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Australia news live: dog-whistle politics ‘now a set of bagpipes’, Tony Burke says; controversial APY exhibition to return
Follow today’s news liveAustralian soldier dies after training accident in north QueenslandGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMore information on the incident at a Townsville facility...
San Francisco opposes ‘authoritarian crackdown’ as Trump threatens to send troops
President pushes hyperbolic claims of out-of-control crime as city leaders say no need for ‘Trump’s personal army’Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that San Francisco could be the next city he targets...
Rachel Reeves should consider welfare cuts in budget, IFS says
Thinktank urges chancellor to take ‘bold’ action on benefits and pensions to placate jittery financial marketsBritain’s leading tax and spending experts have urged Rachel Reeves to consider announcing billions of...
Jim Bolger, former New Zealand prime minister who drove reconciliation with Māori, dies at 90
Tributes flow from across political spectrum for man known for high ideals but also remembered for controversially slashing welfare and health spendingFormer New Zealand prime minister Jim Bolger, whose political...
News Corp told by Liberal MP that allegations about Sam Groth and wife were ‘political hit job’, couple’s lawyers say
Exclusive: Articles about Sam and Brittany Groth failed to include key comments, documents filed in defamation and privacy case sayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking...
US may take strategic stakes in rare earths companies to tackle China ‘power grab’
Treasury secretary Scott Bessent raises possibility of taking more direct stakes in companies to protect national security in wake of Beijing’s curbs on rare earths exportsThe Trump administration has criticised...
Closure of GP clinics will leave thousands of vulnerable Victorians without ‘lifesaving healthcare’
GP services will end at the Collingwood, Fitzroy, and Kensington sites in DecemberFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news...
French Socialist party to fight for wealth tax as it seeks to capitalise on crisis
Party has promised to stand back as weakened prime minister prepares for crucial no-confidence voteThe French Socialist party says it will fight to introduce a flagship wealth tax to raise...
‘I need to do everything now’: the Ukrainian combat medic-turned playwright
Since Alina Sarnatska’s first play premiered a year ago, she has documented wartime Ukraine with unflinching franknessEighteen months ago, Alina Sarnatska was serving as a combat medic on Ukraine’s frontline...
Agnes Wanjiru’s niece urges Labour to extradite ex-soldier while still in power
Esther Njoki says family has seen ‘big change’ under Labour, after long fight for justice over aunt’s 2012 death in KenyaThe niece of Agnes Wanjiru, who was killed in Kenya,...
Plug-in hybrids pollute almost as much as petrol cars, report finds
Analysis of 800,000 European cars found real-world pollution from plug-in hybrids nearly five times greater than lab testsPlug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) pump out nearly five times more planet-heating pollution...
South Korea bans travel to parts of Cambodia amid deepening scam crisis that has left 80 missing
An additional 60 South Koreans remain detained by Cambodian authorities after a crackdown on scam operationsSouth Korea has issued its most serious travel warning for parts of Cambodia, issuing a...