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More than 200 homes evacuated, with police saying officers acted on intelligence about materials More than 200 homes have been evacuated and a major incident has been declared in Derby as police arrested two people on suspicion of explosives offences. An evacuation zone was put in place as officers carried out a warrant at an address in Vulcan Street after receiving intelligence about materials, …

Activists prepare for more targeting of Somali residents by ICE as Trump continues racist tirade As Donald Trump went on another extended racist tirade against Somalis on Wednesday, Minneapolis activists prepared for more targeting of the community by conducting trainings on their rights and planning how they would protect their neighbors. In the White House on Wednesday, a reporter asked the pre…

University is already being investigated by police over ‘allegations of financial irregularities’ and has suspended three of its senior staff The University of Greater Manchester is being investigated by England’s higher education regulator amid mounting allegations of financial misconduct, bribery and bullying. The Office for Students will examine whether the former University of Bolton had “ade…

Legislation is needed to stop leftwing politicians ‘bringing drag queens and porn actors into schools’, minister says A restrictive sex education bill backed by Georgia Meloni’s far-right government and intended to crack down on “gender ideology and the woke bubble” has provoked fury in Italy. Italy is one of the few EU countries not to have compulsory sex education in schools despite evidence sh…

Move follows Guardian revelations of Israel’s mass surveillance of Palestinians using Microsoft cloud Irish authorities have been formally asked to investigate Microsoft over alleged unlawful data processing by the Israeli Defense Forces. The complaint has been made by the human rights group the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) to the Data Protection Commission, which has legal responsibi…

Chris Whitty contrasts systematic approach in children and calls for more research into managing infections in elderly The medical profession must do more to prevent and manage infections in elderly people as the current methods are “hit and miss”, the chief medical officer for England has said. Writing in his annual report for 2025, Prof Chris Whitty said preventing and treating infections had l…

Average of 1,717 flu patients in beds last week, up 56% on a year ago, after ‘unusually early’ start to season The NHS is facing an “unprecedented flu wave”, a senior healthcare leader said, as the number of people with the illness in hospitals across England hit a record high. The statistics, published by NHS England as part of its first weekly snapshot of the performance of hospitals this winte…

Prohibited from working, people sent to the island by Australia say they are struggling to survive because food is so expensive Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Asylum seekers sent to Nauru by Australia say they are going hungry on the island, prohibited from working to support themselves and given insufficient money to buy enough food. Others say they fear the Nauru g…

Australian Workers’ Union calls for ‘simple, workable’ model that applies to existing projects, not just future ones Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Blue-collar workers and manufacturers want the Albanese government to stare down the gas giants as it designs a new gas reservation scheme, warning the industry’s preferred approach would fail to quickly contain prices. T…

Rodney Burton says in Maryland district court memorandum he acted in good faith when promoting scheme that allegedly defrauded investors of US$1.89bn, but Lee calls claims ‘baseless’ A key promoter of an alleged global $3bn Ponzi scheme claims in newly filed US court documents he was trapped by an “elaborate” fraud orchestrated by Australian Sam Lee, and should be released from custody. Rodney Bu…

About 3.2 million people on Sumatra island have been affected, 2,600 have been injured and 504 are missing The number of people killed by floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island rose to 708 on Tuesday, the country’s disaster agency said, with 504 people missing. The toll was a sharp increase from the 604 dead reported by the agency on Monday. Continue reading...

The paper says new rules limiting questions, movement and sourcing violate press freedoms and chill independent reporting The New York Times said on Thursday it is suing the US defense department and defense secretary Pete Hegseth after the Trump administration imposed restrictions for the press on access privileges and source-based reporting at the Pentagon. Journalists assigned to cover the Pen…

Bombs were placed near both Republican and Democratic party HQs in Washington DC the night before US Capitol attack US authorities have made an arrest in connection with pipe bombs that were planted outside the headquarters of both the Democratic and Republican parties in Washington DC on the eve of 6 January 2021, according to reports on Thursday morning. Explosive devices were placed at night a…

Amazon calls the report ‘flawed and misleading’ and says it offers lower prices than competitors School districts and local governments across the country appear to be overpaying for basic supplies because of Amazon contracts that bind them to dynamic pricing, according to a new report based on government data and public records analyzed by the non-profit Institute for Local Self-Reliance . A sch…

Any Lucia López Belloza, 19, was detained at Boston airport while on the way to see family in Austin for a surprise trip Any Lucia López Belloza had not seen her parents and two little sisters since starting her first semester at Babson College, near Boston in August. A family friend gave her plane tickets so she could fly home to Austin and surprise them for Thanksgiving. The 19-year-old busines…