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Nigel Farage has tried to fend off claims that Reform UK would force people to pay to see a doctorMy colleague Peter Walker has posted a picture on Bluesky of the Labour advert on the front of the Birmingham Mail attacking Reform UK.Labour are on the attack against Reform UK in the run-up to the Runcorn by-election/local elections. This is their paid wraparound ad in today’s Birmingham Mail - Reform are holding their ‘biggest ever’ rally in Birmingham later. Expect a lot more of this to come.Now there’s been some concern about chlorine-treated chicken etc, but there is an answer

White House signs executive order limiting numerous federal workers from unionisingTrump news at a glance: judge orders now-infamous Signal chat be retainedDonald Trump revealed his intentions to reshape the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order on Thursday that targets funding to programs with “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology”.The president said there has been a “concerted and widespread” effort over the past decade to rewrite US history by replacing “objective facts” with a “distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth”.The order targets agencies it says have a national security mission but many of the departments don’t have a strict national

Pilot lost control during an aerobatics display and crashed into tarmac at Avalon airport in VictoriaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA pilot has been left in a critical condition after losing control of their plane during an aerobatics display at the Avalon Airshow and crashing into the tarmac.Victoria police said the incident occurred on Friday at about 5.15pm on the first day of the airshow which is the largest in the southern hemisphere.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/28/avalon-airshow-crash-pilot-seriously-injured Author : Natasha May Publish date : 2025-03-28 08:44:00

United States Geological Survey said the quake was shallow, at a depth of just 10km (six miles) with the epicentre near the central city of MandalayAs we mentioned earlier, the epicenter of the earthquake was in central Myanmar, about 30 miles (50km) east of the city of Monywa. The AP says that in the capital Naypyitaw, the quake damaged religious shrines, sending parts toppling to the ground, and some homes. Further reports of damage were not immediately available from Myanmar, which is embroiled in a civil war.Here are some of the latest images from Thailand: Continue reading... Source link :

Exhibition aims to help visitors get inside the minds that thought mercury and roasted apples would cure liceMedieval treatments might make you question the sanity of the doctors of the day, but a new exhibition is set to take visitors inside the minds of such medics and reveal the method behind what can seem like madness.Curious Cures, opening on Saturday at Cambridge University Library, is the culmination of a project to digitise and catalogue more than 180 manuscripts, mostly dating from the 14th or 15th centuries, that contain recipes for medical treatments, from compendiums of cures to alchemical texts and

Defence secretary’s Philippines visit, aimed at bolstering ties in Asia-Pacific, comes amid rising tensions with Beijing and calls for his resignationThe US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, has met with the Philippine president, Ferdinand Marcos, in Manila saying the two countries must stand “shoulder to shoulder” in the face of the threat represented by China.Hegseth’s meeting at the presidential palace comes as he opens a tour of Pacific allies that risks being overshadowed by a mounting scandal over leaked plans for military strikes. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/28/pete-hegseth-dogged-by-scandal-at-home-pledges-us-support-for-manila-against-china Author : Agence France-Presse Publish date : 2025-03-28 03:42:00 Copyright for syndicated

China wants to protect against the volatility of Trump’s tariffs, and now has more than a dozen free trade agreements with global south countriesChinese vice-premier Ding Xuexiang has pledged to give stronger policy support to the Chinese economy as he delivered the keynote speech at a forum focused on bolstering the country’s role in Asia and ties with the global south.With the tariffs on Chinese goods mounting, China is trying to find a foundation for growth that does not rely on an increasingly capricious United States. At the Boao Forum for Asia, a conference in south China’s Hainan province, Chinese

Kristian White was convicted of manslaughter over death of Nowland whom he shot with a Taser at a Cooma aged care home in 2023Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA judge’s decision not to send Kristian White to jail for the manslaughter of Clare Nowland is “a slap on the wrist for someone that’s killed our mother”, according to the 95-year-old’s son.Justice Ian Harrison handed down his sentencing decision for the former New South Wales police officer in the NSW supreme court on Friday, saying the incident in

