Hello. It’s Thursday, June 6, and you’re reading The Loop, a brief summary of today’s news.
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The partner of an Australian journalist arrested in China says authorities have cut off access to consular officials and reduced their food supply to the prison.
Cheng Lei, presenter of the Chinese government’s CGTN television channel accused of leaking state secrets, has been detained since August 2020. She was tried behind closed doors in March, but the verdict has been postponed.
His partner, Nick Coyle, the outgoing head of the China-Australia Chamber of Commerce, said Sky News officials said COVID was the reason they had to reduce their monthly consular calls and food supply. fresh.
Here are some of his interviews, and you can read the full story here:
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to search, up and down arrows for volume. Nick Coyle, the partner of detained Australian Cheng Lei, says he has not been able to talk to his children.
What else is going on
- Police say a gunman with a rifle and a gun opened fire inside a medical building in Tulsa, Oklahoma, killing four people (understood to be hospital staff and patients) before being removed. life. Tulsa Police Captain Richard Meulenberg described it as a “catastrophic scene.”
A reunion center for families to find their loved ones was set up at a nearby high school after the shooting in Tulsa. (Reuters: Michael Noble Jr.)
- Foreign Minister Penny Wong has announced an eight-year partnership with Samoa, aimed at addressing human development and social inclusion. He also revealed that next year Australia will give a Guardian-class patrol boat to Samoa, after the country’s Nafanua II ran aground on a reef in August 2021.
What Australia has been looking for online
- Casper Ruud. The young Norwegian is preparing for his first Grand Slam semi-final against Croatian Marin Cilic tomorrow night (Australian time), and the winner will play Rafael Nadal or Alexander Zverev in the men’s singles final ( He also told ATP’s Food, a cutting-edge series that always eats the same chicken and rice meal before a game, but whose guilty pleasures are pad thai and sushi. ‘success?).
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One more thing
I’ll prefer this next piece by saying I’m a Queenslander even, but it’s a nice story.
Home State I is next week and Panthers player Stephen Crichton has opened up about the moment he received a call from Blues coach Brad Fittler to tell him that he had formed the template.
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The 21-year-old was going to church with his mother on a Sunday morning when the phone rang: “He told me the news and my mother was on the moon and started crying. with her too, “he said.
“I’ve just been focused on continuing to play good football for Penrith and putting my best foot forward over the last few years to earn this place, so it’s great to be here now.”
Crichton is one of seven Panthers in the 22-man squad, joining Nathan Cleary, Jarome Luai, Brian To’o, Liam Martin and Isaah Yeo in the planned 17, with Apisai Koroisau in reserve.
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