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Two alleged abuse survivors win first challenge against Australian Catholic church’s legal tactics
Pair were earlier blocked from suing over abuse they claim they suffered from alleged prolific paedophile priest David Joseph Perrett
Biden says he wants Israel to focus on ‘how to save civilian lives’ – as it happened
This blog is now closed. See all our Israel-Gaza war coverage hereA pro-Palestinian group temporarily hacked into the Israeli army website on Wednesday.The group, calling themselves Anonymous Jo, left a message on the homepage of the website warning of further attacks against Israeli forces. Continue reading...
Father of Australian found dead in Mozambique ‘let down’ by lack of murder finding
Victorian state coroner John Cain says gaps in the evidence' related to Elly Warren's case means cause of her 2016 death remains unresolved
Guyana and Venezuela promise not to use force in bitter dispute over oil rich region
Joint commission composed of foreign ministers of both countries will address the problem, with a report expected within three monthsThe leaders of Guyana and Venezuela promised in a tense meeting that neither side would use threats or force against the other, but failed to reach agreement on how to address a bitter dispute over a vast border region rich with oil and minerals that has concerned many in the region.Instead, a joint commission composed of the foreign ministers of both countries and other officials will address the problem, with a report expected within three months. Continue reading...
Steven Miles unveils five new cabinet ministers as he’s sworn in as Queensland premier
With only 316 days until the next election, Labor has embarked on its largest cabinet reshuffle in its nine years in power
Daylesford pub crash driver freed on bail with $250,000 surety and driving ban
William Swale, 66, released on bail after crashing into regional Victoria pub beer garden killing five people
Proton Mail founder vows to fight Australia’s eSafety regulator in court rather than spy on users
Andy Yen says draft safety standards would force online services ... to access, collect and read users' private conversations'
Jacinta Allan reveals $10bn blow out in cost of Victoria’s largest road project
Premier says North East Link to connect M80 Ring Road to the Eastern Freeway will likely cost $26.1bn
Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 660
EU decides to open membership negotiations with Ukraine; Putin says there will only be peace in Ukraine when we achieve our aims'
Australian health insurers earn $1.3bn more in surplus than two years ago, report shows
Australian Medical Association study also shows $500 difference in benefits between insurers for identical procedures
Deal reached to open EU accession talks with Ukraine and Moldova – as it happened
Bloc's leaders decide to open negotiations after hours of talks as Viktor Orban says Hungary does not want to take part in bad decision'
Asylum seekers housed at ex-RAF base tried to kill themselves, finds study
Report calls for immediate closure of Wethersfield as conditions causing irreparable harm to residentsAsylum seekers housed in the UK's largest mass accommodation site have attempted to kill themselves and set themselves on fire because of conditions no different from Libya", according to a report.The controversial Wethersfield site, on a remote military airbase near Braintree in Essex, is in the constituency of the home secretary, James Cleverly, who said earlier this year in a social media post that the site was not appropriate". Continue reading...
Andre Braugher died of lung cancer, Brooklyn Nine-Nine actor’s publicist says
Emmy-winning actor, who also starred in Homicide: Life on the Street, died at age 61
Israel tells US it needs ‘months’ to defeat Hamas
Defence minister addresses US national security adviser as Biden administration presses for end to warIsrael will fight on until absolute victory against Hamas", the country's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told a senior official from the Biden administration, as another minister said the war could last more than several months".Netanyahu's comments were made to Jake Sullivan, Joe Biden's national security adviser, during a visit to Israel hours after its defence minister, Yoav Gallant, told Sullivan that many more months were needed to defeat Hamas in Gaza. Continue reading...
Cheshire East council says it faces bankruptcy due to HS2 link cancellation
Local authority covering some of richest areas in England says it spent 11m preparing for rail lineA council in one of the wealthiest parts of the UK has warned it faces potential bankruptcy due to the devastating" impact of cancelling the northern leg of HS2.Leaders of Cheshire East council in north-west England said the authority had spent 11m preparing for the high-speed rail link, and this would now have to be written off. Most of this money - 8.6m - had been funded by borrowing and would now have to be funded from the council's already stretched revenue budget. Continue reading...
EU sidesteps Viktor Orbán to open membership talks with Ukraine
Decision after hours of tense negotiations in Brussels is critical boost to Volodymyr ZelenskiyThe EU has decided to open membership negotiations with Ukraine, in an unexpected move that will be a critical boost to Volodymyr Zelenskiy and deal a blow to Vladimir Putin.The announcement, made on Thursday after eight hours of tense negotiations in Brussels, came despite the opposition of Hungary, whose prime minister, Viktor Orban, had for weeks said it would veto any opening of accession talks. Continue reading...
