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Gaza civil defence agency said Israeli forces opened fire on people waiting to enter a US-backed food distribution centreGaza’s civil defence agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal has told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that 31 Palestinians were killed and about 200 were injured when Israeli forces opened fire on people waiting to enter a US-backed food distribution centre on Wednesday (see 8.53am BST).“We transported at least 31 martyrs and about 200 wounded as a result of Israeli tank and drone fire on thousands of citizens … on their way to receive food from the American aid centre,” Bassal told AFP. Continue reading... Source

Mayor Karen Bass issues curfew for one square mile area in downtown, beginning at 8pm local time on Tuesday until 6am local time on WednesdayMetro temporarily suspended many of its transport links through downtown Los Angeles as the curfew took effect at 8 pm Tuesday. Trains and bus routes were suspended, leaving many commuters stranded.“I’m a young, able-bodied person, so it’s not a huge impediment for me,” Joseph Cohen May, who was taking the Metro E Line home to downtown from Santa Monica, told the LA Times. “But there are thousands of people who live downtown, there are thousands of

Victorian woman, 50, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder after a fatal beef wellington lunch in Leongatha in 2023. Follow live‘You knew how suspicious it would look’: Erin Patterson makes series of denials in tense cross-examinationRogers shows the court text messages between Patterson and Department of Health official Sally Ann Atkinson in the days after the lunch.Rogers says Atkinson’s evidence was that in a phone call on 1 August 2023 Patterson told her the beef wellington contained dried mushrooms bought from an Asian grocer around April that year. Atkinson said Patterson told

Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWong says statement behind sanctions just as important as sanctions themselvesWong also appeared on ABC News this morning, adding:The most important thing to note … is that we are acting with others. You’ve heard me speak about the fact that Australia can’t shift the dial on the Middle East by ourselves …It means that they won’t be able to travel to Australia, and if there are any assets held in Australia, they will be frozen, and people won’t be able to provide them with financial support.But obviously

US defense secretary defends president’s decision to dispatch 2,700 military personnel due to Ice protestsAngelenos: share your reaction to the protests and military mobilizationDonald Trump’s decision to mobilize the US marines and national guard troops to Los Angeles is expected to cost taxpayers at least $134m and continue for a minimum of 60 days, the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, told lawmakers during a House hearing on Tuesday.A total of 2,700 military personnel – 700 marines and 2,000 national guard troops – were dispatched to the city on Monday, intensifying a federal presence that both Gavin Newsom, the California governor,

Households seeking safety net in time of global volatility, according to Bank of England’s chief cashierBritons are hoarding physical cash amid extreme economic uncertainty and to provide a safety net for possible banking system outages such as the recent one in Spain, according to the Bank of England’s chief cashier.Victoria Cleland said on Tuesday that UK households were building a cash contingency pot, much as they did during the Covid and cost of living crises. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/10/britons-hoarding-cash-amid-economic-uncertainty-and-fear-of-outages Author : Phillip Inman Publish date : 2025-06-10 17:54:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Trump doubles down on decision to deploy thousands more troops; LAPD says marines’ arrival without coordination presents a ‘significant’ challengeTrump sends thousands more troops to California in ‘authoritarian’ moveUS officials said the marines were being deployed to protect federal property and personnel, including immigration agents. A convoy of 10 to 15 buses with blacked-out windows and escorted by sheriff’s vehicles, left the base at Twentynine Palms in the desert east of Los Angeles late Monday and headed toward the city, stopping around 1am (9am BST) at Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, about 20 miles (35 km) south of downtown Los

Far-right ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich will have assets frozen and travel bans imposedAfter rockets were reportedly fired from northern Gaza at southern Israel, the IDF have issued an evacuation warning for the area of the launch.“The IDF is operating with great force in the areas where you are located to destroy the capabilities of terror organisations. The IDF will respond firmly to every terror act or rocket attack,” the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Col. Avichay Adraee, says on X. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/10/israel-gaza-aid-boat-madleen-activists-deported-greta-thunberg-middle-east-crisis-latest-updates Author : Daniel Lavelle Publish date : 2025-06-10 13:04:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs

