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Lisa Cook and Susan Monarez are fighting back against US president Donald Trump’s political pressure to sack them from their roles. 

As the fans across the world celebrate Taylor Swift’s engagement to US football player Travis Kelce, MAGA supporters have also weighed in. 

US Federal Reserve Director Lisa Cook has said she will not stand down after President Donald Trump said he would fire her.

Australia has accused Iran of directing antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne, with the government expelling Iran’s ambassador.

A posthumous memoir by Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, will be published later this year.

Turkish first lady Emine Erdoğan publicly urges US first lady, Melania Trump to speak against the deaths of Palestinian children.

Across Australia pro-Palestine protesters took to the streets in some of the largest demonstrations in national history. 

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has signed a statement with 20 other nations to condemn Israel’s plans for Palestine’s West Bank.

Irish novelist Sally Rooney pledged support to Palestine Action, with the UK government warning it’s “an offence under the Terrorism Act”. 

While international journalists continue to be locked out of Gaza, it is up to Palestinian journalists to be the voice of a starving people.

It has now been four years since the Taliban took over Afghanistan. UN Women says women are being erased in a human rights crisis.

A number of authors have withdrawn from the Bendigo Writers Festival over concerns about free speech relating to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.