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Ha Dang will head to California in December to take part in the Excel world championships after seeing off 40 rivalsHe will not be the only Briton fancying his chances on the tables in Las Vegas this December, but Ha Dang prefers games of pure skill rather than blind luck.The 33-year-old has booked himself a place at the Microsoft Excel world...
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Doctors at Nasser medical complex say it won't be able to cope with large numbers of people fleeing Gaza City Doctors and medical staff at the largest big hospital still functioning in Gaza say they will be overwhelmed by a wave of new wounded and sick patients if hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee the north of the devastated territory in...
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The bossa nova pianist Francisco Tenório Cerqueira Júnior went out for cigarettes after a concert in Buenos Aires – a forensic team has finally revealed his fateEarly on 18 March 1976, Francisco Tenório Cerqueira Júnior, a Brazilian pianist who had played alongside some of Latin America's greatest musicians, disappeared from the streets of...
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Defence minister says Henderson naval shipyard south of Perth 'very much an Australian sovereign capability' but admits US will use it tooGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe US will be able to use a major naval precinct in Western Australia to dock and maintain its own nuclear-powered submarines, the federal government...
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Kellie Sloane has ruled out moving a spill and James Griffin isn't eager. Alister Henskens is thought to lack the numbers. So, for now, the leader might be safeGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastByelections are usually a referendum on the government. But Saturday's Kiama byelection – and the poor performance of the New...
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Can you call the boss a 'dickhead' or argue that being called messy is harassment? Tribunal judges have their work cut outUsually the forum for humdrum disputes over hourly rates and unpaid overtime – employment tribunals are not the first place you'd look for an eye-catching yarn.But for dedicated followers of the tribunal service's list, recent...
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More than 125 specialist officers search 'abandoned structures, mineshafts and huts' with Victoria police reaffirming resolve to find alleged killerFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastVictorian authorities have lifted travel restrictions in the Porepunkah area, days after...
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This blog is now closed.'We've got an eye to recruiting out of PNG into the defence force' – MarlesMarles is asked about statements from his PNG counterpart about what may or may not be in the agreement, including more integration between PNG and Australian defences forces, and specifically whether there has been any confusion.I'm very pleased to...
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NSW government to rezone Parramatta Road corridor and make room for 8,000 new homes – but plan omits mooted light railFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSydney's "ugliest road” is again being touted as the next development hotspot, with plans by the Minns government...
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Henderson defence precinct to be used to build surface vessels and maintain submarines Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government is making a $12bn "downpayment” on a shipbuilding facility in Western Australia to prepare it for future nuclear-powered...
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy says drone incursions are 'an obvious expansion of the war by Russia' as neighbouring countries deploy air defencesSee all our Ukraine war coverageRomania became the latest Nato member state to report a drone incursion into its airspace , with Poland scrambling aircraft in response to fresh Russian drone strikes just over the...
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Initial count has ALP candidate securing 60.6% of the two-party-preferred vote over Liberal Serena Copley in state seatGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLabor has claimed victory in the New South Wales seat vacated by disgraced MP and convicted rapist Gareth Ward.The Kiama byelection was held on Saturday to replace Ward,...
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Director Basel Adra reports his property was stormed while he was at a hospital with relatives injured in settler attacksPalestinian Oscar-winning director Basel Adra has said that Israeli soldiers have conducted a raid at his West Bank home, searching for him and going through his wife's phone.Israeli settlers attacked his village on Saturday,...
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Fishing village of Labodrie reportedly set on fire after killing of a gang leader in sign of rising violence outside capitalThe UN secretary-general has condemned the reported killing of at least 40 people during an attack by armed gangs in a fishing village north of Haiti's capital.Media in Haiti widely reported that the attack took place on...
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Bart De Wever travelled to Essen, Germany to hear performance conducted by Lahav Shani, the music director of the Israel PhilharmonicBelgium's prime minister, Bart De Wever, has said he attended a concert by a German orchestra that was uninvited from a Belgian festival to show support for its Israeli conductor.The cancellation of a planned...
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'Preventive operations' included putting air defence systems on high alert and followed serious Russian incursion earlier in the weekPolish and allied aircraft have been deployed in a "preventive” operation in Poland's airspace because of a threat of drone strikes in neighbouring areas of Ukraine, and the airport in the eastern Polish city of...
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Head of Bashkortostan region reports second drone shot down and minor damage to Bashneft's Ufa refineryA Ukrainian drone has crashed into one of Russia's largest oil-refining complexes, sparking a fire and causing minor damage, a Russian official has said.The complex, which belongs to Russian oil company Bashneft, lies on the outskirts of the...
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Twelve soldiers also killed during raids on two TTP hideouts on border with AfghanistanFierce clashes broke out in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan when Pakistani security forces raided two hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban, killing 12 soldiers and 35 militants, the military said on Saturday.Twenty-two militants were killed in the first...
