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In a Pennsylvania congressional swing district, a Republican incumbent faces allegations over embellishing résumé
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In a Pennsylvania congressional swing district, a Republican incumbent faces allegations over embellishing résumé

Ryan Mackenzie, running for re-election, is accused of ‘fabricating’ a career in the real estate industryThe Republican congressman Ryan Mackenzie has been accused of embellishing his résumé with private sector experience in real estate sales amid an acrimonious showdown over his Pennsylvania seat.Mackenzie, who has previously been accused of lying about his age on Tinder, “was a real estate sales...

Nearly 1,400 missing, mostly tourists, after Nepal-Tibet flash flood kills at least 270
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Nearly 1,400 missing, mostly tourists, after Nepal-Tibet flash flood kills at least 270

Entire villages swept away after glacial collapse triggers flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrimsNepal-Tibet flash flood – latest updatesWhat we know so farHave you been affected by the flash floods?Rescuers are searching for nearly 1,400 people, most of them tourists, who are missing after a catastrophic flash flood hit Nepal and Tibet on Wednesday, thundering down valleys...

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

Rescue teams are searching for nearly 1,500 missing people, mostly tourists, after floods kill at least 165Nepal-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 165 people.Nearly 1,500 people are missing, the majority of them tourists, authorities h...

Woman killed with niece in Middlesbrough house fire was ‘a beautiful soul’, says mother

Woman killed with niece in Middlesbrough house fire was ‘a beautiful soul’, says mother

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Natalie McDonald, 34, and Valentina Foster, 7, died in fire a mile from earlier A66 crash, with police not ruling out linksA woman who died in a house fire along with her seven-year-old niece has been described as “a beautiful soul”.Natalie McDonald, 34, died along with her niece Valentina Foster, seven, in the blaze in Grangetown, near Middlesbrough, in the early hours of Wednesday. Continue read...

CIA chief reportedly warns Russia against attacking Nato countries on visit to Moscow – US politics live

CIA chief reportedly warns Russia against attacking Nato countries on visit to Moscow – US politics live

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Kremlin dismisses US media reports after meeting as ‘scare stories’, as Pentagon policy chief prepares to meet Nato secretary generalHello and welcome to the US politics live blog.A trip by the CIA director to Moscow this week was to warn Russia against any attack on Nato member states, US media reported, after Donald Trump attempted to downplay the visit.Two dozen mainly Democratic‑led states fil...

Firm fined for hounding elderly people with nuisance calls claiming to stop … nuisance calls

Firm fined for hounding elderly people with nuisance calls claiming to stop … nuisance calls

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Elderly Aids Ltd, which sells call-blocking devices, made 758,053 cold calls between May 2024 and February 2025A company that made its money promising to protect elderly people from nuisance calls has been fined £190,000 for “hounding” them with hundreds of thousands of nuisance calls of its own.The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said Elderly Aids Ltd, a company selling call-blocking devi...

Nepal flash flood live updates: 270 bodies recovered with hundreds more missing

Nepal flash flood live updates: 270 bodies recovered with hundreds more missing

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Foreign nationals from India, US, UK, Australia, Malaysia and Ukraine among those missingFlash floods leave scores dead and hundreds missingVisual 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 mo...

Nepal flash flood: 270 bodies recovered with hundreds more missing – latest updates

Nepal flash flood: 270 bodies recovered with hundreds more missing – latest updates

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Foreign nationals from India, US, UK, Australia, Malaysia and Ukraine among those missingFlash floods leave scores dead and hundreds missingVisual 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 mo...

Queensland concedes law imposing mandatory jail on some offenders as young as 10 breaches human rights

Queensland concedes law imposing mandatory jail on some offenders as young as 10 breaches human rights

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State government says ‘breach bail, go to jail’ laws risks overcrowding in jails, while one expert warns they may lead to ‘cruel outcomes’The Queensland government’s latest law and order crackdown – subjecting some children as young as 10 to a mandatory sentence of a year behind bars – could lead to “cruel outcomes”, according to human rights lawyers.In documents tabled with the legislation on Thu...

UK’s small power plants face higher cyber risk into 2030s despite Iran-linked hack

UK’s small power plants face higher cyber risk into 2030s despite Iran-linked hack

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Decision not to improve resilience sooner described as ‘unacceptable gamble with our national security’Hundreds of Britain’s smallest power plants could remain at a higher risk to state-sponsored cyber-attacks until the 2030s despite a successful Iran-linked hack last month, it has emerged.Officials this week briefed energy bosses on the breach, which is understood to have shut an unnamed small ga...

