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Environmentalists seeking to end logging, smuggling and pollution in DRC’s Mangrove Marine park faced threats, violence and rapePeople who have tried to expose unlawful ownership and profit-making from protected land in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have faced threats, violence and rape, an investigation has found.The DRC government hired the conservation worker Kim Rebholz in 2022 to safeguard the Mangrove Marine park, an internationally recognised nature reserve on the country’s tiny coastline. The Congo basin rainforest, to the east, is the largest rainforest after the Amazon. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/11/violent-reprisals-after-drc-whistleblowers-discover-profiteering-in-protected-land Author : Josephine Moulds and Sonia Rolley

Ex-Liberal senator attempts to recoup legal costs awarded after defamation win against her former political stafferFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA former senator’s bid to discover where Brittany Higgins’ $2.4m compensation payout went after their bruising defamation battle has been frustrated by a bankruptcy paperwork glitch.The former Liberal senator Linda Reynolds successfully sued Higgins over a series of social media posts the former defence minister believed damaged her reputation. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/11/linda-reynolds-bankruptcy-proceedings-against-brittany-higgins-stalled-by-paperwork-glitch-ntwnfb Author : Australian Associated Press Publish date : 2025-11-11 05:10:00 Copyright for

The broadcaster’s director general and head of news resigned on Sunday night. But were they unforgivable mistakes made or were they victims of an internal coup? Michael Savage reportsIt was only a week ago that the Telegraph ran its first story about anti-Trump bias at the BBC and for many readers it may not have struck them as anything more than the usual rightwing criticisms of the national broadcaster. But the complaints about the editing of a Donald Trump clip in a Panorama programme about the January 6 riots and other criticisms made in a leaked 19-page dossier began gathering

Products that fail fire safety checks, are counterfeit and breach laws protecting children targeted in raids in LondonA rainbow of vapes and Apple-branded products light up the window of a south London shop as a small army of police prepare to march through the door.Officers have been watching the shop for months and have already carried out tests in independent labs on products bought there. Most have come back with a high risk rate for possible electrocution and fires. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/11/success-is-shutting-them-down-met-police-in-fight-against-vape-and-phone-shops Author : Lauren Almeida Publish date : 2025-11-11 00:01:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

Shadow defence minister asked about rumours he is mulling challenge for Sussan Ley’s top spot. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastJohn Howard says the Whitlam episode empowered Australians to better decide the country’s futureRN’s Sally Sara spoke to former prime minister John Howard this morning about his own reflection on Gough Whitlam’s removal. Howard called Whitlam an “outstanding parliamentarian”, and one of the best he ever saw.I think the greatest lesson is that we have a very durable and workable constitution, which ultimately allowed the people of Australia to decide the country’s

Decision to advance bill that would reopen government has sparked furor from party and base; House speaker to swear in Democratic representative when chamber returns, a month after her election winSenate Democrats who defected in shutdown vote: ‘This was the only deal’How each senator voted on legislation to end US government shutdownThe eight Democratic and Independent senators who broke ranks with the party to advance a bill that would end the government shutdown – the longest in US history – have defended their decisions amid furor from their party and base.“What happened tonight is not the closing of a chapter.

Ministers and high-ranking officials from nearly 200 countries have gathered in the Amazonian city of Belem, with Brazil insisting this will be ‘the Cop of implementation’Hundreds lined up for Cop30 on opening morning, with some in Indigenous headdresses and others in trouser suits, writes Dharna Noor, fossil fuels and climate reporter for the Guardian US.The conference is being held in a massive temporary building in Belem’s Parque da Cidade area. It was still under construction just days ago, but now seems to be ready to use. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2025/nov/10/cop30-climate-talks-brazil-belem-latest-news-updates Author : Damien Gayle Publish date : 2025-11-10

Federal clemency towards president’s close allies largely symbolic as some still face legal exposure at state levelRudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows, both close former political allies of Donald Trump, are among scores of people pardoned by the president over the weekend for their roles in a plot to steal the 2020 election.The maneuver is in effect symbolic, given it only applies in the federal justice system and not in state courts where Giuliani, Meadows and the others continue facing legal peril. The acts of clemency were announced in a post late on Sunday to X by US pardon attorney Ed

