Month: June 2025

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Natural disasters cost Australia’s economy $2.2bn in first half of 2025, new Treasury analysis shows

Wild weather, including Cyclone Alfred and floods in NSW and Queensland, significantly slowed retail trade and household spending

Six months of natural disasters in 2025 have cost the economy $2.2bn, largely in slower retail and household spending, according to new federal Treasury analysis.

Wild weather has repeatedly battered the Australian east coast this year.

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Woman Takes a Pregnancy Test—First Place She Goes Leaves Internet in Tears

“I knew that when I tested if I didn’t immediately drive to her, it would never be a surprise,” Emma Walz told Newsweek. “So, we drove immediately to her home.”
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Quiet Hickory, North Carolina rocked by mass shooting that leaves 1 dead, 11 wounded

A quiet North Carolina city was rocked by a mass shooting at a house party overnight that left one person dead and 11 others wounded, according to cops. Cops were called to a home near Hickory — about 60 miles northwest of Charlotte — at around 12:45 a.m. Sunday where they found 12 shooting victims,…
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Bangladesh opens trial of deposed ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

Bangladesh opens trial of deposed ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina [deltaMinutes] mins ago Now
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Catholic students find refuge at Princeton University’s worship space and cheer new pope

Catholic students find refuge at Princeton University’s worship space and cheer new pope [deltaMinutes] mins ago Now
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Death notices for June 1

Death notices are submitted by regional funeral homes.
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Motorcyclist injured in collision which killed Garda dies in hospital

A Garda spokesperson said the man aged in his 30s died in Beaumont Hospital on Saturday evening.
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How to Watch Spanish Grand Prix: Live Stream Formula One, TV Channel

Formula One heads to Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya for the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday.
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The UK seeks to send a message to Moscow as it outlines higher defense spending

The UK seeks to send a message to Moscow as it outlines higher defense spending
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UK Sikhs may ‘no platform’ Labour MPs over lack of Amritsar massacre inquiry

Exclusive: Sikhs ‘frustrated’ over Labour’s failure to investigate UK’s role in 1984 Golden Temple massacre

British Sikhs are threatening to “no platform” Labour MPs over failure to deliver a public inquiry into UK complicity in the 1984 Golden Temple massacre in India, amid warnings “frustrated” Sikh voters could back Reform UK.

Over 450 gurdwaras, charities, associations and university societies have written to prime minister Keir Starmer demanding he honour previous promises to fully investigate the affair or risk “massive consequences for the re-election of many Labour MPs.”

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