UK’s small power plants face higher cyber risk into 2030s despite Iran hack

UK’s small power plants face higher cyber risk into 2030s despite Iran hack

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Decision not to improve resilience sooner described as ‘unacceptable gamble with our national security’Hundreds of Britain’s smallest power plants could remain at a higher risk to state-sponsored cyber-attacks until the 2030s despite a successful Iran-linked hack last month, it has emerged.Officials this week briefed energy bosses on the breach, which is understood to have shut an unnamed small ga...

UK’s small power plants face continued cyber risk after Iran-linked hack

UK’s small power plants face continued cyber risk after Iran-linked hack

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Government measures to improve resilience are not due until 2030 and July’s hack has not altered this timeline Hundreds of Britain’s smallest power plants could remain at a higher risk to state-sponsored cyber-attacks until the 2030s despite a successful Iran-linked hack last month, it has emerged.Officials this week briefed energy bosses on the breach, which is understood to have shut an unnamed...

Vulnerable children deliberately self-harming to stay in care, research finds

Vulnerable children deliberately self-harming to stay in care, research finds

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Report shines light on ‘catastrophic situation’ where young people make themselves more ill to avoid losing supportSome of the most vulnerable children and young people in care are deliberately self-harming to avoid being abandoned when they get better or turn 18 and face a “cliff edge” of no further support, according to research.Abi Booth, a psychotherapist who works with children and young peop...

Albanese vows refugee intake won’t be slashed after earlier reports of Coalition-level cut

Albanese vows refugee intake won’t be slashed after earlier reports of Coalition-level cut

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Prime minister intervenes after reports Tony Burke was planning to cut intake of 20,000 arrivals by a thirdFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has guaranteed Australia’s annual refugee intake will not be cut next financial year, shutting down plans for the arrivals quota to drop by one-third to Coalition-...

UK urged to help free British-Egyptian ‘arrested in Cairo over sister’s activism’

UK urged to help free British-Egyptian ‘arrested in Cairo over sister’s activism’

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Lawyers claim Eman el-Shazly, from Birmingham, was detained in effort to silence her sister, a critic of Sisi regimeThe UK Foreign Office has been asked to intervene to secure the release of a British-Egyptian woman who it is claimed has been arrested in Cairo because of her sister’s political activism.Eman el-Shazly, a 45-year-old based in Birmingham, was arrested on 16 August while visiting Egyp...

Ukraine’s drone attacks have left Russia desperately scrambling for oil imports

Ukraine’s drone attacks have left Russia desperately scrambling for oil imports

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The once world-leading producer of crude oil has plunged into an energy crisis as Kyiv targets its refineriesA sanctioned shadow fleet tanker carries oil from Nato member Turkey to a Russian Baltic port. A deal is signed for Russian oil to be processed in Kazakhstan. Fuel cargoes arrive from India via Egypt. The Kremlin pressures allies to sell it badly needed fuel.The data points may be diverse, ...

‘If you harm my project, I’ll harm you’: former NSW official tells Icac about fugitive developer’s call

‘If you harm my project, I’ll harm you’: former NSW official tells Icac about fugitive developer’s call

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Former building commissioner David Chandler told inquiry of clashes with ‘loud and overbearing’ developer Jean NassifGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA fugitive Sydney developer allegedly warned the then-New South Wales building commissioner that he would “harm” him if he got in the way of his projects which were being inspected for defects, the corruption watchdog has he...

Pauline Hanson adds to confusion over One Nation’s immigration policy – as it happened

Pauline Hanson adds to confusion over One Nation’s immigration policy – as it happened

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This blog is now closedNepal flash flood disaster – live updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe prime minister, Anthony Albanese, says Dfat officials are ready to provide consular assistance to Australians in Nepal, after the devastating flooding in the country.A local tourism official said they believed 34 Australians were missing in the area, among hundreds of fore...

Nepal floods: missing Australians identified as children as young as 11 among those yet to be found

Nepal floods: missing Australians identified as children as young as 11 among those yet to be found

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Nepali tour operator fears 15 Australians who had been on a trek near the border with China have died after devastating floodNepal flash flood live updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA New South Wales couple on a spiritual pilgrimage are among the first Australians identified as missing after flash flooding ravaged the Nepal-Tibet border.Venkatraman Balakrishnan, 52,...

