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Apr 22, 2026 - World

NSW and Queensland governments ‘severely underdelivered’ on promised infrastructure to improve water flows, independent review findsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo state governments have drastically underdelivered more than $160m in infrastructure measures to improve river health in the northern Murray-Darling basin eight years since they were promised, a major independent review has found.This includes failure by the New South Wales government to secure any of the private land access needed to improve water flows over floodplains in the state’s Gwydir region where scientists had to scramble to rescue turtles in dried up wetlands last week. Continue reading...

Apr 22, 2026 - World

Donald Trump’s conflict with Iran could speed the EU’s green revolution – if panicking governments can hold their nerve on clean energy• Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereA surge in demand for electric vehicles across Europe may be evidence of what George Monbiot greeted as the silver lining of the Iran war. Sales of electric cars in continental Europe rose by 51% in March.The International Energy Agency has called the disruption in the strait of Hormuz the “biggest energy crisis in history”, but it appears, on one level, to be accelerating Europe’s green revolution. Yet, even if car-owners are rushing to the EV showrooms, some European governments, facing a groundswell of anger over soaring petrol and gas prices, are at risk of sending the clean energy transition into reverse. Continue reading...

Apr 22, 2026 - World

President Trump announced on social media Wednesday that the eight Iranian women scheduled to be executed by the regime now won't be.

Apr 22, 2026 - World

Brazil’s President Lula da Silva is boosting his reelection bid at age 80 by showcasing his fitness

Apr 22, 2026 - World

European diplomats were left perplexed after the Trump administration’s “naughty and nice” list of NATO nations was leaked this week, though details as to how the White House intends to punish allies given the “naughty” designation remain scant, Politico reported Wednesday.According to three European diplomats and a Pentagon official “familiar with the plan,” the list “includes an overview of members’ contributions to the alliance and places them into tiers,” and was drafted as a means to help the Trump administration look “for ways to punish allies who refused to back the Iran war,” Politico’s report reads.“They don’t seem to have very concrete ideas… when it comes to punishing bad allies,” a European official told Politico on the condition of anonymity. “Moving troops is one option, but it mainly punishes the U.S. doesn’t it?”Joel Linnainmäki, a former Finnish official who assisted in the nation’s 2023 acceptance into NATO – an acronym for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization – was left equally confused by the Trump administration’s intentions behind the drafting of the list.“[President Donald] Trump and his team are busy trying to extract themselves from their self-inflicted quagmire,” Linnainmäki told Politico. “Likely the administration does not have the bandwidth to open another hostile front with Europe as long as the war continues.”Trump has long been a critic of NATO, with tensions escalating amid his administration’s war against Iran as NATO countries refused to join in the efforts.“Without the U.S.A., NATO IS A PAPER TIGER!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social last month. “They didn’t want to join the fight to stop a Nuclear Powered Iran.”Trump has also floated leaving the NATO alliance, a move that critics noted would likely be illegal due to U.S. law strictly prohibiting a president from single-handedly terminating the United States’ NATO membership.