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Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s biggest peanut supplier set to shut downThe corporate owners of Australia’s biggest peanut processor will scale down the century-old business in the coming 18 months before shutting it down for good.There isn’t detail, and it’s unclear whether those tariffs will ever actually be applied.We do know that the contributions from the pharmaceutical industry in the US to that investigation has been to urge the US government to focus their levers on non-friendly countries and not apply tariffs or punitive levers to allies such as Australia. Continue

Cash will pay for extra measures to address ‘critical public safety concerns’ identified in independent review of festival Notting Hill carnival will go ahead this year after almost £1m of funding was raised to provide extra safety and infrastructure measures.City Hall, Kensington and Chelsea council and Westminster city council together provided £958,000 for the event following pleas from organisers for support, after a review recommended several changes to make the event safe. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jul/09/notting-hill-carnival-to-go-ahead-this-year-after-1m-funding-boost Author : Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent Publish date : 2025-07-09 19:28:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Foreign office has declined to assist family of six, who already have permission to join a relative in BritainA Palestinian family of six who are trapped in Gaza despite having permission to join a relative in the UK have gone to court to try to force British authorities to help them leave.Their case caused political controversy in February when the prime minister, Keir Starmer, said an immigration tribunal judge was wrong to grant them the right to live in the UK after they applied through a scheme originally meant for Ukrainian refugees. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/09/palestinian-family-uk-court-force-officials-help-leave-gaza Author :

Doctors say hundreds have been wounded by Israeli gunfire while trying to reach convoysMedical officials, humanitarian workers and doctors in Gaza say they have been overwhelmed by almost daily “mass casualty incidents” as they struggle to deal with those wounded by Israeli fire on Palestinians seeking aid.Doctors said many of the casualties they are treating describe being shot as they try to reach distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a secretive US- and Israel-backed organisation that began handing out food in late May. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/09/gaza-aid-workers-overwhelmed-by-mass-casualty-incidents-at-food-distribution-sites Author : Jason Burke in Jerusalem Publish date