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December rainfall records smashed – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: ADF to help FNQ flood rescue; dodgy agents fined for underquoting; and how to pick a panettone

Defence force personnel deployed in region as Barron River catchment records 2,200mm of rain in last week, causing spill of flood water

The Guardian - AU

Five key issues at stake in the DR Congo’s crucial election

Here’s what’s at stake as millions go to vote this December in Africa’s second-largest country by size.

Al Jazeera

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Terror in Uganda: what's driving the Islamic State-linked rebels

The Islamic State Central Africa Province recently attacked and killed two foreign tourists and a citizen in a Ugandan nature park. Located in the country’s west near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Queen Elizabeth National Park is about 400km from the Ugandan capital Kampala.

The Conversation

Idaho asks supreme court to decide on law penalizing abortion providers

At issue is a court ruling that the state’s abortion ban conflicts with government rules mandating the provision of emergency care

The Guardian - US

Domestic violence 'incompatible' with Defence values

A new strategy will seek to stop family domestic violence within the Defence community and help personnel and their loved ones respond to the scourge.

AAP

‘Archaic’: the Tennessee town that made homosexuality illegal

Republican lawmakers in the US are leaning into outdated definitions of obscenity to outlaw drag and ban books too

The Guardian - US

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David McBride trial: soldiers shouldn’t be guided by public interest, commonwealth says

Crown argues solider turned whistleblower swore an oath to the ADF but defence says argument ‘ignores higher duties’

The Guardian - AU

ISIL-linked armed group kills 19 villagers in DR Congo, says official

The ADF was formed in Uganda in the 1990s before moving over the border and has been blamed for killings in the DRC too.

Al Jazeera

Mike Johnson's "biblical” economics

Author Katherine Stewart on how Mike Johnson ended up with so much power

Salon

Uganda captures chief of ISIL-linked militia blamed for tourist murders

The ADF chief is arrested in a raid that kills six members of his squad, according to the government.

Al Jazeera

House Speaker Mike Johnson was once the dean of a Christian law school. It never opened its doors

Mike Johnson does not typically mention one aspect of his work before being elected to Congress

The Independent UK

Speaker’s wife removes website that compared being gay with bestiality

Company bylaws state that ‘adultery, fornication, homosexuality, bisexual conduct, bestiality, incest, pornography or any attempt to change one’s sex, or disagreement with one’s biological sex, is sinful and offensive to God’

The Independent UK

‘Go pick up a Bible’: Speaker Mike Johnson defends anti-LGBTQ+ views

Republican House speaker, who has advanced extreme views as attorney and legislator, says ‘I am a Bible-believing Christian’

The Guardian - US

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Salon

Johnson was top lawyer for hate group

Johnson was a leader for Alliance Defending Freedom, which wrote the abortion ban that led to the downfall of “Roe"

The Independent UK

This is new Speaker Mike Johnson’s anti-LGBT+ record

‘Homosexual marriage is the dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic,’ Mike Johnson wrote in 2004

The Guardian - US

Special counsel accuses Trump of threatening Mark Meadows after he testified in election case - as it happened

Jack Smith says the former president threatened his former chief of staff, citing posts on Truth Social

The Guardian - US

Election denier, climate skeptic, anti-abortion: seven beliefs of new US House speaker Mike Johnson

The relatively little-known Louisiana Republican has been thrust into the spotlight and the attention has fallen on his extreme beliefs

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Evening Standard

Is Uganda safe to travel to? Travel advice as couple killed on honeymoon

A rebel group leader was charged after a couple from Berkshire were killed on their honeymoon in Uganda

The Independent UK

British tourist shot dead in Uganda safari ‘ambush’

Police said trio killed in ‘cowardly’ attack on Tuesday while touring Queen Elizabeth National Park

Evening Standard

British tourist 'gunned down by IS-linked terrorists' while on safari in Uganda

Two tourists and Ugandan guide were attacked near national park

AAP

Government urged to act on secrecy and misinformation

Prominent whistleblowers have criticised Australia's lack of transparency and claim it puts people and efforts to tackle misinformation at risk.

Pedestrian.tv

People Caught With Drugs In NSW Will No Longer Be Treated As Criminals Under New Laws

"Whilst we would prefer fines were removed altogether, this is a move in the right direction," an Alcohol and Drug Foundation (ADF) spokesperson told PTV.

The Guardian - AU

Australia ‘better prepared’ for bushfires than ahead of black summer as government considers national community service

Emergency services minister says service would likely be voluntary as government ‘wouldn’t want to commit to obliging people or forcing them’

The Independent UK

Uganda's president says airstrikes killed 'a lot' of rebels with ties to Islamic State in Congo

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni says recent airstrikes against rebels with ties to the Islamic State group in eastern Congo have killed “a lot” of the militants, possibly including a notorious bomb maker

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