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Three years after leak led to claims of social media spying, city authorities have agreed to independent investigation "I've realised how damaging the whole thing's been because, you know, you can't trust people,” Jen Smith says from her home in Bristol.Smith is one of a number of parents of children with special education needs and disabilities...
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People in at least eight states have been infected with Chagas, new report says, amid low awareness of diseaseIn February, Luna donated blood at her high school in Miami, with the goal of helping save others."She was very proud to come home and say, 'I gave blood today,'” her mother, Valerie, said. (The Guardian is not using the mother or...
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Democrats Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley reach 'inescapable conclusion' after fact-finding trip to regionTwo Democratic senators claim they have reached the "inescapable conclusion” that Israel is acting on a systematic plan to destroy and ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza to force local people to leave, and they say the US is...
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Marina Ramazashvili says son, Giorgi Bachiashvili, was the victim of a 'vendetta' by billionaire politicianThe mother of a jailed former aide to Bidzina Ivanishvili has accused the de facto leader of Georgia of treating her son as his "personal prisoner” as she appealed to the west for help.Marina Ramazashvili, a renowned ophthalmologist in...
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Duke says serving others has saved him as he announces support for veterans through his Invictus foundationPrince Harry laid a wreath at a flower and flag memorial to Ukraine's war dead in Kyiv's Maidan Square during a surprise visit to support the country in its fight against Russia, as well as its thousands of seriously injured veterans.Harry...
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One group of marchers complained about vaccines while Indigenous and pro-Palestinian groups took to streets against racismGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFears of violent scenes at rallies across Australian capital cities on Saturday failed to materialise as just a fraction of those predicted to attend protests and...
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Philip Davis pleads for rival groups to 'kiss and make up' after divisive campaign to replace himGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastVictorian Liberals shape up for 'nastiest, most toxic' state council in yearsThe president of the Victorian Liberals, Philip Davis, has warned his party to unite ahead of the 2026 election or...
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Educational bodies from Europe to South America are boycotting Israeli institutions, though Universities UK said it did not support the actionA growing number of universities, academic institutions and scholarly bodies around the world are cutting links with Israeli academia amid claims that it is complicit in the Israeli government's actions...
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France, Germany and Denmark to contribute fighter jets and other assets in mission also expected to involve UKFrance, Germany and Denmark will contribute fighter jets and other military assets to an enhanced defence of Poland against future Russian drone incursions, Nato leaders announced at a press conference on Friday.The UK is also expected...
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Former chief justice Sushila Karki, who was nominated by gen Z representatives, to lead interim governmentNepal has sworn in its first female prime minister after a historic week in which widespread youth protests forced the resigniation of her predecessor and the dissolving of parliament.Sushila Karki, the former chief justice of Nepal, took the...
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Decision expected soon after reports in Cairo about status of imprisoned dual-national human rights activistKeir Starmer has spoken to Abdel Fatah al-Sisi amid reports the Egyptian president has directed his officials to study an internal request to grant a pardon to release the British-Egyptian human rights activist and writer Alaa Abd...
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Mille Colling and Emma Aalto given go-ahead to compete in qualifier for national championships next monthA British ice dancer and her skating partner are to become Finland's first same-sex team to take part in a competition after a rule change by the country's skating federation.Millie Colling, 20, who was born in Gateshead and moved to Finland at...
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Commission asked platforms to apply content warnings to protect children or others who do not want to see US shootingGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia's eSafety watchdog has asked social media companies to do more to guard children from seeing graphic footage of rightwing activist Charlie Kirk being shot...
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Fitch downgrade to lowest level on record complicates new prime minister Sebastien Lecornu and President Emmanuel Macron's efforts to control France's financesThe Fitch agency downgraded France's credit rating on Friday, as President Emmanuel Macron struggles with political instability and disagreements on how to put the country's strained public...
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Total of 33 groups and 10 individuals face continued financing sanctions as government adds new 'entity linked to Hamas'Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA trio of extremist organisations including Hamas, along with other entities and individuals, have been relisted for counter-terrorism financing sanctions.Palestinian...
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Film-makers pledged not to work with institutions linked to 'genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people'Paramount said it does "not agree with recent efforts to boycott Israeli film-makers”, making it the first major studio to respond to a recent pledge not to work with institutions that supported or were otherwise involved in the...
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Parviz Sabeti crafted a low-profile life for his family – but now he faces a $225m lawsuit over atrocities committed in prisons in Tehran and elsewhereNeighbors in the upscale Florida community of Windermere know them as Peter and Nancy, the seemingly friendly retired couple they wave to on morning walks, and who always appear to enjoy visits...
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The attack in Doha upended a decades-old assumption – and left Arab leaders questioning how much they can still rely on WashingtonOn Thursday, Qatar's emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, led a funeral at the state mosque. Flanked by officials in white thobes, he prayed over six caskets – one draped in a Qatari flag and five bearing...
