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Australian billionaire Brett Blundy wages high-stakes campaign to oust chair of Victoria’s Secret

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-06-11T02:51:40+00:00

Blundy’s investment firm, BBRC International, owns about 13% of the US-listed lingerie brand, giving it a potential platform to launch a hostile takeoverFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralian billionaire Brett Blundy is waging a high-stakes campaign to oust the long-term chair of Victoria’s Secret & Co, setting the stage for a showdown at the company’s annual meeting in the US on Thursday.Blundy’s investment firm, BBRC International, owns about 13% of the US-listed Victoria’s Secret lingerie brand, making

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Peter Weir receives inaugural AFTRS lifetime achievement award

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-06-11T02:44:02+00:00

Director of Picnic at Hanging Rock and Gallipoli celebrated for defining Australian culture and ‘global influence on craft, form and storytelling’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPeter Weir, the director of Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show, Picnic at Hanging Rock and Gallipoli, was presented with the inaugural lifetime achievement award from the Australian Film Television and Radio School on Wednesday night.At an event hosted by Sydney film festival, the AFTRS council chair, Rachel Perkins, called the now-retire

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Australia news live: PM casts doubt on One Nation’s $1.9m donation claim; radio listeners abandon Kiis after Kyle and Jackie O exit

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-06-11T02:35:56+00:00

Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWong not ‘interested’ in One Nation’s fundraisingWong says she isn’t concerned about One Nation’s fundraising efforts, but more about their policies. Pauline Hanson’s party says it has raised more than $1.5m in the last day, although those claims are unverified.I’m less interested in what Pauline Hanson fundraises and am more concerned about One Nation’s policies. Just as I am concerned about the fact that the Liberal party and One Nation seem to be working together and that it appears to be very clearly that a

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Indian stocks may tumble further on global sell off

Fonte: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Pubblicato: 2026-06-11T02:30:54+00:00

GIFT Nifty signals 200-point gap down for Nifty amid US strikes on Iran and West Asia tensions

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U.S. Officials Told Colombia to Cancel President’s Meeting With Mamdani

Fonte: New York Times - World · Pubblicato: 2026-06-11T02:23:24+00:00

The State Department canceled President Gustavo Petro’s visa last year after he attended a pro-Palestinian rally in Manhattan. He had planned to attend a forum led by Mayor Mamdani of New York.

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Australia news live: Brittany Higgins takes up new job fighting misogyny; disability ministers issue warnings over NDIS overhaul

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-06-11T02:20:23+00:00

Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWong not ‘interested’ in One Nation’s fundraisingWong says she isn’t concerned about One Nation’s fundraising efforts, but more about their policies. Pauline Hanson’s party says it has raised more than $1.5m in the last day, although those claims are unverified.I’m less interested in what Pauline Hanson fundraises and am more concerned about One Nation’s policies. Just as I am concerned about the fact that the Liberal party and One Nation seem to be working together and that it appears to be very clearly that a

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States tell Albanese government that NDIS changes could mean people with disabilities are shifted into hospitals

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-06-11T02:18:22+00:00

Plan to move 240,000 people off scheme leads states and territories to jointly warn they can’t ‘deliver like-for-like services to people who are exited from the NDIS’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastState and territory disability ministers have rung alarm bells over the Albanese government’s proposed overhaul of the NDIS, warning they can’t deliver “like-for-like services” for more than 200,000 participants expected to be shifted off the scheme by 2031.The Albanese government’s national disability insurance scheme

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French man on trial accused of raping partner after contact with Dominique Pelicot

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-06-11T02:00:03+00:00

Man accused of sedating and filming abuse of partner had contact with Pelicot, who was jailed for drugging wife and inviting men to rape herA bodyguard from Lyon is to go on trial for allegedly sedating and raping his partner after he was in contact online with Dominique Pelicot, who was convicted of drugging and raping his own wife, Gisèle Pelicot.Pelicot, one of the worst sex offenders in modern French history, is serving 20 years in prison after he was found guilty of drugging his then wife and inviting dozens of men to rape her in their home in the south of France over almost a decade. He

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Mehdi Hasan on Donald Trump’s big, beautiful birthday – podcast

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-06-11T02:00:03+00:00

As the US prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary and Trump turns 80, what state is the country in? And its president?This weekend kicks off an extravaganza of celebrations for the US, marking 250 years of independence from Britain – and for Donald Trump, marking 80 years of being, well, him.Presidents gone-by would have used a milestone anniversary to promote national unity. Trump is organising a cage fight. The president is adamant that every decent, flag-waving American will enjoy the festivities … or at least be talking about the party rather than what he’s brought to it. Continue read

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Mike Johnson attempts to defend Trump after president says ‘I love the inflation’ – as it happened

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-06-11T01:57:00+00:00

This live blog is now closed.Sign up for the Breaking News US emailDonald Trump’s immigration crackdown is largely targeting people from the countries most vulnerable to displacement from climate-driven disasters, a Guardian analysis shows.As the Trump administration pushes policies to boost planet-heating fossil fuels, millions of people are being forced to flee their homelands due to storms, floods and droughts worsened by the climate crisis. Continue reading...

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U.S. Officials Told Colombia to Cancel President’s Meeting With Mamdani

Fonte: New York Times - World · Pubblicato: 2026-06-11T01:55:12+00:00

The State Department canceled President Gustavo Petro’s visa last year after he attended a pro-Palestinian rally in Manhattan. He had planned to attend a forum led by Mayor Mamdani of New York.

