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Minister says premier ‘not going anywhere’ and describes leaking of Sunday night meeting as attempt to build momentum for spill Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Victorian Labor premier, Jacinta Allan, is expected to face a leadership challenge when state parliament resumes this week. Just four months out from a…

Christian Ellis, a former registered lobbyist, is named in two Independent Commission Against Corruption allegations Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A key figure at the centre of an anti-corruption inquiry involving the New South Wales Liberal party has moved to the UK and is not expected to give evidence during e…

Figures are source of dispute as US defense department days ago reduced record of troops killed and wounded The Pentagon updated its official war casualty database over the weekend, adding more than 140 wounded service members. The Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) also introduced a new casualty category labeled “Overseas Operations” for personnel killed and wounded “starting July 7”. Accor…

Four others arrested on suspicion of same murder in Luton after death of 17-year-old A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murdering a teenager who died from multiple stab wounds at a park in Luton, police said. Four other teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of the same murder. Continue reading...

Ukrainian president will be first overseas visitor for new British prime minister Volodymyr Zelenskyy will become Andy Burnham’s first overseas visitor as prime minister, in a visit that Burnham said underlined Britain’s “unwavering” backing for Ukraine. Less than two weeks after Keir Starmer travelled to Kyiv for the final foreign visit of his prime ministership, the Ukrainian president will on …

New tidal baths on banks of Callan Park in Lilyfield expected to attract thousands to Parramatta River’s southern banks. Follow the day’s news Two more bird flu cases confirmed in South Australia Two local birds in South Australia suspected to have a deadly bird flu , greater crested terns found in Robe and Semaphore, have been confirmed positive for the H5N1 virus by CSIRO. All of these have bee…

Israeli prime minister says ICC’s war crime charges are ‘bogus’ and plans to be in New York for UN gathering this fall Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Zohran Mamdani , the New York City mayor, is “fomenting hate” by calling the Israeli prime minister a war criminal who should be arrested over Israel ’s war in Gaza if he visits the city for the United Nations general assembly. Netanyahu sai…

Scott Gottlieb responds to report that company contacted the White House seeking to delay a recall announcement Former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Dr Scott Gottlieb said on Sunday that it was “not standard operating procedure” for Taylor Farms to ask the White House to intervene as the company prepared to announce a recall tied to a massive cyclospora outbreak. Appearing on CBS’s Fa…

Top military officials say campaign has reached its limit of effectiveness and warn of dwindling stocks of munitions The US has paused strikes on Iran for a second night as top military officials advised Donald Trump to halt his bombing campaign, and diplomatic negotiations have continued to avoid a return to all-out war. Trump is said to be weighing up diplomatic and military options in the near…

Tom Homan comments on officer’s eligibility to serve after reports that agent’s two ex-wives had accused him of abuse Tom Homan, the Trump administration “border czar”, on Sunday said he did not believe the Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) officer at the center of a recent fatal shooting in Maine “should have ever cleared vetting”. Speaking to CNN’s State of the Union, Homan was asked …

Director Ryan Coogler announces British actor as lead role alongside co-stars Letitia Wright and Winston Duke The British actor David Jonsson has been unveiled as the new Black Panther by the film’s director, Ryan Coogler. Jonsson, 32, known for roles in Industry, The Long Walk and Alien: Romulus, will play the son of Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa in the third Black Panther movie. Continue reading.…

Singer rebukes Trump administration after it uses her song Firework over footage of missile striking Iranian naval ship Pop star Katy Perry has condemned the Trump White House after it used her hit song Firework in a TikTok video showing US military strikes on Iranian targets, saying she never approved the use of her music. The White House video , which featured Firework playing over footage of a…

King’s Fund report finds men and women live, on average, for 80 years and nearly 84 years, but gains are in south The north-south divide in life expectancy in England has grown over the past decade, with people in northern regions facing more illnesses such as heart disease and cancer, but also suicides and deaths related to alcohol and drug misuse. Provisional figures show life expectancy reache…

Strongman leader’s grip over media channels has been rocked and opposition parties reinvigorated by CJP Even the night before Narendra Modi accepted the resignation of his education minister, India’s prime minister appeared confident that the largest mass uprising to take place in his 12 years in power would do little to rattle his government. Addressing his “young friends” in a late-night Instag…

Hunt ongoing for main suspect, named as Abdul Ballout, 21, after fatal attack in Tiergarten park close to LGBTQ event A deadly van ramming and knife rampage near Berlin’s Pride festival was an Islamist terrorist attack, German authorities have said, with a hunt ongoing to find the main suspect. One person was killed and 29 were injured after a man drove a minivan into a crowd of pedestrians, then…