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The aircraft caught on fire soon after taking off from Shellharbour airport at about 10am on SaturdayGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThree people have died after a light plane crashed just after take-off on Saturday morning near Wollongong in New South Wales.The plane took off from Shellharbour airport at about 10am before crashing and catching fire, NSW police said in a statement. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/11/three-people-dead-after-light-plane-crashes-on-take-off-near-wollongong Author : Cait Kelly Publish date : 2025-10-11 00:20:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Police chief calls explosion near Bucksnort, south-west of Nashville, ‘devastating’ and says ‘we have some deceased’Nineteen people are missing and feared dead following a huge explosion at a military munitions plant in Tennessee.The powerful blast ripped through the explosives manufacturing plant in rural Tennessee on Friday morning, rattling homes miles away and bringing emergency services to the scene, authorities and residents said. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/tennessee-military-explosives-plant-explosion Author : Maya Yang and Associated Press Publish date : 2025-10-10 22:29:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

AFL-CIO vows to take issue to court as AFSCME union leader warns of ‘devastating effects’ for AmericansUS politics live – latest updatesThe White House announced layoffs of federal workers on Friday, making good on a threat it had made in response to the US government shutdown, which now appears set to stretch into a third straight week.Russell Vought, the director of the White House office of management and budget, wrote on social media that “RIFs have begun”, referring to the government’s reduction-in-force procedure to let employees go. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/federal-workers-pay-government-shutdown Author : Chris Stein in Washington and

Republican Winsome Earle-Sears presses Abigail Spanberger over fellow Democrat’s ‘abhorrent’ textsUS politics – live updatesDemocrat Abigail Spanberger faced off against Virginia’s lieutenant governor, Winsome Earle-Sears, in the only public debate in that state’s governor’s race on Thursday, days after the Democratic nominee for attorney general was embroiled in a texting and misconduct controversy relating to his opponents.Spanberger, a former congresswoman who left Washington to run for the governorship, which is currently held by a Republican, is leading by four points in a tightening race ahead of next month’s gubernatorial election. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/virginia-governor-candidates-debate-abigail-spanberger Author : Edward Helmore