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Australia news live: top 100 CEOs bank 16% pay rise; Husic warns Labor over Gaza policy

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-14T20:53:28+00:00

Chief executives of Australia’s 100 biggest companies earned a median $4.8m in the 2025 financial year. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLuca has more on ACSI’s CEO pay report, which reveals that Life360’s founder Chris Hulls was the top-paid chief executive of an Australian-listed company in 2025’s financial year.Hull earned $47.7m in realised pay, which was about 437 times more than the average Australian full-time adult worker. Continue reading...

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US-Russian crew launches on mission to space station

Source: Al Jazeera - World · Published: 2026-07-14T20:36:57+00:00

A US-Russian crew blasted off onboard a Soyuz spacecraft for an eight-month mission to the International Space Station.

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What is Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain?

Source: Al Jazeera - World · Published: 2026-07-14T20:27:40+00:00

Donald Trump has threatened to strike Pickaxe Mountain, an underground nuclear-related complex.

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US carries out more strikes on Iran and resumes blockade of nation’s ports – Middle East crisis live

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-14T20:20:41+00:00

Donald Trump claims shipping route is open for all except Iranian ships as US issues new Iran-related sanctions TuesdayUS launches third night of strikes on Iran as Trump announces Hormuz blockadeResurgent oil and fuel prices could cement a fourth interest rate rise in Australia this year if Donald Trump’s renewed conflict with Iran is not resolved within a week, economists warn.US missile strikes on Iran and Trump’s announcement of a new maritime blockade has lifted oil prices to their highest point in the month since the two countries agreed to a peace deal. Continue reading...

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Зачепить покупців російської нафти та газу: в WSJ розповіли про законопроєкт Грема

Source: UNIAN (General) · Published: 2026-07-14T20:18:00+00:00

Сенатор-демократ від штату Коннектикут Річард Блюменталь поділився, що законопроєкт буде спрямований проти п’яти найбільших імпортерів російських енергоносіїв.

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Global cooperation needed to tackle AI threats, says Bank of England governor

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-14T20:10:34+00:00

Andrew Bailey warns that US will not be able to achieve its ambitions aloneThe Bank of England governor has called for international cooperation to tackle growing AI threats, warning that the US and Trump administration would not be able to achieve their ambitions alone.Andrew Bailey’s comments come weeks after the US president, Donald Trump, temporarily banned foreigners from using Anthropic’s powerful Claude Mythos model. Continue reading...

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Attaques dans le détroit d’Ormuz : la tension s’étend au Yémen

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-07-14T20:08:35+00:00

Ces derniers jours, des échanges de tirs entre les houthistes, soutenus par l’Iran, et l’Arabie saoudite, alliée du gouvernement yéménite reconnu internationalement, font craindre une reprise de ce conflit supposé gelé depuis 2022.

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Senate Democrats block advancement of defense bill to protest Trump’s hostilities with Iran

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-14T20:06:27+00:00

Chuck Schumer says Republicans are ‘ignoring the nation’s most urgent national security crisis’ amid US exchange of fire with IranUS politics live – latest updatesSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailSenate Democrats on Tuesday blocked the advancement of a must-pass defense bill in protest of Donald Trump’s resumption of hostilities with Iran.The hold up of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) comes amid the fiercest exchange in fire between the countries in weeks, which has amplified frustration among Democrats that the US remains involved in the conflict despite the pass

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EN DIRECT, guerre au Moyen-Orient : les Etats-Unis ont lancé « une nouvelle série de frappes contre l’Iran », des explosions à l’est de Bandar-e Abbas

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-07-14T20:06:03+00:00

Cette salve vise à « continuer à affaiblir les capacités iraniennes utilisées pour attaquer le trafic maritime commercial dans le détroit d’Ormuz » et est survenue peu avant la reprise du blocus américain des ports iraniens.

