Tuesday 1st July 2025. Australia mushroom case. Kazakhstan ban. US ambush. DRC slavery. Europe heatwave. Norway bad lottery...
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Good morning, this is Send7 World News in 7 minutes. I'm Stephen Devincenzi. Today is Tuesday the 1st of July 2025. Starting in Asia and Oceania today…

In Australia, the trial of a woman accused of murdering three relatives of her estranged husband using poisonous mushrooms is expected to finish soon, as the jury are now making their decision. Erin Patterson says that she cooked the poisonous mushrooms by accident.

The case has become a major story in Australia, where the trial is now in its 10th week. In India, a fire has killed at least 12 people in Telangana state. Police said that the fire was caused by an explosion in a factory.

Kazakhstan has banned face coverings in public places. The law states that face coverings interfere with facial recognition. However, it is generally believed that the intention is to stop Muslim women from wearing the niqab, which is a veil covering the face.

Despite also being Muslim-majority countries, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan have all banned the niqab, generally saying that it goes against local culture. In the United States, two firefighters were killed and another has been seriously injured after being shot by a sniper rifle, which is a gun used at a long distance,

Idaho police say that it is suspected that a forest fire was deliberately started in order for the attacker to shoot at the firefighters. Police say that the suspect was found dead. Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris described the attack as an ambush. We do believe that the suspect started the fire and we do believe that it was an ambush and it was intentional.

Canada has cancelled a planned digital services tax which would have targeted US technology companies. US President Donald Trump has said that trade talks between the US and Canada had been suspended because of the tax. Colombia is increasing the size of its operations against armed groups within Colombia, according to the head of the armed forces.

Colombia signed a peace agreement with the biggest armed group, the FARC, in 2016. However, over the last few years, there has been increasing activity by some dissident groups of the FARC, the ELN, and some drug gangs. Africa In Togo, at least seven people have been killed in protests over the last few days, according to human rights groups.

Protesters are calling for the resignation of leader Faure Gnasingbe, who has recently been given the new role of President of the Council of Ministers.

which has been seen as a way of him being able to extend his 20-year rule. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a gold mining company has said that the M23 rebel group is forcing its employees to work without pay,

Reuters has reported that Twangiza Mining has said that its workers are being held in captivity and forced to work in inhuman conditions. The M23 group, which is supported by Rwanda, took control of a large part of eastern DRC earlier this year, including the large cities of Goma and Bukavu.

Europe. Across Europe, there is a heat wave continuing. In the United Kingdom, the Wimbledon tennis competition started yesterday, and it was the hottest ever opening day of Wimbledon, at 32 degrees, with parts of the UK reaching 34. There have been heat warnings in France, Portugal, Italy, Croatia and Spain, and parts of some other countries. But

Southern Spain has been recording temperatures over 40 degrees, with a new heat record for June of 46 degrees recorded in a town in Andalusia on Saturday. There have been temperatures over 40 degrees in the Balkans as well, with North Macedonia reaching 42. In Georgia, thousands of people attended anti-government protests on Sunday night,

There have been seven months of protests since the ruling Georgian Dream Party were declared to have won elections that were widely reported to be fraudulent and were not recognised by the European Union and many countries.

Salome Zurobichvili, who was the president until last year and is still considered the president by protesters and the European Union, said that nothing is happening except repression. Nothing is happening except repression. They have now put political leaders, almost all of them, into jail, but still the protest is ongoing. The

In the United Kingdom, police are investigating one of the music groups who have played at the Glastonbury Festival this weekend because of a chant that they encouraged the audience to sing. The punk rock group Bob Villain led a chant of Death to the IDF, referring to the Israeli Defence Forces. Local police have said that they are investigating if this is a criminal offence.

The United States has revoked visas for the band, who were supposed to play in the US later this year.

In France, a new ban on smoking in many public places has started this week. It is already banned to smoke in most inside public places, but it is now also banned to smoke on beaches, in parks, in bus shelters, or directly outside some public buildings like schools and libraries.

And Norway's lottery operator has had to apologise to thousands of people who were accidentally told that they had won massive prizes, when actually they had won small prizes. The state-run gambling operator Norsk Tipping said that the mistake had happened during the conversion from euros to Norwegian kroner,

One man was told that he had won 1.2 million kroner, which is over 100,000 euros, but actually he had won only 125 kroner, which is just over 10 euros.

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