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Monsoon rains cause devastation on Indonesian island, sparking landslides and flash flooding Flash floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island have killed 69 people, with 59 missing as emergency workers search in rivers and the rubble of villages for bodies and possible survivors. Monsoon rains over the past week caused rivers to burst their banks in North Sumatra province on Tuesday. The…

Report by Queensland’s Crime and Corruption Commission says Thompson leaked confidential council documents to an unnamed ‘adviser’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The former Townsville mayor Troy Thompson misled the electorate about a cancer diagnosis, his military history and university qualifications, according …

Mia Lucas, who died in Sheffield after being sectioned, had undiagnosed condition causing ‘acute psychosis’ A 12-year-old girl who took her own life after being sectioned was failed by medical staff who failed to spot her underlying brain disorder, an inquest has found. Mia Lucas was found unresponsive in her room at the Becton Centre, which is part of Sheffield children’s hospital, on 29 January…

Stern, credited with designing 15 Central Park West, sought to design buildings that invoked pre-war splendor Robert AM Stern, an architect who fashioned the New York City skyline with buildings that sought to invoke pre-war splendor but with modern luxury fit for billionaires and movie stars, has died at the age of 86. Dubbed “The King of Central Park West” by Vanity Fair, Stern was credited wit…

President targets those who entered US in Biden’s term, despite reports suspect was granted asylum in Trump 2.0 Donald Trump has called for his government to re-examine every Afghan immigrant who entered the US during Joe Biden’s administration after the shooting of two national guard members , even though Reuters reported that the suspect was granted asylum under the Trump administration. The De…

Pedro Castillo was sentenced by the supreme court for trying to disband Congress and rule by decree in 2022 Peru’s supreme court on Thursday sentenced the former leftwing president Pedro Castillo to 11 years, five months and 15 days in prison for trying to disband Congress and rule by decree in December 2022. Labelled Peru’s first poor president, the former rural schoolteacher, who had never held…

Judge warns he will not permit case ‘to descend into a wide-ranging public inquiry’ The former editor of the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre, is to be called as a witness in the legal action brought by the Duke of Sussex and six other household names against the newspaper’s publishers over allegations of unlawful information gathering, the high court was told. Antony White KC, for Associated Newspapers Li…

Storms to return after week of battering. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the day’s breaking news before Nick Visser guides you through to the weekend. South-east Queensland will be given a brief reprieve today after four days of violent storms bringing huge hailstones and …

Reuters news agency says it obtained document after visiting URL it predicted file would be uploaded to How Rachel Reeves’s budget was leaked 40 minutes early The chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility has said he felt mortified by the early release of its budget forecasts as the watchdog launched a rapid inquiry into how it had “inadvertently made it possible” to see the documents. Richar…

Labour MPs welcome scrapping of two-child benefit cap but worry about hefty future tax increases on constituents Rachel Reeves has been warned that her plans for tax rises and spending restraint in the run-up to the next general election resemble a work of “fiscal fiction” as MPs expressed concern about the impact of her budget on their constituents. A day after the chancellor’s statement , the I…

Carriers accused of joining ‘actions of state terrorism promoted by US’ after they suspended flights to Venezuela Venezuela has banned six international airlines, accusing them of “state terrorism” after the carriers suspended flights to the country following a warning from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Venezuela’s civil aviation authority announced late on Wednesday that Spain’s …

The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’ Amnesty International has said Israel is “still committing genocide” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, despite the ceasefire agreed last month. The fragile, US-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas came into effect on 10 October , after two years of war. Continue read…

Study shows small changes to tone of posts in ‘for you’ feed increase unfavourable feelings towards political opponents Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years, research has found. A groundbreaking experiment to gauge the potency of Elon Musk’s social platform to in…

Several flights are delayed and parts of Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan could see six to 10 inches of snow Parts of the US midwest and the Great Lakes region are bracing for a strong storm this weekend, as an estimated 82 million Americans travel to gather in celebration of Thanksgiving. Some parts of the country are expecting cold, snowy conditions, and the weather has already caused so…

Agency warns shoppers to be vigilant online and on the high street, with counterfeit items often posing health risks More than 8m fake and harmful toys have been seized from shops and markets across the EU in a pre-Christmas crackdown, Europol has said. Hauls of fake dolls, building bricks, toy cars, colouring sets, cuddly toys that could pose fire hazards and educational games were removed acros…