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Investigation launched over NSW government scheme’s alleged failure to protect Molly Ticehurst
Review confirmed in state parliament after Guardian Australia revealed Forbes mother did not receive promised help to intruder-proof' home
AGL thought it was doing welfare recipients a ‘favour’ when refunding money it wrongly collected, court hears
Overpayments - many from welfare recipients - were held as credit to pay a future bill that AGL knew was never coming', federal court told
Russia to send combat vessels to Caribbean to project ‘global power’, US official says
Naval exercises spurred by US support for Ukraine are likely to include port calls in Cuba and Venezuela, says officialRussia plans to send combat vessels into the Caribbean region this summer as part of naval exercises that will probably include port calls in Cuba and possibly stops in Venezuela, a senior US official said on Wednesday.As part of Russia's regular military exercises, we anticipate that this summer, Russia will conduct heightened naval and air activity near the United States. These actions will culminate in a global Russian naval exercise this fall," the official said. Continue reading...
Adam Bandt threatens Mark Dreyfus with legal action over comments on pro-Palestine protests
Greens leader says he has written to attorney general to object to what he considers defamatory statements' made on ABC TV
French artist Ben dies aged 88, hours after wife’s death
Ben and Annie Vautier's children say in statement their father killed himself just after their mother died of a stroke on WednesdayFrench artist Ben, best known for his ironic painted slogans, has died aged 88, killing himself just hours after the death of his wife of 60 years, his family said Wednesday.His wife, Annie, suffered a stroke on Monday evening and died on Wednesday, the couple's two children, Eva and Francois, said in a statement. Continue reading...
Antidepressant withdrawal symptoms experienced by 15% of users, study finds
Dizziness, headache and nausea among common symptoms, which occur more frequently with some medications than othersJust under one in seven people who stop taking antidepressants will experience withdrawal symptoms, according to a study.Researchers in Germany analysed data in 79 studies involving 21,000 patients and found that 15% of people experienced one or more withdrawal symptoms that were directly caused by coming off antidepressants, while about 3% experienced severe symptoms. Continue reading...
Robert Fico blames Slovak opposition for ‘hatred’ that led to his shooting
Recovering PM posts video in which he calls would-be assassin messenger of evil' but offers forgivenessThe Slovak prime minister, Robert Fico, has blamed the country's opposition for fostering the hatred" that led to his assassination attempt in his first appearance since he was seriously wounded in a shooting three weeks ago.In a pre-recorded speech posted on Facebook on Wednesday, in the run-up to the European elections, Fico described the shooter as an activist of the Slovak opposition ... a messenger of evil and political hatred that the politically unsuccessful and frustrated opposition has fanned to unmanageable proportions". Continue reading...
French terror inquiry after Ukrainian-Russian man detonates explosive materials in hotel
Man, 26, questioned under suspicion of participating in terrorist conspiracy after explosion in hotel north of ParisFrench anti-terror prosecutors have launched an investigation after a Ukrainian-Russian man detonated explosive materials in a hotel room north of Paris.A source at the French anti-terrorism prosecutors office (PNAT) said that on Monday night the 26-year-old man was given medical treatment by fire officers in a hotel in the Val-d'Oise, north of Paris, for significant burns after an explosion". Continue reading...
Big Mac v Supermac’s: McDonald’s loses EU trademark fight
Ruling by European court of justice ends 17-year legal tussle between Irish chain and global rivalThe small Irish takeaway chain Supermac's has won a David v Goliath court battle with McDonald's over the use of the Big Mac trademark, paving the way for it to open outlets across Europe.The ruling also means the US-founded fast food multinational has lost the right to use the name Big Mac" in the EU in relation to chicken burgers. Continue reading...
Man jailed after sending threatening emails to Tory politician Caroline Nokes
Liam McCarthy, 33, jailed for seven months after continually' sending emails and leaving voicemails for then MPA 33-year-old man has been jailed for seven months after sending threatening emails to a female politician.Liam McCarthy, of Copperfield Road, Southampton, continually" sent emails and left voicemails for the Conservative politician Caroline Nokes between 15 May 2022 and 4 March 2023. Continue reading...