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Middle East crisis live: US says second day of Iran strikes ‘completed’; Tehran claims it has targeted US base in Bahrain

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-06-11T01:15:24+00:00

US military says commercial ships are continuing to transit the strait of Hormuz, contradicting claims from Iran that the strait has been closedUS strikes Iran for second day, as ceasefire appears close to collapseIf the US genuinely wants a deal it will have to engage with Iranian demands on sanctions relief, says Danny Citrinowicz, the former head of the Iran branch of Israeli military intelligence.Today’s exchange of strikes shows how easily both Iran and the US can slide towards another round of escalation, says Citrinowicz, who is now a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council.If Washin

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Angus Taylor rejects One Nation seat sharing deal as cracks appear in Liberal ranks over Pauline Hanson threat

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-06-11T01:14:15+00:00

South Australian Liberal Tony Pasin says parties should ‘work hand-in-glove’ to defeat Labor at the next electionFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSplits are appearing inside the Liberal party about how to deal with Pauline Hanson, after one opposition MP at risk of losing his seat to One Nation said the two conservative parties should cooperate and not run against each other – a plan rejected by Angus Taylor and other senior colleagues.With One Nation leading the Coalition and Labor in published opinion polls, Hans

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Angus Taylor rejects One Nation seat-sharing deal as cracks appear in Liberal ranks over Pauline Hanson threat

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-06-11T01:14:15+00:00

South Australian Liberal Tony Pasin says parties should ‘work hand-in-glove’ to defeat Labor at the next electionFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSplits are appearing inside the Liberal party about how to deal with Pauline Hanson, after one opposition MP at risk of losing his seat to One Nation said the two conservative parties should cooperate and not run against each other – a plan rejected by Angus Taylor and other senior colleagues.With One Nation leading the Coalition and Labor in published opinion polls, Hans

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Un jeune couple de pandas roux chinois « infiltré » à Taïwan

Fonte: Le Monde - International · Pubblicato: 2026-06-11T01:00:12+00:00

En provenance de Shanghaï, un mâle de 3 ans et une femelle de 2 ans sont arrivés au zoo de Taipei en échange de deux gibbons. Une première depuis 2014, et un cadeau pas vraiment innocent dans le contexte actuel extrêmement tendu entre les deux rives du détroit de Formose.

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Aukus is among Australia’s worst foreign policy decisions and requires ‘heroic’ optimism, Gareth Evans says

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-06-11T01:00:02+00:00

Former Labor foreign affairs minister says belief US would defend Australia in event of an existential attack is a ‘ludicrous delusion’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAukus will prove to be one of the worst defence and foreign policy decisions ever made by an Australian government and is only being permitted by Donald Trump in order to destroy Chinese nuclear threats to the US mainland, former foreign affairs minister Gareth Evans says.Giving evidence to an independent public inquiry into the $368bn nuclear agreem

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Accused LA wildfire arsonist wanted ‘revenge on society’, prosecutors say as trial opens

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-06-11T00:49:04+00:00

Defense says no evidence occasional Uber driver Jonathan Rinderknecht ignited deadly blaze on New Year’s Day 2025The trial of 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht, the man accused of starting last year’s deadly Palisades fire, kicked off on Wednesday with opening arguments. Prosecutors cast him as a vengeful arsonist who sought to hide his role from authorities, while his defense attorneys argued that the fire was caused by fireworks.On New Year’s Day in 2025, firefighters extinguished a small blaze in the Pacific Palisades, a coastal Los Angeles enclave. But the flames continued to smolder under

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Australia news live: Brittany Higgins takes up new job fighting ‘rise of misogyny’; Seven to cut up to 300 jobs within weeks

Fonte: The Guardian - World · Pubblicato: 2026-06-11T00:43:53+00:00

Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWong not ‘interested’ in One Nation’s fundraisingWong says she isn’t concerned about One Nation’s fundraising efforts, but more about their policies. Pauline Hanson’s party says it has raised more than $1.5m in the last day, although those claims are unverified.I’m less interested in what Pauline Hanson fundraises and am more concerned about One Nation’s policies. Just as I am concerned about the fact that the Liberal party and One Nation seem to be working together and that it appears to be very clearly that a

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Iran closes Strait of Hormuz after US strikes, escalating Gulf tensions

Fonte: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Pubblicato: 2026-06-11T00:19:27+00:00

The IRGC warned that any ship attempting to pass through the strategic waterway could be targeted, raising fears of a major global oil supply disruption

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« Une source d’anxiété, d’isolement, de dépression » : le Canada veut à son tour interdire les réseaux sociaux aux moins de 16 ans

Fonte: Le Monde - International · Pubblicato: 2026-06-11T00:15:01+00:00

Dans le sillage d’autres pays ayant déjà mis en place des interdictions, comme l’Australie, le gouvernement canadien s’empare du sujet des réseaux sociaux et de leurs effets nocifs redoutés sur la santé mentale des mineurs.

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Le Canada veut à son tour interdire les réseaux sociaux aux moins de 16 ans

Fonte: Le Monde - International · Pubblicato: 2026-06-11T00:14:59+00:00

Dans le sillage d’autres pays ayant déjà mis en place des interdictions, comme l’Australie, le gouvernement canadien met en avant les effets nocifs sur la santé mentale des mineurs des réseaux sociaux, « source d’anxiété, d’isolement, de dépression ».

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Le Canada veut interdire à son tour les réseaux sociaux aux moins de 16 ans

Fonte: Le Monde - International · Pubblicato: 2026-06-11T00:14:59+00:00

Dans le sillage d’autres pays ayant déjà mis en place des interdictions, comme l’Australie, le gouvernement canadien met en avant les effets nocifs sur la santé mentale des mineurs des réseaux sociaux, « source d’anxiété, d’isolement, de dépression ».

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