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UK election
Sinking Sunak steers Tories towards iceberg as MPs jump overboard
Nearly 80 Conservative MPs will not seek re-election on July 4, that’s nearly a quarter of all Tories serving under the British prime minister now.
- by Rob Harris
World Court orders Israel to halt assault on Gaza’s Rafah
- by Stephanie van den Berg and Anthony Deutsch
Opinion & Perspectives
Sinking Sunak steers Tories towards iceberg as MPs jump overboard
Nearly 80 Conservative MPs will not seek re-election on July 4, that’s nearly a quarter of all Tories serving under the British prime minister now.
Rob Harris
Europe correspondent
Britain’s best hope is a PM with the charisma of frozen peas
A boring prime minister in Keir Starmer may be the best Britain can hope for if it’s to end the omnishambles era.
Nick Bryant
Journalist and author
Besides rain and bad polls, Sunak also must contend with ghosts
Two key figures, adored and detested by their respective tribes in equal measure, will make life harder for Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer.
Rob Harris
Europe correspondent
North America
US curbs Australian poultry imports on bird flu concerns
Australia earlier this week reported its first human case of avian influenza in a child in Victoria whom authorities said had been infected in India.
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Europe
Analysis
UK election
Diminished and drenched, Rishi Sunak seems impatient for his own demise
- by Rob Harris
Asia
Adelaide woman injured during horror flight has no feeling below the waist
Almost half the 211 passengers on Singapore Airlines flight 321 were injured in what has become one of the most serious turbulence events in modern aviation history.Â
- by Zach Hope
Updated
Aviation
Australian injured in Singapore Airlines flight speaks from hospital
Keith Davis spoke a day after staff surrounded him in a hospital cafe when it became apparent he was about to talk to the media.
- by Zach Hope and Jessica McSweeney
Updated
South China Sea
Chinese military surrounds Taiwan as ‘strong punishment’
- by Lisa Visentin and Daniel Ceng
‘All of a sudden I was on the roof of the cabin’: Australians recount Singapore Airlines terror
- by Alex Crowe, Jessica McSweeney and Angus Dalton
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Tragedy
‘The land continues sliding’ in PNG as 300 reported dead
The PNG Post Courier reported the increased death toll and said 1182 houses were destroyed, citing an MP. At least six villages were affected, DFAT said.
- by Sam McKeith and Rod McGuirk
World Court orders Israel to halt assault on Gaza’s Rafah
- by Stephanie van den Berg and Anthony Deutsch
Updated
Tragedy
Hundreds believed killed by landslide in Enga Province, PNG
- by Lewis Jackson and Renju Jose
Opinion
Protests
Macron’s supreme arrogance to blame for riots in New Caledonia
- by Anne-Elisabeth Moutet
Opinion
International affairs
I won’t mourn the sudden death of the man who oversaw my sham trial
- by Kylie Moore-Gilbert