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ICE identifies Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero as man agents fatally shot in Maine

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-14T20:01:32+00:00

An immigration officer shot and killed the 26-year-old Colombian man afte reportedly ramming into his carThe man killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Maine on Monday has been identified as Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, an ICE spokesperson said in a statement.An immigration agent shot and killed the 26-year-old Colombian man on Monday morning in Biddeford, Maine, after reportedly ramming into his car. Continue reading...

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Hillsborough law symbolises new era as power passes from Starmer to Burnham

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-14T20:00:24+00:00

Bill marks a full-circle moment for the PM-in-waiting and encapsulates what he says his government will be aboutAndy Burnham has always said he took his first steps out of Westminster in 2009, when he walked out to address furious Liverpool fans at the Kop on the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster.They chanted “Justice for the 96” for a full two minutes before the then culture secretary was able to continue, demonstrating their anger that nobody in public office had been convicted of any offence over the tragedy. Continue reading...

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US carries out more strikes on Iran after Trump drops threat of strait of Hormuz tolls – Middle East crisis live

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-14T19:34:07+00:00

US president claims shipping route is open for all except Iranian ships after another night of strikes on IranUS launches third night of strikes on Iran as Trump announces Hormuz blockadeResurgent oil and fuel prices could cement a fourth interest rate rise in Australia this year if Donald Trump’s renewed conflict with Iran is not resolved within a week, economists warn.US missile strikes on Iran and Trump’s announcement of a new maritime blockade has lifted oil prices to their highest point in the month since the two countries agreed to a peace deal. Continue reading...

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Israel Strikes Police Post, Killing 7, Gaza Officials Say

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-07-14T19:03:21+00:00

Hamas says the strike hit Gaza’s civil security, while Israel says it targeted “terrorists.” Israel has stepped up attacks in Gaza recently as a cease-fire with Hamas has floundered.

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Two teens charged in fatal shootings of five family members in Illinois

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-14T19:00:51+00:00

A boy, 16, and girl, 15, were charged with murder after the family members were shot at three different locations Two teenagers were charged with murder Tuesday in the killings of five members of an Illinois family who were shot at three different locations.A 16-year-old boy will be prosecuted as an adult, while the case against a 15-year-old girl will start in juvenile court before a possible transfer to the St Clair county criminal court, the county prosecutor’s office said. Continue reading...

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Six Dead in an Elevator After Fire in Central Brussels

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-07-14T18:57:54+00:00

After a fire broke out at the Oxy building in central Brussels on Tuesday morning, six bodies were found in an elevator.

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Caribbean calls for return of British Virgin Islands – and for King Charles to back decolonisation

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-14T18:56:11+00:00

At London briefing, Caricom Reparations Commission decries fact region remains ‘most colonised part of world’The main reparations committee for Caribbean nations has called on the UK to return the British Virgin Islands and for King Charles to commit to decolonising Britain’s remaining overseas territories, warning of a “resurgence of colonisation” around the world.In a visit to the UK this week, the Caricom Reparations Commission – the body seeking reparative justice for enslavement, colonialism and its legacies on behalf of the alliance of Caribbean states – decried the fact that the Caribbe

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Foreign Office appoints first special envoy for Britons detained overseas

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-14T18:55:57+00:00

Alistair Burt will bring diplomatic clout to complex cases involving human rights violations and arbitrary detentionThe Foreign Office has appointed a special envoy for British citizens detained overseas, a new role to deal with “complex consular cases” such as that of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian dual national who was imprisoned in Tehran for six years.Alistair Burt, the former Conservative Middle East minister, has taken on the role, fulfilling a pledge by David Lammy when he was shadow foreign secretary. Continue reading...

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Cyclospora outbreaks causing diarrhea in US expected to continue through August

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-14T18:53:33+00:00

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says they are scouring food supply chain for culprit, which may be lettuceWhat is cyclosporiasis, the parasitic illness causing ‘explosive’ diarrhea?Federal health officials said they expect the outbreaks of cyclospora – a parasite that causes watery, explosive diarrhea – across the US to continue through August as they scour the food supply chain for the culprit.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have identified 1,645 lab-confirmed cases of the parasite; reported that 145 people have been hospitalized; and reported that they have a

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