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Border patrol personnel in riot gear and gas masks descend on an industrial park in ParamountA day after the arrest of a union leader in Los Angeles, federal immigration authorities faced widespread backlash from California officials even as they moved forward with a renewed immigration crackdown in nearby Paramount that was met by more protests.US...
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US president says he's 'too busy doing other things' to try to reconcile with erstwhile ally and campaign backerDonald Trump warned Elon Musk on Saturday that he faces "very serious consequences” if he funds Democratic candidates following the pair's epic public bust-up this week.The warning, delivered in an interview with NBC News scheduled to...
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City mayor Karen Bass joins governor Gavin Newsom and others in denouncing arrests of at least 45 peopleThe Department of Homeland Security conducted raids on multiple locations across Los Angeles on Friday, clashing with the crowds of people who gathered to protest and prompting widespread criticism from California leaders.Masked agents were...
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Tehran condemns Donald Trump's order barring 12 countries' citizens from entering US as violation of 'fundamental principles of international law'Tehran has denounced the US travel ban on Iranians and citizens of 11 other mostly Middle Eastern and African countries, saying Washington's decision was a sign of a "racist mentality”.Donald Trump...
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Advocate claims Abbott government was concerned asylum seekers and refugees were using medical transfers as a back door to get into AustraliaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastScott Morrison overrode medical advice in the case of an asylum seeker in offshore detention trying to access an abortion, and had previously sought...
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Campaigners say designation promotes unsustainable sheep farming at expense of nature recovery and local communitiesConservationists have launched a campaign to revoke the Lake District's Unesco world heritage status, arguing that it promotes unsustainable sheep farming at the expense of nature recovery and local communities.In a letter to Unesco,...
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Government says ethical certification is adding financial strain on smallholders rather than being paid by customersThe Kenyan government has told its tea factories to stop working with the Rainforest Alliance because it says the costs involved in securing the ethical label don't add up for farmers.The non-profit organisation is one of the world's...
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So far, 79 people have fallen ill from sickness linked to eggs from the August Egg CompanyFederal food and health agencies are investigating a multistate outbreak of salmonella infections linked to eggs from a California producer that have sickened 79 people and hospitalized 21.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advised on Friday...
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Speaking at an SXSW London event, the actor outlined his desire to ignite the cinema experience for a new generation across the continent Idris Elba has spoken of his ambition to create the "African Odeon” – a chain of cinemas to ignite the cinemagoing experience across the continent.Elba was speaking at an event at SXSW London in which he...
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Singer's western-inspired Cowboy Carter tour is reminder of pop culture's sway over shopping behaviourRhinestones, cowboy hats and a whole lot of denim; not a hen party entourage, a Glastonbury fit or a Nashville rodeo, but the queues outside Tottenham Hotspur Stadium this week, as Beyoncé kicked off her UK tour. And, seemingly, a new national...
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UK, France and other western states will not recognise Palestine at New York meeting, instead focusing on agreeing steps towards itA planned conference in New York this month that supporters of Palestine had hoped would push western governments to recognise a Palestinian state has weakened its ambition and will instead hope to agree on steps...
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Nattapong Pinta had been seized in the Hamas-led 7 October 2023 attack and killed, according to Israeli militaryThe Israeli military has retrieved the body of a Thai hostage, Nattapong Pinta, who had been held in Gaza since Hamas's attack on 7 October 2023, according to defence minister, Israel Katz. .Pinta's body was held by a Palestinian militant...
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NGO says Afghan capital's 7 million people face existential crisis that world needs urgently to addressKabul could become the first modern city to completely run out of water, experts have warned.Water levels within Kabul's aquifers have dropped by up to 30 metres over the past decade owing to rapid urbanisation and climate breakdown, according to...
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Government defence expert Fiona Hill warns UK to respond to threats by becoming more cohesive and resilientRussia is at war with Britain, the US is no longer a reliable ally and the UK has to respond by becoming more cohesive and more resilient, according to one of the three authors of the strategic defence review.Fiona Hill, from County Durham,...
