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Two others rescued as authorities work to recover the bodies of those killed after they fell near the summit Two mountain climbers have died on Aoraki, New Zealand’s tallest peak, with two others from the same group rescued, authorities said. The climbers’ bodies have been found and specialist searchers were working to recover them “in a challenging alpine environment”, the police area commander …

Claimants forced to pay back thousands of pounds tell of ‘horrendous’ court ordeals and of desire for official apology DWP to reassess hundreds of thousands of cases in carer’s allowance scandal The carer’s allowance scandal – a timeline Vivienne Groom had never been inside the dock of a criminal court when she stood, sobbing and shaking, before a judge last year. She was accused by the governmen…

Damning official review finds many unpaid carers left with huge debt because of government failure ‘It’s like the Post Office scandal’: victims of carer’s allowance crisis speak out The carer’s allowance scandal – a timeline Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable unpaid carers will have their cases reassessed after a damning official review concluded they had been left with huge debts because of gov…

Ten years of bureaucratic failure, whistleblowing, political neglect and groundhog day-style policy inertia DWP to reassess hundreds of thousands of cases in carer’s allowance scandal ‘It’s like the Post Office scandal’: victims of carer’s allowance crisis speak out Ministers have announced a major review of the penalties imposed on hundreds of thousands of unpaid carers after a damning independe…

Trades, machine operations and administrative roles are most at-risk, says leading educational research charity Up to 3m low-skilled jobs could disappear in the UK by 2035 because of automation and AI, according to a report by a leading educational research charity. The jobs most at risk are those in occupations such as trades, machine operations and administrative roles, the National Foundation …

Rishi Sunak hands health secretary open letter calling for testing for men at the highest risk More than 100 MPs, including Rishi Sunak, have urged Wes Streeting to introduce screening for prostate cancer. The UK National Screening Committee, a government agency that advises ministers and the NHS about all aspects of screening, will recommend whether men at higher risk of the disease should be of…

Winds the biggest contributor to power outages as city saw more than 880,000 lightning strikes and 12cm diameter hail Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Nearly 100,000 households were left without power across Queensland after a mammoth storm brought 110km/h winds and 12cm hail that tore through parts of the state on…

Fletcher spent years pushing for justice after deadly racial attack on thriving Black Oklahoma community in 1921 Viola Ford Fletcher, who as one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre in Oklahoma spent her later years seeking justice for the deadly attack by a white mob on the thriving Black community where she lived as a child, has died. She was 111. Her grandson Ike Howard said o…

President signed executive order for Rubio and Bessent to submit report on chapters in Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan Donald Trump on Monday began the process of designating certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters as foreign terrorist organizations and specially designated global terrorists, a move would bring sanctions against one of the Arab world’s oldest and most influential Islamist movements. Trump …

DoJ argues that congressional action last week to release the Epstein files permits unsealing of court records The justice department has renewed its request to unseal grand jury materials from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation that led to the disgraced financier’s federal indictment on sex-trafficking charges in 2019. The submission, signed by US attorney Jay Clayton for the southern district in…

Venezuelan group known as Cartel of the Suns designated as terrorist organization despite doubts over its existence Deadly airstrikes and a military buildup: how the US pressure campaign against Venezuela has unfolded in the Caribbean Venezuela’s government has accused the US of peddling “ridiculous hogwash” about its supposed role in sponsoring “narco-terrorism” as Washington continued to turn u…

In an interview kept secret since February, David Adeang wrongly stated the people Australia has begun deporting to his country are not refugees Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Nauru may seek to return refugees from the NZYQ cohort to their home countries, the Nauruan president has said, in an interview officially translated into English for the first time, and which …

The victim was treated by NSW paramedics for wounds to his thigh but died at the scene Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder after a teenager was allegedly stabbed to death behind a high school. Police said a 17-year-old boy died from stab wounds to his thigh following a co…

Members of rightwing base disorientated by cordial Oval Office meeting – but not all Trump supporters downcast A flurry of social media posts from Maga influencers have laid bare the disorientation felt by members of Trump’s base at the spectacle of Friday’s cordial Oval Office meeting with Mamdani, who the president previously painted as a “communist lunatic”. “Wild to allow a jihadist communist…

Stephanie Hockridge and her husband falsified details to obtain PPP loans guaranteed by US small business agency A former Phoenix news anchor has been sentenced to 10 years after being found guilty of participating in a fraudulent $63m Covid-19 relief scheme alongside her husband. Stephanie Hockridge’s sentence on Friday came after a jury convicted her in June. Meanwhile, her husband, Nathan Reis…