Supreme court says Palestine Action co-founder can challenge ban on group

Supreme court says Palestine Action co-founder can challenge ban on group

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UK’s highest court gives permission for Huda Ammori to challenge court of appeal rulingThe co-founder of Palestine Action has won permission to challenge the ban against the group at the UK’s highest court.The direct action group was proscribed as a terrorist organisation in July last year but co-founder Huda Ammori has been fighting to have it overturned amid a mass civil disobedience campaign. C...

Child pedestrian deaths are almost five times higher in England’s worst-off areas

Child pedestrian deaths are almost five times higher in England’s worst-off areas

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Official figures expose widening gap in road casualty rates between poor and wealthy postcodesThe number of children killed or seriously injured crossing roads is almost five times higher in the most deprived postcodes than the wealthiest areas, official analysis suggests.The figures from the Department for Transport show a widening gap over the past 10 years in road casualties between those livin...

Governor general warns of ‘growing catastrophe’ that threatens to undermine democracy in Australia

Governor general warns of ‘growing catastrophe’ that threatens to undermine democracy in Australia

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Sam Mostyn says there is a widespread ‘failure to understand and engage with and feel proud of the very civic underpinnings of our democracy’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia faces a “growing catastrophe” from poor understanding of the country’s constitutional foundation, the governor general, Sam Mostyn, has warned as attacks on institutions and threats against ...

Icac revelations have left Angus Taylor’s colleagues anxious – and his factional enemies angry

Icac revelations have left Angus Taylor’s colleagues anxious – and his factional enemies angry

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The opposition leader is the highest-profile person mentioned so far at the NSW anti-corruption commission – and the political figure with the most to loseGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAfter the opening days of an inquiry exposing a dark underbelly of the New South Wales Liberals, the prevailing mood among Angus Taylor’s colleagues is one of apprehension.The federal op...

Top US science journals more likely to reject paper by Chinese authors: study

Top US science journals more likely to reject paper by Chinese authors: study

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Researchers based in China or having a Chinese surname were far less likely than their US and Canadian counterparts to have papers published in the world’s most prestigious journals, according to a new study. Just 2.5 per cent of submissions from China-based researchers were accepted, compared with 8.3 per cent overall for those from North America, a team found after analysing a rare dataset of mo...

Democrats demand answers over treatment of wounded US troops after Iran strike

Democrats demand answers over treatment of wounded US troops after Iran strike

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Lawmakers question delays in medical care, casualty figures and Pentagon’s handling of drone attack in KuwaitUS politics live – latest updatesThe Trump administration is facing growing demands to explain why wounded US soldiers went more than a week without adequate hospital care after a March drone strike in Kuwait, just days into the US-Israel war on Iran.In a letter to the US defense secretary,...

Pope Leo calls himself pontiff who ‘happens to be American’

Pope Leo calls himself pontiff who ‘happens to be American’

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First US pope says mission is to be pastor of a universal church but expresses ‘great love’ for his home country and its core principlesPope Leo, the first US pontiff, has expressed “great love” for his home country and its core principles of freedom, opportunity and welcoming immigrants, but qualified that he just “happens to be American”.In an interview with the US broadcaster NBC on the sidelin...

Pope Leo invokes immigrant and slavery roots in call for US to honour founding ideals

Pope Leo invokes immigrant and slavery roots in call for US to honour founding ideals

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First US pope praises principles of freedom and opportunity in implicit critique of Donald Trump’s policiesPope Leo, the first US pontiff, has expressed “great love” for his home country and its core principles of freedom, opportunity and welcoming immigrants, but qualified that he “just happens to be American”.In an interview with the US broadcaster NBC on the sidelines of a prayer event in Caste...

Pope Leo invokes immigrant and enslaved roots in call for US to honour founding ideals

Pope Leo invokes immigrant and enslaved roots in call for US to honour founding ideals

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First US pope praises principles of freedom and opportunity in implicit critique of Donald Trump’s policiesPope Leo, the first US pontiff, has expressed “great love” for his home country and its core principles of freedom, opportunity and welcoming immigrants, but qualified that he “just happens to be American”.In an interview with the US broadcaster NBC on the sidelines of a prayer event in Caste...

Three-quarters of Americans think Trump isn’t focusing on top US issues – poll

Three-quarters of Americans think Trump isn’t focusing on top US issues – poll

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Trump’s overall approval rating slumps to 34%, according to new CNN poll, as midterms testing Republican power loomThree-quarters of Americans believe Donald Trump is not paying enough attention to the country’s most important problems, and two-thirds think he places himself above the needs of the US, according to a new poll.The CNN survey, conducted by market research company SSRS, comes less tha...

Father of boy rescued from California surf ‘forever grateful’ to teen lifeguard

Father of boy rescued from California surf ‘forever grateful’ to teen lifeguard

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Father of 10-year-old rescued in a dramatic scene captured on video says lifeguard saved his son‘Super proud’: father of teen lifeguard recounts dramatic ocean rescueThe father of a 10-year-old rescued from pounding surf off the California coast in a dramatic scene captured on video says he is beyond grateful to the teenage lifeguard who saved his son.“He ran into that water despite those conditio...

Transport authorities order probe after crash paralyses traffic on airport link

Transport authorities order probe after crash paralyses traffic on airport link

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Hong Kong transport authorities have ordered the operator of a major road link feeding the airport to explain its handling of an accident that paralysed traffic during evening rush hour, leaving commuters fuming. Traffic between Lantau Island and Kowloon was snarled for more than three hours after a medium goods vehicle overturned following a collision with another vehicle on the Cheung Tsing High...