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Police say remains found during search of area near Good Night Scrub national park on Friday afternoonAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastQueensland police have identified remains found in the search for missing 17-year-old Pheobe Bishop as human, and further testing is being done...
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Deportees and officers are 'ill' and face risks after flight to South Sudan was stopped by US court in late MayA group of men removed from the US to Djibouti, in east Africa, are stranded in a converted shipping container together with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers sent to supervise them after a deportation flight to...
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Already affected by US aid cuts, many Africans now face limits on travel to US and looming remittance taxWhen Essi Farida Geraldo, a Lomé-based architect, heard about partial restrictions on travel to the US from Togo as part of the travel bans announced by Donald Trump on Thursday, she lamented losing access to what many young Togolese consider...
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Wong accused of conspiracy in move rights groups condemn as 'outrageous' attempt to keep influential dissident imprisonedJailed pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong has been hit with further national security charges, a move rights groups said showed the Hong Kong government was trying to keep dissidents behind bars for as long as possible.Wong, a...
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Geelong woman lured by bogus ads for a boutique that didn't exist says PayPal must do more to help scam victimsOnline "ghost stores” falsely claiming to be Australian businesses are providing fake tracking numbers to convince payment platforms they have delivered goods that have never been sent, a disappointed shopper says.Ghost stores are online...
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Police believe man was crossing track between two carriages when struck, sparking safety debateGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFor the second time in two years, a pedestrian has died after being struck by a tram on Sydney's light rail.New South Wales police said they found a man under a tram carriage in Surry Hills on...
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Mark Carney declined to answer if he believed Indian PM had a role in murder of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh NijjarCanada's prime minister, Mark Carney, has defended his decision to invite India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, to the upcoming G7 summit in Alberta, despite the conclusion of Canada's federal police's that the murder of a prominent...
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Video footage shows animal charging past cars, with the council later saying it was in police carePedestrians in Birmingham were left questioning whether the statue guarding the Bullring shopping centre had come to life when a bull was spotted running loose on the city's streets.Video footage shared online on Friday morning showed a large black...
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Travellers on short-haul flights would have to be delayed by four hours or more to get payout under new planEU countries have agreed to increase the amount of time aircraft passengers are delayed before they can qualify for compensation.Passengers on short-haul flights would have to be delayed by four hours or more before they could claim...
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Tirso 'TJ' Dominguez says Escobar paid him $20m monthly to fly planeloads of cokeA man who eventually became Pablo Escobar's go-to cocaine pilot has revealed that he first turned down an employment offer from the notorious Colombian drug lord because he was content with the $4m a month he was earning while flying for a competitor.But, in a new...
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'Jane' said Combs rebuffed her requests for condoms during drug-fueled sexual encounters with male escortsThe federal sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial of Sean "Diddy” Combs resumed on Friday with testimony from a former girlfriend and alleged victim, identified as "Jane”.The woman, described by prosecutors as a single mother...
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Three emergency workers killed and 20 people wounded as missiles and drones strike Ukrainian capitalRussia launched an intense missile and drone barrage at Kyiv overnight after Vladimir Putin vowed to respond to Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb attack on some of the Kremlin's nuclear-capable bombers.Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia had launched more...
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A vote of no-confidence in Jeremy Rockliff's government has pushed the state to the brink of an election that all the major players agree is a bad ideaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastCraig Garland, the fisherman turned maverick independent MP from Tasmania's north-western corner, summed it up best when he told state...
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Rosemary Gamble, owner of Taz-Zorb which set up the equipment in Tasmania, had pleaded not guilty to failing to comply with workplace safety lawsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe families of the six children killed in a primary school jumping castle incident are angry after the operator who set up the castle was found...
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Across the US, hundreds of thousands of Chinese students are now uncertain about their academic future and some are considering moving awayChinese students in the United States are questioning their future in the country after the state department announced last week that it would "aggressively” revoke visas for Chinese students and enhance...
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President had cued up ban in January order and, despite exemptions, policy will separate families and harm people fleeing crisesDonald Trump's first travel ban in 2017 had an immediate, explosive impact – spawning chaos at airports nationwide.This time around, the panic and chaos was already widespread by the time the president signed his...