Rattled Labour mounts frantic attempt to rebut Sunak’s tax-rise claim
Horror after leaders' debate galvanises party into fierce counterattack, labelling PM a liar and linking conduct to Partygate
Rise of far right makes reparations debate tough, says Cape Verde president
But, says Jose Maria Neves, this should not stop governments trying to build solutions using diplomatic corridorsCape Verde's president, Jose Maria Neves, said the rise of rightwing populism has made it difficult to hold a serious debate over colonial reparations but argued that should not stop governments from having those conversations behind closed doors.In an interview with the news site Brasil Ja, published online on Wednesday, Neves said debating reparations in the public arena" could lead to more political polarisation in countries such as in Cape Verde's former coloniser, Portugal, where the far right is on the rise. Continue reading...
Narendra Modi wins backing of allies to form Indian government
Strongman-style leader set for historic third term but with authority diminished after loss of majority
Jeremy Hunt warns against Tory lurch to right: ‘Elections are won from the centre ground’
Exclusive: Chancellor says Conservative party is broad church' and criticises Nigel Farage's claims over immigrationJeremy Hunt has warned the Conservatives that elections are won from the centre ground, amid fears that the party could lurch to the right in response to Nigel Farage's return to frontline politics.In an interview with the Guardian, the chancellor suggested the party must remain a broad church" despite concerns that Reform UK could cost the Tories as many as 60 seats at the general election. Continue reading...
ANC leaders propose government of national unity after losing majority in South Africa
Party says it has reached out to opposition leaders after election result as it looks to form coalitionAn influential committee in the African National Congress (ANC) has recommended the party form a government of national unity, as the group tries to build a coalition after losing its parliamentary majority in South Africa for the first time since it swept to power at the end of apartheid.The second largest party, the pro-business Democratic Alliance (DA), has ruled out working with the fourth-largest, Marxist-inspired Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). However, some analysts said that the lure of power may end up bringing most of the largest parties together. Continue reading...
Starvation already causing mass death and lasting harm in Gaza, agencies say
Extreme hunger already leaving huge toll, say food security reports, regardless of delays to possible declaration of famineMonths of extreme hunger have already killed many Palestinians in Gaza and caused permanent damage to children through malnutrition, two new food security reports found, even before famine is officially declared.The US-based famine early warning system network (FEWS NET) said it was possible, if not likely" that famine began in northern Gaza in April. Two UN organisations said more than 1 million people are expected to face death and starvation" by mid-July. Continue reading...
Man stranded in Turkey can return to UK after Home Office U-turn
Exclusive: Siyabonga Twala looking forward to reunion with his son after government withdraws exclusion orderA man who has been exiled in Turkey and separated from his British son for more than a year can return home after the UK government conceded it should never have excluded him.Siyabonga Twala has spent the last 18 months living in limbo in Ankara after he was prevented from boarding a flight back to Manchester with his family in December 2022. Continue reading...
Labour dismisses no confidence vote in Welsh first minister Vaughan Gething as Tory ‘stunt’ – as it happened
Andrew RT Davies, Welsh Conservative leader, says vote reflects badly on Keir Starmer as Labour says vote is a stunt. This live blog is closed
Foreign Office ‘quiet diplomacy’ futile in overseas arrest cases, says expert
Academic tortured in UAE tells families of Britons arrested in controversial circumstances abroad to go public promptlyFamilies of Britons arrested in controversial circumstances abroad should raise concerns promptly in public because Foreign Office quiet diplomacy" is not effective, an expert has warned after the arrest of a former British Royal Marine in Dubai.Matthew Hedges, a British academic who was detained and tortured in the United Arab Emirates in 2018, said the case of Matt Croucher, a military veteran held in the country for seven months, also showed how far the international influence of the UK had disappeared" in the Gulf region. Continue reading...