Elke Kahr, mayor of Graz, says seven students and one adult among dead after attack at school, with ninth person dead understood to be the attackerThe Austrian interior ministry has confirmed that several people have been killed in the attack on the school in Graz in the south of the country, without specifing the exact number, AP reported.Austria’s Kronen Zeitung noted that the incident took place close to the tenth anniversary of the 2015 Graz attack “which many Graz residents still remember today” in which three people died, and 36 were injured. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/10/russia-strikes-drown-peace-efforts-zelenskyy-ukraine-europe-latest-news-updates Author :

Ukraine president criticises lack of response from allies as Moscow launches one of its largest attacks of war on KyivEurope live – latest updatesVolodymyr Zelenskyy has voiced his frustration with Donald Trump by calling for “concrete actions” rather than “silence” after Russia launched one of its largest attacks of the war on Kyiv, where seven of the Ukrainian capital’s 10 districts were hit overnight.A total of 316 drones and seven missiles were launched at Ukrainian targets across the country in the early hours of Tuesday, including Odesa in the south-east, where two people were killed, but it was the capital

SS troops killed inmates for target practice, according to account given in documentary Ghosts of AlderneyGuards at a prison camp on one of the Channel Islands entertained themselves at weekends by using prisoners for target practice, according to new evidence of Nazi atrocities committed there in the second world war.On Sundays, the SS would regularly pick about a dozen men incarcerated in Sylt, the camp they ran on Alderney, transporting them to a nearby light-gauge railway, where they tied them to tipper trucks and amused themselves by shooting them. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/10/nazi-guards-shot-prisoners-for-fun-at-channel-islands-camp-research-says Author : Dalya Alberge Publish

Victorian woman, 50, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder following a fatal beef wellington lunch in Leongatha in 2023. Follow liveProsecutor Nanette Rogers SC says Erin Patterson’s son gave evidence that she did not tell him she was sick on the day of the lunch.“I don’t know if I did or I didn’t,” Patterson says.The first thing he said to me was something like: I’ve got a sore tummy.How could I? It’s vomit. Unless you can see a bean or a piece of corn. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/jun/10/australian-mushroom-trial-live-cross-examination-of-erin-patterson-to-continue-on-day-30-of-her-triple-trial-ntwnfb Author :

Lawsuit claims administration ‘trampled’ on states sovereignty by bypassing governor Gavin NewsomLA protests – live updatesCalifornia on Monday filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, accusing the US president of “unlawfully” federalizing the state’s national guard to quell immigration protests in Los Angeles.Trump’s extraordinary deployment of troops to Los Angeles exceeds federal authority and violates the 10th amendment in an “unprecedented usurpation” of state powers, according to the court filing. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/california-lawsuit-national-guard-trump Author : Lauren Gambino in Los Angeles Publish date : 2025-06-10 00:20:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

In a post on social media Car said she has some news to share ‘that’s not so great’. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSussan Ley to be first opposition leader since 2022 to address National Press Club later this monthThe opposition leader, Sussan Ley, will address the National Press Club later this month in her first major speech this term – and will be the first Liberal leader since early 2022 to front up to the major venue. As Anthony Albanese prepares for his own address to the NPC later today, Ley’s

Conservative channel MeritTV says psychologist and TV host was there to get ‘first-hand look at targeted operations’The television personality Dr Phil was embedded with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers as they carried out controversial raids in Los Angeles that led to days of protests in California, his TV network said.Phil, whose full name is Phil McGraw, was with Ice before and after its agents conducted a series of raids on multiple locations across LA on Friday. Immigration advocates said at least 45 people were arrested, and the action was condemned by California’s governor and LA’s mayor. Continue reading... Source

Ohio State to embed curriculum teaching undergraduates how artificial intelligence ‘can be responsibly applied’Ohio State University has announced that all of its students will be using artificial intelligence later this year, requiring them to become fluent in combining conventional learning with AI.“Ohio State has an opportunity and responsibility to prepare students to not just keep up, but lead in this workforce of the future,” said the university’s president, Walter “Ted” Carter Jr. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/ohio-university-ai-training Author : Edward Helmore Publish date : 2025-06-09 16:50:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

