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Concierge firm co-founded by queen’s nephew went on ‘ill-timed’ hiring spree before Iran war
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Concierge firm co-founded by queen’s nephew went on ‘ill-timed’ hiring spree before Iran war

Quintessentially almost quadrupled staff in Middle East and Asia less than year before wealthy began to flee GulfThe embattled luxury concierge service co-founded by Queen Camilla’s nephew Ben Elliot embarked on what appeared to be an inopportune hiring spree in the Middle East and Asia before wealthy individuals began fleeing the region because of the US-Israel war on Iran.Quintessentially almost...

Vote Lib Dem or ‘regret it’ living under a Reform council, Davey tells voters
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Vote Lib Dem or ‘regret it’ living under a Reform council, Davey tells voters

Party leader says vote for Labour or Greens in closely run seats will result in Reform victory at local electionsVoters in the home counties will “regret it for a long time” if they do not back the Liberal Democrats and wake up to a Reform-led council, Ed Davey has said.The Lib Dems leader has identified five councils – East Surrey, West Surrey, Hampshire, West Sussex and Huntingdonshire – where h...

‘Time the rest of us stepped up’: terror survivors’ group writes letter in support of UK Jews
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‘Time the rest of us stepped up’: terror survivors’ group writes letter in support of UK Jews

Letter coordinated by Survivors Against Terror, which includes bereaved relatives, after spate of attacks on Jewish communityDozens of survivors and bereaved relatives of 19 separate terror attacks have written an open letter of solidarity to the Jewish community, saying: “Standing together in the face of hatred is not just the right thing to do – it’s the most effective way of defeating terrorism...

Jaguar Land Rover could have shifted production from UK without £380m battery subsidy, officials warned
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Jaguar Land Rover could have shifted production from UK without £380m battery subsidy, officials warned

Government officials said in December that Britain’s largest automotive employer could lead exodus from UKJaguar Land Rover would have considered moving car production out of the UK and slashing jobs if not for a £380m subsidy for its sister battery company, government officials claimed privately.Officials at the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) warned in December that Britain’s largest aut...

RBA interest rates: Reserve Bank hikes official cash rate to 4.35% in blow to mortgage holders

RBA interest rates: Reserve Bank hikes official cash rate to 4.35% in blow to mortgage holders

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Reserve Bank of Australia raises rates for third consecutive meeting, lifting them to early-2025 levels Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Reserve Bank has delivered a third straight interest rate hike to contain growing inflationary pressures linked to higher fuel prices, even as it warned the Iranian war would deli...

Australian author Craig Silvey pleads guilty to possessing and distributing child exploitation material

Australian author Craig Silvey pleads guilty to possessing and distributing child exploitation material

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Prosecutors drop two other charges against Jasper Jones author, 43, including allegations he produced child exploitation materialAward‑winning author Craig Silvey has pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing child exploitation material, while a charge that he produced such material has been dropped.Silvey, 43, was first charged in January after detectives from Western Australia police’s child...

Australia news live: RBA increases official interest rate to 4.35% in blow to mortgage holders

Australia news live: RBA increases official interest rate to 4.35% in blow to mortgage holders

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Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo marine rescue volunteers who went to help others are among those who have died in a tragic yacht accident on Monday night.As we reported below, three people died as volunteers went to the aid of a yacht at the Ballina bar in northern New South Wales. Continue reading...

RBA hikes official interest rate to 4.35% in blow to mortage holders

RBA hikes official interest rate to 4.35% in blow to mortage holders

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Reserve Bank of Australia raises rates for third consecutive meeting, lifting them to early-2025 levels Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Reserve Bank has delivered a third straight interest rate hike, as it seeks to head off the inflationary threat from higher fuel prices linked to the ongoing US-Israel war on Iran...

First Russian oil reportedly arrives in Japan since Iran war – as it happened

First Russian oil reportedly arrives in Japan since Iran war – as it happened

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This blog is now closed Trump threatens to blow Iran ‘off the face of the earth’ if it attacks US vesselsTrump sends warships to break Iran’s strait of Hormuz blockadeWe have a bit more of the statement from Maj Gen Ali Abdollahi, the commander of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya central headquarters, who said earlier that the US or any other foreign armed forces would be attacked if they entered the strai...

