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Emergency services called on Monday night after member of host family in Hunter region heard a commotion and found older girl with stab woundsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA teenage Chinese girl has been killed and her fellow student arrested following a stabbing at their host family’s home.The 13-year-old girl, also a Chinese student, was assisting police on Tuesday afternoon following the death of the 14-year-old in the NSW Hunter region. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/05/exchange-student-arrested-after-fatal-stabbing-at-host-family-home-nsw-hunter-region-ntwnfb Author : Australian Associated Press Publish date : 2025-08-05 09:18:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked

The Israeli prime minister’s meeting comes as local media reports he is inclining towards expanding the offensive and even seizing entire territoryNew images of two skeletal hostages have horrified Israelis and added pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a ceasefire, even as his government considers another expansion of the war, which has already destroyed much of Gaza and pushed it toward famine. In the video released by the Islamic Jihad militant group, Rom Braslavski says injuries in his foot prevent him from being able to stand. In another video, released by Hamas, Evyatar David says he is digging his own

Leader Rhun ap Iorwerth has begun a tour that will take in every Welsh constituency before May’s Senedd electionsIt is fair to say that Rhun ap Iorwerth, the leader of Plaid Cymru, was on safe ground at the national Eisteddfod in Wrexham this week. More than once, festivalgoers interrupted his interview with the Guardian to shake his hand or take a selfie.Ap Iorwerth has just embarked on a nationwide “listening tour” during which he will visit every Welsh constituency, beginning in Wrexham, before the Senedd elections next May. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/05/were-the-party-of-ambition-plaid-cymru-sets-out-to-topple-labour Author : Bethan McKernan Wales corerspondent

Lawmakers travel to Illinois, New York and elsewhere to stop vote on Republicans’ redistricting planUS politics – live updatesTexas Democrats in the state legislature denied Republicans a legislative quorum on Monday by leaving the state, preventing, at least for now, plans proposed by the White House to aggressively redistrict Texas’s congressional lines in their favor.When the legislature gaveled in at 3pm local time on Monday, Republicans fell short of a quorum by eight votes after Democrats fled to Illinois, a legislative conference in Boston, New York and elsewhere. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/04/texas-democrats-republicans-maps Author : George Chidi, Lauren Gambino

Bolsonaro accused of breaching ban imposed amid fears he may abscond to avoid punishment for alleged coup attemptA Brazilian supreme court judge has ordered the house arrest of former president Jair Bolsonaro for breaching “preventative measures” which were imposed amid concerns the far-right leader might abscond to avoid punishment over an alleged coup attempt.According to the ruling on Monday by Justice Alexandre de Moraes, Bolsonaro breached a ban on using social media which was imposed last month, when he was also ordered to wear an electronic ankle tag. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/04/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-house-arrest-supreme-court Author : Tiago Rogero in Rio

Foreign minister says protest shows ‘what we all feel’ but defends government position on Gaza. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s foreign minister was asked on the ABC’s 7.30 last night if Sunday’s march for Gaza on the Sydney Harbour Bridge would directly impact government policy.“That was an extraordinary march and I think it demonstrates what we all feel,” Wong answered.I know that Australians are feeling distressed, angry, upset, really horrified by what they’re seeing in Gaza. I certainly share that distress. So do ministers in the government.We’re not the central player.

Police hope new webpage will help them track down people suspected of violent disorder across EnglandDozens of people suspected of throwing bricks and attacking members of the public during last summer’s riots are still wanted by police forces across England.The police have launched a webpage with images of 40 people they are seeking in relation to rioting provoked by the far right after the Southport murders. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/04/public-asked-to-identify-40-faces-pictured-at-last-years-uk-summer-riots Author : Robyn Vinter and agency Publish date : 2025-08-04 18:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Witkoff expected to visit Russia as latest deadline set by Donald Trump exires on Friday, requiring Putin to agree to a ceasefire or face sanctionsUS special envoy Steve Witkoff’s visit to Moscow is now expected to take place on Wednesday, Tass news agency reported citing sources.The latest deadline, set by US president Donald Trump, requiring Russia to agree to a ceasefire or face sanctions is set to expire on Friday. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/aug/04/europe-live-ukraine-russia-trump-putin-zelenskyy-live-news-updates Author : Jakub Krupa Publish date : 2025-08-04 15:34:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Greg Abbott says he will try to remove Democrats unless they return to allow vote to take place on redrawing the US House map to favour RepublicansAs he boarded Air Force One on Sunday, the president told reporters that a new leader for the Bureau of Labor Statistics would be announced “over the next three to four days”. Trump added that he had “no confidence” in commissioner Erica McEntarfer, who he fired on Friday.The director of the White House Economic Council, Kevin Hassett, defended the president’s decision in an interview with NBC on Sunday. “He wants his own people,” Hassett

