☕️ The abducted children of Ukraine

17-year-old sprint sensation Gout Gout ran a brilliant 200m semi-final at the Athletics World Championships last night in Tokyo, finishing fourth with a time of 20.36. While it wasn’t enough to advance to tonight’s final, it was a stellar international debut for the Year 12 student.

Gout was the youngest athlete across all male 200m runners at the Championships - for context, all eight runners that were in the final of this event at the Paris Olympics were over 20 years of age, with six of them over 24.

Gout Gout is only just getting started, and we couldn’t be more excited to watch this journey from the very beginning.

“Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done. Kimmel has ZERO talent.”
U.S. President Donald Trump, posting on social media after the U.S. TV network ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show after Kimmel made comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk and the resulting political reaction. For a full explainer on this story, listen to today’s podcast.

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The number of Kmart stores that the Australian Privacy Commissioner found had secretly used facial recognition to scan every customer entering, and everyone at the refund counter, to catch fraud. The commissioner ruled Kmart didn’t inform shoppers or get their consent to collect their biometric data.

The virality of ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ finale, and the thousands of global viewing parties we saw across social media cannot be understated. All the office could discuss yesterday was the joy, overwhelm and THAT staircase scene (iykyk). Au revoir, as Belly would say after living in Paris for all of two seconds, to the series that had it all.

The co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s, Jerry Greenfield, has resigned after concerns the company was being “silenced”.

He and co-founder Ben Cohen are known for their activism on issues including climate change and human rights.

Greenfield alleged parent company Unilever sought to stop them from speaking “in support of peace, justice and human rights”.

Ben & Jerry’s has long advocated for a range of social justice issues, including LGBTQIA+ rights and climate action.

In 2021, Greenfield and Cohen sued Unilever after it sold the right to make and sell their ice cream in Israel, the West Bank and East Jerusalem (the Occupied Palestinian Territory) without their permission.

Greenfield and Cohen had previously said they wanted an existing deal to elapse without being renewed because the sale of their products in the West Bank and East Jerusalem was “inconsistent with their values”.

The International Court of Justice has ruled Israel illegally occupies this area.

Ben & Jerry’s also launched a lawsuit against Unilever last year, accusing it of trying to stop the company’s directors from publicly supporting a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, and the resettlement of Palestinian refugees.

Cohen was arrested for protesting U.S. weapons sales to Israel, and Israel’s blockade of aid to Gaza, at a U.S. Senate hearing earlier this year.

UK-based Unilever is one of the largest global consumer goods businesses. It acquired Ben & Jerry’s in 2000 and also owns companies such as Vaseline and Dove.

As part of the deal to buy Ben & Jerry’s, Unilever agreed to allow co-owners Greenfield and Ben Cohen to continue to publicly advocate for human rights through the company.

Unilever recently announced its ice cream businesses, including Ben & Jerry’s and Cornetto, will become part of a separate business led by the brand Magnum.

In response, co-founder Ben Cohen posted on Instagram: “The Magnum Ice Cream Company will be made up of the same executives and investors who have eroded [our] voice. It is the same censorship, just packaged with a different name and logo.”

Greenfield has now resigned, saying Ben & Jerry’s had “been silenced, sidelined for fear of upsetting those in power.”

He said his resignation was “one of the hardest and most painful decisions [he has] ever made.”

“If the company couldn’t stand up for the things we believed, then it wasn’t worth being a company at all.”

A Magnum spokesperson told The Guardian the company “disagreed with his perspective” and had tried to have a “constructive conversation”.

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New research has found Russia is using a network of facilities to train and ‘reeducate’ abducted Ukrainian children.

It follows widespread reports of abductions since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Analysis by Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) shows children from Ukraine are being held in at least 210 locations across Russia and Russian-occupied Ukraine.

HRL concluded that Russia is operating “a potentially unprecedented system of large-scale re-education, military training, and dormitory facilities capable of holding tens of thousands of children”.

