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Heathrow expects summer holiday season to be ‘busiest on record’
Passengers numbers this year predicted to hit 82.4m but airport’s future uncertain, with proposed £6bn sale...
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Tributes paid to Frank Field, former Labour minister, who has died aged 81
Long-serving MP dedicated Westminster career to tackling social issues including child poverty and modern slaveryTributes from...
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Percentage of Australians born overseas at highest level since 1893
The Indian-born population grew the most, rising by more than 90,000 people to take the diaspora...
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Sydney counter-terror raids – as it happened
This blog is now closed.Seven juveniles with alleged ‘violent extremist ideology’ arrested in Sydney counter-terror raidsGet...
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Woodside Energy’s climate plan rejected by shareholders in ‘globally unprecedented’ rebuke
Investors lodge 58% protest vote against emissions report but defiant chair Richard Goyder maintains company is...
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Seven juveniles with alleged ‘violent extremist ideology’ arrested in Sydney counter-terror raids
NSW police deputy commissioner says more than 400 police were involved in the raids Follow our...
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Queensland’s state library launched an AI war veteran chatbot. Pranksters immediately tried to break it
Less than 24 hours after the bot was launched, internet users were already attempting to ‘jailbreak’...
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Bishop will argue video of his Sydney church stabbing should not be removed from Elon Musk’s X, court hears
Australian federal police have told court there was ‘a real risk’ the video could be used...
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Lost luggage leaves New Zealand’s band without instruments for Anzac Day at Gallipoli
Bags went missing in Dubai floods, with embassy staff only able to retrieve one instrument and...
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Honduras referred to UN human rights committee over total abortion ban
Petition filed on behalf of woman known as as Fausia, who underwent a forced pregnancy after...
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More than one-third of people in the US exposed to harmful air pollution – report
American Lung Association’s State of the Air report states nearly 131 million people are exposed to...
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‘Smokescreen’: officials voice concern over US plans for Gaza aid pier
Fears Israel is influencing location of dock away from the north, where famine threat is most...
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Cecil Williams, reverend who turned a church into a safe haven, dies aged 94
Longtime, legendary pastor of San Francisco’s Glide Memorial church was advocate for civil rights and social...
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Summer Lee wins Pennsylvania primary in victory for progressives
The significant victory for the ‘Squad’ member comes amid concerns of pro-Israel funding targeting pro-ceasefire candidatesSummer...
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Biden and Trump clinch Pennsylvania primaries shortly after polls close
Nikki Haley got 21% despite not being on the ballot, indicating level of Republican discontent with...
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US Senate passes $95bn in aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
The Senate, in a bipartisan super-majority, overwhelmingly voted to advance the measure, which Joe Biden is...
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Athens swallowed up by orange haze from Sahara dust storm
Authorities in Greece warn the dust concentrations can reduce sunlight and visibility, while increasing levels of...
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At least 21 migrants dead after boat capsizes off coast of Djibouti
Children among those killed in second fatal incident in two weeks close to the Horn of...
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‘England is hope’: some say they will try again – despite Channel deaths
Attempt to cross via overcrowded dinghy from Wimereux aborted after engine stalls and five people drownThey...
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UN rights chief ‘horrified’ by reports of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals
Spokesperson says some bodies allegedly had their hands tied while others were bound and strippedThe UN...
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Sunak’s weakening of climate targets ‘retrograde’, says former Tory minister
Claire O’Neill, a former climate minister, says PM’s move was to ‘try and create political division...
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FTSE 100 hits record high as shares rise amid hopes of interest rate cuts
UK’s blue-chip index reaches 8,076, surpassing previous high of 8,047 in February 2023Business live – latest...
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Middle East crisis live: UN rights chief ‘horrified’ by mass grave reports at Gaza hospitals
State department says Hamas has changed their demands, but that the US will keep pushing for...
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Rwanda bill puts global refugee rights in danger, says UN and Council of Europe – UK politics latest
International concern over new law increases as UN high commissioner for refugees says it marks ‘step...