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Australia news live: Greens say Labor immigration policy has ‘no principle’; gambling company calls PM’s ad reforms a ‘missed opportunity’
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Australia news live: Greens say Labor immigration policy has ‘no principle’; gambling company calls PM’s ad reforms a ‘missed opportunity’

Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGreens say Australia needs to ‘step up and really commit’ to aiding rebuilding in NepalDavid Shoebridge, the Greens’ spokesperson on foreign affairs, told RN Breakfast earlier the Australian commitment of $5m for affected communities in Nepal “won’t come close to touching the sides” of the calamity.I think Australia...

One Nation’s new NSW leader Mike Newman is an investment banker who wants to ‘get rid of wokery’
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One Nation’s new NSW leader Mike Newman is an investment banker who wants to ‘get rid of wokery’

Son of former ABC chair will contest seat of Cessnock in March state election and says ‘my wife’s Japanese’ so he doesn’t believe party is racistFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOne Nation has named investment banker Mike Newman as its New South Wales leader and first lower house candidate ahead of the March 2027 state...

Three journalists sue Pentagon after being fired from military news outlet
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Three journalists sue Pentagon after being fired from military news outlet

Three employees of Stars and Stripes, a government-funded news service, allege they were fired after reporting on USS Abraham LincolnThree journalists who were fired by the Pentagon from a US government-funded news outlet sued the Department of Defense in federal court on Thursday, arguing their dismissals were illegal and violated their first amendment rights to free speech.The three journalists ...

Australia news live: One Nation announces investment banker as NSW leader ahead of election
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Australia news live: One Nation announces investment banker as NSW leader ahead of election

Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGreens say Australia needs to ‘step up and really commit’ to aiding rebuilding in NepalDavid Shoebridge, the Greens’ spokesperson on foreign affairs, told RN Breakfast earlier the Australian commitment of $5m for affected communities in Nepal “won’t come close to touching the sides” of the calamity.I think Australia...

Australia news live: Labor’s $5m support package for Nepal floods falls far too short, Greens say

Australia news live: Labor’s $5m support package for Nepal floods falls far too short, Greens say

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Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGreens say Australia needs to ‘step up and really commit’ to aiding rebuilding in NepalDavid Shoebridge, the Greens’ spokesperson on foreign affairs, told RN Breakfast earlier the Australian commitment of $5m for affected communities in Nepal “won’t come close to touching the sides” of the calamity.I think Australia...

Canadian prime minister and New York lawmaker denounce Trump’s move to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America – live

Canadian prime minister and New York lawmaker denounce Trump’s move to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America – live

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Ontario is an indigenous name that predates both the US and Canada, Mark Carney says; move by Trump comes amid trade tensions Sign up for the Breaking News US emailOn Wednesday, Trump officially signed a proclamation on Wednesday that suspends higher tariffs on 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef imports for 90 days. This comes after backlash to the proposal – designed to lower grocery costs for A...

News live: Australia to send $5m and three humanitarian workers to Nepal; voluntary assisted dying now legal nation-wide

News live: Australia to send $5m and three humanitarian workers to Nepal; voluntary assisted dying now legal nation-wide

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Foreign affairs minister Penny Wong confirms increase to number of Australians missingGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastNSW begins H5 bird flu vaccination program for vulnerable speciesNSW has begun a vaccination program for vulnerable species of birds to protect them against H5 bird flu.While no government can stop the virus from spreading, vaccination programs like this ...

Burnham announces crackdown on rogue bailiffs and ‘cowboy builders’

Burnham announces crackdown on rogue bailiffs and ‘cowboy builders’

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New rules are aimed at protecting people in debt in England and Wales and stopping homeowners being ripped offA clampdown on “rogue bailiffs” has been launched by Andy Burnham amid concerns that vulnerable people are being overcharged and face aggressive behaviour.In the latest in a series of “everyday fixes” to ease the cost of living and “make Britain fairer”, the prime minister said he was stre...

Australia news live: number of Australians missing in Nepal increases to 39; voluntary assisted dying now legal nation-wide

Australia news live: number of Australians missing in Nepal increases to 39; voluntary assisted dying now legal nation-wide

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Foreign affairs minister Penny Wong confirms increase to number of Australians missingGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastVoluntary assisted dying laws have been passed in the Northern Territory jurisdiction following debate over a gag clause barring doctors from raising end-of-life options with patients, Australian Associated Press reports.The rights of the terminally ill b...

