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Planned two-day protest that involves thousands of protesters poses a safety risk, police argueGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA plan by climate activists to shut down the Port of Newcastle for 50 hours has been challenged by New South Wales police who have argued in a court challenge against the protest going ahead.Police are challenging the protest – which...

Early results show Mokgweetsi Masisi’s Botswana Democratic party on track to lose by landslideBotswana’s president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, has conceded defeat after preliminary results showed his party had lost its parliamentary majority in this week’s election, ending nearly six decades in power.The private Mmegi newspaper and state radio reported that the ruling Botswana Democratic party (BDP) had lost by a landslide, citing results from more...

Warning comes after Rachel Reeves’s record tax-raising budget sent tremors through financial marketsRachel Reeves has been warned an extra £9bn of tax rises may be required to avoid a fresh austerity drive in key public services as her record tax-raising budget sent tremors through the financial markets.Threatening to undermine the chancellor’s claim that her budget would restore economic stability to Britain, government borrowing costs...

This blog is now closedQantas and Virgin among 1,200 major companies that paid no income tax in Australia in 2022-23Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastCourt to rule in Pauline Hanson-Mehreen Faruqi caseA federal court judge is ready to rule on whether Pauline Hanson made a racial slur when she told Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi to go back to Pakistan....

Howard Cox and Ben Habib take issue with chair saying party wants nothing to do with Robinson and ‘all of that lot’Reform UK is facing a schism over its approach to Tommy Robinson’s supporters, after two high-profile party figures said it was wrong to disavow those who went to a weekend rally backing the far-right leader.Richard Tice, the deputy leader of Reform, said earlier...

The candidates have raised an extraordinary amount of money in an election awash with cash on an unprecedented scaleIt was one of the most striking images of the final full week of the presidential election campaign: a giant projection of Kamala Harris’s face on the 516ft-wide, 366ft-tall Las Vegas Sphere.At a reported $450,000 per day for what is believed to be the first political...

Missing Pieces Project maps buildings in 189 locations where African American abolitionists spoke against slaveryHistoric England is commemorating the American abolitionist Frederick Douglass’s time in Newcastle in a project that links the legacy of black abolitionists with listed buildings.The story of how black Americans came to Britain to fight slavery has still not been fully recognised. The Missing Pieces Project aims to shed new...

Sector says review shows need for reform of funders and providers, however experts question potential selection bias of voluntary data Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPrivate hospitals say an Australia government review of the sector’s financial viability show there is a need for structural reform of the relationship between funders and...

Candidates for president hold duelling rallies in swing state, hoping to convince Latino voters ahead of next week’s US electionFrom the Rat Pack to Elvis, from fight night to the Sphere, Las Vegas serves up spectacle bigger and brasher than anywhere else. On Thursday the political circus came to Sin City as the US presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump held duelling campaign...

Exclusive: Cross-party group’s letter comes after health secretary said he doubted NHS could enact the changeA cross-party group of MPs who are practising medics and former NHS staff have written to MPs urging them to back the assisted dying bill, after the health secretary expressed doubt that the health service was fit to enact such a big change.The six Labour and Conservative MPs, including...

Sam Hibbins resigns from the Greens after admitting to ‘consensual relationship’ with a staff memberFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Victorian Greens leader, Ellen Sandell, says former co-deputy leader Sam Hibbins will never be welcomed back to the party room after he admitted to a relationship with a staffer that broke...

LNP leader’s cabinet includes several changes, including former leader Tim Nicholls as health minister and Fiona Simpson in women’s portfolioFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastQueensland’s new premier, David Crisafulli, has unveiled his new cabinet, breaking a pre-election promise to automatically elevate his existing shadow team to the government frontbench.The LNP leader...

The international criminal court awarded a record €52.4m to survivors of Dominic Ongwen’s crimes but member states have failed to contributeNot a single country has contributed towards reparations for the victims and survivors of the Ugandan warlord Dominic Ongwen, despite the international criminal court awarding €52.4m (£44m) in February, according to the ICC Trust Fund for Victims (TFV).The ICC reparations order – the largest...

This blog is closed now, thanks for following along. You can find all of our US elections coverage here.Don’t miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alertsA lot of money has been spent on this year’s elections. Only 150 billionaire families have contributed $1.9bn in support of presidential and congressional candidates, according to a new report from...

Nerves are particularly stretched in Maricopa county, which will likely decide which way the state swings in the pollsPearl Hubbard picked up some yard signs for Kamala Harris at the vice-president’s speech in Phoenix, Arizona, on Thursday afternoon, but wasn’t yet sure whether she’d risk displaying them outside her home in a city that sits in some of the most hotly contested political territory...

Wild squirrel that was taken in by Mark Longo seven years ago was confiscated after conservation officials received reports of ‘potentially unsafe housing of wildlife’ A New York man who turned a rescued squirrel into a social media star called Peanut is pleading with state authorities to return his beloved pet after they seized it during a raid that also yielded a raccoon named...

Actors Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Don Cheadle, Chris Evans, Danai Gurira and Paul Bettany appear in video, released days before the US electionThe cast of Marvel’s Avengers movies have come out in support of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris less than a week before the US election.In a video posted first on Vanity Fair on Thursday evening, actors Robert Downey Jr,...

Ronnie Lessa and Élcio de Queiroz sentenced to 78 and 59 years over 2018 murder of prominent Rio city councillorTwo former police officers who confessed to the murder of the Rio city councillor Marielle Franco have been sentenced to decades in prison for their part in a crime that shook Brazil and cast a harsh spotlight on the links between politics and organised crime.Ronnie...

In Sinaloa state, police have asked for security measure so revelers aren’t mistaken for criminals amid cartel violenceAuthorities in the Mexican state of Sinaloa have ordered residents not to don masks or costumes for Halloween to avoid being confused with criminals amid a worsening cycle of cartel violence.Home to the powerful Sinaloa cartel, the north-western state has been wracked by deadly infighting between factions...

US secretary of state and defence secretary express hope of ceasefire in near future as Hamas rules out short-term truce for GazaReuters reports that the Israeli military said on Thursday it had shot down a drone smuggling weapons from Egyptian territory to Israel on Wednesday.No other information was provided. We will update the blog as more details come in.Rafael and Lala Goliev … residents...

Antony Blinken warns that Russia is preparing to deploy the troops into combat ‘in the coming days’About 8,000 North Korean soldiers are stationed in Russia on the border with Ukraine, the US secretary of state has said, warning that Moscow is preparing to deploy those troops into combat “in the coming days”.Antony Blinken said the US believed that North Korea had sent 10,000 troops...

Greek Cypriot Costa Koushiappis to be removed from UK even though his application is pending with Home OfficeAn EU citizen caught up in a Home Office backlog of applications for post-Brexit residency status is to be deported by Border Force officials in Scotland.Costa Koushiappis, 39, who is Greek Cypriot, has been told to show up at Edinburgh airport at 7am on Friday to be...

Francesca Albanese, who was stopped from appearing at US Congress this week, said Israel defied UN resolutionsMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe UN should consider suspending Israel as a member state due to its continuing “genocide” against the Palestinians, the divisive special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories has said.Francesca Albanese was speaking to a UN committee on the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people...

IDF airstrikes kill 45 people while seven die, including four Thai workers, in rocket attack on northern IsraelSenior US officials have held talks in Israel aimed at brokering a ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon, on a day when more civilians in both countries were killed in the year-long war.Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, who had expressed optimism of a speedy settlement “in hours...