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PM to meet prime minister Xanana Gusmão and president José Ramos-Horta. Follow today’s news live Anthony Albanese to address parliament of Timor-Leste The prime minister will seek to improve a complicated relationship between Australia and Timor-Leste when he addresses the small island nation’s parliament. As the prime minister of Australia, I say to you today and to the courageous Timorese peopl…

Company cites impact of mandatory age checks introduced in summer 2025 under the Online Safety Act Pornhub is to stop new users accessing its site in the UK from next week, citing the impact of mandatory age checks that were introduced last summer under the Online Safety Act. The pornography website, which is one of the most visited in the world, announced that from 2 February only users who have…

Authorities advised residents to slowly back away from the animal if they encountered it as they tried to capture it A young mountain lion spotted roaming the streets of San Francisco has been located near a park where wildlife officials are trying to capture it, authorities said Tuesday. Authorities issued a warning to residents late Monday, saying a mountain lion had been seen walking the stree…

In her first town hall, Weiss expressed some regret over her decision to pull 60 Minutes segment at the last minute During her first address to CBS News employees as editor in chief, Bari Weiss acknowledged that there had been “a lot of noise” about her tumultuous tenure and said that some staffers might decide they don’t support her or want to continue working at the company. “I just want to sta…

Exercises described by President Trump as an ‘armada’ to be led by the USS Abraham Lincoln amid standoff The US has announced plans to hold multi-day military exercises in the Middle East as it deploys what Donald Trump has called an “armada” led by the USS Abraham Lincoln to the region as part of a tense standoff with Iran . The display of US air power was announced as the White House has sugges…

‘It’s not an episode of The Apprentice, there has to be a lawful process’, says West Midlands police chief commissioner The West Midlands police and crime commissioner has said politicians provided a “degree of fiction” regarding his power to sack a police chief over the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, adding it was not an “episode of The Apprentice”. The home secretary withdrew her confidence in c…

All government departments and local authorities will get real-terms funding increases after Plaid agrees to abstain Cardiff Bay’s Labour administration has managed to pass the Welsh budget after striking a deal with Plaid Cymru, releasing a real-terms funding increase for all government departments and local authorities before May’s Senedd elections. With 100 days to go before the contest, in wh…

Ex-president avoids naming Trump but says ‘Minnesotans have suffered enough at the hands of this administration’ Joe Biden has joined other former Democratic presidents in condemning the fatal shooting of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis, saying that it “betrays our most basic values as Americans”. In a statement that alluded to the constitutional right to due pr…

Trump defends homeland security secretary but Hakeem Jeffries says: ‘We can do this the easy way or the hard way’ US politics live – latest updates Top House Democrats on Tuesday told Donald Trump to fire Kristi Noem or they would launch impeachment proceedings against the homeland security secretary, in response to the weekend killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. The ultimatum came after a maj…

Claudia Sheinbaum denied move was response to pressure from the US, after Trump said ‘zero’ oil would go to Cuba Mexico has cancelled a shipment of oil to Cuba , the country’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, appeared to confirm on Tuesday, but she insisted the decision was “sovereign” and not the response to pressure from the US. Fuel shortages are causing increasingly severe blackouts in Cuba, and…

Critics say government is concealing ‘true cost’ of deal, ‘despite being forced to admit the financial burden will grow year on year’ Ministers are under growing pressure to end the “secrecy” around the UK’s deal with the US over the cost of medicines, which critics claim is “a Trump shakedown of the NHS”. MPs from Labour and several opposition parties want the government to publish its impact as…

First of two 1,600-tonne boring machines drilling the 4.5 miles from Old Oak Common station switched on in London Ministers have pledged that a redeveloped Euston HS2 station will be big enough to “serve the nation” as tunnelling began for the last miles of high-speed railway into central London. Excavating the 4.5-mile tunnels from Old Oak Common in west London is expected to take between 12 and…

Thousands visit zoo in Tokyo to say farewell to Lei Lei and Xiao Xiao as China ends ‘panda diplomacy’ with Japan Hundreds of people have gathered to say farewell to two popular pandas departing Tokyo for China, leaving Japan without any of the beloved bears for the first time in 50 years, as ties between the Asian neighbours fray. Panda twins Lei Lei and Xiao Xiao were transported by truck out of…

Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative Five-year-old Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos misses her cousins, classmates and kindergarten teachers in Austin, Texas. Despite being a US citizen, she was deported on 11 January alongside her mother, Karen Guadalupe Gutiérrez Castellanos, to Honduras, a country Génesis had never…

As Andrew Hastie and Angus Taylor emerge as likely challengers, two things could buy Ley some time Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast In the chaotic few hours after the Nationals leader, David Littleproud, blew up the Coalition, one thing appeared clear to many Liberal MPs. Sussan Ley’s leadership of the Liberal party was all but over. Continue reading...