Next Scottish government faces ‘really difficult’ spending choices, economists say

Next Scottish government faces ‘really difficult’ spending choices, economists say

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Parties accused of ‘fiscal denial’ and failing to tell voters the scale of the challengeThe next Scottish government will need to make “really difficult” spending decisions soon after taking power, including tackling its large public sector pay bill, senior economists have said.Economists with the Fraser of Allander Institute, at the University of Strathclyde, believe the manifestos published...

Australia news live: RBA interest rates decision at 2.30pm; Hanson considers lower-house run

Australia news live: RBA interest rates decision at 2.30pm; Hanson considers lower-house run

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Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo marine rescue volunteers who went to help others are among those who have died in a tragic yacht accident on Monday night.As we reported below, three people died as volunteers went to the aid of a yacht at the Ballina bar in northern New South Wales. Continue reading...

Australia news live: Hanson considers lower-house run; RBA interest rates decision at 2.30pm

Australia news live: Hanson considers lower-house run; RBA interest rates decision at 2.30pm

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Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo marine rescue volunteers who went to help others are among those who have died in a tragic yacht accident on Monday night.As we reported below, three people died as volunteers went to the aid of a yacht at the Ballina bar in northern New South Wales. Continue reading...

Victorian budget 2026: state records first post-pandemic surplus but financial health uncertain as debt nears $200bn

Victorian budget 2026: state records first post-pandemic surplus but financial health uncertain as debt nears $200bn

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Labor’s 2026-27 budget shows $727m operating surplus for this financial year as debt forecast to soar by decade’s endFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastVictoria has recorded a surplus for the first time since the pandemic but the state’s financial recovery remains uncertain with debt forecast to near $200bn in coming yea...

Australia news live: ‘they came to kill us,’ Jewish woman tells Bondi royal commission; Hanson considers lower-house run

Australia news live: ‘they came to kill us,’ Jewish woman tells Bondi royal commission; Hanson considers lower-house run

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Woman tells antisemitism royal commission how everyday life has changed for her and her three children. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo marine rescue volunteers who went to help others are among those who have died in a tragic yacht accident on Monday night.As we reported below, three people died as volunteers went to the aid of a yacht at the...

‘They came to kill us’: royal commission hears horrific accounts of antisemitism faced by Jewish children in Australia

‘They came to kill us’: royal commission hears horrific accounts of antisemitism faced by Jewish children in Australia

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Jewish children face antisemitic abuse, swastikas etched on school walls and other students performing Nazi salutes, hearing toldJewish children in Australia face antisemitic abuse at school, see swastikas daubed on walls and witness classmates perform Nazi salutes: they live with antisemitism “all day, every day”, a Sydney Jewish mother has told a royal commission hearing.The woman, known as Dina...

Canadian fiddler sues Google after AI Overview wrongly claimed he was a sex offender

Canadian fiddler sues Google after AI Overview wrongly claimed he was a sex offender

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Ashley MacIsaac, who is seeking $1.5m in civil lawsuit, says inaccurate information led to concert cancellationAn acclaimed Canadian fiddle player has launched a $1.5m civil lawsuit against Google, alleging that the online giant defamed him by falsely identifying him as a sex offender in an AI-generated summary of his life and career.Ashley MacIsaac, a three-time Juno award-winning musician, filed...

Democrats say ‘fight is just beginning’ after supreme court’s temporary reinstatement of abortion pill access – as it happened

Democrats say ‘fight is just beginning’ after supreme court’s temporary reinstatement of abortion pill access – as it happened

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This live blog is now closed.Sign up for the Breaking News US emailThe supreme court issued a temporary order to restore access to the abortion pill mifepristone by mail on Monday.This comes after two companies who manufacture mifepristone the drug filed an emergency appeal to the court on Saturday asking it to halt a court decision that would require an in‑person exam before the medication can be...

British crew member in need of urgent medical care amid suspected hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship

British crew member in need of urgent medical care amid suspected hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship

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WHO says seven confirmed or suspected cases of hantavirus on MV Hondius, including three passengers who diedWhat is hantavirus, the infection thought to have killed three on cruise ship?A British crew member was in need of urgent medical care and a passenger from the UK remained in a critical but stable condition following a suspected outbreak of hantavirus on a luxury cruise ship in the Atlantic ...

