counter terror probe
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