Florida grand jury finds DeSantis administration ‘misappropriated’ funds from Medicaid settlement

Florida grand jury finds DeSantis administration ‘misappropriated’ funds from Medicaid settlement

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Grand jury declined to indict anyone but said there was a ‘sophisticated scheme’ to use funds for political activityUS politics live – latest updatesA Florida grand jury has found that the administration of the governor, Ron DeSantis, “misappropriated” $10m in taxpayer money from a Medicaid settlement into the Hope Florida Foundation, a charity with ties to DeSantis’s wife, before the money was re...

Democrats to investigate ‘miraculous’ rise of Trump Jr’s investment firm

Democrats to investigate ‘miraculous’ rise of Trump Jr’s investment firm

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Congressman Jamie Raskin asks president’s son to detail firm’s recent success after he joined 1798 Capital as partnerDemocrats on a powerful US congressional committee have launched an investigation into a venture capital firm which has thrived since recruiting Donald Trump’s son.Donald Trump Jr joined 1798 Capital as a partner just days after his father won a second term in office in November 202...

Georgia senator Jon Ossoff slams racist posts allegedly from Republican opponent’s ex-staffer

Georgia senator Jon Ossoff slams racist posts allegedly from Republican opponent’s ex-staffer

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Representative Mike Collins has been dogged by associations to white nationalism and antisemitismUS politics live – latest updatesThe US senator for Georgia Jon Ossoff, a Democrat, has slammed a “disgraceful and disqualifying” report that a former staffer for his Trump-backed Republican challenger Mike Collins shared images online of a swastika and depicting himself in Ku Klux Klan robes.It is the...

Nepal flash flood: death toll nears 400 amid warning of fresh danger from rising lake water – latest updates

Nepal flash flood: death toll nears 400 amid warning of fresh danger from rising lake water – latest updates

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Authorities say water rising at lake at site of disaster and it could burstNearly 1,400 missing, mostly tourists, and hundreds killedVisual guide: how the deadly flooding unfoldedTell us: have you been affected by the flash floods?Eyewitness accounts have been emerging from the Tibetan side of the border, with a woman saying she was travelling from Gyirong town towards Nepal on Wednesday morning w...

Nepal flash flood: 389 killed amid warning of fresh danger from rising lake water – latest updates

Nepal flash flood: 389 killed amid warning of fresh danger from rising lake water – latest updates

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Authorities say water rising at lake at site of disaster and it could burstNearly 1,400 missing, mostly tourists, and hundreds killedVisual guide: how the deadly flooding unfoldedTell us: have you been affected by the flash floods?Eyewitness accounts have been emerging from the Tibetan side of the border, with a woman saying she was travelling from Gyirong town towards Nepal on Wednesday morning w...

Actor Peter Cullen, voice of Optimus Prime and Eeyore, dies aged 85

Actor Peter Cullen, voice of Optimus Prime and Eeyore, dies aged 85

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Montreal-born actor also voiced KARR in Knight Rider and the monster in Predator, having started his career on Canadian TV and radioPeter Cullen, the actor behind the voice of characters including Eeyore in Disney’s Winnie the Pooh franchise and Optimus Prime in Transformers, has died aged 85.He died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles, a statement said. Continue reading...

Burnham accused of U-turn after initially backing political donations cap to fall below £500k

Burnham accused of U-turn after initially backing political donations cap to fall below £500k

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Exclusive: Campaigner says PM wrote in email he believed £500k cap should be reduced over time to guard against undue influencesAndy Burnham recently supported an even lower donations cap than previously reported, according to correspondence seen by the Guardian, as the row over next week’s elections bill escalates.The prime minister wrote to a campaigner in May outlining his support for a £500,00...

Burnham recently suggested £500k political donation cap that would be ‘reduced over time’

Burnham recently suggested £500k political donation cap that would be ‘reduced over time’

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Exclusive: Campaigners accuse prime minister of U-turn after he decided not to back funding cap in elections billAndy Burnham recently supported an even lower donations cap than previously reported, according to correspondence seen by the Guardian, as the row over next week’s elections bill escalates.The prime minister wrote to a campaigner in May outlining his support for a £500,000 individual d...

Climate crisis could be destabilising mountain areas like Nepal, experts warn

Climate crisis could be destabilising mountain areas like Nepal, experts warn

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Unusual heat this year may have melted ice and thawed bonds that hold glaciers in place – leading to catastropheNepal-Tibet flash flood – latest updatesWhat caused the flash flood in Nepal and Tibet?The devastating flash flood that ripped through the border communities of Nepal and Tibet has heightened fears that the climate crisis is destabilising the geology of mountain and polar regions, threat...

