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James Vlassakis was 18 when he became involved in the Snowtown killings, later pleading guilty to four of the 11 murders The youngest person jailed over the notorious Snowtown killings will walk free after serving a 26-year sentence behind bars. A decision to release James Vlassakis by South Australia’s Parole Board was upheld by the state’s court of appeal on Tuesday. Continue reading...

The drone, which reportedly entered from Belarus, ⁠was shot down near Pratkunai village in central-southern Lithuania Nato fighter jets shot down a drone over Lithuania after an alert was issued in the ‌capital, Vilnius, and surrounding region, while Poland scrambled fighter jets less than a day after retrieving a suspected Russian drone adrift in its waters. The Lithuania drone ⁠was shot down ne…

Latest daily reductions will further choke one of the world’s most important shipping lanes The Panama canal plans to again cut maritime traffic due to worsening drought caused by the El Niño climate phenomenon, further choking up one of the world’s most important shipping lanes. The canal handles 5% of global maritime trade and about 40% of US container traffic; it is favoured by shippers becaus…

In interview, term-limited California governor said running against former VP would ‘waste everybody’s time’ Gavin Newsom, the California governor, will not run for president if former vice-president Kamala Harris does, he said in a forthcoming interview with CNN . Newsom and Harris, both from California, are widely viewed as two of the top establishment frontrunners in the coming Democratic pres…

The 84-year-old said he was prepared to cast his first vote after rampant speculation about his health Mitch McConnell, the former Republican Senate majority leader, returned to the Capitol on Monday and cast his first vote after a months‑long absence that fueled rampant speculation about his health. One of the highest-profile figures in Congress , the 84-year-old senator has been away from the S…

Decision allows states to send ballots under process followed for years even as president tried to limit system The supreme court on Monday rejected Donald Trump’s mail ballot restrictions for now, capping a flurry of last-minute legal action with voting in the midterm elections already underway. The decision allows states to continue sending out mail ballots under the same processes they have us…

The Pitt and Hacks lead the awards tally this year, facing competition from Widow’s Bay, Pluribus, The Diplomat and more Emmy awards 2026 live: the red carpet, the winners, the losers, the speeches Early Emmy winners already announced The Diplomat The Gilded Age A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Paradise The Pitt Pluribus Slow Horses Your Friends & Neighbors Continue reading...

Committee to reconsider Harry and Meghan’s publicly funded police protection now they are full-time residents The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will have a review of their publicly funded security following their return to the UK. The royal and VIP executive committee (Ravec), which oversees tax-funded security for royalty and public figures, is to reconsider Harry and Meghan’s level of police prote…

Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Good morning, Krishani Dhanji here with you, thanks to Martin Farrer for getting us started. Migration will dominate Parliament again today, after One Nation yesterday announced its policy to cut 750,000 temporary visas over three years – which the major parties said would send the country into a recession. Th…

Plans to strengthen legislation already going through parliament might mean donors having to meet stricter UK residence requirements Andy Burnham’s government could thwart Reform’s unprecedented £72m donations with retrospective restrictions on political donors that will include tough new residency requirements, ministers have announced. In a move that is likely to set off furious complaints from…

Central bank chief says continent’s AI dependency could give trade partners unprecedented leverage in negotiations Europe must develop its own AI technology and build more datacentres in order to nullify the threat of being cut off by the US or China, according to the president of the European Central Bank. Christine Lagarde said the continent needed AI models – the technology that powers AI tool…

Screenwriter points to parallels between two worlds while academic says some of author’s characters ‘would make perfect reality show contestants’ If Jane Austen’s novels run on closed social worlds, courtship rituals, status anxiety, gossip and relentless scrutiny of who’s coupling with who, it follows that the obvious contemporary equivalent would be reality television. That’s according to Andre…

With Lula mired in scandal, Flávio Bolsonaro is firing up his base in the bellwether state of Minas Gerais – starting at the scene of his father’s stabbing A giant banner of Brazil’s incarcerated former president Jair Bolsonaro fluttered in the morning breeze as his eldest son, Flávio, touched down at an airfield on the fringe of a city that will soon help decide the future of one of the biggest …

Man, who cannot be named to protect anonymity of his victim, admits scores of criminal offences A man has pleaded guilty to drugging and sexually assaulting his wife over a period of 20 years as he admitted 60 criminal offences. The man, who cannot be named in order to protect the anonymity of his victim, is in his 60s and before his arrest lived in Stockport, Greater Manchester. Continue reading…

Ministry of Defence says person died in road incident understood not to be result of hostile action A member of the UK armed forces has been killed in a crash in Ukraine, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said. The MoD said the person died in a road traffic incident on Saturday. Continue reading...