Three people convicted of 1996 murder of Caroline Glachan in Scotland
Mother expresses relief at finally knowing who killed her daughter, 14, as Robert O'Brien, Andrew Kelly and Donna Marie Brand are found guiltyThree people have been convicted of the murder of a 14-year-old girl in 1996, with the judge describing their actions as depraved, brutal and wicked".Robert O'Brien, 45, and Andrew Kelly and Donna Marie Brand, both 44, were found guilty of killing O'Brien's girlfriend Caroline Glachan in West Dunbartonshire. Continue reading...
Hong Kong puts arrest bounties on five overseas activists including US citizen
US and UK criticise move while one of the five decries transnational repression harassment tactics'Hong Kong police have offered million-dollar bounties for information leading to the arrest of five overseas-based activists, as part of a crackdown on dissent under a China-imposed national security law.The move, which adds to a list of eight overseas activists deemed fugitives by authorities in July, triggered criticism from the US and UK governments. Continue reading...
IDF censures its soldiers filmed mocking call to prayer in Jenin mosque
Israeli military says soldiers have been removed from duties after incident in West Bank cityThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have condemned the behaviour of several of their soldiers who were filmed singing and mocking the Islamic call to prayer over the loudspeaker of a mosque in the city of Jenin.The incident came during three days of raids in the occupied West Bank, during which Israeli troops have killed 12 Palestinians, including one youth shot dead at a hospital, according to Palestinian officials and international health charities. Continue reading...
Four arrested in Europe over alleged cross-border Hamas terrorism plot
Three held in Germany and one in Netherlands over plans for possible attacks on Jewish institutions, prosecutor saysFour people have been arrested in Germany and the Netherlands on suspicion of being part of a cross-border Hamas terror plot that German prosecutors said aimed to obtain weapons to target Jewish institutions in Europe.Three others were arrested in Denmark on separate terrorism offences, and the country's politicians indicated they were also Hamas related, while the prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, said the threat was as serious as it gets". Continue reading...
Man admits participating in ‘castration by clamping’ incidents
Guilty plea at Old Bailey relates to alleged plot involving publication of videos on eunuch maker' websiteA man has admitted to participating in castration by clamping" as part of an alleged extreme body modification plot.Ion Ciucur, 29, a Romanian national who lives in Gretna Green, Scotland, admitted conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm at the Old Bailey on Thursday. Continue reading...
Ofcom investigates TikTok over parental control information
Regulator to look at whether the platform broke the law by giving inaccurate informationThe UK communications regulator has opened an investigation into whether TikTok gave inaccurate" information about its parental controls to the watchdog.Ofcom said it had asked the social video platform for information about its Family Pairing system and that is has reason to believe that the information it provided was inaccurate". Continue reading...
Body found after explosion and fire at south Wales industrial estate
Severe explosion' at industrial estate in Rhondda Cynon Taf on Wednesday evening destroyed at least one buildingA body has been found by search teams after an explosion and a fire at an industrial estate in south Wales that destroyed at least one building.Almost 24 hours after the incident at Treforest industrial estate in Rhondda Cynon Taf, police said the body of a missing person had been found. Continue reading...
David Cameron defends UK’s decision not to vote for UN resolution demanding ceasefire in Gaza– UK politics live
Foreign secretary says ceasefire needs to be sustainable' as he appears before House of Lords European affairs committeeRishi Sunak has said that he is open to considering ways in which his Rwanda bill can be improved".With Conservative rightwingers and centrists both wanting to amend the bill, in opposite directions, when it returns to the Commons in the new year, Sunak signalled that the government would be open to accepting some changes.I've been very consistently clear, as have all ministers, if there are ways that the legislation can be improved, to be made even more effective - with a respectable legal argument and maintaining the participation of the Rwandans in the scheme - of course we would be open to that, who wouldn't be?This is a damning report from the cross-party standards committee, clearly concluding that Scott Benton seriously breached parliamentary rules in flaunting his position as a parliamentarian in exchange for remuneration.This is not an isolated case, but comes off the back of a wave of Tory sleaze and scandal. Continue reading...
Poland violated human rights of woman in abortion case, European court rules
European court of human rights finds that Polish abortion legislation breached a pregnant woman's right to privacy and family life, after her foetus was diagnosed with Down's syndromePoland's 2020 abortion legislation violated the rights of a woman who was forced to travel abroad to access an abortion, the European court of human rights ruled on Thursday.The court found that while the legislation, which prevented the applicant from accessing an abortion after her foetus was diagnosed with trisomy 21 (Down's syndrome), did not legally amount to inhuman or degrading treatment", it did violate her right to privacy and family life, protected under article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Continue reading...
