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Three women were killed in separate incidents just hours apart in NSW on Saturday Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Three women have died just hours apart in separate incidents in one state, including an elderly woman who was fatally stabbed in an alleged domestic violence attack. A 47-year-old man has been charged …

Bills signed by California governor safeguard vote by mail and make seizing ballots or election records a felony California governor Gavin Newsom has signed off on a package of bills aimed at bolstering election security, including measures to thwart federal political interference, his office announced on Sunday. The pieces of legislation appear to address hot button national and state electoral …

Tory leader claims prime minister is avoiding difficult decisions as she urges him to increase defence spending Kemi Badenoch has accused Andy Burnham of “fiddling while Europe is at risk of burning”, as she repeated her call for the prime minister to cut the welfare budget to fund increase spending on defence. Speaking to the Telegraph , the Tory leader said that “Burnham may be a people pleaser…

Follow live updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Victorian premier and opposition leader pay tribute to ‘thoroughly decent’ Tim Read The Victorian premier, Ben Carroll , said in a statement Tim Read was a man of principle and compassion who had dedicated his life to being “a voice for Brunswick”. I always valued his intelligent and humane contributions to the publi…

Ruling latest step in legal fight over medically fragile child born after surrogate rejected couple’s request for abortion The Texas supreme court has decided that the month-old infant that surrogate McKenna West gave birth to can be relocated to Los Angeles, a Thursday ruling that came weeks after a California court had recognized the biological parents’ custody rights. “Sustaining the life of t…

Players in Everton v Ipswich Town match wear black armbands as supporters join in minute’s applause Players wore black armbands during Everton’s home match against Ipswich Town on Saturday, as part of a tribute to three-year-old Noah Woods, whose body was found after he went missing in Suffolk this week. A photograph of the boy was shown on the big screen before the Premier League game in Liverpo…

Leader says party ‘won’t give up the fight’ to defeat ‘nasty populism’ in first-day speech to delegates The Liberal Democrats’ leader, Sir Ed Davey, took aim at Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and Elon Musk on the first day of his party’s annual conference, saying that they “won’t give up the fight” to defeat “nasty populism” and the far-right party’s “£72m arsenal of hate and lies”. Speaking from the m…

Elor Azaria’s conviction in 2017 for manslaughter of man who stabbed soldier continues to divide country Israel’s president has pardoned a combat medic who shot dead a badly wounded Palestinian attacker who had stabbed a soldier in the occupied West Bank, in a case that divided the country a decade ago. Elor Azaria’s conviction in 2017 for manslaughter and his release after serving two-thirds of …

Arson attacks related to illegal tobacco trade are also causing revenue and reputation problems for neighbouring businesses Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Small businesses located near tobacconists are being denied insurance or priced out of coverage as rising arson attacks turn neighbouring shops into collateral damage. The problem has intensified after a spate of f…

Authorities ban anti-immigration march after fireworks and other projectiles thrown at officers in city centre park Dutch riot police dispersed several hundred far-right protesters in The Hague on Saturday after violence erupted and local authorities banned a planned march in the city against immigration and asylum policies. The Dutch public broadcaster NOS reported that 24 people had been arrest…

President had brushed away suggestions to slow down AI technology, even as his own party counseled caution Donald Trump on Saturday said he would appoint an artificial intelligence czar and create an “AI Force” to help monitor the technology, though he gave almost no details about either plan. As global fears over AI have grown, especially in the past week in the face of multiple industry figures…

Premier Ben Carroll vows to legislate new form of manslaughter and increase maximum penalty for rape to life imprisonment Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast A re-elected Victorian Labor government will create two new Australian-first offences aimed at closing “loopholes” it says have allowed perpetrators of family violence to escape punishment. On Sunday, the premier, Be…

Health authorities work to notify people who were exposed to person who traveled through at least six counties California public health officials are warning of a possible measles exposure spanning multiple counties after an infected and unvaccinated passenger traveled through the state via Amtrak trains and thruway buses. The warning comes as the US faces its largest measles resurgence in more t…

No injuries reported after about 280 people taken to safety from the Grand Burstin in Folkestone after blaze A large fire that broke out overnight at a seaside hotel and forced hundreds of people to evacuate is being treated by police as suspicious. Emergency services were called just after 1am on Saturday to the Grand Burstin hotel in Folkestone, where a fire is believed to have started in the b…

Patrick Clancy and wife Rachel Danis to speak publicly on 60 Minutes on Sunday about Massachusetts murder trial Patrick Clancy and his wife Rachel Danis are set to describe their experiences of the Massachusetts triple-murder trial of his former wife Lindsay Clancy, with Clancy telling 60 Minutes: “I live with it every day, but I think I did the best I could.” The couple will on Sunday night make…