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[ad_1] Updated June 9, 2026 — 5:13pm,first published 11:44amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe NRL has lauded the courage of Kane Evans for coming out as gay, believing his stance will prompt important conversations that will assist others struggling with their sexuality.Evans – a Fijian international who played for NRL clubs the Roosters, Eels and Warriors – detailed his struggles with alcohol, substance addiction and suicidal thoughts while wrestling with his sexuality during an emotional interview aired on Channel Nine’s 100% Footy on Monday night.The 34-year-old became just the…

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[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAKim Aris simply wants to know whether his mum is dead or alive. It should be an easy question to answer, but not so for the younger son of Aung San Suu Kyi.“Right now I’m trying to establish whether or not my mother is actually alive or not,” he said.The pro-democracy icon has been detained since February 2021, when she was ousted as Myanmar’s civilian leader, and her fate has been in the hands of a secretive, brutal junta that has waged war…

[ad_1] Brought to you by BULLS N’ BEARSRowena DuckworthJune 9, 2026 — 2:18pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAViking Mines has uncovered a potentially valuable source of near-surface tungsten at its Linka project in Nevada, with sampling confirming a historic stockpile left behind by previous operators still carries grades comparable to those mined during the project’s heyday.The company collected 41 samples across the Linka stockpile, returning an average grade of 0.4 per cent tungsten trioxide with peak values of up to 1.1 per cent tungsten trioxide.An aerial view of Viking…

[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAA damning report highlighting a “systemic failure across multiple prisons” in WA has been seized on by the opposition, which has called for the resignation of Corrective Services Minister Paul Papalia.The report, released on Tuesday by Inspector of Custodial Services Eamon Ryan, revealed deteriorating conditions at Hakea, Casuarina and Melaleuca prisons, and led to Ryan issuing a show cause notice.WA opposition corrective services spokesman Adam Hort.Michael PhilippsIn the report, Ryan draws parallels between the current state of the prison system and the conditions…

[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAOakland: Jackson Irvine is a self-declared “massive fan” of Socceroos teammate Nestory Irankunda, in just about every way. The only thing about him that Irvine can’t quite embrace, however, is his obsession with Michael Jackson.As the team’s resident musical connoisseur and moral compass, Irvine watched on with bemusement from Germany when Irankunda scored against Curacao earlier this year, had a pre-planted sequinned glove thrown to him by a photographer near the corner flag, and rolled out one of Jackson’s trademark dance moves in…

[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAALondon: Apart from Jeffrey Epstein himself, the name that appears most often in the Epstein files is not Donald Trump, Ghislaine Maxwell or Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, but that of the convicted sex offender’s long-time assistant Lesley Groff.Among the millions of documents detailing Epstein’s correspondence which have been released by the US Department of Justice, Groff’s name appears more than 160,000 times. By comparison, the name of Epstein’s accountant, Richard Kahn, appears 53,000 times, while Donald and Melania Trump trail on 38,000 mentions.Groff, 58, has…

[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAJane Halton was in the room with the world’s top health chiefs as the World Health Organisation rang its most serious alarm about the Ebola outbreak.Those gathered on the sidelines of the World Health Assembly in Geneva included WHO’s director-general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who had just declared the spreading sickness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a public health emergency of international concern. His phone kept buzzing.Jane Halton at her home in Canberra in 2020.Dominic Lorrimer“Terribly, in the course of that…

[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAMark Nawaqanitawase was watching a Robert De Niro movie when his phone rang at around 8pm on Monday.The Sydney Roosters winger did not recognise the number, but thought he would answer it anyway. As long as the person on the other end of the line was quick, Nawaqanitawase thought to himself, he could get back to De Niro’s latest New York crime drama.Mark Nawaqanitawase at the Blues’ media call on Tuesday morning.Steven Siewert“I was watching De Niro in The Alto Knights – which…