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Retired general Herzi Halevi says 'not once' had legal advice constrained Israel's military decisions in the stripA former Israeli army commander, Herzi Halevi, has confirmed that more than 200,000 Palestinians have been killed or injured in the war in Gaza, and that "not once” in the course of the conflict were military operations inhibited by...
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Poland's prime minister praised Rutte and general Grynkewich for their 'decisive and swift action' and welcomed new Nato missionTusk also says the announcement with BAE Systems is "only a part of our cooperation with the UK.”He says he "received another message from prime minister Starmer about greater UK involvement in military assistance, here...
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Exclusive: Isabel was fined three times in one week in Sydney. 'I was like, there's been some kind of malfunction,' she saidGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIsabel didn't even realise she had broken the law until three fines turned up in her mailbox.The fines – collectively worth more than $1,200 and nine demerit points...
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Government rules out using taxpayer funds to buy off competing bid as Pacific leaders urge Turkey to step aside as an 'act of good faith'Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Albanese government is privately downplaying expectations of winning the bid to host next year's UN climate conference as rival Turkey refuses to...
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Indigenous groups and other minorities praise verdict while US officials issue warnings of possible sanctions• Operation World Cup: the murder plot at the heart of Brazil's trial of the century• Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for plotting military coup in BrazilThousands of Brazilians have taken to the streets to rejoice at Jair Bolsonaro's...
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Research shows majority of shark meat mislabeled or so vaguely labeled buyers do not know what they are eatingA recent study has revealed that the majority of shark meat available to American shoppers is mislabeled, with much of it coming from endangered species.The research, conducted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tested...
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Human rights report highlights crackdown on personal freedoms in most restrictive country in the worldNorth Korea has executed people for distributing foreign television shows, including popular South Korean dramas, as part of an intensifying crackdown on personal freedoms, according to a UN human rights report.Surveillance has grown more pervasive...
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The International IDEA's survey of democratic markers finds US is offering 'encouragement' to populist leadersPress freedom around the world has suffered its sharpest fall in 50 years as global democracy weakens dramatically, a landmark report has found.According to the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance...
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In a move praised by RFK Jr, the FDA approved a new shot, but only for some people – here's what to know about who can get them, and whereThere is a lot of confusion about Covid vaccines this year.In late August, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it had rescinded emergency use authorizations (a tool that allows the FDA to...
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Bride finally tracks down awkward-looking stranger she and husband noticed only when looking through photosA baffled bride has solved the mystery of the awkward-looking stranger who crashed her wedding four years ago.Michelle Wylie and her husband, John, registered the presence of their unidentifiable guest only as they looked through photographs...
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European Commission president addresses a parliament reeling from Trump trade deal and escalations in Ukraine and GazaWhen Ursula von der Leyen arrived in the vast semi-circle debating chamber in the European parliament in Strasbourg, she greeted MEP leaders of some of Europe's political groups warmly. Wearing a trim khaki-green jacket, the...
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Banning order comes after multiple complaints from residents of apartment block about feathers and droppingsRome's mayor has ordered a woman to stop feeding dozens of pigeons that have overrun an apartment block, after furious residents, claiming to be drowning in feathers and guano, demanded relief from what has been described as a Hitchcockian...
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Intricate plan to murder top judge, president- and vice-president elect was central to Jair Bolsonaro coup hopesThe conspirators used codenames to conceal their identities as they prepared for their mission: to plunge Brazil into chaos by assassinating a celebrity supreme court judge called Alexandre de Moraes.On an encrypted messaging group, one...
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Neil Gilson is undertaking a huge mental and physical task to raise awareness of a neuropsychiatric condition that affected his son JackThe physical effort as he battles currents, coldness and wind is massive, but the mental challenge of ploughing on alone for hours on end is even more testing.Neil Gilson, a father of three from Devon, is about to...
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As Hyundai-LG workers fly home after visa ordeal, Koreans bristle at 'humiliation' and sense of betrayal by Seoul's allyMore than 300 South Korean workers arrived at Incheon international airport on Friday afternoon, ending a week-long ordeal that began with the US Department of Homeland Security's largest ever single-site raid by Immigration and...
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It was left to a – albeit extinct – tiny relative of the kangaroo to offer some relief from the blizzard of major eventsWhere to start in a week so fraught with major events you could hardly draw breath for the news flashes? It started with Trump's alleged contribution to Jeffrey Epstein's "birthday book,” shared by the Democrats on social...
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Late founder instructs heirs to gradually sell stakes in fashion house with priority given to LVMH, L'Oréal or EssilorLuxotticaBusiness live – latest updatesThe Italian fashion house Giorgio Armani could soon be sold or become a publicly listed company, according to the late founder's will.The fashion designer, who died last week at the age of...
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