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Kevin Hogan defended the ‘principled’ decision to cut ties with the Liberal party. Follow the day’s news liveNSW floods map: record-breaking rain in charts and mapsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastHogan also backed Littleproud, saying he should “absolutely” should remain leader.Asked about whether someone like Michael McCormack returning as leader would be a good idea, he said:I think this is a hypothetical that is not on the cards.… David Littleproud very strong support in the national party room. And I would say even more support after the process he followed, how transparent he was.What about

Campaigner calls compensation schemes ‘quasi-kangaroo courts’ after final offer made in response to his appealSir Alan Bates, who led the 20-year campaign for justice for post office operators over the Horizon scandal, has revealed he has been handed a “take it or leave it” compensation offer of less than half his original claim.The 70-year-old, who was knighted last year, has accused the government of presiding over a “quasi kangaroo court” system for the compensation. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/24/sir-alan-bates-given-take-it-or-leave-it-offer-of-less-than-half-his-post-office-horizon-claim Author : Nadeem Badshah Publish date : 2025-05-24 22:53:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

David Crisafulli’s small-target election campaign has created problems for how the LNP governs that are already beginning to show throughGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOnly four years ago, some Queensland Liberal National party figures were contemplating the breakup of a political party that couldn’t work out what it stood for.“What is our raison d’etre?” the former party president, Cynthia Hardy, asked senior members in an email. Back then the LNP had lost 11 of 12 state elections. One senior party figure said at the time: “One more loss and the party will surely have to

Former prime minister and his wife share news of Poppy Eliza Josephine Johnson’s arrival in an Instagram postThe former prime minister Boris Johnson and his wife, Carrie Johnson, have welcomed a fourth baby to the family.The former leader of the Conservative party can be seen holding his daughter, Poppy Eliza Josephine Johnson, in an Instagram post shared on Saturday. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/24/were-totally-smitten-boris-and-carrie-johnson-welcome-fourth-baby Author : PA Media Publish date : 2025-05-24 17:43:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

IDF says practice ‘strictly prohibited’ after report of incidents quoting both Palestinians and Israeli troopsIsrael is investigating ‘‘several cases’’ involving soldiers who have forced Palestinians to act as human shields in Gaza, sending them into buildings and tunnels to check for bombs and gunmen.“The use of Palestinians as human shields, or otherwise coercing them to participate in military operations, is strictly prohibited in IDF orders,” the Israeli army said in a statement. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/24/israel-investigates-use-of-palestinians-as-human-shields-by-its-forces-in-gaza Author : Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem Publish date : 2025-05-24 12:34:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

A fifteen-year-old, an eight-year-old and a four-year-old were killed along with a 43-year-old woman, according to MetThree boys, aged 15, eight and four, and a 43-year-old woman have died after a house fire in north-west London in the early hours of Saturday, the Metropolitan police have said.More details soon … Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/24/london-house-fire-boys-and-woman-die Author : PA Media Publish date : 2025-05-24 10:17:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

AEC says it is considering recount request while opponent Wilson says he hopes Daniel ‘finds peace’Zoe Daniel has requested the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) conduct a recount in the seat of Goldstein after Liberal Tim Wilson emerged 260 votes ahead after the final distribution of preferences.The AEC automatically recounts votes if the margin is less than 100, but candidates can also request one if they believe they have sufficient grounds to do so.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/24/zoe-daniel-requests-recount-in-seat-of-goldstein-after-liberal-tim-wilson-wins-with-260-votes Author : Caitlin Cassidy Publish date : 2025-05-24 07:11:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs

Reform promised much to voters and now runs £8bn worth of public services. After three weeks, what has party accomplished?When Nigel Farage held a victory lap of England after his mammoth local elections win on 1 May, he was characteristically bullish about Reform UK’s plan to shake up town halls.The party would send in Elon Musk-style budget-slashing units, he said, while promising to turf out asylum seekers and any civil servants working on climate change or diversity. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/24/posturing-farages-reform-quake-so-far-limited-to-small-acts-of-war-on-woke Author : Josh Halliday, Diane Taylor and Ben Quinn Publish date : 2025-05-24 05:00:00 Copyright for syndicated

