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Kash Patel gave his Australian counterpart a 3D replica gun as a gift. It was destroyed within months

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Documents show the FBI director’s gift was ‘displayed proudly’ by the AFP before new commissioner ordered it be destroyedGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhen the FBI director, Kash Patel, visited the Australian federal police last year, he came bearing a gift: a 3D-printed imitation pistol that then was “displayed proudly” in the commissioner’s office.Yet within months, ...

David Penman wasn’t happy with his local Victorian council. So, he privately prosecuted five councillors

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Legal action by the Daylesford small business owner has forced councillors to stand down – leaving only two able to serveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastDavid Penman wasn’t happy.The Daylesford small business owner didn’t like the work of his local council. So, using little-known laws that force elected officials to stand down, he essentially stopped it from making any b...

France deploys 70,000 security personnel across country for Bastille Day, World Cup semifinal events – as it happened

The Guardian • 1 month ago

‘No unruly behaviour will be tolerated’ after the match, according to France’s interior ministerHere is the first big moment of the day as the Garde républicaine plays the French national anthem, “La Marseillaise”.Macron is not singing, but Lecornu behind him – very much is. Continue reading...

UK man admits 32 sexual offences against allegedly drugged or sleeping partner

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Defendant pleads guilty to crimes over the course of 12 years, some of which also involved ‘a person unknown’A man has been told he faces a possible life sentence after pleading guilty to 32 sexual offences against his girlfriend while she was allegedly drugged or asleep, including some attacks he recorded.The defendant, aged in his 40s, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared at Northampt...

‘Catastrophic failure’: UK Covid families welcome inquiry findings on PPE

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Campaigners feel vindicated by some of report’s conclusions but are unconvinced by its verdict on VIP laneIn the slightly incongruous setting of south London’s splendid Kia Oval cricket stadium, Naomi Fulop gathered her strength to give the assembled British media her response to the damning findings of Heather Hallett’s latest Covid inquiry report.Reading a statement from her mobile phone, her vo...

New York becomes first state to impose one-year pause on new AI datacenters

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order enacting a moratorium on the large, resource-intensive AI facilitiesNew York became the first US state to enact a moratorium on new datacenters on Tuesday.Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order mandating a one-year statewide pause on the large facilities used to power artificial intelligence products. Continue reading...

Church of England votes against plan to rewild 30% of its land by 2030

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Campaigners criticise C of E for failing to show moral leadership as one of country’s biggest landownersThe Church of England has voted against plans to restore 30% of its land for nature, with campaigners criticising its failure to show moral leadership.The C of E owns about 425,000 hectares (105,000 acres) of land, making it one of England’s biggest landowners. Currently just 3.5% of its land is...

Coalition and One Nation’s plan to ditch net zero would not lower power prices, CSIRO report finds

The Guardian • 1 month ago

GenCost report contradicts parties’ claims about abandoning emissions target, and finds nuclear would be most expensive way to generate powerFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastClaims by the Coalition and One Nation that abandoning a net zero climate target would bring down power prices are contradicted in a new CSIRO rep...

Politically engaged – but ‘very much’ worried about buying a home: study reveals young Australians’ anxieties

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Growing Up in Australia report shows gen Z are more anxious about housing affordability than climate change or following a chosen career pathGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFar more young people are worried about being able to buy a home than about climate change or finding a job in their chosen field, according to a study that also reveals gen Z’s deep distrust of polit...

Man in his 70s dies after being injured by cattle on Norfolk estate

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Police investigate incident near 17th-century National Trust country house popular with walkersA man in his 70s has died after being injured by cattle on a National Trust estate in Norfolk.Police are investigating the death at Felbrigg Hall after paramedics were called to attend to the injured man shortly after midday on Monday. Despite the paramedics’ best efforts, the man succumbed to his injuri...

Spanish PM’s brother banned from public office after misconduct trial

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Conviction over hiring by socialist-led council is one of a series of corruption claims facing Pedro Sánchez’s familyThe brother of Spain’s prime minister has been banned from holding public office for nine years after being found guilty of administrative misconduct relating to his hiring by a socialist-led council in the south-western region of Extremadura nine years ago.Corruption allegations in...

ICE identifies man agents fatally shot in Maine as Joan Sebastian Guerrero

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Witnesses and officials have offered differing accounts of the shooting as questions remainThe man killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Maine on Monday has been identified as Joan Sebastian Guerrero, according to local news outlets.An immigration agent shot and killed the 26-year-old Colombian man on Monday morning in Biddeford, Maine. Continue reading...

Inflation cools to 3.5% in June in relief brought by brief US-Iran peace deal

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Recent strikes have sent oil prices climbing again, with average gas price per gallon up by 70 cents on last yearInflation cooled to an annual rate of 3.5% in June as the brief US-Iran ceasefire, which has since ended, brought energy prices down, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.The consumer price index (CPI), which measures a basket of goods and services, has been elevate...

