Morning, everyone. The international criminal court has issued a warrant for the arrest of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for war crimes in Gaza. We have reports, reaction and analysis.
Plus, Russia has fired an experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, another traveller has fallen victim to the Laos methanol poisoning, Matt Gaetz withdrew as nominee to be Donad Trump’s attorney general, and Australia beat USA in the tennis.
Australia
Breakfast boast | Kyle Sandilands has boasted about being able to broadcast sexually explicit content on breakfast radio as he comes under fire for the “derogatory” language used on The Kyle and Jackie O Show.
Deportation plan | More than 80,000 people are susceptible to deportation from Australia to third countries paid to take them under Labor’s new bill likened to the UK’s failed Rwanda deportation plan.
Legal block | The Albanese government will attempt to block legal challenges by people charged after the elaborate AFP sting using the encrypted An0m app in 2021.
Adani action | A group of Queensland First Nations people have lodged a racial discrimination complaint against Adani, alleging the coalminer engaged in a decade-long “pattern of conduct” that included making offensive statements and social media posts. We also have a profile of Guatam Adani, the billionaire boss charged with a corruption in the US.
Exclusive | A secretive memorandum of understanding between the Victorian government and the Israeli defence force will not be renewed.
World
Laos death | A British lawyer, Simone White, has been named as the fifth person to die in a suspected mass methanol poisoning in Laos that has already claimed the life of the Melbourne teenager Bianca Jones and left her friend Holly Bowles fighting for her life.
Gaetz gone | Matt Gaetz has withdrawn his name from consideration as Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general because of concern about former sexual allegation controversies. Nikki Haley, the former presidential hopeful, criticised Trump’s choice for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, as “a Russian, Iranian, Syrian, Chinese sympathiser” and said Robert F Kennedy Jr had no relevant skills to be health secretary. Follow US news live – plus, why people are calling the new administration a “kakistocracy”.
Israel warrants | Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed the international criminal court’s issue of an arrest warrant for him and his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant, as “absurd” and “antisemitic”. The Hamas leader Mohammed Deif has also been charged with alleged war crimes relating to the Gaza war although Israel claim he has been killed. Israeli politicians have united in calling the warrants a “reward for terrorism” but Netanyahu may struggle to shake off the stigma. We have this explainer and the latest developments live.
New attack | Vladimir Putin says Russia fired an experimental medium-range ballistic missile at a military site in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro and that Moscow “had the right” to strike western countries that provide Kyiv with long-range weapons.
Please explain | Elon Musk has said UK MPs “will be summoned to the United States of America to explain their censorship and threats to American citizens” in a fresh escalation of tensions between the world’s richest man and Labour.
Full Story
Newsroom edition: Labor and the Coalition’s election playbook takes shape
Reged Ahmad talks to our editor, Lenore Taylor, deputy editor Patrick Keneally and head of newsroom, Mike Ticher, about how the major Australian parties are looking for lessons from Donald Trump’s US election win.
In-depth
All political careers end in failure is well-known aphorism (credited to Enoch Powell) – but Bill Shorten yesterday said farewell on his own terms. The former Labor leader was even praised by his weekly TV sparring partner, Peter Dutton. Karen Middleton was there to sketch the scene.
Not the news
The new novel by the Miles Franklin winner Michelle de Kretser is her most experimental book yet and opens as fiction but is interwoven by a narrator who starts picking apart her life and feelings about writing. The dichotomous Theory & Practice is a probing interrogation of novels and why we write them, our critic Jack Callil writes.
Sport
Tennis | Inspired captaincy, a nail-biting underdog’s win for Thanasi Kokkinakis and good old-fashioned Australian doubles pedigree has powered Australia into the semi-finals of the Davis Cup in Spain.
Rugby union | Peter Horne was hired as Rugby Australia’s high performance director with a remit to get the game “back on track” and results suggest he is making progress.
Formula One | Drivers are fed up and losing confidence in the FIA and the governing body’s president, Mohammed Ben Sulayem, after receiving no response to their collective criticism of both in a public statement.
Media roundup
The former Future Fund chair David Murray believes Labor is putting the $230bn wealth fund at risk, the Australian reports. An internal rift means the Greens have no candidate yet for the federal seat of Jagajaga, the Age says. The NRL is close to agreeing terms with the Western Australian government for the Perth-based Bears to become the 18th team in the league, the Telegraph says.
What’s happening today
Environment | A “protestival” will blockade of the port of Newcastle.
Canberra | The National Anti-Corruption Commission inspector Gail Furness is to appear before a parliamentary committee.
Sydney | A senior NSW police officer charged with high-range drink-driving will appear in court.
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Brain teaser
And finally, here are the Guardian’s crosswords to keep you entertained throughout the day. Until tomorrow.