Rupert Matthews, elected to post as Conservative in 2021, claims police are ‘fighting crime with one hand tied behind their back’George Finch, the Reform UK leader of Warwickshire county council, goes next. (Aged 19, he is the youngest council leader in the country.)He claims the police have opposed his attempts to expose the immigration status of someone arrested in connection with an alleged crime.It was dirty, run down and had major drug issues. My attitude to the task was assertive and no nonsense. That’s the approach that I will take for my role within Reform UK . Continue reading... Source

Amber alert due in Scotland with warnings winds could reach 85mphScotRail has also asked anyone with garden equipment such as trampolines to keep them secure, as Storm Floris begins to hit Scotland.Posting to X, the rail operator said:We’re asking anyone with garden equipment, such as tents, trampolines or furniture, to secure items so that they don’t blow onto the tracks and interfere with lineside equipment.Blanket 50mph speed restrictions will be implemented from Network Rail across all ScotRail’s routes because of the poor weather conditions. This will mean fewer normal services and the complete closure of some lines. Other routes will

More than 3,200 union machinists around St Louis launch strike action as they seek new contractMore than 3,200 unionized workers who assemble Boeing’s fighter jets in the St Louis area have gone on strike after rejecting Boeing’s latest offer on Sunday.Boeing Defense said it was ready for Monday’s work stoppage and would implement a contingency plan that used non-labor workers. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/03/boeing-st-louis-strike Author : Guardian staff and agencies Publish date : 2025-08-04 05:27:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

A man on a black e-scooter has tagged ‘offensive phrases’ on the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation five times between March and July, police sayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA synagogue has been spray-painted in a series of attacks by a man in a Scream mask, Victorian police say.The Melbourne Hebrew Congregation synagogue, at South Yarra in Melbourne’s inner south-east, has been the target of graffiti five times from 11 March to 30 July. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/04/melbourne-hebrew-congregation-synagogue-graffiti-scream-mask-ntwnfb Author : Australian Associated Press Publish date : 2025-08-04

Shipwreck in Gulf of Aden with 154 Ethiopians onboard leaves only 12 survivors, with the rest missing and presumed dead, says UN agencyA boat has capsized off Yemen’s coast leaving 68 African migrants dead and 74 others missing, the UN’s migration agency said.It was the latest in a series of shipwrecks off Yemen that have killed hundreds of people fleeing conflict and poverty in hopes of reaching the wealthy Gulf Arab countries. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/04/african-migrants-killed-capsized-boat-shipwreck-yemen Author : Associated Press in Cairo Publish date : 2025-08-04 00:05:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

NSW SES issues multiple watch and act warnings as flood waters rise after weekend downpour. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastHusic says politicians ‘underestimated’ how strongly Australians feel about GazaMP Ed Husic said more and more Australians had grown concerned about the impact of Israel’s war against Hamas on civilian populations. He told RN Breakfast:I think people in particular believe it’s just not right … To treat kids in the way that they’ve been treated in Gaza. It offends our values as people, and so people turned up in large numbers. …I

Latest ‘mass capture’ in Zamfara state shows banditry crisis shifting from land conflict to organised crimeGunmen have kidnapped more than 50 people in north-west Nigeria in a mass abduction, according to a private conflict monitoring report created for the UN and seen by Agence France-Presse on Sunday.“Armed bandits” targeted the village of Sabon Garin Damri in Zamfara state Friday, the report said, the latest attack in a region where residents in rural hinterlands have long suffered gangs who kidnap for ransom, loot villages and demand taxes. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/03/gunmen-kidnap-more-than-50-people-in-north-west-nigeria Author : AFP Publish date : 2025-08-03 18:10:00

Video shows black smoke pouring from facility in Sochi, while Russian attack on Mykolaiv wounds seven peopleAn overnight Ukrainian drone attack on an oil depot near the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi ignited a raging fire, as the two countries traded strikes at the end of one of the deadliest weeks in Ukraine in recent months.More than 120 firefighters worked to put out the blaze, said the regional governor, Veniamin Kondratyev, as emergency officials reported a fuel tank with a capacity of 2,000 cubic metres (70,000 cubic feet) had burned before it was extinguished. Continue reading... Source link :

