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Huge blow to prosecution as judge rules footage is inadmissible in upcoming trialFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA video of two Sydney nurses allegedly making antisemitic comments to an Israeli influencer has been ruled inadmissible as evidence as the pair prepare to...
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Herbicide manufacturer Sygenta had reservations dating back to 1970s but regulator says tighter controls, including phasing out backpack sprayers, can protect workersFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe herbicide paraquat, banned in over 70 countries, will remain legal...
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One Nation leader says she isn't suggesting Australia get rid of taxpayer-funded parental leave entitlementsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPauline Hanson says small businesses will "fold” under the cost of providing paid parental leave, as Labor suggested the One...
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Monika Silva Koniuszek died from a blow to the head and strangulation, a postmortem found, despite government claim of suicideCampaigners in Ecuador say a Polish anti-corruption activist who investigated allegations against the family business of the country's rightwing president was murdered to silence her.Monika Silva Koniuszek, 41, was found...
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In today's newsletter: Correspondents across the UK reveal the challenges that Labour's newest MP will face from day one in the jobGood morning. It seems inevitable that Andy Burnham will become the UK's seventh prime minister in a decade, after Keir Starmer announced his resignation on Monday morning and, hours later, Burnham's most likely...
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The PM said in May that 'stories beat spreadsheets', but what does the data tell us about his time in office?Keir Starmer is to step down as prime minister after just two years in office.Despite promising an end to Conservative sleaze and scandal, much political bandwidth towards the end of his time in No 10 was taken up by the fallout surrounding...
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Availability of teplizumab on the NHS – which postpones early stages of disease for up to three years – described as an 'incredible moment'The world's first drug to delay the onset of type 1 diabetes is to be made available on the NHS in England and Wales, in the biggest breakthrough in tackling the disease for more than a century.Millions of...
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Temperatures could hit 38-40C in parts of England and Wales, smashing June record set in 1976; red alerts in France after 19 heat deathsTwo children found dead in car in France as heatwave hits EuropeBirds such as swifts, swallows, sparrows and starlings – which make their nests in the eaves of roofs – have been particularly affected by...
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Earnings from mining the fossil fuel set to increase to $6.9bn over financial year, up from $4.8bn, with budget deficit to reach $6.2bnFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastQueensland's treasurer says he's "not giving up” on halting a ratings downgrade of the state's...
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Channel Nine TV presenter also calls former UK prime minister Keir Starmer a 'wanker' in teaser for interview with RobinsonFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Channel Nine TV presenter Karl Stefanovic has posted a video of himself embracing the UK far-right activist...
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Rights campaigners and MEPs say meeting would normalise regime that erases women from public lifeEU officials are facing fierce criticism over plans to host the Taliban in Brussels on Tuesday, with rights campaigners and MEPs warning that the meeting risks normalising a regime that has banned girls from school beyond the sixth grade and sought to...
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Met Office forecasters have issued a rare red weather warning for England, with temperatures potentially reaching 40C (104F) in some places. Europe is also dealing with a debilitating heatwave, with schools closed, trains cancelled and France even restricting the consumption of alcohol outdoors to take pressure off the emergency services. The high...
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How five months in 2016 that encompassed Boris Johnson siding with Vote Leave, Jo Cox's murder and David Cameron's resignation shaped the UK's futureDavid Cameron, having promised in 2013 that a future Conservative government would offer a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU, announces the date of the vote: 23 June 2016. The next day,...
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Exclusive: Charities say they 'cannot continue to absorb the impact of child poverty' without government supportFour hundred thousand children in the UK were supported by baby banks in 2025, an 11% increase from the year before, prompting warnings from charities that they "cannot continue to absorb the impact of child poverty on this scale”...
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Exclusive: Data reveals 60% of 18 to 28-year-olds would vote to rejoin bloc if given the opportunityA generation of young Britons who were locked out of the 2016 EU referendum because of their age now believe that Brexit has failed, with a majority demanding a fresh vote to rejoin the EU, exclusive polling shows.Gen Z Britons show deep...
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The UK has lost its sixth prime minister in a decade. How did Keir Starmer go from landslide victory to resigning in two years?When the former human rights lawyer, full of ambition, won a landslide in the 2024 general election, hope was in the air. Keir Starmer had arrived on a promise to repair 14 years of Conservative damage. Just two years...
