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Brutal assault on the Donbas could leave entire region ‘uninhabited’, says ZelenskiyWhat hope is there for diplomacy in ending the war?At a glance: what we know on day 93 of the invasionFresh strikes hit Kharkiv amid fears city still on Russian agendaHere are some of the latest images to come out of Ukraine today. Sweden and Finland’s push to join Nato won’t require adding...

Actor also details ‘unspoken rules’ about how friends can touch her and says ‘Johnny has taken enough of my voice’Testimony ended Thursday in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation case with Heard telling jurors that she suffers minute-by-minute harassment, including death threats, and daily trauma requiring special “rules” in her life to prevent anxiety attacks.“My friends have to live with a set of unspoken rules...

Inspectors warn services must improve, as Shropshire baby deaths inquiry midwife to lead reviewInspectors have found “serious problems remain” at maternity units in Nottingham that are at the centre of a review into dozens of baby deaths and injuries.The healthcare regulator for England has given a safety warning to Nottingham university hospitals NHS trust and said it must make “significant and immediate improvements” to...

Latest updates: chancellor urges wealthy recipients of rebate to donate money to charity as he details £15bn support packageSunak U-turns on ‘energy profits levy’ in £15bn cost of living packageHere are the main points from Rishi Sunak’s morning interviews.People can judge me by how I’ve acted over the last couple of years. I’ve always been prepared to respond to the situation on the ground,...

E-commerce company’s revenues rise 9% to 204bn yuan despite weakening economyChinese technology shares jumped after strong results from internet companies, including better-than-expected sales at the e-commerce firm Alibaba despite an economic slowdown driven by Beijing’s Covid-19 lockdowns.The Hangzhou-based company beat analysts’ forecasts with its sales and profit figures for the first quarter despite a weakening economy, and it did better than local rivals such...

Feline’s handler, Ian Fenn, who has autism, brings discrimination case after London supermarket incidentChloe the assistance cat could make legal history with her handler, Ian Fenn, after Sainsbury’s refused to allow her into one of its shops.Fenn, who has autism and has trained the black cat to be a support for him, is taking legal action against the supermarket. Continue reading...

NSW paramedics take industrial action; election vote count ‘progressing well’; interest rate rises on horizon; Penny Wong speaks at Fiji press conference; Anthony Albanese signs Fair Work Commission submission on increasing minimum wage; decision on Biloela family due; at least 39 Covid deaths recorded. This blog is now closedMurugappan family to return to Biloela on bridging visasScott Morrison’s staff urged border force to publicise...

Boat is believed to have capsized or run ashore at Talbot Bay, about 25okm north-east of BroomeGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingTwelve people have been seriously injured and at least eight more taken to hospital after a tour boat accident at Horizontal Falls in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.It is understood the boat may have capsized or run ashore...

Parades with Caribbean dancers and music will wend their way through the festival site, ending with steel band performancesNotting Hill carnival will partner with Glastonbury festival for the first time this year, filling the site’s already colourful walkways with Caribbean floats and processions.Until the Covid-19 pandemic, the carnival had been staged every year by west London’s Caribbean communities since the event coalesced in the...

Evidence appears to show illicit payments taken from workers harvesting produce for M&S, Tesco and WaitroseDitya*, a single mother from Nepal, is used to travelling abroad for work. For years she has made a living as a migrant farm worker, where she can earn several times what she would in her home country. Last year she applied to become part of the UK government’s...

As thousands flee the latest fighting in DRC to join 1.5m already in Uganda, the UN’s food aid agency is stretched as never before The rain will determine what time Uwimana Nsengiyuava gets on the truck to Nyakabande transit centre, where Uganda is hosting 20,000 refugees who, like her, have fled fresh fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).Since March, up to...

Catholic Weekly called on to apologise over editorial comparing new rights to the HolocaustGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe maverick Catholic figure Father Bob Maguire has criticised New South Wales’ premier and the state’s parliament for passing voluntary assisted dying laws, after a scathing editorial on the legislation was published in the Catholic Weekly.On Friday Jewish groups put pressure on...