Defense secretary’s move outlined in memo seemingly punishes media for reporting on leaks inside departmentDefense secretary Pete Hegseth moved on Friday to dramatically curtail press access inside the Pentagon, seemingly punishing the news media for reporting on leaks of classified and unclassified information in recent weeks.The changes, announced in a two-page memo issued by Hegseth, effectively boxed credentialed reporters into one corner on one floor of the building that houses the press office and spaces used by news organizations. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/23/hegseth-press-access-pentagon-leaks Author : Hugo Lowell in Washington Publish date : 2025-05-24 01:59:00 Copyright for syndicated content

Social media users are being tricked by false ads advertising fictitious sales – and consumers say the platforms must take actionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralian consumers are being lured to fake websites imitating major labels such as Blue Illusion, Millers and Sussan that replicate their branding and advertise fictitious closing-down sales on social media.After previously identifying more than 140 so-called “ghost stores” falsely marketing themselves as local brands, Guardian Australia has found the problem extends to more sophisticated sites impersonating well-known retailers. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/24/scam-websites-imitating-famous-brands-on-social-media-ads Author : Catie McLeod Consumer affairs

Several people held in connection with jailbreak as manhunt enters second week and criticisms mount over jail managementSeveral people have been arrested on accusations of helping some of the 10 men who broke out of New Orleans’ jail on 16 May – and half of the escapers remained on the run as a manhunt for them entered its second week, according to authorities.Police said on Friday that they had booked Casey Smith, 30, a day earlier on allegations that she provided transportation to at least two of the escapers in the hours after the jailbreak. She had allegedly admitted to

Three pensioners and a man in his 30s jailed after stealing millions of euros worth of items during armed robberyFour men have been found guilty of breaking into a luxury residence in Paris and stealing jewellery worth millions of euros from the American reality TV star Kim Kardashian when she attended fashion week in 2016.Three pensioners and one man in his 30s were convicted of carrying out the armed heist, which was thought to be the biggest robbery of an individual in France in 20 years. Four other people were found guilty of assisting in the plot or related charges.

Arrest warrants issued for ringleaders after investigation by police in Europe and North AmericaEuropean and North American cybercrime investigators say they have dismantled the heart of a malware operation directed by Russian criminals after a global operation involving British, Canadian, Danish, Dutch, French, German and US police.International arrest warrants have been issued for 20 suspects, most of them living in Russia, by European investigators while indictments were unsealed in the US against 16 individuals. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/23/russian-led-cybercrime-network-dismantled-in-global-operation Author : Lisa O'Carroll and Kate Connolly in Berlin Publish date : 2025-05-23 16:33:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

Harvard’s president says school’s ‘refusal to surrender’ behind Trump administration’s ‘unlawful’ and ‘unwarranted’ latest actionFresh attack on Harvard intensifies chaos for international students in USHarvard University has sued the Trump administration over Donald Trump’s decision to revoke the Ivy League school’s ability to enroll international students.Reuters reports that in a complaint filed in Boston federal court, Harvard called the revocation a “blatant violation” of the US constitution’s first amendment and other federal laws.HHS alleged that Columbia violated Title VI, which prohibits those receiving federal financial assistance from discriminating in its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, or

Mosquito experts say cuts in aid will lead to collapse of crucial surveillance and control in endemic countriesClimate change could make the UK vulnerable to insect-transmitted tropical diseases that were previously only found in hot countries, scientists have warned, urging ministers to redouble efforts to contain their spread abroad.Leading mosquito experts said the government’s cuts to international aid would lead to a collapse in crucial surveillance, control and treatment programmes in endemic countries, leading to more deaths. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/23/climate-change-could-bring-insect-borne-tropical-diseases-to-uk-scientists-warn Author : Anna Bawden Health and social affairs correspondent Publish date : 2025-05-23 11:38:00 Copyright for syndicated

Byelection campaign material does not disclose Davy Russell’s work for company previously accused of data falsificationLabour is facing questions over transparency after it failed to disclose that a byelection candidate worked for a company previously embroiled in a data falsification scandal.The party has not told voters in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse byelection that its candidate, Davy Russell, worked as a consultant to a subsidiary of Mears Group in the neighbouring area of North Lanarkshire. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/23/scottish-labour-accused-of-trying-to-hide-candidates-link-to-scandal-hit-firm Author : Severin Carrell, Conrad Landin and Libby Brooks Publish date : 2025-05-23 09:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs