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Minor party says it has also negotiated an extension to the inquiry into controversial changes to the NDISFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Greens will support the Albanese government's negative gearing and capital gains tax changes under a deal that will delay and...
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Written in 1947, Kiyoshi Tanimoto's account of the horrors of the atomic bomb attack will be published in August and is being made into a filmThe memoir of a man who survived the horrors of Hiroshima is to be published for the first time this summer after its discovery in a US archive.The 230-page memoir was written almost 80 years ago by Kiyoshi...
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Share of people who say cultural diversity has been good for the nation plunges from 90% in 2024 to 73% in 2026, Lowy Institute survey findsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia is undergoing a historic decline in support for multiculturalism, according to the Lowy...
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Follow today's news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBen Roberts-Smith invitation to war memorial event 'appropriate', says MarlesRichard Marles says it's appropriate that the accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith will attend the official opening for the centrepiece of the revamped Australian War Memorial.It's...
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Unions condemn 'insensitive' internal cybersecurity test sent to healthcare workers in Newfoundland and LabradorFor years, healthcare staff in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador have felt overworked and underappreciated. Turnover, burnout and thinning resources were pushing workers in the sector to a breaking point.So when the email...
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City's police force faces investigation of 16 officers accused of disproportionately targeting Black and Arab residentsMontreal's mayor has called for a halt to random police checks as the city's police force grapples with an internal investigation into racism and racial profiling by 16 officers.Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada told reporters last...
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Trump-admiring Abelardo de la Espriella has vowed to 'disembowel' the left and kill criminals like 'rats and cockroaches'When more than 20 women accused a Colombian evangelical pastor in 2012 of sexually abusing them, the defendant's lawyer sought to discredit the allegations by telling the court that they were "trepadoras” – a pejorative term...
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Davis, who discovered many of the defining musicians of the 20th century and helmed major record labels, said he 'never' tired of the music businessClive Davis: a life in pictures from Diana Ross to Aretha FranklinThe famed US music industry executive and record producer Clive Davis has died aged 94, his family has confirmed.He had recently been...
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José Luis Ábalos found to have taken bribes on Covid-era public contracts in damaging blow to Pedro SánchezSpain's supreme court has jailed the former transport minister José Luis Ábalos for 24 years for taking bribes on public contracts for sanitary equipment such as face masks during the Covid pandemic.Ábalos's aide, Koldo García, was...
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Ursula von der Leyen, Friedrich Merz and Volodymyr Zelenskyy say British PM helped increase securityEuropean leaders have paid tribute to Keir Starmer after he announced his resignation as the British prime minister, triggering the postponement of an EU-UK summit.The European Council president, António Costa, said: "For sure we need to postpone...
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Experts thought H5N1 bird flu would more likely reach Australia's north. But an arrival from Antarctica had always been possibleFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBrown skuas and giant petrels are a common sight offshore in southern Australian waters in the winter months,...
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Barron Trump has a new yerba mate and Kai Trump a 'bold' energy drink – would their offerings pass the taste test?Do you like sugary soft drinks? Do you like Donald Trump and his family? Do you want to support nepotism?If the answer is yes to all these questions, then have I got the products for you: a pineapple yerba mate co-founded by Trump's...
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Norway is supposedly one of world's most gender-equal countries, yet sexual violence remains prevalent across societyIn many ways, the case of Marius Borg Høiby, who was sentenced to four years in prison last week after being found guilty of offences including domestic violence and two counts of rape, was exceptional.The king's 29-year-old...
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The Marshall Project analyzed over 9,000 death sentences handed down since states brought the punishment backFifty years ago, Americans set out on a polarizing mission: to find a just and fair way to punish the worst-of-the-worst crimes by execution.In some ways, this was a surprising choice. In 1972, a narrow majority of the US supreme court had...
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Eastern Europe to see temperatures above early July average into next weekThe extreme heat experienced across central and western Europe, including the UK, will continue to shift eastwards. As slightly cooler weather infiltrates into western Europe, with risks of downpours and thunderstorms, eastern Europe is likely to see temperatures several...
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The vice president said the move represented a 'major milestone' in ending Iran's nuclear programmeAccording to Palestinian news agency Wafa, a high school student was killed and several other civilians were injured earlier today in an Israeli attack on a civilian vehicle in Gaza City. The Gaza health ministry says at least 1,021 people have been...
