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Australia news live: Victorian crossbench MP Georgie Purcell warns overhaul of state voting system must be backed by broader reform

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-12T03:02:11+00:00

Follow the day’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastVictorian Animal Justice party MP Georgie Purcell says abolishing the state’s group voting ticket system without any other changes would see the balance of power handed to One Nation.The Age reported yesterday that the Allan government is planning to introduce legislation, when parliament returns from the winter break, to reform the state’s unusual voting system.Crossbench MPs like myself support electoral reform, and we’ve been asking for it to be implemented in a sensible way for years. We want change too.Bu

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Toronto shooting: two dead and four injured near street festival, with suspect still at large

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-12T02:35:11+00:00

Police in the city in Canada say suspect has not been apprehended after finding six people with gunshot wounds near Salsa on St Clair FestivalA shooting near a Toronto street festival killed two people and wounded four others on Saturday, prompting police to warn of an active shooter before later saying the scene was secure.Toronto police said six people were found with gunshot wounds after the shooting near St Clair Avenue West and Arlington Avenue, where the Salsa on St Clair festival was underway. Continue reading...

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Canada : une fusillade à Toronto fait deux morts et plusieurs blessés

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-07-12T02:23:19+00:00

L’attaque a eu lieu samedi dans une zone où se déroulait un festival de salsa. Aucune arrestation n’a encore eu lieu, selon la police, qui évoque « un échange de tirs entre deux individus ».

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Australia news live: defence industry minister ‘confident’ uranium sold to India will only be used for domestic energy

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-12T02:09:11+00:00

Pat Conroy defended the deal allowing India to buy Australian uranium despite not being a signatory to the international nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Follow the day’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBy the way, if you’re wanting the latest World Cup updates for your Sunday, my colleagues have all the latest coverage for you on another live news blog. You can read along here:Dan Tehan says coalition supports multiculturalism with ‘Australian values’ [The] problem we have is with the Labor Party in that they’re not pursuing those Australian values within

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Toronto shooting: two dead and three injured as police search for active shooter

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-12T01:30:57+00:00

Police in the city in Canada urge public to stay away from Salsa on St Clair festival areaPolice in Toronto were searching for an active shooter on Saturday night after finding five people with gunshot wounds, two of whom were pronounced dead.Officers were called to the Salsa on St Clair festival, an area at St Clair Avenue West near Arlington Avenue that is lined with shops and restaurants, at 8.12pm over reports of a shooting with multiple injuries. Continue reading...

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Toronto shooting: two dead and four injured as police search for active shooter

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-12T01:30:57+00:00

Police in the city in Canada urge public to stay away from Salsa on St Clair festival areaPolice in Toronto were searching for an active shooter on Saturday night after finding six people with gunshot wounds, two of whom were pronounced dead at the scene.Officers were called to the Salsa on St Clair festival, an area at St Clair Avenue West near Arlington Avenue that is lined with shops and restaurants, at 8.12pm over reports of a shooting with multiple injuries. Continue reading...

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U.S. Strikes Iran After Iran Fires on Ship in Strait of Hormuz

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-07-12T01:08:40+00:00

Iran’s attack on a container ship came hours after a meeting between the foreign ministers of Iran and Oman about opening the strait to traffic.

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Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-07-12T01:06:28+00:00
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Estados Unidos e Irán se enzarzan en una nueva espiral de ataques

Source: El País - Internacional · Published: 2026-07-12T00:48:52+00:00

Las fuerzas estadounidenses han bombardeado Irán de nuevo después de que la Guardia Revolucionaria abriera fuego contra un carguero chipriota en el estrecho de Ormuz y declarase cerrada esa vía marítima

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Man charged with murder after remains believed to be missing woman found in Queensland bushland

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-12T00:45:28+00:00

Toowoomba woman Jana Armstrong was last seen several days agoFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPolice have charged a man with murder after remains believed to be a woman missing for several days were found in bushland.As of Sunday morning, the remains were yet to be formally identified but Queensland police investigators believe they are those of Jana Armstrong. Continue reading...

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Australia news live: Barnaby Joyce won’t guarantee One Nation policies will be costed before next election

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-12T00:26:26+00:00

Follow the day’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIn some more from that Pat Conroy Insiders interview, the minister defended a new deal with India allowing it to buy Australian uranium despite not being a signatory to the international nuclear non-proliferation treaty.During the week, with the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, visiting Australia, the two countries announced a a new uranium deal which Anthony Albanese said would enable uranium exports to flow to India for “peaceful purposes” – mainly, energy production.Governments of both persuasions, bot

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Wallabies’ pop-gun revival under Joe Schmidt blown apart as France unload heavy artillery | Daniel Gallan

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-12T00:20:54+00:00

Plucky defeats decorated with patches of excellence will not cut it for Australia with a home World Cup now looming largeThe camera found Joe Schmidt shortly after France had completed a 22-point swing. Australia’s coach had seen a 21-12 half-time lead obliterated in 16 brutal minutes. Schmidt, one of rugby’s sharpest minds, looked short of answers. The trouble was that the questions confronting him had obvious answers but almost impossible solutions.Why had Australia’s discipline deteriorated? Because they were under pressure. Why had their tackle intensity and ruck speed fallen away? Because

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US and Iran exchange strikes as Tehran again says strait of Hormuz is closed

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-12T00:16:20+00:00

Tehran says vessel using unapproved route in strait was struck, drawing strikes from US forces to ‘degrade Iran’s ability to attack civilian mariners’Iran’s ⁠Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Sunday it had closed the strait of Hormuz after a vessel travelled on an unapproved route and was struck, warning that any retaliation over the incident would be met with a “severe response”.“A vessel that had jeopardised maritime security by switching off its systems was struck and ⁠brought to a halt,” the navy of Iran’s ⁠Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in ​a statement, without givi

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Вчені знайшли доісторичну печеру, вкриту майже сотнею незвичайних малюнків

Source: UNIAN (General) · Published: 2026-07-11T23:58:00+00:00

Багато зображень замість того, щоб виглядати як окремі малюнки, здаються пов’язаними між собою, утворюючи більші композиції на поверхні скелі.

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