Burnham says foreign care workers should be ‘welcomed’ and suggests they could be exempt from settlement crackdown – UK politics live
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Burnham says foreign care workers should be ‘welcomed’ and suggests they could be exempt from settlement crackdown – UK politics live

New PM implies care workers could be exempt from Home Office plan to make foreign workers wait longer until they can apply for indefinite leave to remain I have already posted lines from Andy Burnham’s BBC interview on reforming social care (see 9.03am), making council tax fairer (see 10.03am), and ruling out an early election (see 11.56am). And yesterday Peter Walker wrote up the lines in the int...

Potential for first Australian oil refinery in 60 years as treasurer braces for inflation from Middle East war
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Potential for first Australian oil refinery in 60 years as treasurer braces for inflation from Middle East war

Commonwealth and Western Australia to fund study into construction of large-scale petrol refinery as buffer against fuel vulnerabilityGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s first new oil refinery in 60 years could be built in Western Australia under the Albanese government’s long-term strategy to shield the country from future global oil shocks.The commonwealth and ...

India is losing its regional primacy as Beijing and Washington move in
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India is losing its regional primacy as Beijing and Washington move in

South Asia is undergoing a gradual but important shift. Smaller states now command a widening array of options, and India’s primacy is quietly giving way. The lesson is clear. Regional leadership can no longer rest on geography and must be sustained through credible and mutually beneficial engagements that compare favourably with the alternatives. China’s challenge begins at India’s border. Both c...

Boss of startup hacked by rogue OpenAI agent urges ‘radical transparency’ in investigation

Boss of startup hacked by rogue OpenAI agent urges ‘radical transparency’ in investigation

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Artificial intelligence firm should provide $100m for cyber defences, says Hugging Face CEOBusiness live – latest updatesThe boss of the startup hacked by an OpenAI agent has called for the investigation into the incident to show “radical transparency”.Clement Delangue, chief executive of Hugging Face, said the “unprecedented” attack on his business required a similar response. Continue reading...

Three people killed and one suspect at large in Bite of Seattle food festival shooting

Three people killed and one suspect at large in Bite of Seattle food festival shooting

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Four people, including a toddler, were wounded in the violence and one suspect was arrested, authorities sayThree people were killed and four others – including a toddler – were wounded in a shooting on Sunday evening during a food festival at an events complex near the Space Needle in Seattle, a city fire department spokesperson said.One suspect was arrested in the aftermath of the deadly violenc...

Three people killed and one suspect at large Bite of Seattle food festival shooting

Three people killed and one suspect at large Bite of Seattle food festival shooting

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Four people, including a toddler, were wounded in the violence and one suspect was arrested, authorities sayThree people were killed and four others – including a toddler – were wounded in a shooting on Sunday evening during a food festival at an events complex near the Space Needle in Seattle, a city fire department spokesperson said.One suspect was arrested in the aftermath of the deadly violenc...

Jodrell Bank Observatory facing closure after major funder cuts support

Jodrell Bank Observatory facing closure after major funder cuts support

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Scientists say decision is blow to UK astronomy as deep space observatory is home to world-leading facilitiesJodrell Bank Observatory, which runs a world-leading network of radio telescopes, is facing closure after the government’s major funder cut support for the facility.The deep space observatory, which hosts the Grade I-listed Lovell telescope, is prized by astronomers who study galaxies, blac...

AstraZeneca boss urges western drugmakers to move at ‘Chinese speed’

AstraZeneca boss urges western drugmakers to move at ‘Chinese speed’

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Europe and US risk being outpaced on innovation, as happened in the car industry, warns Pascal SoriotAstraZeneca must operate at “Chinese speed” to ensure it doesn’t suffer the fate of the western automotive industry by losing out to more innovative rivals, the drug company’s boss has said.The FTSE 100 company is watching the rise of China’s pharmaceutical industry closely and collaborating to tak...

One year on, is the Turnberry deal already at risk?