ACLU says David Huerta ‘was unjustly arrested’ after thousands protested against Ice raids over weekendLA protests – live updatesLos Angeles was waking Monday up to another day of high tensions with Donald Trump’s administration, the fourth since protests began over efforts by federal immigration authorities’ attempts to arrest illegal migrants in the city and a day after the president ordered in the national guard.New rallies against US immigration and customs enforcement (Ice) detentions are planned, with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announcing an event “to demand justice for detained immigrants and an end to the ongoing human rights abuses

Police fire rubber bullets and teargas while protesters block a major freeway and set self-driving cars on fireFull report: Teargas and flash-bangs used on LA protesters as opposition to Trump intensifiesAround 300 Guard troops have been deployed to LA so far.President Donald Trump earlier said he would deploy 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles to respond to immigration protests, despite the objections of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jun/09/los-angeles-protests-live-tensions-flare-trump-deploys-national-guard-troops Author : Joe Coughlan (now) and Kate Lamb (earlier) Publish date : 2025-06-09 11:43:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Chris Bryant acknowledges some budgets will be ‘stretched’ with Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, expected to find cuts elsewhere to boost policeRachel Reeves in standoff over policingAt London Tech Week Keir Starmer also said he wanted parents to know the government would use technology to create a “better future” for their children.He said:By the end of this parliament we should be able to look every parent in the eye in every region in Britain and say ‘look what technology can deliver for you’.We can put money in your pocket, we can create wealth in your community, we can create good

Follow today’s news liveAustralian reporter shot with rubber bullet while covering anti-Ice protests in Los AngelesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMaroons drop captain Daly Cherry-Evans before next State of Origin gameQueensland have made a huge call ahead of game 2 of this year’s State of Origin series, dropping its captain, Daly Cherry-Evans, from the team as the Maroons seek to turn around their fortunes in Perth next week. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/jun/09/australia-news-live-whale-rescue-snow-stranded-pheobe-bishop-murder-body-weather-trade-us-albanese-ntwnfb Author : Natasha May (now) and Nick Visser (earlier) Publish date : 2025-06-09 06:39:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the

Exclusive: Common Wealth report argues debt, pollution and underinvestment justify process known as special administrationMinisters could bring water companies into public ownership for minimal cost through a process designed to safeguard vital public services when the companies running them are failing, a thinktank report has argued.According to the report by Common Wealth, ministers could use a process known as special administration to take over a company like Thames Water and, rather than transfer it to another private company, keep it under permanent public ownership. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/09/water-companies-public-ownership-could-cost-close-to-zero-says-common-wealth-thinktank Author : Peter Walker Senior political correspondent Publish date :

Freedom Flotilla Coalition says ship’s communications were jammed after Israeli defence minister threatened to ‘take all necessary measures’ to prevent the humanitarian ship from reaching GazaIDF ordered to stop Gaza-bound aid ship carrying Greta ThunbergThe team working for French MEP, Rima Hassan, who is on board the Medleen, say they have lost contact with her.They claim she was “arrested in international waters by the Israeli army.” Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/09/live-israel-gaza-aid-ship-madleen-freedom-flotilla-coalition-greta-thunberg Author : Jonathan Yerushalmy Publish date : 2025-06-09 01:40:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Chancellor still at negotiating table on Sunday as Home Office demands more casExplainer: The winners and losers in Labour’s first spending reviewRachel Reeves has been locked in a standoff over the policing and council budgets just days before this week’s spending review, which is set to give billions to the NHS, defence and technology.Yvette Cooper’s Home Office and Angela Rayner’s housing and local government ministry were the two departments still at the negotiating table on Sunday fighting for more cash, after weeks of trying to reach a settlement. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/08/rachel-reeves-in-stand-off-over-policing-and-council-budgets-days-before-spending-review Author : Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

California governor made threat amid reports Trump is weighing huge federal funding cuts targeting stateThe US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, has warned California governor Gavin Newsom that he would be guilty of “criminal tax evasion” if he withholds his state’s tax payments to the federal government amid threats of a funding cut by Donald Trump.Newsom had threatened to cut tax payments to the federal government two days ago after reports that Trump was preparing huge federal funding cuts targeting Democrat-dominated California, including its state university system. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/08/newsom-warned-tax-evasion Author : Edward Helmore Publish date : 2025-06-08