Faiza Shaheen to stand as independent after Labour deselection
Politician to go up against her former party in London's Chingford and Woodford Green constituencyFaiza Shaheen, the candidate blocked by Labour from standing in Chingford and Woodford Green, has announced she will stand as an independent.In a move that will pit her against Labour in one of the party's target seats, she said she was standing in response to hundreds of messages from local people who said there were no options left for them. Continue reading...
How voters turned again Narendra Modi in his party’s heartland
Anger at rampant unemployment, stagnant wages and inflation led to surprise losses in Uttar PradeshIt was less than six months ago that Narendra Modi walked solemnly through the ornate surroundings of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state and one of its most politically crucial. His appearance in the holy city to inaugurate the newly constructed Hindu temple, built on the ruins of a mosque demolished two decades earlier, was cast as the pinnacle of the prime minister's decade in power - the crowning glory of his Hindu nationalist agenda and his ticket to a third term in office. The ceremony was deemed to mark the unofficial launch of his election campaign.But on Tuesday evening Modi was faced with a rude awakening. His Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), which has ruled India with an iron grip for a decade, has lost its majority as a single party and will have to rely on coalition partners to return to government. The losses were particularly heavy in Uttar Pradesh, long considered to be the BJP's bastion - and nowhere more so than in Ayodhya. Continue reading...
Warnings over disinformation and fake news as voting set to take place across EU – as it happened
False claims and fake videos spreading across continent with voting to being from Thursday. This live blog is closedAlternative for Germany's Tino Chrupalla said the party's local council candidate Heinrich Koch was injured with a knife in Mannheim when confronting poster vandals" and wished him a speedy recovery.As the D-Day commemorations get underway, White House National Security adviser Jake Sullivan said aboard Air Force One on the way to France that Joe Biden will stress how the men on those cliffs put the country ahead of themselves" and detail the dangers of isolationism, and how, if we back dictators and fail to stand up to them, they keep going and ultimately America and the world pays a greater price," the Associated Press reported.
Russia-Ukraine war: Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelenskiy to meet for talks in Normandy – as it happened
US president and Ukrainian president to sit down after they arrive for anniversary of D-day landings in France, White House confirms. This live blog is closedFrench president Emmanuel Macron is to host US president Joe Biden, British King Charles and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau on the shores of Normandy, representing the three main countries involved in the landings on 6 June 1944, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and about 200 surviving war veterans are also expected to attend. Continue reading...
Handwritten ‘draft’ of Albert Camus’s L’Étranger sold in Paris for €650,000
Text appears to have been copied out and backdated by Camus in 1944, possibly as a way to raise funds during Nazi occupationA handwritten manuscript of the classic French novel L'Etranger by Albert Camus has sold for more than 650,000 (553,000) at auction, despite bafflement over the reasons for which the Nobel prize-winning author appeared to have faked and backdated it.The bound, 104-page draft of Camus's novel about a French settler in Algeria who kills an unnamed Arab man went under the hammer in Paris on Wednesday. Continue reading...
Middle East live: Israel prepared for ‘strong action’ in north near Lebanon, says Netanyahu
Israeli prime minister tours country's northern border with Lebanon; gunman wounded after shots fired at US embassy north of Beirut
‘Courage and solidarity’: King Charles pays tribute to veterans of D-day
Royals, politicians and military leaders begin two days of events to mark 80th anniversary of Normandy landingsThe king has paid tribute to D-day veterans at a commemorative event in Portsmouth marking the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings.Charles said their stories of courage, resilience and solidarity" move, inspire and remind us of what we owe to that great wartime generation - now, tragically, dwindling to so few". Continue reading...
