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Two Australian states prepare to resettle children from Syrian detention camp with most bound for Melbourne

Four women and nine children expected to return to Australia on Thursday with all apart from a mother and her child expected to go to VictoriaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAuthorities in two Australian states are preparing to resettle children returning from squalid dete...

Nino Bucci and Tom McIlroy 3 months ago

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Florida baby ‘born twice’ after elaborate surgery involving partial delivery

Cassian Joubert was partially delivered at 25 weeks for procedure and placed back in mother’s womb before birthA Florida infant is said to have been born twice after undergoing what was an innovative, likely life-saving surgery that involved a partial delivery weeks before his mother then gave birth...

Ramon Antonio Vargas 3 months ago

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UK regulator launches review of ‘aggressive’ claims management firms amid compensation concerns

FCA focuses on marketing, misleading ads, unfair exit fees and people being signed up without their permissionThe City regulator has launched a review of claims management companies amid concerns that firms are misleading victims of financial scandals, such as car finance, about their compensation.T...

Lauren Almeida 3 months ago

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Proxies carrying out antisemitic attacks in UK could face 14 years in prison

Plans to be included in king’s speech will allow tougher action against proxies for foreign powers such as IranUK politics live – latest updatesOffenders who commit antisemitic attacks backed by foreign powers such as Iran will face 14 years in prison under legislation to be included in the king’s s...

Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor 3 months ago

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Polanski accuses Times of ‘scraping the barrel’ over his claim to be charity spokesperson – UK politics live

Green leader said he hosted fundraisers for the Red Cross but accepts he should not have described himself as a spokesperson for itGood morning. Zack Polanski was largely unknown until he became the Green party leader in September last year and since then, as his party has soared in the polls, there...

Andrew Sparrow 3 months ago

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‘Terrifying’: political candidate violently abused and schoolboy thrown into bin, antisemitism royal commission hears

The third day of hearings of the royal commission on antisemitism and social cohesion heard further evidence from Jewish AustraliansFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastViolent antisemitic abuse was allowed to proliferate ac...

Ben Doherty 3 months ago

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Oil prices retreat and global stocks hit record highs after Trump hails ‘great progress’ on Iran deal – business live

US president pauses ‘Project Freedom’ to work on ‘final agreement’ with Tehran; stocks also ride high on AI euphoriaWe are off to a good start in Europe too. The FTSE 100 index in London has jumped 1.5%, or 153 points, to 10,372 in early trading.Diageo shares rose 4.6% (they were up 5.5% at the open...

Julia Kollewe 3 months ago

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Opera singer who hid deafness for 30 years hails ‘life-changing’ surgery

Janine Roebuck, from London, says she no longer considers herself deaf after double cochlear implants restored hearingAn opera singer who hid her deafness for more than 30 years has described “life-changing” surgery that has the potential to become the norm for thousands of NHS patients.Janine Roebu...

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Oil prices ease and markets rally as Trump works towards deal with Iran

US president briefly pauses ‘Project Freedom’ operation escorting ships through strait of HormuzBusiness live – latest updatesOil prices have eased and stock markets rallied as Donald Trump touted “great progress” towards a “final agreement” with Iran, while momentum in AI-driven trading accelerated...

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Apps, activists and an ‘air war’: Essex campaign is test of Reform UK’s professionalisation

Nigel Farage’s party sees local elections as showcase for a sleeker approach borrowing from an unlikely sourceNigel Farage was midway through his walkabout of Waltham Abbey when a hunting horn loudly sounded on the Essex market town’s pedestrianised high street. “Oi oiii!” exclaimed the owner of Ouc...

Ben Quinn Politicial correspondent 3 months ago

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Wednesday briefing: How Trump’s attempt to reopen to strait of Hormuz brought war closer again

In today’s newsletter: ​The brief US effort to ​s​teer trapped vessels through the ​waterway ​put the fragile ceasefire under strainGood morning. Uncertainty once again reigns in the Middle East. The uneasy ceasefire between the US and Iran threatened to disintegrate after Donald Trump launched an i...

Patrick Greenfield 3 months ago

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Middle East crisis live: Trump changes strait of Hormuz plan again as Rubio says US offensive is ‘over’

US president says he will briefly pause Project Freedom after just one day; Rubio says US has achieved objectives of Iran operation; Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi flies to ChinaTrump puts ‘Project Freedom’ on hold, saying he hopes to finalise deal with IranWe had this in our earlier blog, b...

