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Stirling's Crossing Equestrian Complex, 1 Derrier Rd, Imbil, QLD, Australia, Queensland 4570
The Tom Quilty 60th Anniversary Cup Championships were held here June-July 2026. These are the Australian endurance horse riding championships.
Elle’s story is one of personal sacrifice, deciding to help people despite the risk of attack by the military. Her story reflects that of a healthcare system in peril
When Myanmar’s junta seized power in a 2021 coup, Elle* and a fellow doctor fled to the jungle to provide aid to the resistance movement, one of 45,000 healthcare workers to lend their support.
Elle does not regret her decision, she supports the pro-democracy movement and later married the doctor with whom she escaped, but years of sacrifice have taken a toll. She treats patients from refugee camps at a clinic but does not earn enough to send money back to support her parents in their old age, which is her greatest wish.
Continue reading...Tariffs ranging from 10%-12.5%, taking effect on Friday, are US president’s latest effort to circumvent Congress
Just before a temporary levy on global imports was set to expire, the Trump administration issued a fresh wave of tariffs on more than 80 countries late on Thursday, ranging from 10% to 12.5%. The new tariffs take effect Friday morning.
It’s Donald Trump’s latest effort to continue imposing global levies without congressional approval, despite the supreme court ruling in February that found the US president had illegally used his executive power to implement his global trade policies. Trump has long maintained that the US has been paying more than its fair share in tariffs, and that increased duties are necessary to boost American manufacturing and jobs.
Continue reading...New York Times reports that list of those killed changed from 18 on Wednesday to 14 on Thursday
The Pentagon’s official online list of service members killed in the ongoing Iran war does not include the four soldiers who died during renewed fighting over the weekend, despite the fact that their names were included in a Pentagon press release on the formal transfer of their remains back to the United States on Wednesday.
A review of the current list on the Pentagon’s Defense Casualty Analysis System website shows that, despite having been last updated on Wednesday, the number of US military personnel killed during Operation Epic Fury, the Pentagon’s name for the US-Israeli war on Iran that Donald Trump launched on 28 February, remains at 14.
Continue reading...EU unveils largest package in four years of measures against Russian individuals and interests; Laura Loomer shows up in Kyiv. What we know on day 1,612
Arkady Dvorkovich, the president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), said on Friday he was suspending his activity with the organisation after being placed on the EU list of sanctioned Russians. Dvorkovich, a former Russian deputy prime minister, complained that the designation was “unlawful and unfair”. A statement said Viswanathan Anand, an Indian world chess champion, would take over as the federation’s interim president.
It came as the EU has unveiled its largest sanctions package in four years against Russia, targeting 218 individuals and entities. The EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said the measures hit more than 100 banks and cryptocurrency operators, more than 40 vessels from Russia’s so-called shadow fleet, as well as several oil refineries. The package adds more than 50 military-industrial entities to the sanctions list, including key actors involved in producing Russia’s long-range drones. The Russian oil price cap is frozen at $44.10 per barrel for 12 months, preventing an automatic increase that would have raised it to about $58.50.
The new listings take the total number of designations to nearly 3,000. There is a full asset-freeze on 94 Russian financial institutions, nearly all banks, and disconnection of 33 Russian banks from the Swift international payments system. Moscow’s stock exchange is added to the sanctions. Internationally, banks or cryptocurrency platforms are hit in countries including Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, India, Georgia, Panama, the Marshall Islands, Belarus, the United Arab Emirates and Africa.
The package also targets actors linked to Russia’s satellite communications system being developed as an alternative to Starlink. There are 56 entities and persons added to the sanctions list for involvement in Russia’s military industrial complex – most of them linked to long-range Garpiya drones. There are 51 entities added to list of companies that face export restrictions on dual-use goods and technology. Some are in third countries: China, including Hong Kong, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, and the UAE.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy remained under pressure to restore the ousted defence minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, to his post after Fedorov said he would not accept alternative roles in government put forward by the president.
The Maga influencer Laura Loomer has turned up in Ukraine where she met with the president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, after recently reversing her stance on the war. It was unclear what had prompted Loomer’s trip or how she had arranged the meeting with Zelenskyy. Loomer spent years minimising Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, amplifying Russian propaganda and abusing Ukraine as “a country full of Nazi apologists … led by a jihadi apologist”.