Yolanda Saldívar will continue to serve a life sentence for fatally shooting the Mexican American music legendThe woman convicted of killing Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla-Perez has been denied parole after spending decades behind bars for fatally shooting the young singer at a Texas motel in 1995, the state’s parole board announced on Thursday.Yolanda Saldívar will continue serving a life sentence at a prison in Gatesville, Texas, after a three-member panel of the Texas board of pardons and paroles voted not to release her. In a statement explaining the denial, the board said the panel found that Saldívar continues to

Broadcaster ARN Media claims material is suitable for ‘broad-minded adult demographic’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Kyle & Jackie O Show has once again breached decency rules by broadcasting explicit sexual content on their KISS breakfast show, but ARN Media has pushed back saying the material is suitable for its “broad-minded adult demographic”.The Australian Communications and Media Authority (Acma) found two segments, on Melbourne’s KISS 1011 and Sydney’s KISS 1065 in June 2024, included “sustained and vulgar graphic sexualised descriptions” which were a breach of broadcasting standards.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue

Albanese visits governor general to kickstart five-week election campaign, with polls suggesting Labor is in a tight contest with Coalition under Peter DuttonAustralian election campaign 2025: live updatesSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralians will head to the polls on 3 May after Anthony Albanese fired the starter’s gun on the federal election campaign.The prime minister visited the governor general, Sam Mostyn, on Friday morning to dissolve the 47th parliament, triggering a five-week race to form the next government.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading... Source link

Prime minister expected to kickstart Australian election campaign with Labor battling to hold off Peter Dutton’s Coalition. Follow today’s news liveWho is leading in the election polls?See all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGovernment to enter caretaker modeSo what does this mean? Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/mar/28/australia-news-live-federal-election-2025-updates-australian-pm-anthony-albanese-poll-date-peter-dutton-latest Author : Krishani Dhanji Publish date : 2025-03-27 20:44:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Homeland security chief went to infamous prison holding deported Venezuelans as White House targets immigrantsUS politics live – latest updatesHuman rights organizations on Thursday denounced the US homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem’s, visit to the notorious prison in El Salvador that is holding hundreds of Venezuelans deported from the US earlier this month without a hearing, calling her actions “political theatre”.Critics condemned Noem’s visit as just the latest example of the Trump administration’s aim to spread fear among immigrant communities, as the cabinet member stood in a baseball hat in front of a line of caged men bare from the

The festival, started by Robert Redford in 1978, will move from its previous home in Park City, Utah, for 2027Boulder, Colorado, has been named as the new home for the Sundance film festival starting in 2027.The festival, which was started in 1978 by Robert Redford, will move from its home in Park City, Utah. Sundance brings more than 20,000 people a year to the ski town, which many had seen as too small to house something of this size. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/27/boulder-colorado-sundance-film-festival Author : Benjamin Lee Publish date : 2025-03-27 17:58:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

Retailer ‘defies gravity’ to become only fourth in UK to pass £1bn profit thresholdIt may not be a fashion leader or the cheapest place to fill your wardrobe, but Next has quietly confirmed its place as a British success story by ringing up £1bn in profits for the first time.Next’s growth came despite static sales of its own label in the UK as it expands the brand overseas – including via online marketplaces such as Zalando – and sells other labels it has invested in both online and in its stores. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/27/next-reports-1bn-in-annual-profits-for-first-time-but-warns-on-uk-economy Author : Sarah

North Bergen’s Robert Farley allegedly drugged coffee pot and shaved body hair on colleagues in series of ‘pranks’A New Jersey police chief has come under fire after colleagues accused him of defecating on the station floor, attempting to drug co-workers by putting viagra and Adderall in their coffee, and sticking a hypodermic needle into an officer’s penis, according to a report.NJ.com reported that Robert Farley, chief of North Bergen police, repeatedly harassed his co-workers with a series of so-called pranks, while he is also accused of retaliating after a colleague, who is a person of color, complained of racial harassment.

