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Chief commissioner Shane Patton leaving the role ‘effective immediately’. Follow today’s news headlines liveGood morning, and welcome back to a new week on the Australia news live blog. I’m Emily Wind, and I’ll be taking you through our rolling coverage for most of today.As AAP reports, Victoria’s police commissioner Shane Patton has advised he would step away from the role “effective immediately”. He said last night:It is with a heavy heart that I have made this decision, however I think it is the right one to allow fresh leadership in the role. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/feb/17/australia-news-live-victoria-police-sydney-trains-industrial-action-interest-rates-election-campaign-cost-of-living-ntwnfb Author :

President posted ‘he who saves his country does not violate any laws’ quote attributed to French emperorCritics rounded on Donald Trump on Sunday for likening himself to Napoleon in a “dictatorial” social media post echoing the French emperor’s assertion that “he who saves his country does not violate any laws”.The post came at the end of another tumultuous week early in Trump’s second presidency, during which acolytes questioned the legitimacy of judges making a succession of rulings to stall his administration’s aggressive seizure or dismantling of federal institutions and budgets. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/16/trump-napoleon-judges-government-firings Author : Richard Luscombe

Pischane in Donetsk back under Kyiv’s control as Zelenskyy renews call for fighting to end ‘with a just and lasting peace’Ukraine has recaptured a village on the frontline in the country’s east, amid signs Russia’s advance may be slowing down and as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy renewed his call for fighting to end “with a just and lasting peace”.On Sunday Ukrainian forces took back the village of Pischane, south-west of the city of Pokrovsk, military officials said. Russian units made rapid gains in the area in December and January, seizing a string of settlements that threatened to cut off Pokrovsk in

European papers express deep alarm at declaration of an ‘ideological war’, while the NYT says Putin may soon ‘realise his dream’This year’s Munich security conference exposed the chasm in core values separating the Trump administration from most Europeans and sparked deep alarm at US efforts to control the Ukraine peace process and exclude European governments from it.Here is what some of the main European and US newspapers had to say about it. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/16/the-us-is-ready-to-hand-russia-a-win-newspapers-on-europes-trump-shock Author : Jon Henley Europe correspondent Publish date : 2025-02-16 16:05:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.