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Move brings total number of people killed in US strikes on suspected boats since September to at least 148 The US military launched a strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific on Friday, killing three men in its second strike this week. “Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-traff…

Shooting death of Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, in Texas was not publicly disclosed by Department of Homeland Security Newly released records show a US citizen was shot and killed in Texas by a federal immigration agent last year during a late-night traffic encounter that was not publicly disclosed by the Department of Homeland Security. The death of Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, would mark the earliest of a…

Aid workers say the camp where 34 women and children are being held are ‘dire’ and present more risk than if they were repatriated Conditions in the north-eastern Syrian camp to where 34 Australians have been forcibly returned are deteriorating dramatically, with reports of near-nightly raids, and increasingly violent beatings, amid worsening uncertainty over their futures. The 11 women and 23 Au…

President calls decision a ‘disgrace to the nation’ while praising three justices who dissented US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump on Friday railed against the supreme court justices who blocked his use of tariffs, calling the decision a “disgrace to the nation”, and later signed documents imposing a 10% tariff on all countries. “It’s my opinion that the court has been swayed by forei…

Senior Hezbollah leader Hussein Yaghi reportedly killed in the attacks in the eastern Bekaa valley At least 10 people have been killed and 24 wounded – including three children – in Israeli strikes in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa valley, the Lebanese health ministry has said. Israel said it had hit “command centres” of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in Bekaa valley. Two security sources told Re…

Nevada county sheriff said investigation includes learning why the ski trip was not cancelled by the guide company Authorities are investigating whether any criminal negligence was involved in the deadly avalanche that swept California’s Lake Tahoe this week, which killed at least eight skiers and their guides while returning from a three-day backcountry skiing trip. The Nevada county sheriff’s o…

Jake Danby’s sentence for hitting two Aboriginal men with his car, killing one, was extended from five months to two years in home detention Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The family of an Aboriginal man fatally run down before the driver bragged about his death are angry and heartbroken after their brother’s killer has again avoided jail on appeal. In June 2024, Jak…

Rightwing Trump ally tells Tucker Carlson Israel has biblical right to land from ‘wadi of Egypt to the great river’ The US’s ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has contended to the podcaster Tucker Carlson that Israel has a biblical right to take over the entire Middle East – or at least the lion’s share of it. “It would be fine if they took it all,” Huckabee said to Carlson during an interview p…

Philanthropist and mother of Elisabeth, James and Lachlan Murdoch died at home in Palm Beach, Florida The author and philanthropist Anna Murdoch-Mann, the ex-wife of the Australian media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, died at her home in Palm Beach, Florida, on Tuesday. She was 81. Murdoch-Mann’s death was reported Friday by the New York Post , one of her ex-husband’s media properties. Continue reading...

Study set to delay recruitment after warning participants should be a minimum of 14 years old A clinical trial into puberty blockers for children has been paused after the medicines regulator warned it should have a minimum age limit of 14 because of the “unquantified risk” of “long-term biological harms”. Discussions between the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the …

Subspecies driven to extinction by hungry whalers returns after ‘back breeding’ programme using partial descendants Giant tortoises, the life-giving engineers of remote small island ecosystems, are plodding over the Galápagos island of Floreana for the first time in more than 180 years. The Floreana giant tortoise ( Chelonoidis niger niger ), a subspecies of the giant tortoise once found across t…

Nasrallah Abu Siyam shot dead in occupied West Bank as UN human rights office accuses Israel of war crimes Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank shot and killed a Palestinian American man during an attack on a village, the Palestinian health ministry and a witness have said. Raed Abu Ali, a resident of Mukhmas, said a group of settlers came to the village on Wednesday afternoon where they at…

Officers being asked to ‘consider carefully whether anything they saw or heard’ may be relevant to review of Epstein files Scotland Yard has announced it is expanding its inquiry into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor by approaching all his former protection officers and reviewing records of flights at London’s airports to see if they were used for human trafficking. The disclosure by the Metropolitan p…

Government ‘expects privileged trading position’ to go on as EU ‘seeks clarity’ over Trump administration’s next steps Britain and the EU said they were assessing the implications of the US supreme court ruling against Donald Trump’s global tariffs , while business groups reacted to the court’s announcement with caution. A spokesperson for Downing Street said: “The UK government is working with t…

New head will face decisions crucial to movement’s future, such as how far to cooperate with Trump’s Gaza plan Hamas has reportedly begun holding leadership elections among its members at a time when the militant Palestinian movement faces imminent decisions which will be critical to its own continued existence and the potential for peace in Gaza. According to the BBC and press reports in the Gul…