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The Guardian’s community affairs correspondent, Chris Osuh , reports on the plot by two IS terrorists to massacre Jews in Manchester, and how it was thwarted by an undercover sting Walid Saadaoui had once worked as a holiday entertainer, organising dance shows and quizzes at a resort in his native Tunisia. After moving to the UK and marrying a British woman, he became a restaurateur and an avid k…

ACCC alleges the supermarket breached the law by offering ‘illusory’ discounts on many products with ‘Down Down’ promotion Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Coles disguised price increases on at least 245 products by offering discounts that were “literally true” but also “utterly misleading”, the competition regulat…

Police decided there was ‘no tangible benefit’ to conducting disciplinary action against the officer and opted not to investigate Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Queensland police service refused to pursue disciplinary action against an officer accused of multiple acts of serious domestic violence against his …

The hardline immigration policy was designed before Sussan Ley was ousted as party leader on Friday Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Migrants from specific regions of 13 countries – including from Gaza, Afghanistan and Somalia – would be banned from entering Australia under a leaked hardline Liberal immigration plan. Guardian Australia understands the banned regions, o…

Elation as anti-extremists fight back against influence of billionaire megadonors through grassroots organizing Chris Tackett started tracking extremism in Texas politics about a decade ago, whenever his schedule as a Little League coach and school board member would allow. At the time, he lived in Granbury, 40 minutes west of Fort Worth. He’d noticed that a local member of the state legislature,…

Year of the horse signals optimism and opportunity, with authorities keen that the extra day of holiday this year provides an economic boost Chinese officials are hoping that this year’s extra long lunar new year holiday will provide a boost to the country’s economy , where increasing domestic spending has been identified as a key priority for the year ahead. The government expects a record 9.5 b…

Chris Baghsarian was alone in his North Ryde home on Friday when he was taken and bundled into an SUV allegedly by underworld figures The search continues for an 85-year-old Sydney man who police say was abducted by mistake in a botched underworld kidnapping. Chris Baghsarian was alone in his North Ryde home when he was taken and bundled into a dark-coloured SUV on Friday morning. Continue readin…

Shipwreck hunter found Lac La Belle steamer, one of ‘most sought-after missing ships’, after nearly 60-year search Searchers recently discovered the wreck of one of the “most sought-after missing ships” in Lake Michigan, that had sunk to the bottom of the lake over 150 years ago. A shipwreck hunter and scuba diver named Paul Ehorn made the discovery after having searched for the Lac La Belle pass…

Starmer to announce ‘crackdown on vile illegal content created by AI’ after scandal involving Elon Musk’s Grok tool Makers of AI chatbots that put children at risk will face massive fines or even see their services blocked in the UK under law changes to be announced by Keir Starmer on Monday. Emboldened by Elon Musk’s X stopping its Grok AI tool from creating sexualised images of real people in t…

Cabinet Office minister commissioned report that made ‘baseless claims’ about reporters who were investigating Labour Together Keir Starmer is facing calls from the Conservatives and his own MPs for an inquiry into the commissioning of a report that made “baseless claims” about journalists who were investigating a thinktank linked to the prime minister. The calls add to pressure on the Cabinet Of…

Exclusive: Research suggests official statistics could track as few as 10% of the true number of cases Katie’s story: her abusive ex-partner said ‘kill yourself’. When she did, police dropped domestic violence inquiry The number of women who are driven to suicide by domestic abusers is being under-reported, and their cases overlooked by police, in what has been described by experts as a “national…

After her death, police dropped a case examining Katie Madden’s former partner, despite evidence he had repeatedly told her to kill herself Revealed: The true toll of female suicides in UK with domestic abuse at their core Hours before Katie Madden took her own life, she had a tense phone call with her former partner Jonathon Russell. Russell was on bail after allegedly assaulting Madden – he was…

Retailers face penalties if they profited from promotions that breached consumer law. Follow today’s news live Good morning, and welcome to Monday. Nick Visser here to guide you through the day’s news. Here’s what’s on deck: The federal court will hold a hearing on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) case against Coles and Woolworths today after the consumer watchdog sued …

UK Health Security Agency urges parents in Enfield to get their children vaccinated as Easter holiday travels approach A big measles outbreak in north-east London is affecting unvaccinated children under the age of 10, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has confirmed. UKHSA previously reported 34 laboratory-confirmed measles cases among children who attend schools and nurseries in Enfield from…

Talk of a stronger, independent Europe was the dominant mood in Munich amid bitter disagreement on Ukraine If JD Vance’s thuggish speech to last year’s Munich Security Conference, directed at the solar plexus of Europe, marked the moment when a transatlantic breakup started, this weekend’s conference, in a rainy and cold Bavaria, was where the debate about the terms of the divorce settlement got …