Reform UK leader claims that burden of regulation is worse than before the referendumFarage said the problems facing small businesses were not a failure of capitalism.Some will tell you, well, the economy is failing because capitalism is failing.No, we’re not living in capitalism. We’re living in an age of global corporatism.The other great betrayal is that is every one of these millions of businesses, every one of these 5.6 million businesses, believed that, with Brexit, the regulatory burden on their shoulders would become less.I can tell you, a decade on, almost from the referendum, in every single industry, from financial

Former president is seeking to be released pending his appeal against a five-year sentence for criminal conspiracyThe court is currently going through a summary of the case so far, before it opens to submissions from defence, BFMTV is reporting.There are no cameras inside, so we have to rely on what is being reported by those inside the Paris court room. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/nov/10/france-nicolas-sarkozy-belgium-drones-russia-ukraine-spain-europe-latest-news-updates Author : Jakub Krupa Publish date : 2025-11-10 09:01:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Programme uses artist’s sketches, drawings and watercolours to build unprecedented psychological portraitHe is widely regarded as England’s greatest painter, but despite his extraordinary output, elements of JMW Turner’s personality have remained a mystery.Now, a groundbreaking BBC documentary delves into Turner’s 37,000 sketches, drawings and watercolours to build an unprecedented psychological portrait, one that raises the possibility that Turner’s singular vision was shaped by childhood trauma and neurodivergence. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/nov/10/documentary-jmw-turner-secret-sketchbooks-neurodivergence-bbc Author : Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent Publish date : 2025-11-10 06:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Senators vote on advancing House-passed stopgap funding bill, suggesting end to historic 40-day shutdown in reachThe US Senate on Sunday took a key vote on a bill that would end the record-setting federal government shutdown without extending the healthcare subsidies that Democrats have demanded.Senators began voting on Sunday night to advance House-passed stopgap funding legislation that Senate majority leader John Thune said would be amended to combine another short-term spending measure with a package of three full-year appropriations bills. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/09/senate-moves-vote-federal-government-shutdown Author : Guardian staff and agencies Publish date : 2025-11-10 02:46:00 Copyright for syndicated content

Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux was captured looking suave in a picture outside the Paris museum on the day of a crown jewels heistWhen 15-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux realised an Associated Press photo of him at the Louvre on the day of the crown jewels heist had drawn millions of views, his first instinct was not to rush online and unmask himself.Quite the opposite. A fan of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot who lives with his parents and grandfather in Rambouillet, 30km (19 miles) from Paris, Pedro decided to let the mystery linger. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/10/fedora-man-louvre-photo-pedro-elias-garzon-delvaux

US president promoted fictional claim from satirical website that has been debunked repeatedly since 2017Donald Trump promoted the false claim that Barack Obama has earned $40m in “royalties linked to Obamacare” in a post to his 11 million followers on Truth Social on Sunday.The fictional claim that the former US president receives royalty payments for the use of his name to refer to the Affordable Care Act, which he signed into law in 2010, has been repeatedly debunked since at least 2017, when it was featured on America’s Last Line of Defense, a satirical website that produces fake news reports

Russell Crowe remembered Laws as a ‘mischievous mate’ and Kyle Sandilands mourned a mentor. Follow today’s news liveGood morning, and welcome to Monday. Nick Visser here to start the week off. Here’s what’s on deck:Politicians and celebrities have paid tribute to talkback legend John Laws, who died on Sunday. Russell Crowe remembered Laws as a “wise mentor” and “mischievous mate” while Kyle Sandilands called the man known as the “Golden Tonsils” as “one of the true originals”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/nov/10/australia-news-live-john-laws-radio-social-media-age-ban-reserve-bank-pauline-hanson-sussan-ley-anthony-albanese-net-zerontwnfb Author : Nick Visser Publish date : 2025-11-09 20:25:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked

Congressional approval would likely be required for plan to take effect, an idea Trump has floated beforeDonald Trump on Sunday mused about giving most Americans $2,000 funded by tariff revenues collected by the president’s administration – an evident bid to rally public support on the issue.“A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Sunday. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/09/trump-tariffs-refund Author : Marina Dunbar Publish date : 2025-11-09 16:58:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Only 15% of families are eligible for legal aid which has led to huge swathes of UK becoming ‘legal advice deserts’, body saysThe Bar Council has called for all family court cases involving domestic abuse to be brought within the scope of legal aid for both parties, and for means testing to be scrapped for alleged victims and survivors of domestic abuse.In a new policy paper, the body, which represents all 18,000 barristers in England and Wales, has set out a package of recommendations to improve the ability of the family justice system. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov/09/bar-council-calls-for-legal-aid-for-all-family-court-cases-involving-domestic-abuse Author