Mark Saunokonoko 3 months ago

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Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school

Under new guidelines caning will only be used in schools for male students aged nine and aboveMale school students who bully others, including through cyberbullying, will face caning as a “last resort” under new guidelines introduced in Singapore.Male students can face up to three strokes of the can...

Rebecca Ratcliffe 3 months ago

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Horrified Wagga residents call for proper sanitation at homeless camp where baby was found dead

Tent where twins were born up to a 15-minute walk away from nearest public toilets or running waterFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe tent where a newborn baby was found dead at Wagga beach at the weekend was part of a...

Cait Kelly 3 months ago

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Palestinian ambassador protests to Foreign Office over ’erasure’ by British Museum

Objection after museum removes word ‘Palestine’ from list of countries of ancient Levant and Egypt and from some explanatory panelsThe Palestinian ambassador to the UK has called for Foreign Office intervention after the British Museum removed references to Palestine from its exhibits.The UK recogni...

Julian Borger in Jerusalem 3 months ago

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Rare pregnancy complication has put UK women into ‘emergency surgery’

Scores of women have told how they were affected by placenta accreta spectrum for an awareness campaignWomen have had to undergo major emergency surgery, including a hysterectomy, when medical staff failed to detect they had a rare but potentially fatal complication of pregnancy.Scores of women have...

Denis Campbell 3 months ago

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Gibraltar dumping all of its raw sewage into Mediterranean

Wastewater from nearly 40,000 people and businesses pumped straight into sea as island still has no treatment plantRaw sewage from nearly 40,000 people and businesses is being pumped straight into the sea because the British overseas territory of Gibraltar does not have, and has never had, a wastewa...

Rachel Salvidge 3 months ago

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EU trade deal could force UK to restrict use of weedkiller linked to cancer

Glyphosate is currently sprayed on cereal and pulse crops to dessicate them and make them easier to harvestA new trade deal with the EU could lead to restrictions on the use of the controversial weedkiller glyphosate on UK food crops.The full-spectrum herbicide, which kills almost every plant it tou...

Damien Gayle 3 months ago

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Attempts to stop prison drone drug deliveries hampered by crumbling Victorian walls

Plans to install tougher netting and window grilles set back because walls cannot take extra weight, prison governors sayWeak and crumbling walls in Victorian prisons are hampering attempts to halt drones from delivering drugs and weapons to inmates.Plans to install tougher netting and window grille...

Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor 3 months ago

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Four in five Britons worried Iran war will make food more expensive, poll finds

Shoppers concerned about effect of Middle East conflict, as UK retailers say government running out of time to cut costsFour in five people are worried that the Iran war will make food more expensive, according to a new poll, as businesses warned the “window is closing” for ministers to cut energy c...

Alex Daniel 3 months ago

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US military kills three people in boat strike in eastern Pacific

Without offering details or evidence, US Southern Command describes the people killed as ‘narco-terrorists’The US military said on Tuesday it had struck a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing three people, in the latest such attack that rights groups label as “extrajudicial killings” and Washingto...

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Search called off for Australian hiker missing in rugged Canadian national park

Police suspend ‘extensive’ six-day air and ground search in Nova Scotia, citing ‘no new information’Teams in eastern Canada have called off an “extensive” six-day air and ground search of a rugged park for a missing Australian hiker.The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said this week it had susp...

Leyland Cecco in Toronto 3 months ago

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Women and children from alleged IS-linked families about to return to Australia from Syria, Tony Burke says

Home affairs minister says government continues to refuse to assist the group of 13, who are expected leave Syria soonThe Albanese government has confirmed that four Australian women and nine of their children who were linked to suspected Islamic State fighters in Syria are set to travel home.The gr...

Tom McIlroy Political editor 3 months ago

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Jon Husted and Sherrod Brown set for Senate showdown after Ohio primary victories

Ohio’s Senate seat is one Democrats have prioritized in the party’s bid to retake control of the chamberSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailRepublican senator Jon Husted and Democrat Sherrod Brown won their party’s nominations in Ohio’s primary elections on Tuesday, according to the Ass...

Chris Stein 3 months ago

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