According to the HRL, Russian officials have led forced deportation, reeducation and militarisation of children from Ukraine since at least 2014.

However, the report said these practices have “significantly expanded in scale and scope,” since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

It found Ukrainian children have been removed from areas controlled by Russia – either orphaned, separated from their parents, or forcibly removed from their families – during the recent conflict.

Researchers used high-resolution satellite imagery, public data sources, and geo-location software to uncover 210 sites where Ukrainian children are being held.

This includes military bases, religious institutions, schools, camps and orphanages.

Multiple other sites are also under investigation.

The exact number of Ukrainian children currently in Russian custody is unknown, but the report reveals, “the logistical and operational capacity committed to Russifying children taken from their home communities in Ukraine.”

HRL defines militarisation as “the psychological and physical conditioning of children to the technology, practices, and culture of the Russian military.”

The report identified militarisation programs in at least 39 sites. This includes weapons handling, combat drills and, in some cases, assembling drones.

Children at these bases range from eight to 17 years old.

At least 23% of the sites being monitored by the HRL have expanded since 2022, including “two entirely new cadet schools”.

Investigators identified re-education activities at the majority of sites —

including cultural, patriotic, or military programs that align “with pro-Russia narratives”.

The HRL has accused Russian officials of “explicitly” targeting vulnerable Ukrainian children, like orphans “and those living close to the frontline.”

The report also flagged long-term “coerced fostering and adoption” practices, where children taken from Ukraine were “presented as Russian orphans” and placed with Russian families.

The report says there is strong evidence to suggest Russia’s program “of forcible deportation, transfer, coerced adoption and fostering of Ukraine’s children,” is in breach of international law.

This includes alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity, and child protection violations.

The International Criminal Court issued a warrant for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2023, but Russia does not recognise the court’s authority.

The report is calling for “concerted international action,” to return children being held by Russia to Ukraine, and “hold perpetrators to account... to ensure these alleged crimes never occur again.“

It warned the impacts of the alleged crimes perpetuated by the Russian Government will “leave generational scars.”

A coalition of 41 countries, including Australia, has called on Russia “to fulfil its legal and moral obligation by immediately and unconditionally returning Ukrainian children.”

Reporting by Elliot Lawry.

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🍊 Australia’s women’s cricket team lost by a record margin to India.
🍊 More athletes have joined the Enhanced Games.
🍊 Ange Postecoglou has recorded back-to-back losses with Notts Forest.
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The one-of-a-kind X-59 quiet supersonic craft, nicknamed ‘Son of Concorde,’ can fly faster than the speed of sound at Mach 1.5 (around 1,800 km/h). It’s expected X-59 will be able to fly from London to New York in less than four hours. The journey currently takes about eight hours. According to NASA, “the aircraft is designed to fly supersonic while generating a quiet thump rather than a loud sonic boom,” solving a noise problem that has previously prevented such planes from travelling over densely populated areas. NASA researchers have generated thousands of files over 237 days of “ground tests and system evaluations”. Those records provide “a detailed history” to help engineers verify the aircraft’s readiness for its upcoming first flight.

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Reporting by Emma Gillespie.

A 3,000-year-old bracelet has gone missing from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

The bracelet belonged to the pharaoh Amenenope, who ruled around 1000 BC, and was last seen undergoing restoration.

Photos of the bracelet have been sent to airports and border control areas to make sure it isn’t smuggled out of the country.

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism said authorities will form a “special committee to inventory all items in the lab.”

Reporting by Annabel Whitehouse.

Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show has been pulled off the air "for the foreseeable future" after the host made comments about political reactions to the killing of Charlie Kirk. The move by Disney, which owns ABC, came after a major TV station owner said it would drop the show, and the head of the U.S. communications regulator threatened regulatory action.

Today we're unpacking what Kimmel said, why it's caused such a major response, and what this means for media regulation in the U.S.