Exclusive: Case for Mohammed Baraka alleges discrimination on the basis of nationalityA Palestinian man who was dismissed from his job in Gaza after the war broke out is suing the European Union for allegedly breaching Belgian law.Mohammed Baraka, who worked at the EU border assistance mission (EUBam) at Rafah after its inception in 2006 as an unarmed civilian third-party presence, has filed his case in a Belgian court. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/09/palestinian-man-dismissed-from-gaza-border-assistance-role-to-sue-eu Author : Lisa O’Carroll Publish date : 2025-11-09 13:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

‘Even one is too many,’ culture secretary Lisa Nandy tells Sky NewsMPs have said the BBC had “serious questions to answer” about the way a speech by the US president, Donald Trump, was edited by a BBC Panorama documentary.The concerns regard clips spliced together from sections of the US president’s speech on January 6 2021 to make it appear he told supporters he was going to walk to the US Capitol with them to “fight like hell” in the documentary Trump: A Second Chance? which was broadcast by the BBC the week before last year’s US election.I have discussed the

Exclusive: Leading ecologists say warnings over threat to wildlife have been ignored in drive to build 1.5m new homesThe scale of lobbying of ministers by developers on Labour’s landmark planning changes, which seek to rip up environmental rules to boost growth, can be exposed as campaigners make last-ditch attempts to secure protections for nature.The government published its planning and infrastructure bill in March. Before and after the bill’s publication the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, and housing minister Matthew Pennycook have met dozens of developers in numerous meetings. The body representing professional ecologists, meanwhile, has not met one minister despite requests to

Power to be cut for as much as 16 hours a day across most of Ukraine while repairs are carried outPower will be cut for between eight and 16 hours across most regions of Ukraine on Sunday, state transmission system operator Ukrenergo has said, after Russian attacks targeting energy infrastructure reduced the country’s generating capacity to “zero”.Moscow, which has escalated attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure in recent months, launched hundreds of drones at energy facilities across the country from Friday into Saturday. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/09/ukraine-facing-widespread-power-cuts-after-generating-capacity-reduced-to-zero-by-russian-attacks Author : Agence France-Presse Publish date : 2025-11-09 05:23:00 Copyright for syndicated content

Charlotte, North Carolina, has the most cancellations – at 120 – as industry experts say other sectors might also feel effectsUS airlines canceled 1,460 flights on Saturday, the second day of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) order to reduce air traffic because of the government shutdown.So far, the slowdown at many of the nation’s busiest airports hasn’t caused widespread disruptions. But it has deepened the impact felt by what is now the nation’s longest federal shutdown. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/flight-cancellations-government-shutdown Author : Associated Press Publish date : 2025-11-09 02:56:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Andrew Bragg can’t see the country allowing itself to be lumped with Azerbaijan, Iran and Syria in sitting outside the Paris pact. Follow today’s news liveThe NSW government has announced the next stage in its plastics plan, with action to phase out single-use and problematic plastics.The next phase of the NSW Plastics Plan 2.0 includes:phase out plastic bread tags and pizza savers from late 2027phase out non-compostable plastic fruit and vegetable stickers by 2030introduce tethered lids (meaning the cap or lid on a plastic bottle must remain attached to the bottle itself, even after it’s opened) for plastic bottles by

Security operations come ahead of trip by Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa to Washington to meet Donald TrumpSyria has carried out nationwide preemptive operations targeting Islamic State cells, a spokesperson for the interior ministry said on Saturday.Syrian security forces carried out 61 raids, with 71 people arrested and explosives and weapons seized, the spokesperson told state-run Al Ekhbariya TV. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/08/syria-carries-out-preemptive-strikes-against-islamic-state Author : Reuters Publish date : 2025-11-08 21:15:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Southern Water is being investigated amid concerns the spill could have dire impact on rare sea lifeSouthern Water is investigating after millions of contaminated plastic beads washed up on Camber Sands beach, risking an “environmental catastrophe”.The biobeads could have a dire impact on marine life, the local MP has said, with fears rare sea life, including seabirds, porpoises and seals, could ingest them and die. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/08/environmental-catastrophe-fears-as-millions-of-plastic-beads-wash-up-on-camber-sands Author : Helena Horton Environment reporter Publish date : 2025-11-08 19:16:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.