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Albanese government says it’s ‘satisfied’ by strengthened control measures by the US to ‘manage biosecurity risks’. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastCoalition demands biosecurity reassurances after US beef trade deal newsThe opposition is a little less welcoming of the decision to lift restrictions on US beef.The prime minister himself has said that we couldn’t relax the restrictions on the importation of US beef because of serious biosecurity concerns. So if the government has found some way of dealing with that issue, protecting our domestic agricultural industry from the introduction of foreign diseases

Landmark opinion says those that fail to prevent climate harm could be liable for compensation and restitutionStates must tackle fossil fuels, the world’s top court has ruled, and failing to prevent harm to the climate could result in them being ordered to pay reparations.In a landmark advisory opinion published on Wednesday, the international court of justice (ICJ) said countries must prevent harm to the climate system and that failing to do so could result in their having to pay compensation and make other forms of restitution. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/23/healthy-environment-is-a-human-right-top-un-court-rules Author : Isabella Kaminski in The Hague Publish

Move is latest in pressure campaign on university over alleged failures to combat campus antisemitismThe state department is opening an investigation into Harvard University’s eligibility as a sponsor for the exchange visitor program, the latest in the Trump administration’s pressure campaign on the university over alleged failures to combat campus antisemitism and inadequate support of Israel.The department announced the probe will examine whether Harvard maintains proper standards for hosting international students, professors, researchers and other exchange visitors. All program sponsors must demonstrate “transparency in reporting” and commitment to cultural exchange principles while ensuring their activities do not “undermine the foreign

Volodymyr Zelenskyy approved a contentious bill weakening Ukraine’s anti-corruption agenciesBack to Russia-Ukraine talks, AFP just reported, quoting a source in the Turkish ministry of foreign affairs, that the negotiations will start at 4pm GMT, so that’s 5pm London time and 6pm CEST in large parts of Europe.The EU has also confirmed that trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič will speak with US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick this afternoon as they continue talks on the EU-US trade relations ahead of next month’s deadline for tariffs. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jul/23/europe-latest-news-updates-ukraine-corruption-zelenskyy-russia Author : Jakub Krupa Publish date : 2025-07-23 14:11:00 Copyright for syndicated

Man who worked for US military in Afghanistan was seized by immigration agents and taken out of state after arriving for green card appointment, say attorneysUS President Donald Trump has created a lot of leverage on trade with his letters on tariff rates, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Bloomberg Television in an interview on Wednesday.“President Trump is creating this leverage by saying: if you don’t want to negotiate with me, I’ve sent you a letter with a high rate. Have at the high rate or come and negotiate in better fashion,” Bessent said. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jul/23/donald-trump-administration-deportations-china-unesco-trade-talks-us-politics-latest-updates-news

Newly-appointed shadow housing secretary James Cleverly says there is no excuse for recent riots but government is making a difficult situation worseHome Office minister Seema Malhotra said new measures to share information about asylum hotel locations with food delivery companies to tackle suspected hotspots of illegal working will “improve the speed” of deporting illegal workers.She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “If I take one example of where we did an illegal working raid just a couple of months ago - four people who were found to be working illegally, of those, three were deported within a month. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Tony Burke also introduced legislation to add sabotage, promotion of communal violence, and serious threats to Australia’s border security to the rulesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLabor will make domestic spy agency Asio’s powers for compulsory questioning permanent and expand offences covered by the rules, ignoring warnings from human rights advocates about the need for ongoing parliamentary scrutiny.The home affairs minister, Tony Burke, introduced legislation on the first full day of parliamentary sittings to add sabotage, promotion of communal violence, attacks on the defence system, and

Alastair Campbell and children’s author Michael Rosen among advocates calling for oracy to be in curriculumThe children’s writer Michael Rosen, one-time political strategist Alastair Campbell and former education secretaries Charles Clarke and Estelle Morris have urged the prime minister to honour his pre-election pledge to embed speaking skills in England’s schools.They are among 60 signatories to an open letter to Keir Starmer, calling on him to establish oracy as a core part of Labour’s revised national curriculum and make it the fourth ‘R’ in education, alongside reading, writing and arithmetic. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/23/keir-starmer-urged-to-honour-pledge-to-embed-speaking-skills-in-englands-schools Author : Sally Weale

