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The Nationals MP says outer suburban seats are vulnerable to populist challenge. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Matt Canavan , the Nationals backbench MP, has warned rising popularity of One Nation threatens the Liberal party as well as the National party. The junior Coalition partner last week faced the departure of its former leader , Barna…

Britain quit EU programme after Brexit, when Boris Johnson claimed it did not offer good value for money The UK is hoping to secure an agreement within weeks to rejoin the EU’s flagship student mobility programme, as part of a drive to pursue closer relations with Brussels after a setback on defence. Negotiators are aiming to finalise a deal by January that would allow the UK to participate in Er…

Richard Hughes takes ‘full responsibility’ for watchdog’s failure to protect sensitive information The chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility has resigned after a damning internal inquiry into the leak that threw Rachel Reeves’s budget into chaos described it as the “worst failure” in the institution’s history. The departure of Richard Hughes, who said he took “full responsibility” for the…

Critics voice concern as government says its Sanchar Saathi app combats cybersecurity threats for 1.2bn telecom users India’s telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cybersecurity app that cannot be deleted, a government order showed, a move likely to antagonise Apple and privacy advocates. In tackling a recent surge of cybercrime and …

Exclusive: Richard Hermer, a senior Jewish minister, says Reform leader ‘clearly deeply hurt’ many people with his alleged behaviour The UK’s top law officer, one of the most senior Jewish government ministers, has urged Nigel Farage to apologise to school contemporaries who claim the Reform UK leader racially abused them while at school. The attorney general Richard Hermer said that Farage had “…

Ditching Rachel Reeves would put spotlight back on real context for decision to drop idea of breaching manifesto When Keir Starmer was mounting the case for the prosecution against Boris Johnson for his Partygate antics, it took almost two months and a police investigation for him to formally call for the prime minister to resign. He was of the view there was no point calling for things until the…

Site removes feature after real estate agents and some homeowners say scores appear arbitrary and hurt sales Zillow, the US’s largest real estate listing site, has removed a feature that allowed people to view a property’s exposure to the climate crisis, following complaints from the industry and some homeowners that it was hurting sales. In September last year, the online real estate marketplace…

Pedro Inzunza Coronel, alias ‘El Pichón’, was killed during an anti-drug operation by the Mexican navy in Sinaloa Mexican authorities have killed one of the country’s top fentanyl traffickers, accused of importing tens of thousands of kilos of the drug into the US and wanted by the US authorities on narco-terrorism charges. Pedro Inzunza Coronel, alias “El Pichón”, (The Pigeon) was killed on Sund…

Why has Trump blown up alleged narco boats in the Caribbean and at the same time decided to let a big time trafficker off the hook? Deadly airstrikes and a military buildup: how the US pressure campaign against Venezuela has unfolded in the Caribbean He was a Latin American president accused of colluding with some of the region’s most ruthless narco bosses to flood the United States with cocaine.…

Five days of strike action over jobs and pay to take place from 17 to 22 December Thousands of doctors in England are to go on strike again this month, in a dispute over pay and job security. The British Medical Association has announced that resident doctors – formerly known as junior doctors – will begin a five-day strike action that will run from 7am on 17 December until 7am on 22 December. Co…

An official confirmed nearly a dozen deaths, including a mother and her child, in Artibonite region over the weekend Heavily armed gangs attacked Haiti’s central region over the weekend, killing men, women and children as they set fire to homes and forced survivors to flee into the darkness. Police made emergency calls for backup, asserting that 50% of the Artibonite region had fallen under gang …

Agreement also calls for health service to increase net price it pays for new drugs by 25% Business live – latest updates The NHS is to pay 25% more for innovative drugs in return for zero tariffs on exports of pharmaceuticals to the US under a deal with Donald Trump’s government. Industry sources estimate it could cost about £3bn in higher spending on drugs over the next three years but also inc…

Group beaten in early hours of morning in village where they volunteered to help protect Palestinians from settler violence Italy and Canada have raised concerns about the treatment of their citizens who were beaten and robbed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank . Three Italians and a Canadian were attacked early on Sunday morning in the village of Ein al-Duyuk, near Jericho, where they…

Leaked assessment based on confidential accounts from 24 FBI sources describes organization as a ‘rudderless ship’ US politics live – latest updates The FBI director, Kash Patel, is “in over his head” and leading a “chronically under-performing” agency paralyzed by fear and plummeting morale, according to a scathing 115-page report compiled by a national alliance of retired and active-duty FBI sp…

Alleged gunman faces nine charges including second-degree murder in New York state case Luigi Mangione is appeared in Manhattan state court on Monday for the first day of a potentially weeklong proceeding to weigh the legality of evidence gathered during his arrest after the killing of a prominent healthcare executive. Mangione was apprehended last December in the murder of senior United HealthCa…