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Russia intercepted 300 Ukrainian drones across the country and temporarily suspended operations from Moscow airportUkraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy also responded to Starmer setting out his plans to resign as Britain's PM, telling him he would always be "a welcome guest” in Ukraine for his support to the wartorn country.In a statement on his social...
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Defence barrister claims teenager was a 'troubled kid' but crown prosecutor says he was serious when he wrote of copying US domestic terroristsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA teenager accused of preparing a nail bombing campaign was either a "troubled kid” who made edgy jokes or a determined terrorist in waiting, a...
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In today's newsletter: Our senior political correspondent talks about how the coming days and weeks may unfold for the Labour government, and how Keir Starmer ended up the most unpopular prime minister in memory• Don't get First Edition delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereGood morning. Today's the day, probably. Keir Starmer is expected to...
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Allegra Spender, Sophie Scamps and Nicolette Boele are understood to be open to the idea but other crossbenchers are firmly againstFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastZali Steggall is poised to launch a new political venture as soon as this week after months of secret...
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Industrial action is biggest escalation yet in months-long dispute with populist government of Andrej BabišThousands of public service media employees in Czechia are holding a 24-hour strike after the government of the billionaire prime minister, Andrej Babiš, pushed ahead with controversial plans to change the way the country's public...
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A national heatwave plan has been activated to help people stay cool during the Netherlands' increasingly hot summersHouseholds in Amsterdam are being urged to hang their curtains outside their windows as health experts recommend simple hacks to moderate the heatwave rolling across the Netherlands, where homes were built for old-fashioned damp and...
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Preliminary data show 47.7% of homes sold at auction in the week ending 21 June, the lowest rate has been since April 2020Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastClearance rates in Australia's capital cities have fallen to a six-year low, with fewer than half of homes at...
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Poultry producer Ingham's announces move, as a brown skua and a giant petrel the first confirmed H5 cases on Australia's mainlandFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPoultry farms in Western Australia have gone into lockdown after the deadly H5N1 bird flu arrived on the...
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Leftwing opponent alleges vote count irregularities after Trump-endorsed lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella secures narrow majorityA Trump-admiring far-right millionaire lawyer and self-styled "outsider” has defeated a leftwing senator by a razor-thin margin to win Colombia's presidential runoff, in an election that promises to mark a dramatic shift...
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Australian federal police arrested and charged two men after allegedly finding $800m worth of cocaine in 'bunkers' under shipping containersFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPolice claim to have made Australia's biggest ever cocaine bust after finding $800m worth of the...
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This blog is now closedWestern Australian poultry farms locked down as second wild bird dies from H5N1 bird fluGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastHume has no problem with more debate on NDIS changes, but criticises 'horse trading' between Labor and the GreensJane Hume is speaking to RN Breakfast now, saying the Coalition has...
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Objections come as Trump threatens to renew attacks on Iran if it doesn't rein in its proxy in LebanonUS political figures from left and right voiced fresh objections on Sunday to Donald Trump's provisional deal with Iran – even as the US president made new threats while Vice-President JD Vance hailed progress during the first round of direct...
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Former negotiating team member gives shock interview claiming supreme leader's instructions were not followedMiddle East crisis – live updatesA former member of Iran's negotiating team in the previous round of talks with the US in Islamabad is facing the threat of prosecution and dismissal from parliament after he went on the main state...
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Thanks to rushed deadlines, financial pressure and overworked staff, titles are going to market before they're ready – and then sliding from view immediatelyA Sydney author – I'll call her Rebecca – vowed never to write another book after the deranging experience of publishing her first. She's using a pseudonym because one day she might...
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Albanese government under pressure to wind back fuel tax credit scheme for multinational miners as analysis shows cost to budgetGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastCoal companies could receive an extra $6.2bn in taxpayer refunds for the diesel they use if the Albanese government greenlights just half the mine developments up...
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Rob Jetten acknowledges grief and pain of Moluccan families as crowdfunded monument unveiled in RotterdamThe Dutch prime minister, Rob Jetten, has formally apologised for the "heartless” mistreatment of thousands of Moluccan soldiers who fought for the Dutch colonial army during Indonesia's struggle for independence.About 12,500 people – men...
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