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- Former ACTU president, federal Labor leader Simon Crean dies
- Greece’s conservatives win landslide election victory
- Fighting surges in Sudan’s capital
- This morning’s headlines at a glance
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Former ACTU president, federal Labor leader Simon Crean dies
Returning to Australia, former Labor leader and federal cabinet minister Simon Crean died suddenly on Sunday morning in Germany, aged 74.
Crean, a key figure in the union movement and the Australian Labor Party over four decades, died during a visit to Europe for meetings on business and trade, one of his long interests as a federal minister.
A spokesman for the Crean family said they were devastated by his passing in Berlin.
“Simon died suddenly after his morning exercise,” the spokesman said, noting that he was in Berlin as part of an industry delegation. Crean was chair of the European Australian Business Council.
More details here.
Greece’s conservatives win landslide election victory
Greece’s conservative New Democracy party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis vowed to speed up reforms following his landslide victory in the country’s second election in five weeks that granted him a comfortable parliamentary majority to form a government for a second four-year term.
Jubilant supporters gathered outside party headquarters in Athens, cheering, clapping, setting off fireworks and waving blue and white party flags.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis leader of the centre-right New Democracy waves to supporters outside the headquarters of the party in Athens.Credit: AP
Near complete results show his party has won just over 40.5 per cent of the vote, crushing his main rival, the left-wing Syriza party, which was struggling to reach 18 per cent, 2 percentage points lower than the last elections in May.
“With today’s electoral result, Greece opens a new, historic chapter in its course,” Mitsotakis said in a televised statement.
Read the full story on the election results in Greece here, from AP.
Fighting surges in Sudan’s capital
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said it had seized the headquarters of a heavily armed police unit as it sought an edge in its war with the army during heavy fighting in the capital Khartoum.
The RSF said in a statement that it had taken full control of the camp belonging to the Central Reserve Police southern Khartoum, and posted footage of its fighters inside the facility, some removing boxes of ammunition from a warehouse.
Reuters was not immediately able to verify the footage or the RSF statement. There was no immediate comment from the army or the police.
South Sudanese who fled from Sudan sit outside a nutrition clinic at a transit center in Renk, South Sudan. Credit: AP
Since late on Saturday, fighting has surged in the three cities that make up the wider capital – Khartoum, Bahri and Omdurman – as the conflict between the army and the RSF entered its 11th week.
Witnesses also reported a sharp increase in violence in recent days in Nyala, the largest city in the western Darfur region.
The UN raised the alarm on Saturday over ethnic targeting and the killing of people from the Masalit community in El Geneina in West Darfur.
Khartoum and El Geneina have been worst affected by the war, though last week tensions and clashes escalated in other parts of Darfur and in Kordofan, in the south.
Fighting has intensified since a series of ceasefire deals agreed at talks led by the United States and Saudi Arabia in Jeddah failed to stick. The talks were adjourned last week.
Reuters
This morning’s headlines at a glance
Good morning, and thanks for your company.
It’s Monday, June 26. I’m Caroline Schelle, and I’ll be anchoring our live coverage for the first half of the day.
Here’s what you need to know before we get started:
- Former Labor leader and federal cabinet minister Simon Crean died suddenly in Europe this weekend.
- An Irish space industry consultant detained in Australia after ASIO advised she posed a national security risk had repeated contact with a suspected Russian intelligence officer.
- Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the debate over an Indigenous Voice to parliament is now up to the Australian people.
- MDMA and magic mushrooms are not “miracle cures” for mental illnesses and Australia must approach them cautiously, the country’s training body for psychiatrists has warned.
Former Labor leader Simon Crean.
- Experts warn climate drivers are hitting extreme levels, setting the scene for an El Nino weather cycle that typically brings heatwaves and bushfires to Australia’s east coast.
- Interest rates will have to keep rising to stop the “insidious” damage caused by inflation, the world’s key central bank has signalled.
- The fallout from the PwC tax scandal continues, as the firm appointed one of its most senior global executives to take control of its Australian firm.
- Overseas, government troops withdrew from the streets of Moscow on Sunday as people flocked to parks and cafes following a revolt by mercenary forces.
- And in Sudan’s capital, clashes, artillery fire and air strikes surged, witnesses said, as a war between rival military factions that has displaced 2.5 million people.
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