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US tells embassies to deny visas to applicants who say they fear return to home country

Directive claims that new process is due to ‘the high number of aliens claiming asylum’ in the USApplicants seeking a temporary visa to the United States must now tell a consular officer that they have not experienced harm and do not fear returning to their home country, according to new guidance is...

Joseph Gedeon in Washington 3 months ago

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Singing activists disrupt NatWest meeting over ‘climate backtracking’

AGM briefly adjourned after protesters wearing T-shirts labelled ‘No more big oil’ burst into songThe chair of NatWest was forced to defend the bank against accusations of “climate backtracking” at a chaotic annual shareholder meeting, which was temporarily suspended owing to singing protesters.Not...

Julia Kollewe 3 months ago

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Evacuees from flooded remote Indigenous areas in NT housed in compound likened to ‘a prison camp’

Residents must sign in and out at a security gate, and vehicles and bags are routinely searchedGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastHundreds of evacuees from remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory have been housed behind temporary fences and denied visitors aft...

Reporting and photography by (A)manda Parkinson in Darwin 3 months ago

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Brittany Higgins criticises federal inaction as Victoria moves to protect victim-survivors’ counselling records

Exclusive: State government commits to strengthening laws as Higgins labels Albanese government’s response to women’s safety issues ‘disheartening’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Victorian government will strengthen laws regarding the use of victim-survivors’ confident...

Benita Kolovos Victorian state correspondent 3 months ago

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Guardian Essential poll: more Australians approve of Hanson’s party leadership than Albanese or Taylor’s

One Nation outperforms the Coalition for the first time, while the rightwing populist party’s leader has a positive rating among all age groupsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA majority of surveyed Australians approve of Pauline Hanson’s leadership of One Nation, giving he...

Josh Butler 3 months ago

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‘It feels like a betrayal’: anger as Apple to close US’s first unionized store

Tech giant accused of ‘cynical attempt to bust the union’ in decision to shutter location in Towson, MarylandWorkers at the first Apple store to unionize in the US are pushing back against the company’s decision to shut down the store by June, alleging the company’s decision is rooted in “a cynical...

Michael Sainato 3 months ago

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France murder victim identified after 20 years and suspect arrested

Hakima Boukerouis is the fifth woman to be identified through an international police campaign.

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France murder victim identified after 20 years and suspect arrested

Hakima Boukerouis is the fifth woman to be identified through an international police campaign.

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'Childhood memories' - why nostalgia wasn't enough to save Claire's

Experts says Claire's suffered from a perfect storm of issues which has spelled the end for the accessories chain.

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Nostalgia wasn't enough: What went wrong at Claire's

Experts says Claire's suffered from a perfect storm of issues which has spelled the end for the accessories chain.

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John Hinckley Jr calls Trump shooting at same hotel he shot Reagan ‘spooky’

Hinckley says ‘bad things keep happening’ at Washington Hilton and it was ‘not a secure place to hold big events’US politics live – latest updatesThe man who shot Ronald Reagan at the Washington Hilton in 1981 has said it was “spooky” for him to learn of Saturday’s shooting at the hotel during a pre...

Ramon Antonio Vargas 3 months ago

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Journalist Katie Phang sues acting attorney general Todd Blanche over Epstein files

Lawsuit alleges DoJ breached transparency law by withholding records on Jeffrey Epstein and over-redacting disclosuresTodd Blanche, the acting attorney general, engaged in a “brazen, shocking, and ongoing violation” of a law requiring the justice department (DoJ) to release the entirety of the so-ca...

Richard Luscombe 3 months ago

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GP struck off over garlic oil 'cancer cure' claims

Mohsen Ali charged cancer patients up to £15,000 for bogus "cures", a tribunal hears.

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GP struck off over garlic oil 'cancer cure' claims

Mohsen Ali charged cancer patients up to £15,000 for bogus "cures", a tribunal hears.

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Third Ukrainian strike hits Russian oil refinery and prompts evacuations

Residents near a burning refinery in Tuapse are told to leave, as efforts continue to contain an oil spill caused by earlier strikes.

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Russian oligarch’s superyacht allowed through strait of Hormuz, source says

Billionaire Alexei Mordashov’s vessel, Nord, reportedly able to cross blockaded strait with US and Iranian approvalA superyacht owned by the Russian billionaire Alexei Mordashov was able to transit the blockaded strait of Hormuz after undergoing maintenance in Dubai because neither Iran nor the US...

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Swarm of 10,000 bees settles on bike outside Louvre in Paris

The swarm gathers underneath the saddle of a bike locked to the railings of a metro station.

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Swarm of 10,000 bees settles on bike outside Louvre in Paris

The swarm gathers underneath the saddle of a bike locked to the railings of a metro station.

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Journalist Andrzej Poczobut freed from prison in Belarus in US-brokered swap deal

Sakharov prize winner was given eight-year sentence after process widely condemned as politically motivatedThe Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut, the 2025 Sakharov prize winner, has been freed after five years in a Belarusian penal colony as part of a US-brokered multi-country swap deal....

Jakub Krupa 3 months ago

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Northern Beaches hospital handed to NSW government, ending troubled public-private partnership

Transition and legal handover of hospital from private operator Healthscope to NSW Health occurs at 7am on WednesdayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSydney’s Northern Beaches hospital is officially entering the public sy...

Penry Buckley 3 months ago

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Man City face pile-up after fixtures rescheduled

Manchester City face a fixture pile-up of four games in 11 days next month after the Premier League confirmed the rescheduled dates for two of their key matches in the race for the title.

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One year after Spain’s blackout, its shift to renewables and grid evolution power on

Though solar was initially incorrectly blamed for crisis, renewables have helped insulate Spain from gas price rises caused by war in Middle EastOne year ago today, all of Spain, and much of Portugal, suffered through a blackout of unprecedented scale and duration. In mere seconds, a cascading seque...

Ketan Joshi 3 months ago

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Europe’s smaller airports ‘under threat’ if fuel shortages cause many cancellations

High fuel prices and passenger delays caused by EU’s EES entry-exit system causing problems, says trade bodyBusiness live – latest updatesEurope’s smaller airports may not survive if jet fuel shortages triggered by the Middle East crisis lead to widespread route cancellations, the industry’s trade b...

Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent 3 months ago

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The personal pettiness of the Elon Musk v OpenAI trial

In theory, Musk and Altman’s court fight could pose key questions about AI safety – in reality, it’s motivated by money and personal grievanceSign up for the TechScape newsletter: our free technology emailHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardia...

Blake Montgomery 3 months ago

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