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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

App to also show land borders for Indigenous protected areas and reserves following similar updates in Canada and the United States in 2023Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMillions of Australians will be able to request directions from Naarm (Melbourne) to Meanjin (Brisbane), tracing the original custodians of the land along the way, via a new feature on one of the world’s leading navigational apps.In a major collaboration with Indigenous groups, Apple Maps will now include more than 250 dual placenames for cities and towns across the country,

Caitlin Cassidy translates the prime minister’s use of gen Z phrases for Catie McLeodFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe prime minister is using phrases I don’t understand in parliament. On Wednesday, he said the Coalition were “delulu with no solulu”. What is going on?Catie, I am rapidly aging out of being cool and don’t understand the inner workings of the teenage mind. But I do know young people love TikTok, and politicians love rhymes. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/mar/26/anthony-albanese-coalition-delulu-no-solulu-budget-tax-cuts Author : Caitlin Cassidy explains to Catie

The rise in housing costs has been extraordinary. The growth in population has notGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageAny way you look at it, and whether you like it or not, migration is shaping up as a major issue for the 2025 election.As Jim Chalmers did the rounds of media outlets to sell his fourth budget, the treasurer was regularly challenged about the boom in net overseas migration since Labor came to power in 2022. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/27/peter-dutton-keeps-blaming-migration-for-the-housing-crisis-but-can-it-really-be-that-simple Author : Patrick Commins Economics editor Publish date

President made announcement days before he is expected to unveil reciprocal tariffs on other imported goodsDonald Trump announced plans to impose sweeping 25% tariffs on cars from overseas on Wednesday, days before the president is expected to announce wide-ranging levies on other goods from around the world.“What we’re going to be doing is a 25% tariff for all cars that are not made in the United States,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “We start off with a 2.5% base, which is what we’re at, and go to 25%.” Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/trump-new-car-tariffs Author : Dominic Rushe and

Opposition leader proposes alternative cost-of-living relief after voting against tax cuts. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastEmily Wind here, signing on for blogging duties. I’ll be taking you through all the latest politics news from Canberra – and across the country – throughout the day.If you see something that needs attention, you can get in touch via email: [email protected]. Let’s get started. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/mar/27/australia-politics-live-fuel-excise-cost-of-living-tax-cuts-salmon-election-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-ntwnfb Author : Martin Farrer Publish date : 2025-03-26 20:13:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Rescue mission off Lost Coast Trail required US Coast Guard, fire department, helicopter team and swimmersTwo hikers were rescued from California’s rugged and remote north coast over the weekend after one of them slid more than 100ft (30 metres) down a steep cliff and was clinging to a “near vertical” bluff with hiking poles, authorities said.The Shelter Cove fire department and a US Coast Guard team responded to a call on Saturday afternoon for a hiker stranded on a cliff near the Lost Coast Trail, which traces more than 50 miles (80km) of the wild and undeveloped coast in far

Treasury watchdog says Rachel Reeves will also face higher borrowing costs in report issued alongside spring statementReeves blames cuts on ‘global uncertainty’Key points at a glancePolitics live – updatesRachel Reeves must cope with lower growth and higher borrowing costs this year, as the Treasury’s independent forecaster said the global economic situation was more unpredictable and could worsen in 2025.In a report to coincide with the chancellor’s spring statement, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said the economic outlook was “more challenging” and “more uncertain” as it forecast that growth would halve this year to 1% from its 2% prediction at

Senator Mark Warner, who questioned national intelligence director and CIA director on Tuesday says messages clearly classified as Gabbard doubles down on claimsNewly released messages show Trump advisers discussed Yemen attackUnder pressure from his rightwing base to challenge judges who have ruled against Donald Trump, speaker of the House Mike Johnson suggested on Tuesday that Congress could consider eliminating certain federal courts.It forms part of a broader assault on the judiciary, spurred by court decisions that have blocked several Trump administration actions, NBC News reports. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/mar/26/donald-trump-signal-white-house-security-leak-jeffrey-goldberg-tulsi-gabbard-kash-patel-john-ratcliffe-us-politics-latest-news Author : Coral Murphy Marcos (now); Daniel Lavelle and

