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Move against all sanctioned vessels comes amid escalating campaign against authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro Donald Trump has ordered “a total and complete” blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, ramping up pressure on the country’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro . The move comes amid an escalating campaign by the Trump administration against Maduro that has…

Swimmers find driver, believed to be 33-year-old man, and vehicle in about 6ft of water in a ditch in Snohomish area A man who drove past warning signs was found dead in a car submerged in flood waters near Seattle, Washington , on Tuesday, in the first reported death following a week of heavy rain and flooding in the region. Governor Bob Ferguson said on Tuesday the extent of the damage in Washi…

Silvagni, whose brother, father and grandfather are well known for their AFL careers, was found guilty of two counts of rape in Melbourne’s county court Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The son of AFL great Stephen Silvagni has been jailed for more than six years for raping a woman and then forging a rideshare rece…

Funding for billionaire Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos site in central belt of Scotland will help safeguard 500 jobs Jim Ratcliffe’s chemicals company Ineos has been granted £120m of government funding to help save the UK’s last ethylene plant at Grangemouth, in a deal expected to protect more than 500 jobs. The investment in the Scottish plant was necessary to preserve a vital part of the country’s chemi…

Nick Reiner, 32, charged after Rob Reiner and wife Michele Singer Reiner found dead at Los Angeles home on Sunday Nick Reiner has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents, the acclaimed actor and director Rob Reiner and the photographer Michele Singer Reiner, authorities announced on Tuesday. The 32-year-old, who is being held without bail, has been in cus…

Roberts, who murdered three police officers in Shepherd’s Bush and served 48 years in prison, was released in 2014 Harry Roberts, the triple police killer whose 1966 murders shocked Britain and triggered one of the country’s largest manhunts, has reportedly died aged 89. Roberts died in hospital last Saturday after a short illness, the Sun reported. He had been living in sheltered accommodation i…

Keir Starmer’s office claims UK still in ‘active conversations’ about deal for tech industries in both countries to cooperate Downing Street insists the $40bn Tech Prosperity Deal between the US and UK that is on hold is not permanently stalled. The BBC reported on Tuesday evening that the prime minister’s office claimed that the UK remains in “active conversations with US counterparts at all lev…

Providence police say video shows person of interest ‘casing the area’ before attack in which two people were killed The Providence police department has released a new video of the person of interest in the Brown University shooting and is calling on the public to pay special attention to the shooter’s posture, gait, and body language in order to identify them. The newly released footage was cap…

Exclusive: Shabana Mahmood plans to ‘use full power of the state’ to curb rise in targeted attacks using websites Convicted sex offenders will be forced to notify police with the details of any dating app and social media accounts or face up to five years in jail, under plans announced by Shabana Mahmood. In a move intended to help curb the explosion in targeted attacks using websites, the home s…

The first funerals for the 15 people killed in Sunday’s mass shooting will be held on Wednesday, as investigations continue into the alleged gunmen Victims of Bondi beach shooting What we know so far about the Bondi terror attack Follow the latest live updates The alleged gunman shot dead by police during Sunday’s attack on Australia’s Bondi beach was originally from the southern Indian city of H…

Senate duo condemn Trump administration and say ‘there can be no business as usual until justice is delivered’ Two Democratic senators have announced that they will attempt to block any pending civilian nominations before the Senate in response to what they describe as the Trump administration’s “failure to provide a briefing to lawmakers” on the release of the files related to Jeffrey Epstein. S…

LA district attorney says charges could carry the death penalty, after Nick Reiner arrested in murder of his parents The Los Angeles district attorney will be charging Nick Reiner with two counts of first-degree murder, after he was arrested on suspicion of murdering his parents, the director and actor Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner. Nathan Hochman, the district attorney of Los An…

Mother told court she ‘relives the moment over and over’ when she thought her daughter was being killed in front of her A man who “furiously and repeatedly” stabbed an 11-year-old Australian girl in a random knife attack in London’s Leicester Square has been detained indefinitely. The child, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told police she thought she was going to die after she was targeted…

Corporation will argue it did not have rights to air film in US and it didn’t cause serious reputational harm The BBC is preparing to argue Donald Trump’s $10bn court case against it should be dismissed, arguing it has no case to answer over the US president’s claims he was defamed by an episode of Panorama. The development comes after Trump filed a 33-page complaint to a Florida court on Monday,…

US imposes restrictions on Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan and Syria, in addition to initial list of 12 countries Donald Trump has signed a proclamation further restricting and limiting the entry of foreign nationals to the United States, the White House said on Tuesday. The US has imposed full restrictions and entry limitations on nationals from five countries – Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger,…