Incident took place near the popular Egyptian Red Sea resort of HurghadaThe Russian consulate in Hurghada said the submarine, named “SINDBAD”, had 45 Russian tourists on board in addition to crew members.The consulate said four people had died, but did not specify if they were Russian, Reuters reported.Six people have died and nine others are injured after a tourist submarine sank in the popular Egyptian Red Sea destination of Hurghada, two municipal officials said. AP reported that the officials were speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to brief the media.The incident, involving a recreational vessel operated

US president threaten ‘large scale tariffs, far larger than currently planned’ if EU works with Canada amid trade war concernsTop aides to Joe Biden “aggressively” warned Democratic donors last summer that if the then president was forced out of the 2024 election over concerns about his age and fitness, the party would inevitably make the “mistake” of running the vice-president, Kamala Harris, against Donald Trump, a new book says.“One donor on the receiving end of an electronic message summed up the sentiments of Biden’s top aides: ‘They were aggressively saying that we would wind up with the vice-president and that

Reeves also said talks were continuing with the US about securing ‘a better trading relationship’In an interview with ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, said she would not accept free tickets for concerts again in the future.Asked about the controversy about her decision to accept two corporate tickets for a Sabrina Carpenter concert at the O2, she repeated the line that she used at her press conference yesterday – that a family member wanted to attend the concert (presumably one of her children, but she did not say that), and that she accepted tickets for a corporate box

French president rules out any lifting of sanctions and says European forces could be deployed to mark ‘clear support’Oh, of course there was one more thing we needed before sitting down for talks: a family photo! But now we’re properly off.… and with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy and UK’s Keir Starmer arriving last, I think we now have a full house, and so the talks can begin. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/mar/27/macron-zelenskyy-ukraine-russia-trump-tariffs-eu-greenland-vance Author : Jakub Krupa Publish date : 2025-03-27 09:53:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Coalition leader says national gas plan will require LNG producers to set aside more supply for domestic use to protect Australia from global ‘price shocks’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPeter Dutton has vowed to establish an east coast gas reservation scheme to lower power prices and sack all 41,000 federal public servants hired under Anthony Albanese if he wins an election billed as a “sliding doors moment” for the nation.The opposition leader used his budget reply speech on Thursday night to claim Australia’s prosperity would be “damaged

After pulling out of the market Squid is charging parents who want to withdraw their remaining fundsA payments company that was used by parents to pay for school dinners has drawn criticism for charging them £10 to withdraw the remaining funds in their accounts after it pulled out of the market.Squid, which was used by 600 schools around the UK to take payments, stopped its service earlier this month after announcing in February that the accounts would be ending. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/mar/27/school-dinner-payment-app-squid-criticised-refund-fee Author : Shane Hickey Publish date : 2025-03-27 07:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre says ‘tide is turning’ in its negotiations to repatriate ancestral remains and important cultural itemsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAfter more than 170 years at a Scottish university, the remains of a young Aboriginal man killed on his traditional land have returned home.The skull of the unknown man was taken from Tasmania in the 1830s and had been held by the University of Aberdeen since the early 1850s. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/27/aboriginal-man-remains-returned-tasmania-from-university-of-aberdeen Author : Australian Associated Press Publish date : 2025-03-27 05:43:00

About 120 helicopters and 9,000 people mobilised to fight blazes that have destroyed hundreds of structures and threaten Unesco heritage sitesWildfires raging in South Korea doubled in size in a day, as authorities on Thursday called the blazes the country’s worst ever natural fire disaster with at least 26 people killed and historic temples incinerated.More than 33,000 hectares (81,500 acres) have been charred or were still burning in the largest of the fires, which began in the central Uiseong county, making it the biggest single forest fire in South Korea’s history. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/27/south-korea-fires-death-toll-rises-worst-in-history Author : Guardian

Anthony Albanese’s move would steal thunder from Peter Dutton hours after he delivers budget reply speechFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe prime minister, Anthony Albanese, is expected to call the federal election on Friday for a polling day in early May, according to Labor sources.Speculation had been rife in Canberra that Albanese could visit the governor general on either Friday or Sunday to capitalise on momentum from Tuesday’s federal budget and draw attention away from Peter Dutton’s budget reply speech on Thursday night. Continue reading... Source link