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Greens leader Adam Bandt has given a cheeky response when quizzed about wage figures at his address to the National Press Club. After Labor Leader Anthony Albanese’s gaffe over unemployment and interest rate numbers, Mr Bandt responded to an AFR journalist’s question asking him what the current Wage Price Index was with a blunt reply. …

Eight civilians were killed in the midst of an evacuation in Irpin — a district west of Kyiv that saw intense shelling on Sunday — the mayor of Irpin Oleksandr Markushyn said in a statement on Telegram. Markushyn said Russians opened fire during an evacuation across a bridge. “A family died,” he said, “in front …

A statue of Edward Colston has been removed from Bristol Harbour. Bristol City Council confirmed they retrieved the statue early this morning (June 11). In a post shared on social media, the council wrote: “Early this morning we retrieved the statue of Colston from Bristol Harbour. “It is being taken to a secure location before …

Veneta Collins remembers clinging to her children for dear life as Hurricane Dorian pulverised the Bahamas. “I was scared for my two girls,” she says of Occalia, 14, and Katalia, aged two. “Katalia kept crying all the time. She was peeing herself and saying, ‘I’m scared mommy, I’m scared’. Occalia wanted to cry but didn’t …