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Al Nahyans’ control over farmland in Europe has meant they receive proportion of payments to farmsThe United Arab Emirates’ ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed.A cross-border investigation by DeSmog and shared with the Guardian found subsidiaries controlled by the Al Nahyans collected more than €71m (£61m) ...
Exclusive: Voters remain split on issues critical to EU, such as support for Ukraine and dependence on Russian energyMore than three-quarters of Hungarians who voted for Péter Magyar in last month’s election want his government to do more to address the climate crisis, and more than 70% want him to protect LGBTQ+ rights, a poll has found.Magyar’s opposition Tisza party won a supermajority in the v...
Authorities investigate Florent Montaclair over award given to himself and others including Noam ChomskyAt a ceremony at the French national assembly attended by Nobel prize winners, former government ministers, MPs, decorated scientists and academics, all attention was on a previously unknown literature professor.Florent Montaclair, then 46, a balding, bespectacled figure in an ill-fitting suit a...
Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBridget McKenzie says rollback of inland rail project sends ‘chill’ through communityNationals senator Bridget McKenzie, the shadow minister for infrastructure, said the Labor party has sent a “chill through the infrastructure pipeline” after the Albanese government abandoned a beleaguered inland rail project connec...
Albanese government announces east coast gas reservation policy, which will require producers to set aside 20% of export volumesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGas companies will be forced to set aside 20% of exports for domestic use under a reservation scheme designed to shore up supplies and bring down prices for ho...
Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBridget McKenzie says rollback of inland rail project sends ‘chill’ through communityNationals senator Bridget McKenzie, the shadow minister for infrastructure, said the Labor party has sent a “chill through the infrastructure pipeline” after the Albanese government abandoned a beleaguered inland rail project connec...
Data exposed in hack of third-party provider responsible for state’s online learning platform, QLearn. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBridget McKenzie says rollback of inland rail project sends ‘chill’ through communityNationals senator Bridget McKenzie, the shadow minister for infrastructure, said the Labor party has sent a “chill through the in...
Exclusive: Regime, which executed 243 people last year for drug offences, accused of investing in entertainment to whitewash its human rights recordThe acclaimed Australian film-maker Phillip Noyce is being paid by the Saudi regime to make a feature film portraying the repressive state’s narcotics officers as heroes.The Watchful Eyes, based on a real Saudi ministry of interior narcotics case, is b...
This live blog is now closed.Howard Lutnick answers questions from US House over Jeffrey Epstein tiesSign up for the Breaking News US emailIt’s worth noting, ahead of Howard Lutnick’s closed-door testimony before House oversight committee members today, that the commerce secretary has refused to answer questions about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein from lawmakers during congressional hearings on Capi...
Ex-TV star launches viral video a day before debate with mayor Karen Bass and city council member Nithya RamanLos Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt reposted a scathing AI-generated ad on X on Tuesday, which cast the city as a bleak hellscape under its current leadership.In the viral video, created by film-maker Charlie Curran, flames engulf the Hollywood sign; a socialist militia patrols the...
Argentina, where the MV Hondius cruise departed, consistently ranked by WHO as having highest incidence of hantavirus in regionOfficials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to determine if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has gripped an Atlantic cruise ship, amid reports that a number of passengers have already returned to their home countries.Argentina, where t...
Data exposed in hack of third-party provider responsible for state’s online learning platform, QLearn. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBridget McKenzie says rollback of inland rail project sends ‘chill’ through communityNationals senator Bridget McKenzie, the shadow minister for infrastructure, said the Labor party has sent a “chill through the in...
Data exposed in hack of third-party provider responsible for state’s online learning platform, QLearn. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBridget McKenzie says rollback of inland rail project sends ‘chill’ through communityNationals senator Bridget McKenzie, the shadow minister for infrastructure, said the Labor party has sent a “chill through the in...
The 16-page report was led by Trump-ally Sebastian Gorka, and places drug cartels in the Americas at the centre of counter-terrorism effortsThe Trump administration has accused Europe of being an “incubator” for terrorism fuelled by mass migration, in a new counter-terrorism strategy unveiled on Wednesday.The strategy also focuses on rooting out “violent left-wing extremists” including “radically ...
Woman and child expected to settle in Sydney as part of returning cohort. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBridget McKenzie says rollback of inland rail project sends ‘chill’ through communityNationals senator Bridget McKenzie, the shadow minister for infrastructure, said the Labor party has sent a “chill through the infrastructure pipeline” after ...
