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Exclusive: President of National party’s youth branch says many children in regional and remote areas rely on social media to stay connected Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The federal Nationals’ youth branch has called to dump the under-16s social media ban, amid a growing Coalition push against the world-leading…

New South Wales south coast faces highest heatwave category, with extreme temperatures forecast elsewhere, including in Western Australia and the NT Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Communities across large parts of Australia have been urged to take precautions as temperatures begin to soar ahead of severe and extr…

Nine-country poll finds half of people believe risk of war with Russia is high and three-quarters want to stay in EU Nearly half of Europeans see Donald Trump as “an enemy of Europe”, rather more rate the risk of war with Russia as high and more than two-thirds believe their country would not be able to defend itself in the event of such a war, a survey has found. The nine-country poll for the Pa…

Protest guard fired at armed man he mistakenly believed to be threat to protesters but accidentally killed a bystander A safety volunteer accused of fatally shooting a man taking part in a June No Kings protest in Salt Lake City, while firing at another armed man he believed to be a threat, was charged with manslaughter on Wednesday. Matthew Scott Alder, 43, was charged with one count of manslaug…

Officials hew closely to secret memo which gives legal cover to firing on boats even if it would kill people on board Trump administration officials have defended carrying out a follow-up strike on a drug boat that killed survivors on 2 September by arguing that its objective was to ensure the complete destruction of the boat, an action the Pentagon had internal legal approval to conduct. The Whi…

Lack of local content is notable this year in the music platform’s analysis of users’ personal music, podcast and audiobook choices Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email It may be Fred Again, Donna Summer or Barkaa. Your musical “listening age” could be 21, 57 or three. You have listened to 14 minutes or 40,000. But it’s not likely to feature much Australian content. Continue reading...

Trump’s comments come after an hours-long meeting at the Kremlin between US envoys and Vladimir Putin failed to achieve a breakthrough Analysis: the Ukraine peace deal has stumbled yet again over an inevitable obstacle: Putin The path ahead for Ukraine peace talks is unclear, Donald Trump has said, after what he called “reasonably good” talks between Russian president Vladimir Putin and US envoys…

Gregory Bovino, border patrol chief and face of Trump’s mass deportation efforts, seen patrolling French Quarter Federal agents descended on New Orleans on Wednesday, making Louisiana’s most populous city the latest front in the Trump administration ’s sweeping crackdown on immigrant communities. Masked agents patrolled a heavily Latino suburb in marked and unmarked vehicles, and a resident told …

Report says defense secretary violated policies in sharing secret information in March on planned airstrike in Yemen A widely awaited Department of Defense report concluded that the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth , violated departmental policies when he shared secret information in a Signal messaging chat in March that included details of a planned airstrike in Yemen against Houthi fighters, sai…

Ban due to take effect next week, but Meta has started deactivating accounts already Australia social media ban explained: everything you need to know Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Facebook and Instagram began shutting down half a million accounts of users under 16 years old on Thursday as the deadline for Austr…

Incidents rose from four in 2023 to 28 in 2024 as 22 Serco officers also investigated for serious misconduct at Gatwick centre There has been a sevenfold increase in serious incidents at an immigration detention centre near Gatwick airport, a watchdog report has revealed. There were 28 serious incidents at Gatwick immigration removal centre in 2024 compared with four recorded in 2023, the report …

Naccom members accommodated record 4,434 refugees and migrants in 2024-25 but could not house another 3,450 Thousands of refugees are facing a growing homelessness crisis, according to a network of more than 100 organisations across the UK who say homelessness has more than doubled among refugees in the last two years. Naccom, the national charity of 140 frontline refugee and migrant organisation…

Health secretary has asked experts to investigate whether normal feelings have become ‘over-pathologised’ The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has ordered a clinical review of the diagnosis of mental health conditions, according to reports. Streeting is understood to be concerned about a sharp rise in the number of people making sickness benefits claims because of diagnoses for mental illness, au…

Leaders focus on bolstering Ukraine’s finances as US-Russia talks to end war make little progress The European Commission will move ahead with controversial plans to fund Ukraine with a loan based on Russia’s frozen assets, but in a concession to concerns raised by Belgium, which hosts most of the assets, the EU executive has also proposed another option: an EU loan based on common borrowing. The…

Agency says missile struck citizens in Khan Younis, as Israel reports targeting ‘Hamas terrorist’ after clash with militants An Israeli strike on Palestinian territory has killed five people including two children, Gaza’s civil defence agency told AFP on Wednesday. “Five citizens, including two children, killed and others injured, some seriously, as a result of an Israeli missile strike,” in al-M…