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Census finds just 56.7% in world's biggest Catholic country follow Roman church as evangelical numbers riseHome to the world's largest Catholic population, Brazil has once again witnessed a decline in the faith's following, according to new figures released by the country's national statistics institute (IBGE).Thirty years ago, Catholics made up...
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Car company's shares dropped by 14.2% and its billionaire CEO's net worth reduced by $8.73bnMusk calls for Trump to be impeached as extraordinary feud escalatesTesla's shares dropped by about 14.2% on Thursday at market close, wiping roughly $152bn off the value of the company as a feud between Elon Musk and Donald Trump erupted into public view....
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Shafarat Mohammed attempted to sue Derbyshire police after colleague asked him to take part in the gameA police officer was asked by a colleague to take part in a game of "snog, marry, avoid” using images of sex workers and criminal suspects, a tribunal has heard.Shafarat Mohammed attempted to sue Derbyshire police for racial discrimination and...
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Man Group's temporary move comes as it tries to recover from spell of poor performance amid Trump tariff warMan Group has ordered its London-based analysts to return temporarily to the office five days a week, as the world's biggest listed hedge fund seeks to recover from a period of poor performance amid Donald Trump's tariff war.Quantitative...
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PM says it 'saves lives of Israeli soldiers', after accusations government is giving weapons to 'criminals and felons'The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has admitted arming clans in Gaza that he says are opposed to Hamas, after allegations that members of these criminal gangs looted humanitarian aid and have ties to jihadist groups.The...
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France particularly badly hit, while rainfall across southern China triggers landslides and widespread disruptionThis week, large parts of Europe have been affected by a series of intense thunderstorms, bringing torrential rain, damaging winds and large hail.Central France was particularly badly affected by the severe weather, as powerful storm...
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Former footballer will take title of sir and wife Victoria will become Lady BeckhamDavid Beckham will be awarded a knighthood next week as part of King Charles's birthday celebrations, according to reports.Beckham has been in line for a knighthood for more than a decade after playing more than 100 times for England and becoming well known for his...
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Two cold fronts moving in from the Great Australian Bight will bring rain, storms and hail across SA, Victoria and NSW over the King's birthday long weekendGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe King's birthday long weekend could be the snowiest start to an Australian ski season in years, forecasters predict.Weatherzone said...
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A UN working group report found engineer's 2021 detention was in breach of international lawAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralian engineer Robert Pether has been released from his Iraq jail cell more than four years after he was arbitrarily detained.Pether was working on a...
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After one oarfish was found in Tasmania, two were discovered in New Zealand, but there is no evidence of link between sightings and natural disaster, say scientistsBad luck comes in threes, according to the saying. And this week three ethereal oarfish, nicknamed "the doomsday fish”, have washed up on the shores of Australia and New Zealand.Two...
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Incident happened as one of the Royal Australian Navy's largest ships was on its way to Wellington this weekGet Guardian Australia's breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian defence force (ADF) has conceded that one of its ships inadvertently blocked wireless internet and radio services across swathes of New Zealand's North...
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This blog is now closedHealth minister confirms government reviewing ban on US beef importsThe health minister, Mark Butler, has confirmed the Albanese government is reviewing a ban on imports of American beef into Australia.This is US beef that's raised in Canada or Mexico, not cattle that are raised in the US itself, but then brought into...
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US president says he accepted invitation in first phone conversation between leaders since JanuaryDonald Trump said he had accepted an invitation to meet Xi Jinping in China after a phone conversation on trade was held between the leaders of the world's two largest economies.In a post on Truth Social, the US president said the "very good” call...
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This blog has now closedPatterson denies telling ex-partner she had important medical news she wanted advice onRogers says Simon gave evidence that on 16 July 2023 – two weeks prior to the lunch – Patterson approached him after a church service and said she had some important medical news she wanted advice on and how to break it to the...
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Opposition leader dismisses numerology comment as a 'flippant remark' and 'actually not the reason' for extra 's'Australia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe opposition leader, Sussan Ley, has walked back claims that an interest in numerology was the reason she added extra "s” in her...
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