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‘Days of severe storms’ to rumble across Australia, with hail and millions of lightning strikes expected | Environment newsthirst.

Days of severe storms have been forecast for every mainland state and territory in Australia this week, with possible wind gusts, heavy rain, large hail and flash flooding on the cards. Weatherzone meteorologist Ben Domensino said “millions of lightning strikes” were also expected across the country. “We have a number of low pressure troughs sitting…

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Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia has 50,000 troops in Kursk newsthirst.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his military’s ongoing incursion into Russia’s Kursk region is now holding down 50,000 Russian troops. In his daily address to the nation, Zelensky said the operation was reducing Moscow’s ability to attack inside Ukraine itself. The president has long cited this as the goal of the offensive, despite scepticism…

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‘A light that lit up every room’: tributes for Victorian kindergarten worker killed while saving kids in truck crash | Victoria newsthirst.

A kindergarten worker who died saving her young students from an out-of-control truck has been remembered as a kind and generous person who lit up every room. Police are investigating after a 68-year-old driver, suspected of suffering a medical episode, veered his water tanker off the road and ploughed into the preschool’s playground, north-west of…

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