FCA says motorists should start to receive payments in 2026 with most individual payouts likely to come in under £950Drivers could be handed a share of between £9bn and £18bn in compensation next year, after the City regulator said it would consult on a redress scheme for consumers affected by the car finance scandal.The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said on Sunday that it plans to launch the redress scheme in 2026, with consumers “starting to receive compensation next year”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/03/city-regulator-unveils-car-loan-compensation-scheme-worth-up-to-18bn Author : Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent Publish date : 2025-08-03 14:29:00 Copyright for syndicated content

Common Wealth report calls discounted sales of council homes one of the ‘largest giveaways in UK history’Margaret Thatcher’s right-to-buy scheme has cost UK taxpayers almost £200bn, according to a report into the policy’s contribution to Britain’s housing crisis.In its report into the sale of millions of council homes to their tenants at steep discounts since 1980, the Common Wealth thinktank said the policy had fuelled vast shortages in social housing and turbocharged inequality. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/aug/03/right-to-buy-england-fuelled-housing-crisis-cost-taxpayers-common-weath-report Author : Richard Partington Senior economics correspondent Publish date : 2025-08-03 11:31:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Images of emaciated Rom Braslavski and Evyatar David fuel renewed calls to reach a truce and hostage release dealMahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, has condemned Ben-Gvir’s visit to al-Aqsa mosque, which he said “crossed all red lines.”The Waqf, the foundation that administers the complex, said Ben-Gvir was among another 1,250 people who visited the site, Associated Press reports. The foundation said the group prayed, shouted and danced at the mosque. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/aug/03/israel-gaza-war-live-netanyahu-hostage-video-famine-latest-updates-news Author : Matthew Pearce Publish date : 2025-08-03 09:14:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

City predicts quarter-point drop to 4% when MPC meets on ThursdayBank of England policymakers are widely expected to cut interest rates this week to prevent the economy sliding backwards amid rising unemployment and the hit to global trade from Donald Trump’s fresh round of import tariffs.City traders are betting that the Bank’s nine-member monetary policy committee (MPC) will reduce the headline rate on Thursday by 0.25 percentage points to 4%, marking the fifth cut since last August and taking interest rates back to where they were in March 2023. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/03/bank-of-england-interest-rates-cut-forecast-rising-unemployment-and-trump-tariffs Author : Phillip Inman Publish

At least 100 people involved in rescue operation at El Teniente copper mine, which partially collapsed after ‘seismic event’One of five miners trapped after a partial collapse at the world’s largest underground copper mine has been found dead, Chile’s state-owned Codelco group announced on Saturday, as rescuers continued their search for survivors.The collapse took place on Thursday at the El Teniente mine in Rancagua, 100km south of Santiago, after a “seismic event.” Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/03/body-found-in-collapsed-chile-mine-as-search-continues-for-trapped-miners-copper-codelco Author : Agence France-Press Publish date : 2025-08-03 03:14:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

The woman, in her 20s, was trying to flee a vehicle in a swollen creek in Rothbury, near CessnockFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA search is under way after a woman was swept into a flooded creek in the Hunter region overnight, as heavy downpours continue to batter large parts of northern New South Wales.Police said a Mini was being driven by a 27-year-old woman in Rothbury, near Cessnock, when it became stuck on Old North Road, through the swollen creek, just before 8pm on Saturday. Continue

NSW SES have responded to more than 1,400 incidents in the state amid severe rainfall, thunderstorms and snow. Follow today’s news liveThe opposition leader, Sussan Ley, has questioned the pro-Palestine protest in Sydney due later today, saying it could have happened elsewhere without “massive diversion of police resources”.Talking to the ABC, Ley says everyone wants to “see the bloodshed stop” and says the war could end tomorrow with a Hamas surrender and the release of hostages.We are seeing protests now regular – this is going to happen on an ongoing basis – it is going to create massive diversion of

Dietitian Lyndi Cohen says her likeness is being ‘abused and misrepresented’ as websites posing as Australian businesses claim to offer GLP-1 substancesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOnline “ghost stores” masquerading as Australian businesses have expanded into advertising Ozempic-like weight loss treatments, and are impersonating real people, including a well-known dietitian, to recommend their products.After uncovering more than 140 sites falsely claiming to be Australian fashion retailers that prompted a public warning from the consumer regulator, Guardian Australia has identified a new scam that targets people trying to lose weight. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/03/online-shoppers-weight-loss-scam-ghost-stores-impersonate-real-people-sell-ozempic-like-treatments-ntwnfb