Sydney rents explode

 

David and his partner had been living in their inner-Sydney property for only 12 months when they were issued with a 50% rent increase. They had been paying $800 a week for a three-bedroom home with a study and one car space.  Now, they were told, it would jump to $1,200.

“Their justification was it’s in line with market value,” David says. “We said we’d be prepared to pay $1,000 a week, even though the air conditioning didn't work.”

The same week, they were served with a lease termination notice instructing them they had 30 days to vacate the property.

 

Iranian women before the revolution

 

Iranian women taking part in a march on international women's day through the capital Tehran to protest new rules making the Hijab compulsory. 8th March 1979 

Edward Snowden granted Russian Citizenship

 

Sept 26 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Monday granted Russian citizenship to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, nine years after he exposed the scale of secret surveillance operations by the National Security Agency (NSA).

Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline leak

 

Authorities in Germany are trying to establish what caused a sudden drop in pressure in the defunct Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, with a spokesperson for its operator saying it could have been a leak.

The pipeline has been one of the flashpoints in an escalating energy war between Europe and Moscow since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February that has pummelled western economies and sent gas prices soaring.

Nord Stream 2’s operator said pressure in the undersea pipeline dropped from 105 to 7 bar overnight.

Russian school gunman kills 17

 

MOSCOW (AP) — A gunman opened fire in a school in central Russia on Monday, killing 17 people and wounding 24 others before shooting himself dead.

The shooting took place in School No. 88 in Izhevsk, a city 960 kilometers (600 miles) east of Moscow in the Udmurtia region.

Lebanese retired military personnel fight for pension increase

 

Lebanese army soldiers clash with retired military personnel as they try to break into the Parliament in Beirut, during a session to approve the 2022 budget.  The protesters were demanding a increase in their monthly retirement pay, decimated during the economic meltdown.

Ukrainians hunt for wood

 

Reuters / Sunday, September 25, 2022

Local residents collect firewood from abandoned blindages of the Russian army to heat their homes, as they have no electricity, water and gas, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Izium, recently liberated by Ukrainian Armed Forces, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine September 25.  REUTERS/Gleb Garanich