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Other families have been unlawfully compelled to be case managed without consent, watchdog finds Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast More than a third of all reports raising concerns about the future welfare of unborn children were closed due to a shortage of allocated caseworkers, while families were unlawfully compe…

Resolution Foundation argues that UK’s internationally low ‘tax wedge’ must rise to pay for defence ambitions The chancellor, John Healey, must be prepared to raise taxes for middle earners if he wants to fund significantly higher defence spending, the Resolution Foundation thinktank has said. Healey resigned from Keir Starmer’s government in June , protesting against what he argued was the then …

Markwayne Mullin says officers could be deployed ‘if there is a threat to that polling place or we’re serving a warrant’ US homeland security secretary Markwayne Mullin on Tuesday said that federal immigration and customs enforcement ( ICE ) officers could be deployed to polling sites across the country. Speaking to reporters in New York, Mullin said: “ICE isn’t there to patrol the polling places…

The sudden departure of Daniel Driscoll comes after Pentagon chief removed senior officers and blocked promotions, prompting warnings of a leadership crisis A senior Senate Democrat accused Pentagon secretary Pete Hegseth of having “hollowed out” the Army’s senior ranks after its top civilian leader resigned after months of internal clashes with Hegseth. No official reason was given for army secr…

Proposal offers look at how state department could enforce Trump order targeting what it calls ‘birth tourism’ The US state department has proposed requiring parents applying for passports for their children to provide proof of their own citizenship or immigration status as part of Donald Trump’s ⁠latest effort to limit birthright citizenship . The ⁠draft guidance, reviewed by ​Reuters, is the fi…

Police urged people in Overasselt to stay indoors after one person died and 34 were arrested Authorities have arrested 34 people, including French, Belgian and Algerian nationals, after a person died in a pre-dawn shootout in a Dutch village reportedly linked to a notorious drug lord. Police urged people in Overasselt, near the German border, to stay indoors with doors and windows shut in case fu…

Cash announced after horror car crash that killed two police officers and house fire in which woman and young girl died Cleveland’s police force is to receive a £2m funding boost to tackle serious crime, after the home secretary said successive high-profile crimes in the Middlesbrough area had led to a “sense of disquiet” in the community. Shabana Mahmood and the prime minister, Andy Burnham, pai…

Five missing Australians have been found since Tuesday morning, bringing the total citizens unaccounted for to 38 Australians missing in the Nepal floods: what we know so far A total of five Australians missing after devastating floods ravaged the Nepal-Tibet border last week have been found. Of the five Australians confirmed safe, one was found in Nepal, one in Tibet, one in China and three outs…

Package steps up support to fight transnational drug trafficking flowing through the Pacific. Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Five Australians have been confirmed safe in the devastating Nepal floods, meaning the number of unaccounted-for citizens has been revised down, from 43 to 38. Of the five Australians confirmed safe, one was found in …

British far-right pundit breaks silence on ICE arrest and deportation and says he was ‘really, really terrified’ Milo Yiannopoulos, the British far-right commentator who was arrested last week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) officers in Louisiana and deported to the United Kingdom, has broken his silence about the experience, saying that “for the first time I know what it feels lik…

Harold Gene Lucas, 74, was convicted of killing a 16-year-old girl who rejected his advances and wounding her two friends A Florida man convicted of killing a 16-year-old girl who rejected his romantic advances and wounding two of her friends was set to be executed Tuesday evening. Harold Gene Lucas, 74, was scheduled to receive a three-drug injection starting at 6pm at Florida state prison near …

More than 1,000 people confirmed dead and more than 4,000 still missing in disaster triggered by glacial collapse A British national was among 119 people rescued in Nepal on Tuesday, an official said almost a week after deadly flash floods on the country’s border with Tibet. An army spokesperson told reporters at a press conference that Tuesday’s rescue efforts had saved 118 Nepali nationals – 44…

Reform leader said inquiry had been widened but watchdog is not believed to have decided whether to do so Nigel Farage is facing questions about why he claimed his finances were the subject of a second standards investigation, as he was sworn in again as Clacton’s MP. The Reform UK leader said when he resigned in July that the standards system had become a “political tool” because “yet another st…

The prime minister said Britain needed to be brutally honest about the ‘series of wrong turns’ it had taken in the last 40 years Andy Burnham has blamed Brexit and Margaret Thatcher for a decade of low growth in the UK, arguing that Britain needs to be brutally honest about having taken “a series of wrong turns” in the last 40 years. In his first Commons appearance since he took over as prime min…

Government says ‘dangerous behaviour’ is part of effort by Moscow to cause damage with hybrid attacks The German government has blamed Russia for the drone attack on Leipzig airport last month, calling it “dangerous behaviour” and part of a systematic and concerted effort by Moscow to “cause great damage” through a large number of hybrid attacks. The interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, and the…