This blog is now closedUS fires on Iranian-flagged oil tanker as Trump gives Tehran fresh ultimatumThe UK work and pensions secretary, Pat McFadden, has warned that job losses “could happen” in Britain due to the economic impacts of the Iran war.He said the UK economy was “going in the right direction” at the start of the year and unemployment figures for February showed a decline. He added that i...
Justice department targets MacArthur Park, which has long struggled with fentanyl use, overdoses and homelessnessFederal authorities arrested 18 people in Los Angeles in a crackdown on drugs in MacArthur Park, the Department of Justice announced on Wednesday.The DoJ said it was targeting an “open-air drug market” in the park near downtown, which has long struggled with fentanyl use and overdoses a...
Justice department targets MacArthur Park, which has long struggled with fentanyl use, overdoses and homelessnessFederal authorities arrested 18 people in Los Angeles in a crackdown on drugs in MacArthur Park, the Department of Justice announced on Wednesday.The DoJ said it was targeting an “open-air drug market” in the park near downtown, which has long struggled with fentanyl use and overdoses a...
Four women and nine children expected to return to Australia on Thursday with all apart from a mother and her child expected to go to VictoriaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAuthorities in two Australian states are preparing to resettle children returning from squalid detention camps and life under Islamic State rule, as at least some of their mothers face possible crimi...
Woman and child expected to settle in Sydney as part of returning cohort. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBridget McKenzie says rollback of inland rail project sends ‘chill’ through communityNationals senator Bridget McKenzie, the shadow minister for infrastructure, said the Labor party has sent a “chill through the infrastructure pipeline” after ...
‘Clinical consensus statement’ also urges heart doctors to advise patients to not eat late at night, and chew slowlyWant to reduce your intake of ultra-processed food? If so, cook at home more often, don’t eat late at night and chew your food more slowly.Those are among some of the tips doctors have offered to help people limit the amount of UPF they consume given the acute and growing danger it p...
Woman and child expected to settle in Sydney as part of returning cohort. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBridget McKenzie says rollback of inland rail project sends ‘chill’ through communityNationals senator Bridget McKenzie, the shadow minister for infrastructure, said the Labor party has sent a “chill through the infrastructure pipeline” after ...
Michael Marx was shot by authorities multiple times and then taken to a hospital after bystander was woundedA man accused of firing a gun at law enforcement officers near the Washington monument this week was walking along the path of JD Vance’s motorcade before the shooting and made a vulgar remark about the White House after the confrontation, according to a court filing on Wednesday.Michael Mar...
School said its admission process is ‘based on merit’ and it is committed to complying with state and federal lawsThe US Department of Justice found on Wednesday that the medical school at the University of California, Los Angeles illegally considered race in admissions as the Trump administration ramps up scrutiny of colleges’ processes for selecting students.The finding escalates the Trump admin...
As Labour faces record-breaking losses in Thursday’s local elections, prime minister says rivals are unfit to leadLabour is braced for record-breaking losses in Thursday’s local elections in England, which could be decisive for Keir Starmer’s future as prime minister.In a message to voters on Thursday, Starmer said Reform’s Nigel Farage and the Greens’ Zack Polanski were “not fit to meet this mome...
Powerful property and farming firm Grosvenor Group says knock-on effect of Iran war could arrive next yearFertiliser shortages caused by the Iran war have driven up costs for UK farmers by up to 70% and will have a “dramatic” impact on food prices globally next year, according to one of Britain’s most powerful property and farming companies.Mark Preston, executive trustee of the 349-year-old Grosv...
Police say they arrested 18-year-old man after weekend shooting at lake party promoted across social mediaSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailPolice announced on Wednesday that an 18-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a mass shooting that left one woman dead and 22 other people wounded during a night-time party beside an Oklahoma lake.Police in Edmond announced that the...
Police say they arrested an 18-year-old man after weekend shooting at lake party promoted across social mediaSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailPolice announced on Wednesday that an 18-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a mass shooting that left one woman dead and 22 other people wounded during a night-time party beside an Oklahoma lake.Police in Edmond announced that ...
President tells Iran to accept deal to end war or face new wave of bombing at ‘much higher level and intensity’Middle East crisis – live updatesThe US military fired on an Iranian-flagged oil tanker on Wednesday, shortly after Donald Trump issued a fresh ultimatum to Tehran, telling it to accept a deal to end the war or face a new wave of US bombing “at a much higher level and intensity than it wa...
Mining company cannot appeal against liability for 2015 dam collapse in Brazil. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGood morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it will be Nick Visser with the main action.A man has been charged by police in New South Wales with an alleged hate speech offence...