US House committee advances bill to make daylight saving time permanent

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Bid to end clock-changing has bipartisan support, including the backing of Trump and some Democratic cosponsorsA bill to end the practice of changing clocks twice a year and make daylight saving time permanent passed a key committee in the US House of Representatives, setting it up for a potential full vote of the chamber.The bid to end clock-changing, dubbed the Sunshine Protection Act, has bipar...

British man, 86, injured during running of the bulls festival in Pamplona

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Man from West Midlands taken to hospital after eight-day event in which 57 people were injuredAn 86-year-old British man is among 57 people injured while taking part in the running of the bulls festival in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona.The man, from Halesowen in the West Midlands, was taken to hospital on Tuesday – the last morning of the eight-day annual event – after suffering injuries t...

British man injured during running of the bulls festival in Pamplona

The Guardian • 1 month ago

86-year-old from West Midlands taken to hospital after eight-day event in which 57 people were injured An 86-year-old British man is among 57 people injured while taking part in the famous running of the bulls festival in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona.The man, from Halesowen in the West Midlands, was taken to hospital on Tuesday – the last morning of the eight-day annual event – after suff...

UK to continue sending potential trafficking victims to France despite court ruling

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Court ruled last week against policy to reduce protections for asylum seekers facing removal under one in, one out schemeThe Home Office is set to ignore a high court ruling and continue sending asylum seekers to France without looking into claims they have been trafficked, which last week was found to be unlawful.On Friday Mr Justice Sheldon ruled against the home secretary’s policy to reduce pro...

Bastille Day celebrations in France tempered by fear of more wildfires

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Firework displays cancelled as Paris military parade asserts ‘France’s rearmament .. and Europe’s strategic awakening’Europe live – latest updatesEmmanuel Macron has presided over his final Bastille Day parade in Paris amid a searing heatwave and wildfires that forced authorities around the country to cancel traditional firework displays and balls celebrating France’s national day.The French presi...

Inflation cools to 3.5% in June in relief brought by brief US-Iran deal

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Recent strikes have sent oil prices climbing again, with average gas price per gallon up by 70 cents on last yearInflation cooled to an annual rate of 3.5% in June as the brief US-Iran ceasefire, which has since ended, brought energy prices down, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.The consumer price index (CPI), which measures a basket of goods and services, has been elevate...

Anthony Albanese promises fast-track approvals for datacentres to shore up AI investment

The Guardian • 1 month ago

PM to declare Australia the first country worldwide to bring economic, social, security and environmental issues from AI under single office in major speechGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese says the federal government will introduce faster approval processes for AI projects, including datacentres, across Australia, seeking to shore up investor certainty an...

New US Ebola patient arrives in Germany for treatment

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Aid worker flown to Berlin as Trump administration bars Americans from traveling to US on commercial flightsA US national who contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has arrived in Germany for treatment, the health ministry in Berlin said on Monday, weeks after another American infected with Ebola in the DRC was treated in Berlin.Meanwhile, the Trump administration on Monday said ...

Woman charged with aggravated arson over moorland fire in Greater Manchester

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Shania Care-Slede, 20, arrested over incident at Dovestone reservoir on Saturday in which fireworks were launchedA woman has been charged with arson in connection with a major moorland wildfire, as large parts of Manchester were covered with smoke.Shania Care-Slede, 20, from Hyde, was arrested on Monday by Greater Manchester police in Oldham. She has been charged with aggravated arson, being reckl...

‘If we die, we die together’: wife of Ryanair passenger almost sucked through window speaks

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Svetlana Grković says she grabbed her husband’s legs while he was ‘outside up to his chest’ for two minutesRyanair passenger almost sucked out of window during flightRyanair has axed family seating policy – but kids’ fees add upA woman who saved her husband from being completely sucked out of a Ryanair plane mid-flight has said she thought as he held on to his legs: “If we die, we die together.”Lj...

Trump ballroom donor to lead state department’s $200m Armenia fund

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Konstantin Sokolov, who gave undisclosed sum and has not held government job before, to chair Tripp+ trade project Konstantin Sokolov, a Russian-born private equity investor in Chicago, will serve as chairman of a new state department enterprise fund overseeing more than $200m designated for a central Asia trade corridor, including investments in transportation, energy infrastructure and critical ...

RFK Jr’s advisory panel overhaul stalled update on helping kids quit tobacco

The Guardian • 1 month ago

US preventive services taskforce’s members have not issued binding recommendations since March 2025The health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s overhaul of an influential federal advisory group has stalled an update that would have highlighted “encouraging” new evidence on helping children quit tobacco, according to a recently departed member of the group.The Trump administration has postponed or ca...