Deal struck in 1980s refunds about half of what the US multinational fossil fuel company paid in royalties, documents showFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian government faces having to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to the American oil and gas company Chevron to help it clean up oil wells on Barrow Island, in Western Australia, under a deal made in the 1980s.The Western Australian government also faces a hefty bill – estimated to be $129m – to help repair an offshore nature reserve where about

Footage shows people sleeping on floor next to toilets in facility that agency says is not a detention siteTwo videos have surfaced shedding light on what is happening behind closed doors at a New York federal building where people are being confined after being seized by officers on their way out of immigration court, with the footage offering a rare look inside a controversial and closely guarded space that is part of Donald Trump’s anti-immigration crackdown.The filming, shared by the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), captures one of several rooms at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan, on the building’s 10th

The education minister Jason Clare is due to deliver on Labor’s election promise by introducing legislation to the lower house to slash university debt. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGood morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then Krishani Dhanji will take the controls.Larissa Waters is likely to face more questions today about the Greens’ handling of the expulsion of co-founder Drew Hutton. She told the ABC’s 7.30 last night that she had not read the relevant documentation on the case and

Judge says Trump’s justice department did not submit to the court the Jeffrey Epstein-related grand jury transcripts it wants to unsealJustice department to meet with Ghislaine MaxwellHouse Republicans are busy during this press conference so far touting the Trump administration’s so-called successes on immigration and the sweeping tax and spending megabill, but they’re very much glossing over the fact that they “have lost control of the floor over their Jeffrey Epstein blow-up, and they’re struggling to chart a path out of the crisis”, per Politico.“GOP leaders are talking with Trump administration officials, searching for ways to appease Republican members incensed

Government’s deal with EDF, Centrica and other backers marks end of 15-year journey to win funding for projectBusiness live – latest updatesThe UK government has struck a deal worth more than £38bn with private investors to back Britain’s biggest nuclear project in a generation at the Sizewell C site on the Suffolk coast.The long-awaited multibillion-pound deal, which will be paid for through taxes and energy bills, gives the final go-ahead for construction of the nuclear project which has almost doubled in cost from when it was first proposed. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/22/uk-deal-sizewell-c-nuclear-power-plant-investors-edf Author : Jillian Ambrose Publish date

Fresh offensive comes as Israel cancels visa of UN’s local humanitarian headMiddle East crisis – live updatesIsrael has bombed warehousing and staff accommodation in Gaza belonging to the World Health Organization amid intensifying international horror at its continuing attacks on starving civilians and on humanitarian efforts in the devastated Palestinian territory.The airstrikes, which struck the UN global health agency’s facilities in Deir al-Balah – the focus of a recent offensive by the Israeli military – came as Israel cancelled the work visa of Jonathan Whittall, the head of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) inside Gaza

Head of UN Palestinian Refugee Agency says health workers, journalists and humanitarians are fainting while performing duties Prof Nick Maynard is a consultant surgeon at Oxford university hospital who has been travelling regularly to Gaza for 15 years. He is currently volunteering with Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) at Nasser hospital in Gaza.I’m writing this from Nasser hospital in southern Gaza, where I’ve just finished operating on another severely malnourished young teenager. A seven-month-old baby lies in our paediatric intensive care unit, so tiny and malnourished that I initially mistook her for a newborn. The phrase “skin and bones” doesn’t

Researchers find 270 allegations at mineral projects across 13 countries in Europe and central Asia last year Mines on the EU’s periphery that could be critical to its energy transition have recorded a large rise in allegations of abuse ranging from workplace deaths to soil pollution, a report has found, with a threefold increase in 2024 from the average of the five previous years.The nonprofit Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) found 270 allegations of environmental and human rights abuses in transition mineral projects across 13 countries in Europe and central Asia last year, up from 92 the year

Consultants and other NHS staff also respond to Guardian callout, with most expressing outrage at BMA’s demandsThe health secretary, Wes Streeting, is hoping that a “constructive” meeting with leaders of the British Medical Association last week will avert five days of planned strikes by resident doctors in England. The public, meanwhile, is struggling to muster much sympathy for the cause: recent polling showed approval for resident doctor strikes had halved from 52% a year ago to 26%.This was also reflected when people got in touch with the Guardian to share their views on the planned industrial action – among them