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As the EU-US trade deal marks its first anniversary, fresh threats from US President Donald Trump have put it under renewed pressure. How serious are they, and what can the EU do if they materialise? Euronews takes a closer look.

Will the heat from a cooking oil scandal help the opposition in Taiwan?

Will the heat from a cooking oil scandal help the opposition in Taiwan?

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Taipei mayor Wayne Chiang Wan-an has emerged as the biggest political winner from an opposition protest against the government’s handling of a food safety scandal that drew what organisers said were more than 200,000 people onto the streets of the city. The unexpectedly large turnout appears to have given the island’s main opposition party, the Kuomintang, fresh momentum ahead of the local electio...

US environmental groups urge EPA to reject new Pfas to cool datacenters

US environmental groups urge EPA to reject new Pfas to cool datacenters

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Coalition says Chemours downplayed health and climate risks in bid to fast-track the compound’s useA coalition of 17 environmental groups is demanding the Environmental Protection Agency reject a new Pfas that chemical giant Chemours is attempting to fast track for approval for use in cooling datacenters, and would almost certainly pollute regions around the facilities.In formal comments submitted...

Screamers welcome: Chicago scream club lets people ‘give in and let go’

Screamers welcome: Chicago scream club lets people ‘give in and let go’

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Chicagoans come together for cathartic and communal screaming experience as activity gains traction across USPeople strolling along North Avenue Beach, a sandy strip on Lake Michigan, in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, are apt to see something unusual on Sunday evenings.That’s because Chicago’s “Scream Club” meets there every week during the city’s warmer months, bringing together a comm...

French police arrest man who wounded 3 with knives in Paris

French police arrest man who wounded 3 with knives in Paris

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French police detained a man ‌on Monday after he attacked three women with knives near Porte de Clichy in Paris, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told reporters. The man attacked the three women, who were aged 19, 24 and 36, with two kitchen knives, severely wounding two ⁠of them, Nunez said. Video aired on social media and verified by ‌Reuters showed a man with long black hair, wearing a cream tra...

Paris police arrest man who wounded 3 with knives

Paris police arrest man who wounded 3 with knives

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A French off-duty policeman on Monday detained a man after he allegedly attacked and wounded three women with two kitchen knives in Paris, a minister and police said. Three women aged 19, 24 and 36 were taken to hospital after the assault at around 11.30am in the Porte de Clichy area in the north of the capital, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez and Paris police said. Two were gravely wounded, but t...

US criticism of Malaysia’s Israel stance spotlights growing ‘disconnect’

US criticism of Malaysia’s Israel stance spotlights growing ‘disconnect’

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US criticism of Malaysia’s entry ban on Israeli nationals is unlikely to force a major shift in the country’s foreign policy, analysts have said, after Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim rejected accusations that the move was antisemitic. The remarks escalated a dispute that has drawn in members of the US Congress, Malaysia’s long-standing refusal to recognise Israel and the widening international debat...

Off-duty police officer detains man who attacked three women with knives in Paris

Off-duty police officer detains man who attacked three women with knives in Paris

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Women aged 19, 24 and 36 taken to hospital after assault in Porte de Clichy area in north of capitalA French off-duty police officer has detained a man after he attacked and wounded three women with two kitchen knives in Paris on Monday.Three women aged 19, 24 and 36 were taken to hospital after the assault at about 11.30am (0930 GMT) in the Porte de Clichy area in the north of the capital, said t...

China condemns US over new Section 301 tariffs – but holds off on retaliation

China condemns US over new Section 301 tariffs – but holds off on retaliation

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The Ministry of Commerce has objected to Washington’s latest tariff on Chinese goods but signalled it will hold off on retaliation for now, noting the 12.5 per cent duty keeps the United States within the ceiling that the Trump administration promised in earlier talks. Washington was manipulating the issue of forced labour, the ministry said in a statement on Monday, calling the Section 301 invest...