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The US president tells CNN he has made it clear to Benjamin Netanyahu that a major offensive on the Gaza city would mean a halt to more weapons shipmentsAnalysis: Biden seeks to pull rank in US-Israel relationshipAt least 34,844 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli offensive in Gaza and 78,404 Palestinians injured, according to the territory’s health ministry. Thousands more are believed to...

Vladimir Putin marks second world war Victory Day as relations with west spiral towards crisisSouth Korea’s position remains it will not supply lethal weapons to any country, president Yoon Suk Yeol said on Thursday, when asked if Seoul was prepared to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia.Yoon also said his government intended to continue managing relations with Moscow to “pursue economic cooperation and mutual...

Anneliese Dodds says she believes Elphicke is a good fit for Labour after criticism from across the political spectrumBen Houchen, who was the Conservative to win a metro mayor electoral contest last week (he was re-elected as Tees Valley mayor), has said that the route to Tory electoral recovery is “getting narrower by the day”.In an interview with BBC Radio Tees, he said:Things don’t...

Resource minister Madeleine King released the party’s future gas strategy which says new sources will be needed ‘to 2050 and beyond’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe prime minister, Anthony Albanese, is facing an internal revolt with Labor backbenchers pushing back against the government’s support for new gas production.Five inner-city MPs have criticised the government’s gas strategy, arguing...

Education secretary says she wants campuses to be safe places and warns vice-chancellors about escalationIsrael-Gaza war – live updatesUniversity vice-chancellors need to “show leadership” in response to student protests over Israel’s military action in Gaza, the education secretary has said.Gillian Keegan told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme that she wanted “our campuses to be a safe place where students feel welcomed, where students...

Incident comes the day after a shooting outside the rapper’s home in which a security guard was seriously injuredA man has been arrested after trying to gain access to Drake’s Toronto mansion, the day after a security guard at the property was seriously injured in a shooting.“Officers were called after a person attempted to gain access to the property,” Toronto police said in a...

NSW premier condemns western Sydney council’s ban on Holly Duhig’s children’s book as motion to rescind it lodgedGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe ban on same-sex parenting books at libraries in a western Sydney council area could be rescinded after widespread backlash and a warning from the premier, Chris Minns, that LGBTQ+ people were being used as...

Anneliese Dodds backs move to accept Conservative defector Natalie Elphicke as backlash growsThe chair of the Labour party has defended the decision to admit a staunchly rightwing MP while Diane Abbott remains suspended and has been under investigation for more than a year.Anneliese Dodds said she believed Elphicke was a good fit for Labour because her remarks on border security and housing were “absolutely...

While Europe’s lingua franca remains dominant, there has been a definite shift since a Portuguese song triumphed in 2017There was a time when in order to win Eurovision you had to “fly on the wings of love”, “take me to your heaven” or “sail into infinity while reaching for divinity”. This year, however, there’s a fair chance the winner will estar comiendo el mundo...

Sky News podcast casts doubt on One Nation leader’s claim she did not know Faruqi was a Muslim when she sent ‘piss off back to Pakistan’ tweet, court toldGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi has applied to the federal court to reopen her racial discrimination case against Pauline Hanson, in a bid...

Seven says decision purely commercial but Financial Review editor accuses rival company of ‘abuse of market power’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe print edition of Nine’s Australian Financial Review will no longer be available in Western Australia after the Seven-owned printing facility doubled the price of producing the...

Government’s promised ‘future gas strategy’ will argue the fossil fuel is important part of transition to net zero emissions. This blog is now closedGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastNSW’s arts minister, John Graham, says a Sydney council has sent a “terrible message” by voting to ban same-sex parenting books, importing a “US culture war into our country”.In...

MP for Stratford-on-Avon, former chancellor and Conservative party chair will not seek re-electionNadhim Zahawi, a former chancellor under Boris Johnson, has become the latest Conservative MP to announce he will not be standing again at the general election.First elected in 2010, Zahawi said on Thursday he “had come to feel that the time is right for a new, energetic Conservative to represent Stratford-on-Avon”. Continue...

‘Orangutan diplomacy’ strategy aims to ease concern over environmental impact of palm oil production, says ministerMalaysia plans to give orangutans as gifts to countries that buy its palm oil as part of an “orangutan diplomacy” strategy to ease concerns over the environmental impact of the commodity.The south-east Asian country is the world’s second biggest producer of palm oil, which is found in more than...

Mohammad Ganjkhanlou cannot take his bike onboard and says he ‘will not have the chance to rebuild’ his racing careerA gold medal-winning elite cyclist who is seeking asylum in the UK fears his career will be derailed because he has been told by the Home Office he must move to the Bibby Stockholm barge and cannot take his bike on board.Mohammad Ganjkhanlou, 26, an...

Artem Vasilyev, 27, has pleaded not guilty to acts done in preparation for, or planning, a terrorist act to advance ‘cause of white nationalism’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastExtremist material, a 3D-printed gun and chemicals used in explosive and incendiary devices were found in the home of a defence...

Gabrielius Landsbergis also backs David Cameron and Emmanuel Macron on standing up to Putin Lithuania’s foreign minister has raised the prospect of an ad hoc coalition of western countries sending military training personnel into Ukraine backed by ground-based air defence, days after Russia took an increasingly strident tone against what it sees as the threat of deeper western involvement in the war.Speaking to the...

Patients said to have been moved on donkey carts from evacuated hospital, in situation described as ‘catastrophic’ Hospitals in Rafah risk being overwhelmed by a wave of sick and injured people if the fighting there intensifies and routes into Gaza remain impassible, doctors and medical officials in the city say.Medics and patients hastily evacuated the Abu Yousef al-Najjar hospital, one of the few remaining...

Group being questioned after warrants were executed in Bolton, Great Lever, Abram and Hindley, says Greater Manchester policeThree men have been arrested on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism in Greater Manchester.Warrants were executed by officers in Bolton, Great Lever, Abram and Hindley around 7.30pm on Wednesday, Greater Manchester police (GMP) said. The men, aged 35, 36 and 51, were arrested at separate locations...

Daughters of TV great write introductions to First Squad, First Platoon, a story of war in the Pacific released by Strand MagazineA story of the second world war by Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone, will be published in the US on Thursday after lying among his papers for nearly 70 years.“I was writing a memoir, called As I Knew Him, My Dad,...

Eighteen-year-old will be among delegates to officially nominate his father, Donald Trump, as candidate for upcoming presidential election Barron Trump, who is former president Donald Trump’s youngest son, has been chosen to serve as a Florida delegate to the Republican National Convention, the state party chairman has said.Evan Power said the 18-year-old high school senior will serve as one of 41 at-large delegates from...

As El Fasher stands on the ‘precipice of a massacre’, rights groups call for sanctions after new testimony describes atrocities carried out by RSF paramilitaries in SudanGruesome new testimony details one of the worst atrocities of the year-long Sudanese civil war – the large-scale massacre of civilians as they desperately tried to flee an ethnic rampage in Darfur last summer.Witnesses describe children, still alive,...

Long-serving leader Frank Bainimarama has been sentenced to a year in prison for perverting the course of justiceFiji’s former long-serving prime minister Frank Bainimarama has been sentenced to a year in prison for perverting the course of justice, the country’s director of public prosecutions said.Bainimarama was initially spared jail in the case during sentencing last month, before an appeal by the country’s director for...

The territory’s justice minister has called for the anthem to be removed from the internet in the wake of the rulingHong Kong has demanded a protest song that was made popular during pro-democracy demonstrations in the territory be removed from the internet, in the wake of a court ruling which banned it.In its judgment on Wednesday, the court of appeal described the song Glory...