Congress passes defense bill authorizing biggest pay rise for troops in 20 years
Bill does not include a number of conservative policy demands, though Republicans won concessions on DEI training in militaryCongress passed a US defense policy bill on Thursday that authorizes the biggest pay rise for troops in more than two decades, while leaving behind many of the policy priorities that social conservatives were clamoring for.Lawmakers have been negotiating a final bill for months. Some of the priorities championed by social conservatives were a no-go for Democrats, so negotiators dropped them from the final product to get it over the finish line. Continue reading...
Magic mushroom use grows in England and Wales, ONS figures show
Use of ecstasy and nitrous oxide fall overall and drug use of all kinds falls among younger peopleOne in 100 people in England and Wales took hallucinogenic drugs in the last year, as magic mushroom" use increased by tens of thousands of people, while use of ecstasy and nitrous oxide fell.Increasing use by older adults was behind the rise in psychedelic tripping, according to annual figures about drug use among 16 to 59-year-olds from the Office for National Statistics. Continue reading...
Guyana warns Venezuela’s Maduro he risks becoming pariah ahead of talks
High-level negotiations in St Vincent will discuss Venezuelan president's claim for two-thirds of neighbour's oil-rich territoryVenezuela risks becoming an international pariah if President Nicolas Maduro does not de-escalate growing tensions with Guyana, the neighbouring nation's foreign minister told the Guardian ahead of a high-level meeting between the two countries.We've seen throughout history what happens to nation states who decide to go it alone ... it usually sets the country back decades," Hugh Todd said ahead of the summit in St Vincent on Thursday. Continue reading...
Hospitals ‘falling to bits’ as NHS England faces record repairs bill of £12bn
Experts say crumbling concrete and other issues threaten catastrophic failures or major disruption to clinical services'The NHS in England has a record repairs bill of almost 12bn, new figures show, with ministers needing to find more than 2bn for urgent maintenance to prevent catastrophic failure.The annual report into the condition of the health service's estate said on Thursday that the cost of improving rundown buildings and decrepit equipment is two and a half times larger than in 2011-2012, when it stood at 4.7bn. Continue reading...
‘We will stand until the end’: Ukrainian defenders of Avdiivka hold on – for now
After almost a decade on the frontline, the city is a wreck, with just 1,200 people left, but it remains of huge symbolic valueFor two months, the Russian army has been trying to seize the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka. First, it launched a massive frontal assault. Dozens of pieces of equipment were destroyed. Then it dispatched armoured columns in different directions. Now, in a third wave, small groups of infantry are being sent to penetrate Ukrainian positions.There are dozens of bodies. They try to advance. We kill them. They send more," said Ivan Smaga, the deputy commander of Ukraine's 25th storm battalion, which is defending Avdiivka. To begin with it was groups of 10 men. Now it's one or two or three without support. Their commander uses them like live meat." Continue reading...
French actor who accused Gérard Depardieu of sexual assault dies
Emmanuelle Debever died on same day the allegations were re-aired on TV, according to French mediaEmmanuelle Debever, a French actor who was among the first to accuse Gerard Depardieu of sexual assault, died earlier this month, the same day her allegations against her former co-star were re-aired on television, French media reported.Debever, who in 2019 accused Depardieu of assaulting her on the set of the 1982 film Danton, died on 7 December, Liberation newspaper reported on Thursday. Continue reading...
Guardian and Observer charity appeal passes £350,000 in donations
Donations in support of refugee and asylum seekers have got off to a strong start thanks to our readers
MP Scott Benton faces Commons suspension over lobbying scandal
Standards committee recommends 35-day suspension, which could trigger byelection in former Tory's Blackpool South seat
Patti Smith ‘in good health’ after being hospitalised in Italy
Singer suffers sudden illness while on tour and cancels remainder of datesPatti Smith has been briefly hospitalised following an illness while on tour in Italy.The 76-year-old singer had been due to perform in Bologna but she cancelled the concert after suffering what the city's Teatro Duse venue described as a sudden illness". Continue reading...
Sunak denies he is ‘tetchy’ under pressure amid Tory in-fighting over immigration
PM dismisses dissent among his MPs to his Rwanda bill as debating society' behaviour
Chiropractor asks for no jail time after subjecting refugee to forced labour at Melbourne confectionery shop
Seyyed Farshchi, 50, worked refugee relentlessly' for little pay and threatened to have him sent back to his home countryA Melbourne chiropractor who subjected a vulnerable refugee to forced labour for his own financial gain has urged a judge not to send him to prison.A county court jury in October found Seyyed Farshchi, 50, guilty of causing a person to remain in forced labour and conducting a business involving forced labour.Sign up for Guardian Australia's free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...