Peter Malinauskas says politicians do themselves a disservice ‘when they get caught up in technicalities’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe South Australian premier has said the state’s algal bloom catastrophe, which has caused mass deaths among hundreds of marine species, should be described as a natural disaster despite the Albanese government declining to do so a day earlier.Speaking to the ABC’s News Breakfast program, Peter Malinauskas warned “politicians can do themselves a disservice when they get caught up in technicalities”.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email

Federal judge rejects justice department recommendation that Brett Hankison be give no prison timeA federal judge on Monday sentenced an ex-Kentucky police officer to nearly three years in prison for using excessive force during the 2020 deadly raid on Breonna Taylor’s home, declining a justice department recommendation that he be given no prison time.Brett Hankison, who fired 10 shots during the raid but didn’t hit anyone, was the only officer on the scene charged in the Black woman’s death. He is the first person sentenced to prison in the case that rocked the city of Louisville and spawned weeks of

Penny Wong signs statement condemning Israel for depriving Palestinians of ‘human dignity’ as new parliament to be marked by protests. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBurke says algal bloom not a formal ‘national disaster’ but is an environmental disasterBurke is speaking outside a church in Canberra ahead of an ecumenical service that will be attended by many politicians to mark the start of the new parliament.There’s a legislated, formalised list of events that this is not in. That doesn’t change the fact that it’s an environmental disaster. It doesn’t change the fact

Experts say commission’s recommendations will come to nothing unless water firms actually start building vital infrastructureIt started with sewage. Few environmental crises evoke such visceral public anger as pumping poo into waterways, but for years, that is exactly what water companies in England and Wales have done in large volumes.Their failure to build infrastructure, plug leaks and protect nature has infuriated customers who at the same time have struggled with soaring water bills. It has also shocked European neighbours whose publicly owned water companies keep things far cleaner. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/21/less-reorganising-more-doing-landmark-report-alone-wont-fix-broken-water-sector Author : Ajit Niranjan Publish date

Billionaire and ex-New York City mayor says if Americans unnecessarily die, Senate Republicans will pay at ballot boxBillionaire, former New York City mayor and philanthropist Michael Bloomberg is calling on Senate Republicans to oust Robert F Kennedy Jr from his post as Trump’s health secretary.Kennedy was arguably the nation’s most prominent conspiracy theorist and vaccine skeptic when he was confirmed by the Senate, and he has spent much of his tenure throwing vaccine policy into upheaval amid an historic measles outbreak. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/michael-bloomberg-rfk-jr Author : Jessica Glenza Publish date : 2025-07-21 16:48:00 Copyright for syndicated content

Judge upholds decision to allow club to build 39 new courts, after campaigners called for it to be overturnedA proposed expansion of the Wimbledon tennis site will go ahead after the high court ruled in favour of an original decision to allow a further 39 courts, including an 8,000-seat show court, on the grounds of the old Wimbledon Park golf club.A judicial review, which started as this year’s 138th championship was under way, came after campaign group Save Wimbledon Park (SWP) took legal action against the Greater London Authority (GLA) over its decision last year to allow the All England

Top US university returns to court to fight against funding freeze that halted major research effortsAn 82-year-old man in Pennsylvania was secretly deported to Guatemala after visiting an immigration office last month to replace his lost green card, according to his family, who have not heard from him since and were initially told he was dead.According to Morning Call, which first reported the story, long-time Allentown resident Luis Leon – who was granted political asylum in the US in 1987 after being tortured under the regime of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet – lost his wallet containing the physical card

Deaths reported as Israeli tanks move in on area IDF believes Hamas are holding som hostagesAgence France-Presse (AFP) reports that defence minister Israel Katz said in a statement that the Israeli military “has just struck terror targets of the Huthi terror regime at the port of Hodeida and is forcefully enforcing the prevention of any attempt to restore the previously attacked terror infrastructure.”In a separate statement, the army said that “among the military infrastructure struck were engineering vehicles... fuel containers, naval vessels used for military activities and force against the State of Israel and vessels in the maritime zone adjacent