JU:MP programme included co-design of play spaces, exercise in faith settings and interventions in schoolsA project in the UK which included young people designing their own play spaces has led to what researchers say is the highest increase in children’s physical activity ever recorded by an intervention of its kind.The JU:MP programme (Join Us: Move Play) in Bradford, West Yorkshire, recruited children and young people to design play spaces on neglected land near their homes, choosing plants, balance beams, and nature play features, such as stone stacks and earth mounds which encourage imaginative games while keeping maintenance costs down. Continue

Motoring organisations warn of heavy traffic, and delays and cancellations will hit two rail routes out of LondonThe bank holiday getaway is likely to be a tricky one, with transport analysts predicting congested roads and the year’s busiest day so far for departing airports, while long-distance rail passengers dodge the start of more engineering work.Motoring organisations forecast traffic to be at its worst on Friday, with many drivers surveyed apparently taking an extra day off before the long weekend and half-term break for most schools in England and Wales. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/23/road-rail-disruption-bank-holiday-weekend-london Author : Gwyn Topham Transport

Severe weather warning for areas further south as 48,000 stranded and water levels at their highest for 100 yearsAustralia news live: latest politics updatesNSW floods map: record-breaking rain in charts and mapsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe death toll in the New South Wales flood disaster has risen to four after a man’s body was found in a car in flood waters near Coffs Harbour on Friday morning.Police said a passing driver had reported seeing a vehicle that had run off the Orara Way at Nana Glen, about 30km from the mid-north coast city. Officers

Research also shows deprived areas have up to 25 times as many bookmakers and pawnbrokers as affluent high streetsThe number of vape shops on high streets across England has increased by almost 1,200% over the past decade, while deprived areas have up to 25 times as many bookmakers and pawnbrokers as affluent ones, according to research.In 2014, only 33.8% of 317 local authorities in England had a vape shop, rising to 97.2% in 2024. Similarly, in 2014 less than 1% of local authorities in England had 10 or more vape shops, rising to 28% in 2024. Continue reading... Source link

BoM says heavy rainfall will extend south through NSW today with some areas set to receive up to 160mm. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo 12-year-old girls charged over alleged group assault in SydneyTwo girls have been charged over the assault of a man and woman in Sydney’s eastern suburbs yesterday, NSW police have said. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/may/23/australia-news-live-nsw-floods-flooding-rain-forecast-sydney-warragamba-dam-coalition-nationals-liberals-ley-littlepround-ntwnfb Author : Martin Farrer Publish date : 2025-05-22 20:34:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Scott Mescudi testifies that his Porsche was set on fire by molotov cocktail in 2012Scott Mescudi, known as the rapper Kid Cudi testified on Thursday inthe federal racketeering conspiracy and sex-trafficking trial of music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, alleging that Combs broke into his home in 2011 after discovering that he was dating Combs’s on-again, off-again girlfriend singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, and told the court how a molotov cocktail was thrown at his car a few weeks later.Combs, 55, faces charges of sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to engage in prostitution. He was arrested in September, and has pleaded

Pam Bondi returns to scene of shooting near Capital Jewish Museum in the city and says it ‘broke my heart’ to speak to Israeli PM about the shooting Two Israeli embassy staff shot dead in Washington DCUS leaders condemn antisemitism after DC shootingExplained: what we know so farIsrael’s foreign minister, Gideon Sa’ar, has accused unnamed European officials of “toxic antisemitic incitement” he blamed for a hostile climate in which the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington took place, Reuters reports.Israel has faced a blizzard of criticism from Europe of late as it has intensified its military campaign

All members of the senior civil service should receive a 3.25% rise, the government saysThe Conservatives are taking the credit for the near-50% fall in net migration. They say it is the changes to visa rules that they introduced that brought the numbers down.This is from Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary.Net migration has halved - dropped by 430,000 - in 2024 compared to 2023This is thanks to measures put in place by the last Conservative GovernmentThis drop is because of the visa rule changes that I put in place.Labour will try to claim credit for these figures but they