Council forgets to tell driver it towed car away – then demands year’s storage fees
Madeleine Ruse reported her car as stolen only to find out 12 months later it had been moved by Sheffield councilA woman was left without her car for a year because a council forgot to inform her it had been towed away due to roadworks.Madeleine Ruse, 22, assumed her 15-year-old Citroen had been stolen when she discovered it was missing from its usual parking space in February 2023. She reported it to the police and received a payout from her insurer. Continue reading...
Saudi Arabia accused of using forced labour ahead of Fifa World Cup decision
Union's claim of epidemic of migrant worker abuses' could force Fifa to reject state as 2034 host if it fails to meet rights obligationsSaudi Arabia, the likely host of the 2034 World Cup, is facing allegations of widespread use of forced labour among its vast migrant workforce, in a complaint filed at the UN's International Labour Organization.The complaint to the ILO alleges that migrant workers in Saudi Arabia are subject to a raft of labour rights violations including failing to pay wages, passport confiscation, illegal recruitment fees, debt bondage and preventing workers freely changing jobs. Continue reading...
Who are Qilin, the cybercriminals thought behind the London hospitals hack?
Russian-speaking ransomware gang lets hackers use its tools in exchange for cut of proceedsA Russian-speaking ransomware criminal gang called Qilin is thought to be behind the cyber-attack on NHS medical services provider Synnovis, that halted tests and operations at hospital trusts to a halt and affected GPs across London.Although the location of the group is unknown, if it is based in Russia, it will be difficult for British law enforcement to directly target it. The Russian state has long had a ban on extraditing criminals overseas, and since it launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it has largely ended all cooperation on cybersecurity matters so long as the hackers focus their attacks on foreign targets. Continue reading...
Homelessness taught me ‘people do want to help’, says US high school grad
Zaylin Washington, who earned a full college scholarship after also enduring bullying, says I wanted to prove [doubters] wrong'A newly minted high school graduate from Texas who endured a period of homelessness, bullying and other adversities before earning a full college scholarship says his experience so far has taught him that people do want to help you".It's not you versus the world," Zaylin Washington told the Dallas-Fort Worth news station KTVT. Continue reading...
Far-right AfD party candidate stabbed in Mannheim
Heinrich Koch reportedly stabbed in altercation over election posters days after police officer died in attack in same German cityA candidate for the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) party has been stabbed in the south-west German city of Mannheim, less than a week after a police officer was killed and five others were injured in a knife attack in the city.The attack, which took place on Tuesday evening but was only confirmed by police on Wednesday, left a man with non-life threatening injuries for which he is being treated in hospital. Continue reading...
Spanish PM hits out at rivals after wife summoned over corruption allegations
Pedro Sanchez questions timing of court order before European elections and accuses opponents of orchestrating smear campaign
Increase public sector pay or risk strikes, TUC warns Labour
Caution against enforcing tight public sector pay settlements will add to pressure on Starmer if he wins election
Biden’s immigration order: a re-election bid that will cause ‘suffering and death’
As people at the border reach a high, and after failed attempts to pass reforms, the president presents his most aggressive restrictions yetJoe Biden on Tuesday signed an aggressive new immigration order suspending asylum rights, signalling that securing the border" was a central tenet of his re-election bid.At the southern US border, the policy is set to cause chaos and hardship for those seeking the protection of the United States. Continue reading...
ABC staff survey reveals 13% of news employees have faced sexual harassment
Survey also finds one-quarter experienced workplace bullying as broadcaster's news director calls harassment and bullying unacceptable'
eSafety commissioner accuses Elon Musk of ‘dog-whistle’ against her – as it happened
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Peter Garrett welcomes NT government decision to put Jabiluka uranium site on hold
Former environment minister and Midnight Oil frontman calls on government to add site to Kakadu national park
Greg Lynn set to testify as only defence witness in Russell Hill and Carol Clay murder trial
Accused double murderer to give evidence in Victorian supreme court after prosecution closed their case on Wednesday
X says ‘free speech has prevailed’ after eSafety commissioner drops case over Wakeley church attack posts
Regulator will now focus on tribunal case launched by Elon Musk's social media platform which is seeking a review of decision to order removal of tweets
Politics Weekly Westminster: The first TV debate
The Guardian's Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss the first TV head to head between Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak Continue reading...