News live: ‘they came to kill us,’ Jewish woman tells Bondi royal commission; search suspended for Australian hiker missing in Canada

News live: ‘they came to kill us,’ Jewish woman tells Bondi royal commission; search suspended for Australian hiker missing in Canada

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Woman tells antisemitism royal commission how everyday life has changed for her and her three children. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo marine rescue volunteers who went to help others are among those who have died in a tragic yacht accident on Monday night.As we reported below, three people died as volunteers went to the aid of a yacht at the...

US supreme court expedites Voting Rights Act ruling so Louisiana can redraw its maps for midterms

US supreme court expedites Voting Rights Act ruling so Louisiana can redraw its maps for midterms

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Ketanji Brown Jackson blasted the decision, saying the court has hastened it ruling only twice before in 25 yearsThe US supreme court went out of its way on Monday to help Louisiana Republicans redraw their congressional maps before this year’s midterm elections by allowing a recent ruling that gutted a key part of the Voting Rights Act to take effect ahead of schedule.The procedural move comes le...

News live: search suspended for Australian hiker missing in Canada; ‘they came to kill us,’ Jewish woman tells Bondi royal commission

News live: search suspended for Australian hiker missing in Canada; ‘they came to kill us,’ Jewish woman tells Bondi royal commission

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Sydney woman tells antisemitism royal commission how everyday life has changed for her and her three children. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo marine rescue volunteers who went to help others are among those who have died in a tragic yacht accident on Monday night.As we reported below, three people died as volunteers went to the aid of a yacht...

News live: search suspended for Australian hiker missing in Canada; four Australians on cruise ship amid suspected hantavirus outbreak

News live: search suspended for Australian hiker missing in Canada; four Australians on cruise ship amid suspected hantavirus outbreak

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MV Hondius remains off the coast of Cape Verde after a suspected respiratory virus outbreak killed three people and left three more seriously ill. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo marine rescue volunteers who went to help others are among those who have died in a tragic yacht accident on Monday night.As we reported below, three people died as v...

Trump’s World Liberty Financial venture sues crypto entrepreneur for defamation

Trump’s World Liberty Financial venture sues crypto entrepreneur for defamation

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Suit alleges that Hong Kong-based Justin Sun engaged in a campaign to ‘torch’ the company’s reputationSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture co-founded by Donald Trump and his sons, said on Monday it had filed a defamation lawsuit in Florida state court against the Hong Kong-based crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun, as a dispute escalates between ...

News live: four Australians on cruise ship amid suspected hantavirus outbreak; nation’s highest diphtheria levels in decades

News live: four Australians on cruise ship amid suspected hantavirus outbreak; nation’s highest diphtheria levels in decades

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MV Hondius remains off the coast of Cape Verde after a suspected respiratory virus outbreak killed three people and left three more seriously ill. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo marine rescue volunteers who went to help others are among those who have died in a tragic yacht accident on Monday night.As we reported below, three people died as v...

Modern slavery at record levels in UK and expected to worsen, report warns

Modern slavery at record levels in UK and expected to worsen, report warns

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Government’s anti-slavery commissioner says traffickers are exploiting a growing pipeline of vulnerabilitySlavery in the UK is at record levels and is expected to worsen over the next decade, the government’s independent anti-slavery commissioner has warned.According to the number of referrals to the national referral mechanism, which assesses potential victims of slavery and provides support to v...

California seeks millions in penalties from State Farm over alleged claims violations after LA wildfires

California seeks millions in penalties from State Farm over alleged claims violations after LA wildfires

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State’s top insurance regulator says insurance company violated law while handling claims from 2025 wildfiresCalifornia is seeking millions of dollars in penalties from State Farm after an investigation found the insurance company was slow to investigate and underpaid claims from the 2025 Los Angeles-area wildfires, regulators announced on Monday.State Farm violated the law hundreds of times in a ...

Norwegian fish farms polluting fjords with waste likened to ‘raw sewage of millions of people’

Norwegian fish farms polluting fjords with waste likened to ‘raw sewage of millions of people’

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Exclusive: ‘Fish sludge’ in coastal waters now has nutrient levels equivalent to those in untreated effluent of country the size of Australia, report findsNorwegian fish farms are filling fjords and other coastal waters with nutrient pollution equivalent to the raw sewage of tens of millions of people each year, a report has found.Norway is the largest farmed salmon producer in the world, and nutr...