| | | 06/05/2024 Grim find in Mexico sheds light on missing surfers; budget help for student work placements; Israel shutters Al Jazeera |
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| | | Good morning. Mexican authorities say three men found dead in a remote well in Baja California – believed to be the two Australians and an American who disappeared on a surfing holiday – were killed by gunshots to the head. The bodies are expected to be formally identified today by family members. Guardian Australia will bring you the latest through the day as we learn more.
Meanwhile, there’s money in the budget to pay students on mandatory work placements, Facebook is turning off the news tap for Australians (and replacing it with memes), and Israel has shut down the local offices of Al Jazeera. |
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| World | | Al Jazeera | Israeli authorities shut down the local offices of Al Jazeera, hours after a government vote to use new laws to close the satellite news network’s operations in the country. | Murder in Mexico | The three bodies believed to be those of the two Australians and an American who went missing in Baja California were killed with gunshots to the head. María Elena Andrade Ramírez, the state’s attorney general, said the missing men may have been attacked by people who wanted to steal their car. | Gaza ceasefire | Israeli officials ramped up pressure on Hamas, threatening a new onslaught on Gaza “in the very near future” if the militant organisation did not accept newly proposed terms for a ceasefire. | Rishi Sunak | The UK prime minister will face pressure to adopt hard rightwing policies such as an immigration cap and scrapping European human rights law this week, with one of his MPs, Suella Braverman, saying he needs to “own and fix” disastrous local election results. | US politics | “I’m tired of politicians pretending to be what they’re not,” said the South Dakota governor and Republican vice-presidential hopeful, Kristi Noem, as she defended her admission that she once killed a dog. |
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| Full Story | | Why are Australian schools failing children with disabilities? The number of disabled students recognised as needing greater learning support has grown to almost 1 million nationally. But these children are increasingly being suspended from schools, including some as young as five. Investigative reporter Sarah Martin explains to Jane Lee how Australia’s education system has reached crisis point. | |
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| In-depth | | The 5,614km dog fence that runs from South Australia to southern Queensland has a 32km gap, and work to bridge it has prompted discussion about whether the tool to keep wild dogs and dingoes out is still essential and should even been extended – or is past its usefulness. For farmers, the fence has become part of the landscape, a key plank in protecting livestock against dingoes and wild dogs. But some ecologists say the fence is a colonial legacy that is doing more harm than good – and it should be taken down. |
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| Not the news | | For the past five years, bragging rights over the world’s longest baguette have belonged not to the residents of a small village or a city in France, but rather (sacré bleu!) to a clutch of bakers 500 miles away in Como, Italy. It was an affront to France, where 320 baguettes are sold every second. On Sunday a crop of 12 bakers from France set out to settle the score, spending 14 hours kneading, shaping and baking their way back to victory. The world record now stands at 140.53m. Hopefully they also had a really big bit of cheese. |
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| What’s happening today | David McBride | The war crimes whistleblower will be sentenced after pleading guilty. | Meteor shower | If you missed it today, early morning tomorrow should be a good time to see the Eta Aquariids, the first of the year’s two main southern hemisphere meteor showers, when the moon won’t be brightening the sky. |
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| Brain teaser | And finally, here are the Guardian’s crosswords to keep you entertained throughout the day. Until tomorrow. | |
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