City firms race to prepare for FCA crackdown on bullying and harassment

City firms race to prepare for FCA crackdown on bullying and harassment

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Rules will require hedge funds, insurers and pension firms to report all non-financial wrongdoing The City’s largest hedge funds, insurers and pension funds are racing to prepare for sweeping rules that will stop nearly 40,000 companies from hiding bullying and harassment cases from the financial watchdog.From the start of next month, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will expand a crackdown ...

Levy secretly added to Victorian public transport fares scrapped as Labor admits it ‘did not pass the pub test’

Levy secretly added to Victorian public transport fares scrapped as Labor admits it ‘did not pass the pub test’

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Premier confirms levy, which was intended to help pay for the multibillion-dollar Suburban Rail Loop and other Big Build projects, will be abolishedFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Victorian premier, Ben Carroll, has announced he will abolish a levy secretly slapped on public transport users 18 months ago to help p...

Nearly 1,500 missing, mostly tourists, after Nepal-Tibet flash flood kills at least 165

Nearly 1,500 missing, mostly tourists, after Nepal-Tibet flash flood kills at least 165

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Entire villages swept away after glacial collapse triggers flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrimsNepal-Tibet flash flood – latest updatesWhat we know so farHave you been affected by the flash floods?Nearly 1,500 people are missing, the majority of them tourists, authorities have said, after a catastrophic flash flood hit Nepal and Tibet, roaring down valleys and wiping out ...

Nepal flash flood: more than 1,500 missing, mostly tourists, after disaster kills at least 165 at Tibet border

Nepal flash flood: more than 1,500 missing, mostly tourists, after disaster kills at least 165 at Tibet border

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Entire populated areas swept away after glacial collapse causes catastrophic flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrimsNepal-Tibet flash flood – latest updatesWhat we know so farHave you been affected by the flash floods?Nearly 1,500 people are missing, the majority of whom are tourists, authorities have said, after a catastrophic flash flood hit Nepal and Tibet, roaring down v...

Australia news live: Pauline Hanson adds to confusion over One Nation’s immigration policy; fugitive developer Jean Nassif to face Icac hearing

Australia news live: Pauline Hanson adds to confusion over One Nation’s immigration policy; fugitive developer Jean Nassif to face Icac hearing

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Follow today’s news liveNepal flash flood disaster – live updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe prime minister, Anthony Albanese, says Dfat officials are ready to provide consular assistance to Australians in Nepal, after the devastating flooding in the country.A local tourism official said they believed 34 Australians were missing in the area, among hundreds of for...

Australia news live: Pauline Hanson adds to confusion over One Nation’s immigration policy; WA men charged in joint FBI-AFP operation

Australia news live: Pauline Hanson adds to confusion over One Nation’s immigration policy; WA men charged in joint FBI-AFP operation

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Follow today’s news liveNepal flash flood disaster – live updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe prime minister, Anthony Albanese, says Dfat officials are ready to provide consular assistance to Australians in Nepal, after the devastating flooding in the country.A local tourism official said they believed 34 Australians were missing in the area, among hundreds of for...

Australia news live: household spending grows at fastest rate since 2023; WA men charged in joint FBI-AFP cybercrime operation

Australia news live: household spending grows at fastest rate since 2023; WA men charged in joint FBI-AFP cybercrime operation

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Follow today’s news liveNepal flash flood disaster – live updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe prime minister, Anthony Albanese, says Dfat officials are ready to provide consular assistance to Australians in Nepal, after the devastating flooding in the country.A local tourism official said they believed 34 Australians were missing in the area, among hundreds of for...

Nepal flash flood: more than 1,000 missing, mostly tourists, after disaster kills at least 165 at Tibet border

Nepal flash flood: more than 1,000 missing, mostly tourists, after disaster kills at least 165 at Tibet border

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Entire populated areas swept away after glacial collapse causes catastrophic flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrimsFollow latest updates liveNepal-Tibet flash flood: what we know so farTell us: have you been affected by the flash floods?More than 1,000 people are missing – the majority of whom are tourists – after a catastrophic flash flood hit Nepal and Tibet, roaring down...

Qantas may hike fares and expand Jetstar add-on fees as profits dip to four-year low

Qantas may hike fares and expand Jetstar add-on fees as profits dip to four-year low

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Airline declines to predict impact of new carry-on luggage charge on Jetstar revenue or ticket sales, saying it is offering customers ‘choice’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastQantas could increase ticket prices and plans to expand add-on fees at its low-budget carrier Jetstar, after the company said fuel costs contribu...