World - Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Kyle Sandilands has settled his legal dispute with ARN Media with a $12m cash payment over three years, but Jackie O Henderson’s $82m claim against the broadcaster will continue. The shock jock agreed to drop his $85m lawsuit against KIIS FM, in return for a cash payment and $1.5m in advertising contra on ARN’s stations for a new broadcasting venture yet to be announced. The inquiry heard evidence of residents being pressured to relocate, deceived about their rights and fearful of losing their homes and communities. Those allegations are serious, but Labor’s response shows they haven’t taken them seriously … They don’t care what the experts say or what people think. We’ve had to send in the Ombudsman to hold Labor to account before they do irreparable damage. Continue reading...

Iran’s foreign minister said new talks on nuclear arms and sanctions relief would start on Friday, right after an initial agreement is signed.

The Russian frigate fired warning shots near a British retired couple on a yacht in the English Channel.

On that last day of his hosting, Colbert played Linus and Lucy on air in final dig at the network On his last day hosting CBS’s The Late Show, Stephen Colbert played one of the most iconic songs from the Peanuts soundtrack. “Oh no! I hope this doesn’t cost CBS any money!” he joked, as Louis Cato and the Great Big Joy Machine performed the song, titled Linus and Lucy, on air. It was a final dig at the network, which many fans believe cancelled the show due to Colbert’s criticisms of the Trump administration. Continue reading...

On a roll or against a wall, Group of 7 leaders bring sharply different agendas. The leaders of some other nations are also attending to press their own interests.

The retired couple tell BBC Newsnight they tried to show the warship they had changed course before the shots were fired.

Voters have also been casting ballots in Alabama and Washington DC, where for the first time in over 10 years, the city will elect a new mayor in November With the first 20% of the ballots counted in the Republican primary in Georgia to be the party’s candidate for governor in November, the Trump-endorsed candidate, Georgia’s lieutenant governor, Burt Jones, trails healthcare executive Rick Jackson by nearly 20 points: 59.4% to 40.6%. Jackson has spent over $100m on his campaign. Continue reading...

Departing Mike DeWine, who co-wrote state’s death penalty bill, says ‘I no longer believe [it] is a deterrent to murder’ Republican governor Mike DeWine, the who co-wrote the bill to reinstate Ohio’s death penalty more than 45 years ago, has called for the state to abolish capital punishment, saying it did not improve public safety and could no longer be morally justified. “I no longer believe the death penalty is a deterrent to murder,” DeWine said on Tuesday. “The moral justification I had for voting for the death penalty simply no longer exists.” Continue reading...

A Labour Party deputy who spent years in opposition, he criticized Conservatives and members of his own party, and was at the heart of major political moments.

A 21-year-old woman died after instructors launched her from a bridge without attaching safety ropes during a rope-jumping event near São Paulo, Brazil.