Parliament debates law that bans people from changing their names more than three times after stunt leads to unforeseen consequencesTaiwanese parliamentarians have debated changing legal limits on name changes, after some of the hundreds of people who legally altered their name to “Salmon” in return for free sushi reportedly became stuck with it.In March 2021 restaurant chain Sushiro ran a promotion offering free all-you-can-eat...

Quake struck to east of Timor-Leste, with residents in Northern Territory capital reporting strong shakingAustralian election 2022 results: live votes tracker and federal seat countsGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingAn earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 struck off the coast of Timor-Leste and was so strong it was felt in Darwin, Australia.The quake hit at 11.36am local time (12.06pm...

Tamil family can return to Queensland town while their immigration status is resolved, Labor’s Jim Chalmers saysElection 2022 results: live votes tracker and federal seat countsGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe Murugappan family is set to return home, to the rural Queensland town of Biloela.The interim home affairs minister, Jim Chalmers, said on Friday afternoon that he had exercised his...

Humanoid artist Ai-Da pays tribute to monarch with painting but critic calls it ‘a cynical, transparent con’At first glance, the Queen could be wearing a tin hat with camouflage netting set against a thunderous sky. A commentary on the inevitable conflicts and turbulence that took place during her 70-year reign, perhaps. Or a thoughtful juxtaposition of stability and instability.But no, it seems that Ai-Da,...

President Erdoğan presses on with move by leveraging his Nato veto over Nordic states’ accession Turkey’s plan to expand a buffer zone inside northern Syria and use it to relocate large numbers of refugees has gained momentum after officials endorsed a military push that analysts from both countries say will force demographic shifts inside Syria.Though a timeline has not been decided, military and political...

Australia wants to show region it is a reliable partner, says foreign minister, and to make up for a ‘lost decade on climate action’Election 2022 results: live votes tracker and federal seat countsGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesAustralia’s foreign minister has used a visit to Fiji to urge Pacific countries to...

Analysis: Western leaders are divided on arming Ukraine, oil embargoes and whether Kyiv will have to accept territory lossAn increasingly bitter diplomatic row over Germany’s unwillingness to supply heavy weaponry to Ukraine threatened to spill into a wider dispute between allies over whether they are prepared to accept a peace settlement that leaves Vladimir Putin capable of claiming victory.One western official said western leaders...

ABF officials made it clear publication of the interception could only proceed on the authority of the home affairs minister, Guardian Australia understandsFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesElection 2022 results: live votes tracker and federal seat countsGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingScott Morrison’s staff conveyed a clear message to border force officials through Karen Andrews’ office...

Labor’s Indigenous affairs minister Linda Burney says NSW assured commonwealth the reburial would not go ahead until court action consideredGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe 42,000-year-old remains of Mungo Man and Mungo Lady have been reburied despite an application to stay the burial under federal Aboriginal heritage laws and the New South Wales government promising in writing that the burial...

Government to allow in tourists from 98 countries and regions next month – but only as part of tour groupsSee all our coronavirus coverageJapan has announced it will end a two-year pandemic closure and reopen to tourists from 98 countries and regions next month, but travellers will only be allowed in as part of tour groups.The decision comes after the government last week said...

She has been denied parole 14 times for the killings of actor Sharon Tate and four other people in 1969A California parole panel recommended the release of Patricia Krenwinkel, a follower of Charles Manson for the first time in more than five decades.Krenwinkel and other followers of the cult leader terrorized the state and she wrote “Helter Skelter” on a wall using the blood...

Ardern warns against ‘scourge of online disinformation’, and wins standing ovation for crackdown on weaponsJacinda Ardern has spoken out against the online “scourge of disinformation” in an address at Harvard University, in which she also won standing ovations for her government’s gun control laws, diversity and decriminalisation of abortion. The New Zealand prime minister was honoured by the American university , making the annual...