Holocaust survivors urge young Europeans to vote against far right
Those who lived through Nazi atrocities say voters must use their voice in EU electionsA group of Holocaust survivors has issued a joint appeal before this weekend's European parliament election urging younger voters to go to the polls and to exercise their right to prevent the far right from gaining power.For millions of you, the European poll is the first election in your life. For many of us it could be the last," the eight survivors, wrote in the letter. We couldn't prevent [the rise of nazism] back then, but you can today." Continue reading...
GDP growth falls to just 0.1% as household cutbacks put handbrake on Australia’s economy
Annual economic growth is down to 1.1%, lower than economists predicted, ABS GDP figures show
Charlise Mutten murder trial: prosecutor dismisses accused killer’s story as ‘nonsense’
Justin Stein has pleaded not guilty to murdering nine-year-old, claiming she was shot by her mother, Kallista Mutten
Victorian police officer who made ‘disgraceful’ homophobic remarks has dismissal overturned
Officer ordered to pay $10,000 in compensation to a gay colleague and $2,000 to the Victorian Pride Centre
Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood calls backlash over Israel show amid Gaza war ‘unprogressive’
Radiohead musician issues statement on his ongoing work with Israeli musician Dudu Tassa after being accused of artwashing genocide' by pro-Palestine movementRadiohead's Jonny Greenwood has defended his ongoing collaboration with the Israeli artist Dudu Tassa amid criticism from pro-Palestine activists, calling the backlash unprogressive" and silencing".Greenwood, a composer and musician who also plays in the Radiohead spin-off group The Smile, has been playing with Tassa since 2008. Last year, Greenwood and Tassa released a collaborative album titled Jarak Qaribak, a compilation of Arabic love songs featuring artists from across the Middle East. Continue reading...
Jerusalem braces for Israeli nationalist flag march through Muslim areas
Thousands of police deployed for parade that has been historical flashpoint for violence between marchers and PalestiniansResidents of Jerusalem are bracing for a rightwing flag march through Muslim areas of the Old City, an annual event often accompanied by violence.The Jerusalem Day parade by thousands of Jewish nationalists celebrates Israel's capture and occupation of East Jerusalem and its holy sites in the 1967 war, a move that is not internationally recognised. Continue reading...
Australia to release special series of Bluey coins amid global success of ABC children’s show
Themed $1 coins have been unveiled by the Royal Australian Mint and a limited number will be available from Thursday 6 June
Townsville councillors pass no-confidence motion in embattled mayor Troy Thompson
Thompson is now seeking a leave of absence as council calls for his resignation after he admitted making false claims about his military history
Modi loses parliamentary majority in Indian election
Latest results reveal unexpected blow to PM, forcing negotiation with coalition partners to regain powerNarendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata party has lost its parliamentary majority, dealing an unexpected blow to the prime minister and forcing him to negotiate with coalition partners in order to return to power.With all votes counted early on Wednesday morning, it was clear that the landslide for the BJP predicted in polls had not materialised and instead there had been a pushback against the strongman prime minister and his Hindu nationalist politics in swathes of the country. Continue reading...
Tiananmen Square anniversary: Hong Kong police detain artist who made sign in the air
Sanmu Chen appeared to write the date of massacre in the air as anniversary becomes increasingly sensitive in Hong KongHong Kong police detained an artist on Monday night after he appeared to write 8964" in the air with his hand, a reference to the date of the Tiananmen Square massacre, hours before Tuesday's 35th anniversary.Public acknowledgment of the events of 4 June 1989, when Chinese soldiers shut down a weeks-long peaceful protest with violence, killing anything from several hundred to several thousand people - is banned in mainland China and increasingly sensitive in Hong Kong. Continue reading...
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