Above is Nicolas Toledo, the first shooting victim to be identified. Source: CBS News via Toledo family. Multiple people are dead and more injured after a 22-year-old man opened fire on a Fourth of July parade in a town outside of Chicago. More than 35 people were injured and six people confirmed dead including 78-year-old…
The ship lost power and was drifting towards cliffs at the Royal National Park, south of Sydney. Source: Steven Watkins, MarineTraffic. A rescue operation is underway to try and retrieve 21 people stranded on a cargo ship that was drifting towards rocks amid the wild weather near Sydney. A police spokesperson said the Portland Bay…
“Earnings from Australia’s LNG exports are estimated to more than double from 2020–21, to reach $70 billion in 2021–22,” said the REQ. Resources Minister Madeleine King has said that Russia’s war on Ukraine has seen Australia’s export value skyrocket as countries look elsewhere for their commodities. A recent report from the Resources and Energy Quarterly…
A child presenting with a common side affect known as “bull’s neck”. Source: Picryl Two children in New South Wales have been diagnosed with diphtheria, the first time the bacterial infection has been recorded in Australia since 1992. A two-year-old has been admitted to ICU in a Queensland hospital, while the other child aged six…
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese labelled Russia’s invasion as a “gross violation of international law”. Source: @ukraine_world, Twitter. Australia will be sending more than $100 million in further aid to Ukraine and level sanctions on 16 more Russian officials, following Anthony Albanese’s secret trip to Kyiv. The trip was kept under wraps by the Australian government…
A picture of the man believed to be responsible for the shooting. Source: Twitter. A 22-year-old man has been taken into custody after shooting dead several people in a Copenhagen mall with Danish police saying it could possibly be “an act of terrorism”. Officers were called to Field’s Shopping Mall at around 5:30 pm Sunday…
Australia topped the list for meth use compared to 24 other countries but was significantly lower for other illicit drugs. A report by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) revealed that Australian’s use more meth per capita than countries in Europe, Asia, and Oceania. According to ACIC, methylamphetamine was the most consumed illicit drug within…
Source: Government of Yukon. The Klondike gold fields of Canada’s far north west territory of Yukon delivered miners a pleasant surprise when they uncovered the mummified body of a baby woolly mammoth. On June 21, workers were excavating an area of permafrost near the Eureka Creek in the Tr’oendek Hwech’in Traditional Territory when the mummy…
Source: Bongbong Marcos, Twitter. The son of former Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos Sr has been sworn into office saying he wants to do “well” for his country. The 64-year-old who goes by Bongbong Marcos won last month’s election with 31 million votes, equivalent to 58.77 per cent of total votes to make him the 17th…
“Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced the first phase of its national monkeypox vaccine strategy, a critical part of its monkeypox outbreak response,” The White House said on Wednesday. The US has announced that eligible people will be able to receive a monkeypox vaccine as cases continue to rise around the world. President Joe Biden and…