Angus Taylor says 'put Australia first' during national address
By Nicole Asher

Angus Taylor has issued a return serve to the prime minister's national address by urging people to "put Australia first" while accusing the government of providing a lack of clarity about the ongoing fuel crisis.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-02/angus-taylor-national-address-fuel-shortage/106524566

#FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #ArmedConflict #EnergyPolicy #WorldPolitics #Utilities #EconomicTrendsandIndicators #NicoleAsher

Angus Taylor says 'put Australia first' during national address

Angus Taylor has issued a return serve to the prime minister's national address by urging people to "put Australia first" while accusing the government of providing a lack of clarity about the ongoing fuel crisis.

Australia to attend global meeting on Strait of Hormuz — without the US
By Tom Lowrey

Australia will join a virtual meeting of 35 countries to discuss plans to reopen and secure the Strait of Hormuz, and ease the oil shock rocking global markets.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-02/global-meeting-australia-34-countries-strait-of-hormuz/106525100

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Australia to attend global meeting on Strait of Hormuz — without the US

Australia will join a virtual meeting of 35 countries to discuss plans to reopen and secure the Strait of Hormuz, and ease the oil shock rocking global markets.

📌 #event details: Over the past years, hundreds of thousands of families have been separated by #armedconflict, with the number of #missing people continuing to grow

Through its operations, the #ICRC witnesses both serious violations of int'l humanitarian law #IHL, and the profound suffering of families -

The ICRC presents a new #study entitled “Non-State Armed Groups and the Separated, Missing, and Dead: Obligations under IHL and examples of how to implement them” 👇🏽

https://www.icrc.org/en/event/protecting-missing-persons-armed-conflict-engaging-non-state-armed-groups

https://www.gulfchannels.com/449490/ إيران تتهم واشنطن بالاستعداد لعملية برية رغم رسائل التفاوض #ArmedConflict #Business #Conflict #Economy(general) #EnergyAndResource #InternationalNews #MetalAndMineral #news #OilAndGasUpstreamActivities #Ticker #war #أخباردوليّة

Gold of the day:
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/aws_would_prefer_to_forget/

"Try putting that into your company data recovery plan, and you'll get uninvited from business continuity planning faster than I was at investment firm BlackRock when I pointed out that if both San Francisco and us-east-1 were unavailable, absolutely nobody was going to care about our roboadvisor for the foreseeable future, if ever. (I can't imagine why I was let go from that job.) "

#aws #cloudcomputing #businesscontinuity #kaboom #war #stayreal #ArmedConflict

AWS would prefer to forget March ever happened in its UAE region

: Cloud giant waives an entire month of charges, then erases the billing data. There is literally nothing to see here.

The Register
https://www.gulfchannels.com/447726/ غارات اسرائيلية واسعة النطاق على جنوب لبنان فجر السبت #ArmedConflict #Conflict #LB #Lebanon #news #Ticker #war #لبنان

New on our blog!

The UN in the Line of Fire

On 22 October 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its advisory opinion on the Obligations of Israel in Relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other International Organizations and Third States in and in Relation to the Occupied Palestinian

#AdvisoryOpinion #ArmedConflict #CustomaryInternationalLaw #Immunity #InternationalCourtOfJustice

https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-un-in-the-line-of-fire/

The UN in the Line of Fire

https://www.gulfchannels.com/446528/ ترامب يمدّد مهلة كان حدّدها لاستهداف منشآت الطاقة في ايران ويقول إن المحادثات “جيدة جدا” #ArmedConflict #Business #Conflict #Economy(general) #EnergyAndResource #InternationalNews #news #OilAndGasDownstreamActivities #Ticker #war #أخباردوليّة