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Australia news live: NDIS savings to fund better aged care including showers, minister says; fourth man charged over alleged Baghsarian kidnapping murder
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Australia news live: NDIS savings to fund better aged care including showers, minister says; fourth man charged over alleged Baghsarian kidnapping murder

Labor says cuts to disability scheme mean elderly will get more help. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPocock calls for government to put ‘Australians ahead of gas companies’Independent senator David Pocock has said a 25% tax on gas exports is not a...

Nick Visser
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Dozens of US lawmakers faced harassment claims, study finds
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Dozens of US lawmakers faced harassment claims, study finds

Analysis finds 53 allegations against 30 lawmakers; nine still in office amid wave of resignations in CongressFifty-three allegations of workplace sexual harassment have been made against at least 30 House and Senate lawmakers over the past two decades, an advocacy group said in a study that was rel...

Chris Stein
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Olly Robbins’ account of Mandelson vetting piles pressure on Starmer
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Olly Robbins’ account of Mandelson vetting piles pressure on Starmer

Sacked civil servant tells select committee of ‘pressure’ to give clearance and ‘dismissive’ attitude to vettingThe civil servant sacked by Keir Starmer has given a devastating account of his government, saying Downing Street put huge pressure on the civil service to approve the appointment of Peter...

Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey
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Victims of sexual violence distressed by MPs’ ‘pugnacious’ questioning
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Victims of sexual violence distressed by MPs’ ‘pugnacious’ questioning

Exclusive: Victims’ commissioner makes formal complaint after committee session left one attender ‘shocked, upset and extremely distressed’Victims of rape and sexual violence have told parliamentarians they felt anxious and distressed during a Westminster evidence session, with one stating that witn...

Alexandra Topping Political correspondent
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EU foreign ministers reject proposal to suspend association agreement with Israel
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EU foreign ministers reject proposal to suspend association agreement with Israel

A part suspension was tabled by Ireland, Spain and Slovenia but did not receive enough backing from other member statesThe EU remains split on imposing sanctions on Israel, despite some member states criticising the country over the plight of Gaza and violence against Palestinians by Israeli settler...

Jennifer Rankin in Brussels
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Bill banning people born after 2008 from buying tobacco clears UK parliament
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Bill banning people born after 2008 from buying tobacco clears UK parliament

Ministers hope tobacco and vapes bill, which will become law next week, will create a ‘smoke-free generation’A bill banning anyone born after 2008 from buying tobacco in the UK has completed its progress through parliament in a move that ministers hope will create a “smoke-free generation”.Under the...

Denis Campbell Health policy editor
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Prolific unregulated sperm donor loses UK legal fight to be named as child’s father
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Prolific unregulated sperm donor loses UK legal fight to be named as child’s father

Robert Albon cannot be declared four-year-old’s father because he ran illegal sperm donation business, court rulesA prolific unregulated sperm donor described in the high court as a “highly dangerous man” has lost a legal fight to be named as the father of a child conceived using his sperm.Robert Al...

Robyn Vinter North of England correspondent
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‘Self-serving stuff’: anger remains high in Whitehall over Olly Robbins sacking
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‘Self-serving stuff’: anger remains high in Whitehall over Olly Robbins sacking

Keir Starmer’s decision to oust senior official may have knock-on effect for No 10’s relationship with civil serviceFury within Whitehall about the treatment of Olly Robbins remains white hot, several days on from Keir Starmer’s decision to sack the senior Foreign Office civil servant.“It’s just tot...

Rowena Mason Whitehall editor
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Taiwan president blames China for forced cancellation of Eswatini trip
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Taiwan president blames China for forced cancellation of Eswatini trip

Lai Ching-te abandons visit after Seychelles, Mauritius and Madagascar revoke overflight permission Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, has cancelled his trip to Eswatini, the democratic island’s only diplomatic ally in Africa, after his government said several countries had revoked overflight permit...

Reuters in Taipei
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