Kathleen Folbigg should receive biggest compensation payout in Australian history, legal experts say
Folbigg to seek NSW government compensation payout bigger than any substantial payment' ever made, lawyer says
‘I never expected to do this well’: top performing NSW students celebrate high-flying Atars
Students across the state take to social media to share reactions to top marks while premier says results are just a step on your journey'
Lisa Wilkinson rejects idea she put ‘pride and ego’ before Bruce Lehrmann’s right to a fair trial
Broadcaster also hits back during defamation trial at suggestion she was captured' by Brittany Higgins and had no desire to check or scrutinise anything she said'
Lehrmann proceedings day 16 – as it happened
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Wrongfully jailed for 20 years, Australia’s ‘most hated woman’ likely to receive record compensation
Kathleen Folbigg was considered country's worst female serial killer and spent two decades in jail. Now she is free and has cleared her nameKathleen Folbigg was reviled as a baby killer and Australia's most hated woman" when she was convicted in 2003 of murdering three of her children and for the manslaughter of another.But on Thursday, Folbigg's convictions were quashed by an appeals court following an inquiry that examined new scientific evidence and found there was reasonable doubt of her guilt. Continue reading...
US controversy points to tests facing UK universities free speech tsar
Arif Ahmed will face a balancing act when his position - that legal speech gets protected - runs into messy realityEngland's newly appointed university free speech tsar, Arif Ahmed, finds himself in the same position as the leaders of three of the US's elite universities: having to nurture free speech on campus but struggling to explain those principles in real-life cases.Last week the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were at the centre of compelling political theatre as they were grilled by the Republican representative Elise Stefanik on the tension between free speech and antisemitism. Continue reading...
Students can make provocative remarks if they do not break law, watchdog says
Arif Ahmed of OfS says universities that infringe rights to expression will face fines under new systemUniversity staff and students can make provocative statements on subjects such as Israel and Gaza as long as they do not break laws on incitement or harassment, under proposals by the government's campus free speech tsar.Arif Ahmed, the newly appointed director for academic freedom of speech at the Office for Students (OfS), said universities and colleges in England that infringed the rights to expression of individuals would face fines under the new complaints process. Continue reading...
NSW police watchdog says responsible officers have nothing to fear from body-worn cameras
Exclusive: Peter Johnson says police shouldn't be suspicious of footage if they are dealing with people properly'
Israel reports its heaviest combat losses in six weeks – as it happened
This blog is now closed. See all our Israel-Gaza war coverage hereThe Times of Israel is reporting a little more detail on the incident in the Red Sea earlier, which caused the UK maritime trade operations (UKMTO) agency to issue a warning. [See 7.46 GMT]Citing US officials, it reports that two missiles fired from Yemen missed a commercial tanker near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. It also reports that a US navy vessel shot down a drone that was heading towards it. Continue reading...
Tropical Cyclone Jasper: flying mangoes and an almighty downpour but north Queensland residents remain unfazed
Forty thousand homes and businesses are without power, with flood warnings issued for the Daintree and Mossman River
Rights groups decry Greek investigation into migrant shipwreck that left more than 500 dead
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International claim that authorities failed to mobilise appropriate resources', while Greece says the ship's crew refused assistanceHuman rights groups have deplored the lack of progress made by Greek authorities in their investigation into the controversial circumstances in which a migrant ship sank off the Peloponnese - leaving more than 500 dead - in one of the Mediterranean's worst ever boat disasters.Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International claim there are credible allegations that the Hellenic Coast Guard's actions and omissions" contributed to the 14 June shipwreck. Continue reading...
Australia’s unemployment rate ticked higher in November at 3.9% but hiring numbers also up
Joblessness rate rose despite 61,500 new jobs because the number of people seeking work also grew strongly
NBA indefinitely suspends Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green
League announces penalty less than 24 hours after Green hit Phoenix Suns center Jusuf Nurki and received foul and ejectionGolden State Warriors forward Draymond Green was suspended indefinitely by the NBA on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after he hit Phoenix Suns center Jusuf Nurki in the face and received a Flagrant 2 foul and ejection.The league announced the penalty handed down by operations chief Joe Dumars and said the suspension begins immediately. It's already Green's second suspension this season. Continue reading...
Waterfront operators’ soaring profit margins prompts concerns from competition regulator
ACCC report finds there may not be enough market pressure on dominant port operators as companies blame high shipping charges for rising prices
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