This live blog is now closed, you can read more of our Middle East coverage hereHere are some of the latest images coming in via the newswires:The Gaza health ministry said on Wednesday that at least 830 people had been killed in the Palestinian territory since Israel resumed large-scale strikes on 18 March, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/mar/26/anti-hamas-protests-gaza-israel-hamdan-ballal-middle-east-crisis-live Author : Amy Sedghi (now) and Daniel Lavelle (earlier) Publish date : 2025-03-26 14:58:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Judge rules that law banning school libraries and classrooms from carrying books depicting sex acts had been applied unconstitutionallyA lawsuit brought by publishers and authors including John Green and Jodi Picoult has led to a portion of a law banning Iowa school libraries and classrooms from carrying books depicting sex acts being halted.On Tuesday, a federal judge temporarily blocked the measure, writing that it had been applied unconstitutionally in many schools and that books of “undeniable political, artistic, literary, and/or scientific value” had been caught up in it, including Ulysses by James Joyce, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Beloved by

Contrary to claims by the US president, we have found that diversity initiatives result in better scientists and greater progressChristina Pagel is a member of Independent SageDonald Trump’s attacks on diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) initiatives since his January inauguration have been intense, indiscriminate and escalating. A tragic plane crash was baselessly blamed on DEI. All DEI programmes within public bodies have been ended and private contractors face cancellation if they also don’t comply. Webpages that defend religious diversity in the context of Holocaust remembrance have been taken down.Science and academia have been particularly targeted. Universities are threatened with losing

Keir Starmer will face Kemi Badenoch at PMQs before the chancellor delivers her spring statement Rachel Reeves will not be raising taxes in the spring statement today, even though there are many people on the left who would prefer taxes to rise as an alternative to public spending being cut. Reeves came into office promising only one budget-type event a year, and that is one reason why she is not hiking taxes today. But mainly it’s because she thinks Britons are relatively highly taxed already, because Labour was elected on a manifesto ruling out most of the obvious possible tax

US vice-president says he wants to ‘check out’ security as Denmark welcomes move to rule out some sites after protests from Greenlandic leadersUkrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has responded to the Russian attacks on Ukraine overnight, saying they revealed that Moscow was not moving towards “real peace.”In a post on Telegram, he called out attacks just hours after ceasefire negotiations as “a clear signal to the whole world that Moscow is not going to pursue real peace,” and called for more pressure to be put on Russia, including further US sanctions. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/mar/26/jd-vance-greenland-denmark-ukraine-russia-black-sea-europe-news-live Author : Jakub Krupa

Former NSW Liberal MP appears at Downing Centre district court after pleading not guilty to allegationsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA former Liberal MP shaved 10 years off his age when he used a gay hook-up app to meet a 13-year-old boy who he then sexually abused, prosecutors have alleged.Roderick “Rory” Amon, 35, is accused of sexually assaulting the 13-year-old boy he knew on Sydney’s northern beaches in 2017.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/26/ex-mp-rory-amon-child-sexual-abuse-claims-lease-sydney-potts-point-ntwnfb Author : Australian Associated Press

In today’s newsletter: After a blunder exposes top officials sharing war plans on a private group chat, questions are being asked about secrecy, protocol … and sheer incompetenceGood morning. Look, it could happen to anyone: I well remember, for example, the time I added my mum to a thread with my siblings discussing what to get her for Christmas. On the other hand, I don’t have a secure communications facility in my house for when I need to get something out on the family group chat. Also, we rarely digress from pictures of cute kids to setting out war plans

News of protests has been preserve of a few newspapers and channels outside well funded pro-government networksAt the same time as the sound of clanging pots and pans rang out through the streets of opposition strongholds in Istanbul on a recent evening, marking another mass anti-government demonstration, a different reality was being broadcast to viewers of Turkish pro-government channels.Public television showed the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, speaking to a gilded conference room after an iftar dinner. He boasted of his government’s achievements, of hiring new teachers and attracting youth to an aerospace and technology conference. Continue reading... Source link :

CPI figures have economists predicting one to three RBA cash rate cuts in 2025 – the question is whether one will occur before federal electionFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s inflation rate has eased again, in data that will buoy Labor heading into an election and raise hopes for mortgage holders another interest rate cut is not far off.The headline inflation rate was 2.4% in the 12 months to February, a slight decrease on the previous month’s figure, according to consumer

Slow-moving trough drags tropical moisture inland, dumping widespread heavy rain onto an already saturated landscape, Bureau of Meteorology saysFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastHeavy rainfall has closed nearly 200 roads and cut off multiple towns in Queensland as already saturated rivers risk more flooding.The Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe weather warning for heavy rainfall across normally dry inland areas of central west Queensland, including parts of the Northern Goldfields and Upper Flinders, North West, Channel Country, and Maranoa and Warrego districts.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking