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As major parties once again spruik budget night events at thousands of dollars a ticket, some MPs say they resent the ritzy social galas Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast They’re dismissed as boring, little more than a “selfie” opportunity for economy nerds – or even labelled a threat to democracy. But as budget week approaches, the major parties are once again spruikin…

While interest rate rises can’t affect the surging price of oil caused by Middle East turmoil, they are still the Reserve Bank’s best – and only – tool to fight inflation Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast One economist is calling it the “Hormuz hike”. There’s a nearly 80% chance that the Reserve Bank will deliver a …

Southwest staff organized water cannon salute when aircraft arrived and Jon Jackson was met with cheers and applause A Spirit Airlines pilot was given an emotional send-off into retirement by another airline after what was supposed to be his final flight was canceled amid Spirit’s sudden collapse on Saturday. Jon Jackson had been scheduled to fly his final flight into Baltimore-Washington interna…

Kaela Berg is running in a crowded field with a pro-union message and a vow to protect the state’s immigrants When the Minnesota state legislature is not in session, Kaela Berg is working in the skies. Berg has spent the last six years doubling as a state legislator and a flight attendant, taking shifts when the legislature is on break. Continue reading...

PM’s attendance at European Political Community meeting in Yerevan signals effort to build new ties after US rupture Canada is to become the first non-European country to attend a meeting of the European Political Community when the prime minister, Mark Carney, joins Monday’s summit of the 48-plus nation grouping in Yerevan, Armenia. Carney has said he is determined to build a new network of trad…

Billionaire’s role as honorary chair and main source of funding has led to boycotts and criticism event has lost its cachet The Met Gala in New York is the grandest and ritziest event in the fashion calendar, and an indicator of the growing ties between designers, celebrity and power. But with tech billionaires now joining the cohort, this year’s party may be its most controversial yet. All eyes …

Airport seeks deal with BA owner, Virgin and billionaire local landowner, who has own expansion plan, over cost and service issues Heathrow’s new chair has opened talks with airlines and the billionaire local landowner Surinder Arora to defuse a row that threatens to further delay the £49bn plan to build a third runway at Europe’s busiest airport. Philip Jansen, who was appointed at the start of …

US attorney says ‘we can establish’ pellet from defendant’s gunshot was ‘intertwined with fiber of vest’ of federal agent The US government has evidence that a federal agent was shot by the suspect during an alleged recent attempt to assassinate Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, the US attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said on Sunday. “We now ca…

US announced withdrawal of 5,000 soldiers last week after German chancellor said US was being ‘humiliated’ by Iran Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw more US troops from Germany after stunning European leaders and some senior members of his own party by last week announcing the withdrawal of 5,000 soldiers from Germany. The move left 30,000 US troops still in the country, according to CNN . …

Exclusive: Scale model found in Christo’s studio leads to London realisation of internally lit Package on a Ceiling Christo once wrapped up the Reichstag, suspended a curtain across a Colorado valley and covered up the Pont Neuf in Paris. Now, six years after the artist’s death, a London gallery is to create a monumental installation he designed in 1968, using a detailed scale model and drawings …

Exclusive: Varun Chandra’s talks with Google, Meta, Apple and others raise fears of ‘lobbying behind closed doors’ An influential government adviser close to Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves held 16 undisclosed meetings with top US tech executives, the Guardian can reveal. The No 10 business aide Varun Chandra discussed regulatory changes, AI and Donald Trump’s second administration with tech corpo…

Search and rescue operation launched after service members reported missing near south-western city of Tan Tan Two US service members are missing in south-western Morocco after taking part in annual multinational military exercises in the North African country, the United States Africa Command (Africom) said Sunday. The US, Morocco and other countries participating in the African Lion exercise ha…

Two were found dead in the early hours of Sunday in boat carrying about 82 people, several of whom were injured Two female Sudanese asylum seekers have died trying to cross the Channel in the early hours of Sunday morning, off the coast of Boulogne. According to some reports, one was a teenager aged 16 and the other a woman in her 20s. They were found dead in the boat, which had run aground on th…

House panel divided on whether Trump should pardon Maxwell so she can cooperate with Epstein investigation The possibility of clemency for Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell , however unlikely, has long outraged survivors and their advocates who view the former British socialite’s lengthy jail sentence as giving them some justice in the long-running saga. Recent reporting that a pardon …

Green leader also says he would discourage ‘globalise the intifada’ chant but outlawing it would restrict free speech Zack Polanski has said he would discourage pro-Palestine protesters from using the chant “globalise the intifada”, but the Green party leader warned against specifically outlawing the phrase or banning a protest planned in London later this month. Speaking earlier in the weekend, …