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Board of governors formally finds that Iran is not complying with nuclear obligations for first time in 20 yearsThe UN nuclear watchdog’s board of governors has formally found that Iran isn’t complying with its nuclear obligations for the first time in 20 years, AP reports.It’s a decision that could lead to further tensions and set in motion an effort to restore UN sanctions on Tehran later this year. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/12/un-general-assembly-vote-gaza-ceasefire-israel-netanyahu-middle-east-crisis-latest-updates-news Author : Hayden Vernon Publish date : 2025-06-12 10:23:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Chancellor giving interviews as UK economy shrinks by 0.3% as she faces questions over whether taxes might have to rise in the autumnRachel Reeves is now on ITV’s Good Morning Britain. Susannah Reid and Richard Madeley are interviewing her.Q: You must be disappointed about the growth figures? Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/jun/12/rachel-reeves-spending-review-labour-uk-politics-latest-updates-news Author : Andrew Sparrow Publish date : 2025-06-12 07:40:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

J-15 fighter jet took off from Chinese aircraft carrier off Japanese coast and came within 45 metres of Japanese Self-Defence Force aircraftJapan has voiced “serious concern” over a near miss involving one of its military planes and a Chinese fighter jet in the Pacific, where recent manoeuvres by Chinese aircraft carrier groups have raised tensions across the region.The Chinese aircraft took off from a moving aircraft carrier, the Shandong, and reportedly flew within 45 metres of a Japanese Self-Defence Force (SDF) patrol plane shortly afterwards. On Thursday, Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, Yoshimasa Hayashi, urged Beijing to prevent a repeat 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 liveWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom trial?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastProsecutor Nanette Rogers SC turns to evidence about factory resets performed on the mobile referred to as “Phone B”. The court previously heard four resets – one in February 2023 and three in August 2023 – were performed on the phone that Erin Patterson provided to police during the search

Danielle Wood doubts AI will eliminate half of entry-level white-collar jobs in five years but ‘there will be some impacts’. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe defence minister, Richard Marles, downplayed the Trump administration’s review into the Aukus program, saying it was “natural” that the US would take a look at the submarines and capabilities sharing program. Despite the review announced overnight, Marles said he had experienced “clear and consistent support” for Aukus from the United States. Marles said in a statement:We are committed to AUKUS and we look forward to working

Hundreds of fathers protest with children to call for two weeks’ statutory paternity leave to be increasedHundreds of fathers took to the streets of London and Edinburgh on Wednesday to demand better paternity leave, in a protest that was billed as the world’s first dad strike.They came with babies in papooses and pushchairs, as they brandished placards and dad jokes to call for an overhaul of the meanest paternity leave system in Europe. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/jun/11/dad-strikes-in-london-and-edinburgh-demand-better-paternity-leave Author : Matthew Weaver Publish date : 2025-06-11 19:07:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Convention resolution also called for defunding Planned Parenthood and criticized ‘willful childlessness’Human rights groups spoke out on Wednesday against an overwhelming vote by Southern Baptists, the US’s largest Protestant denomination, to endorse a resolution that would seek to overturn the legalization of same-marriage by the US supreme court.“Marriage equality is settled law. Love is love, and the right for LGBTQ+ couples to marry is supported by an overwhelming majority of the American public,” said Laurel Powell, communications director of Human Rights Campaign, in a statement to the Guardian. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/southern-baptist-same-sex-marriage-repeal Author : Edward Helmore Publish date

Polish Sejm speaker Szymon Hołownia confirms there is a delay to main vote as Tusk seeks to bounce back from presidential election defeat two weeks agoThere are about 260 questions to Tusk, one minute each, so it may take a while.Hope he is making comprehensive notes. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/11/poland-donald-tusk-prime-minister-vote-confidence-parliament-europe-latest-updates-news Author : Jakub Krupa Publish date : 2025-06-11 14:10:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Chancellor tells MPs how government plans to spend almost £1.4tn in 2026-27, rising to almost £1.5tn in 2028-9Green party MPs and activists staged a protest outside parliament today saying the government should use the spending review to announce a wealth tax. In a post on social media, Adrian Ramsay, the party’s co-leader, said:We expect the Chancellor to take another axe to public spending today: decline by design from a govt that refuses to tax wealth to properly fund our overstretched public services & support the most vulnerable. We need to invest in a secure & fairer future. #TaxExtremeWealthSenior SNP figures

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

Head of NHS England to say robot-assisted surgery will become ‘the default’ for 90% of keyhole operations by 2035Millions more people will have robotic surgery over the next decade under NHS plans to slash the huge waiting list for hospital treatment.The move will mean a significant expansion in how often surgeons use robots when treating people for cancer, hysterectomies and joint replacements, as well as in medical emergencies. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/11/millions-more-to-have-robotic-surgery-in-nhs-plan-to-cut-waiting-lists Author : Denis Campbell Health policy editor Publish date : 2025-06-11 04:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

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