Search is on for at least 33 Britons missing after flash floods in Nepal and Tibet

Search is on for at least 33 Britons missing after flash floods in Nepal and Tibet

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Rescue teams try to locate nearly 1,400 missing people, mostly tourists, after floods kill at least 353Nepal-Tibet flash flood – latest updatesRescue teams in Nepal are searching for at least 33 British nationals who are among those missing after flash floods ravaged its border with Tibet, killing at least 353 people.Nearly 1,400 people are missing, most of them tourists, authorities have said, af...

El Niño climate patterns supercharged by burning of fossil fuels, study finds

El Niño climate patterns supercharged by burning of fossil fuels, study finds

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‘Godzilla’ event currently brewing could push 50 million people into acute hunger before the end of next yearA series of strong El Niño climatic patterns in recent decades, such as the “Godzilla” event currently brewing that is set to warp weather around the world, have been supercharged by the broader overheating of the planet caused by the burning of fossil fuels, a major new study has found.El ...

Trump signs executive order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America

Trump signs executive order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America

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Symbolic move to rename lake bordering New York and Canada comes amid escalating trade war with northern neighborUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing the federal government to rename Lake Ontario, making it Lake America.The largely symbolic move comes amid an escalating trade war with Canada. Continue reading...

Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America amid Canada trade war – US politics live

Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America amid Canada trade war – US politics live

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President hits out at Canada as he makes latest attempt to rename a landmarkExclusive: Trump’s war on Iran is rapidly draining US navy budgetExclusive: RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicateSign up for the Breaking News US emailOn Wednesday, Trump officially signed a proclamation on Wednesday that suspends higher tariffs on 300,000 metric tons of foreign bee...

Woman found guilty of indecent assault against two pupils at London boys’ school in 1980s

Woman found guilty of indecent assault against two pupils at London boys’ school in 1980s

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Sally-Anne Bowen, now 65, convicted of assaulting boys at Christ’s College, Finchley, where she was chemistry teacherA chemistry teacher has been found guilty of indecently assaulting two teenage pupils at an all-boys school in the late 1980s.Sally-Anne Bowen, who taught at Christ’s College in Finchley, north London, assaulted the teenage boys when they were aged around 14 to 15 and she was in her...

Ex-Barclays boss denies having sex with woman dressed as Snow White after Epstein emails

Ex-Barclays boss denies having sex with woman dressed as Snow White after Epstein emails

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Jes Staley made comments to US lawmakers investigating his links to the convicted sex offenderThe former Barclays boss Jes Staley has denied having sex with a woman dressed as Snow White, after being questioned about an infamous email exchange about Disney princesses with Jeffrey Epstein.The comments were detailed in newly released transcripts from a closed-door interview last month with US lawmak...

Ex-Barclays boss denies having sex with a woman dressed as Snow White

Ex-Barclays boss denies having sex with a woman dressed as Snow White

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Jes Staley made the comments to US lawmakers investigating his links to Jeffrey EpsteinThe former Barclays boss Jes Staley has denied having sex with a woman dressed as Snow White, after being questioned about an infamous email exchange about Disney princesses with Jeffrey Epstein.The comments were detailed in newly released transcripts from a closed-door interview last month with US lawmakers as ...

Trump’s war on Iran is rapidly draining US navy budget, documents and interviews reveal

Trump’s war on Iran is rapidly draining US navy budget, documents and interviews reveal

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Exclusive: Experts and former officials say accounts are running dry, and funding a war with no clear endgame is the main challengeDonald Trump’s war on Iran has driven the US military into a severe financial crisis, with the US navy forced to transfer money from its payroll and other sources to cover the costs of combat, according to documents obtained by the Guardian, and interviews with navy of...

Jury deliberations begin in Lindsay Clancy murder trial after her attorney blames medical system

Jury deliberations begin in Lindsay Clancy murder trial after her attorney blames medical system

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The state concludes: ‘This wasn’t a woman suffering from a lack of care’ or ‘a lack of resources’Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailThe jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial has moved into deliberations as jurors decide whether the 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse is criminally responsible for fatally strangling her three children in January 2023.Over the past five weeks, the t...

Lindsay Clancy’s attorney blames the medical system in his closing argument

Lindsay Clancy’s attorney blames the medical system in his closing argument

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The state concludes: ‘This wasn’t a woman suffering from a lack of care’ or ‘a lack of resources’Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailThe jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial has moved into deliberations as jurors decide whether the 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse is criminally responsible for fatally strangling her three children in January 2023.Over the past five weeks, the t...