During her Ukraine visit, Loomer posted: “Just experienced my first air raid in Ukraine. Sirens blaring. This is everyday for every Ukrainian. I often said I don’t care. Looking back, that wasn’t very nice of me to say … We need to have moral clarity.” Loomer appeared to reverse her stance on Ukraine in June after her podcast editor visited Kyiv and Odesa just as they came under heavy attack, and after rival far-right influencer Candace Owens visited and praised Russia. Trump’s supposed Russia-Ukraine war peace broker, Steve Witkoff, has repeatedly visited Russia but has yet to go to Ukraine.
A Russian attack on a food business in the Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad killed three and injured at least 10 people, the regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha said. The attack caused a fire. Ukrainian strikes killed three people, including a child, and wounded eight in Russia and in Moscow-annexed Crimea on Thursday, local authorities said.
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Endangered pine forest grown with people's cremated ashes opens. When 10-year-old Tegan Chen died after accidentally slipping into a rushing creek on a walk, it stirred her parents to set up living memorials for others. (Australia)
NEW YORK (ANP/AFP) - In het centrum van New York zijn twee mannen het slachtoffer geworden van steekincidenten. De politie onderzoekt of er sprake is van een haatmisdrijf, meldt NBC News. Hoewel de man niet bekend is bij de politie vanwege eerdere psychische problemen, wijzen de eerste bevindingen erop dat zijn mentale toestand mogelijk een rol heeft gespeeld, meldt de politie.
De twee slachtoffers werden bij afzonderlijke incidenten in Manhattan aangevallen. Het gaat om een man van Aziatische afkomst en een joodse man, verklaarde Jessica Tisch, hoofd van de New York Police Department aan NBC. Beide slachtoffers zijn naar het ziekenhuis gebracht en verkeren volgens de politie niet in levensgevaar.
Een 51-jarige man is opgepakt in verband met de steekpartijen. Rechercheurs onderzoeken momenteel wat zijn motief was. Volgens getuigen zou de verdachte tijdens de aanvallen "Allahu Akbar" hebben geroepen.
Volgens de politie bestaat er voorlopig geen aanwijzing dat de verdachte een persoonlijke band had met een van de slachtoffers. Ook lijken de twee slachtoffers elkaar niet te kennen.
Azure users who use resources in Microsoft’s West US region endured an uncomfortable day after the tech giant cut off access to its Californian cloud outpost. As Microsoft explains in its preliminary post incident review, at 14:44 UTC on July 23rd (07:44 AM Pacific Time), the company started “routine device maintenance.” That effort immediately produced problems. “Multiple Azure services began to detect and correlate service degradation,” Microsoft’s review reads. A minute later, Microsoft says folks from its networking and services teams, plus people it describes as “incident responders” began “reviewing traffic anomalies, routing behavior, packet loss signals, and recent changes.” Microsoft says this sort of maintenance job requires isolating specific network paths, and that it uses a process that “converts these requests into system-readable requests and verifies that at least one of the two redundant paths remains healthy.” We’re told the company makes “safety checks to confirm the work will be impact-less.” The mere fact you are reading this story shows that process instead delivered an unintended impact. “In this case, a bug in the request conversion system incorrectly marked additional devices as a part of the maintenance event and caused a set of IP routes to be removed from more devices than intended,” Microsoft confessed. “The routes were removed between our datacenter and wide-area network, impacting traffic entering or exiting the region.” Microsoft’s incident report says the issue “initially presented as large-scale route churn in our Wide-Area Network” and that its investigations “later found that route removal was from a datacenter in the West US region.” Some time between 16:00 UTC and 17:45 UTC Microsoft identified “recent fiber maintenance activity, which we correlated to the identified routing behavior.” At 17:45 the company started rolling back changes, and by 18:26 Microsoft’s WAN was back to its best. By 19:41 UTC, all impacted services had fully recovered – and Microsoft joined AWS and Google in offering recent examples of how clouds can be rather more fragile than advertised. ®
Oracle has signed a 10-year Pentagon contract worth up to $7 billion to provide on-premises software, licenses, maintenance, and consulting for branches of the military. CNBC reports: The contract covers the use of Oracle software in on-premises data centers for branches of the military, the U.S. intelligence community and the Coast Guard, according to a statement. The Central Intelligence Agency was Oracle's first customer. A five-year base period for the contract includes perpetual and subscription-based software licenses, maintenance and consulting, according to one description.
Kirsten Davies, the Department of Defense's chief information officer, said in the release that the agency is saving at least $441 million for taxpayers "by fundamentally improving how we procure on-premises Oracle capabilities."
Kirsten Davies, the Department of Defense's chief information officer, said in the release that the agency is saving at least $441 million for taxpayers "by fundamentally improving how we procure on-premises Oracle capabilities."
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