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Nationals given eight days to reconcile with party before opposition leader appoints permanent Liberal-only frontbench Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The opposition leader, Sussan Ley, has appointed an interim Liberal-only shadow cabinet after the two parties split, giving the Nationals just over one week to come…

Great Western Railway service recharges in three and a half minutes between trips on west London line The UK’s first superfast-charging train running only on battery power will come into passenger service this weekend – operating a five-mile return route in west London. Great Western Railway (GWR) will send the converted London Underground train out from 5.30am to cover the full Saturday timetabl…

After weeks of federal insurgency, Minnesota fought back, and it seems Donald Trump has lost faith in the people running his ICE operation in the state. So where does this leave Trump’s ‘ICE patriots’? How do Republicans unite over immigration policies that kill Americans? And where does it leave the far-right agitators in Trump’s cabinet? Jonathan Freedland speaks to George Conway, a founding me…

US president warns Keir Starmer over closer ties with China during British PM’s trip to secure lower tariffs and better access to Chinese market Donald Trump has warned the UK against doing business with China, just hours after Keir Starmer lauded the economic relationship during a landmark visit to Beijing . The US president said it was “very dangerous” for the UK to pursue closer ties with the …

A plan to resettle third-country nationals from the US to the Pacific nation faces an uncertain future amid unease over the deal A controversial Trump administration deal to relocate deportees from the US to the small Pacific nation of Palau faces an uncertain future, after the senate voted to block the deal as concern about the agreement grows. The deal, which allows up to 75 third-country migra…

WA police say both Mosman Park children had ‘significant health challenges’ and had engaged with care services Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Two adults and two children have been found dead in the Perth suburb of Mosman Park in a suspected murder-suicide, police say. At 8.15am on Friday, emergency services recei…

Albanese government awarded contracts to MTC despite allegations of ‘gross negligence’ in the US involvement with ICE Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Australian government’s main immigration detention contractor is playing a key role in Donald Trump’s hardline immigration crackdown and has attracted a string o…

The high-profile defendant, who was excused from appearing, pleads not guilty further charges over a car crash in July that left a driver with serious injuries Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast High-profile Sydney Chinese woman Lanlan Yang has pleaded not guilty to two additional charges over a crash of a $1.5m Roll…

White House cites Cuba’s ties to hostile powers as order ratchets up Trump’s pressure to topple its government Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday laying the groundwork to slap tariffs on goods from countries that provide oil to Cuba, the White House said. The order, which ratchets up Trump’s pressure to topple the Communist government, declares a national emergency and establishes…

Woman and man accused of sex outside marriage and drinking alcohol faced what is likely to be one of the severest punishments since Aceh province adopted sharia law Sharia police have caned a couple 140 times each in Indonesia’s Aceh province for having sex outside marriage and drinking alcohol, likely one of the severest such punishments since the deeply conservative region adopted Islamic law. …

MPs on influential committee excoriate health department and NHS England for errors costing £3.6bn a year Medical negligence in the NHS keeps harming and killing patients because governments and health service bosses have not acted on 24 years’ worth of warnings, MPs have said. In a scathing report published on Friday, the public accounts committee (PAC) excoriates the Department of Health and So…

Swedish study of 100,000 women found higher rate of early detection, suggesting potential to support radiologists The use of artificial intelligence in breast cancer screening reduces the rate of a cancer diagnosis by 12% in subsequent years and leads to a higher rate of early detection, according to the first trial of its kind. Researchers said the study was the largest to date looking at AI use…

Deal reportedly calls for splitting a funding bill for DHS from a package of other funding bills Senators have reportedly reached a deal to advance a major package of spending bills to avert a partial government shutdown that was set to begin on Saturday. The deal has not yet been publicly confirmed but was reported by Reuters and the New York Times on Thursday evening. The Guardian has reached o…

Democratic senators question national intelligence head’s fitness for office after overt, unexplained appearance Democratic lawmakers are raising questions about why Tulsi Gabbard, the president’s director of national intelligence, was “lurking” in Fulton county on Wednesday while FBI agents carted off boxes of 2020 election documents. Gabbard visited an elections hub in Fulton county, home to At…

Council said Edward Harris’s properties ‘failed to meet even most basic of living standards and legal requirements’ A Reform UK council chair has resigned after it was found he was illegally running two unsafe rental properties, according to a neighbouring local authority. Edward Harris, the chair of Warwickshire county council, owned two unlicensed houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) in Staffor…