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ACT senator says opposition proposal to freeze national building codes shows ‘climate change denial’, as Labor calls policy a ‘card trick’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastDavid Pocock has called parts of Peter Dutton’s new $5bn housing policy “seriously regressive” as housing experts questioned whether it would saddle families on the fringes...

David Crisafulli pledges minimum isolation periods for youths who attack staff despite evidence of dangers of solitary confinementFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Liberal National party leader, David Crisafulli, has promised to introduce “mandatory isolation periods” for children who assault workers in youth detention, as the Queensland opposition formally launched its...

Accident occurred as crowds gathered on the island for a celebration of the Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendantsAt least seven people were killed after part of a ferry dock collapsed on Georgia’s Sapelo Island, authorities said.Multiple people were taken to hospitals, and crews from the US coast guard, the McIntosh County Fire Department, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and others were searching...

Thousands of supporters, including Usher, rally in battleground Georgia, as campaign focuses on early votesKamala Harris highlighted the threat to women’s reproductive rights and Donald Trump’s apparent exhaustion at a rally Saturday in south Atlanta, continuing a full-court press for votes in Georgia as early voting breaks records here.The race continues to appear close in Georgia, with polls suggesting the Republican nominee holds a...

Vice-president joined by Lizzo in Michigan and Usher in Atlanta, as Trump campaigns in Pennsylvania. This blog is now closed.The Undertaker said that “ElectionMania” was coming up on November 5, and the people had the choice.The WWE star told viewers to choose wisely, as the nation depended on it. Donald Trump said that it should be an easy choice. Continue reading...

Authorities say they are gradually re-establishing electrical service across the island, including to hospitalsCuba’s government said on Saturday it had made some progress in gradually re-establishing electrical service across the island, including to hospitals and parts of the capital, Havana, after state-run media earlier reported the national grid had collapsed for a second time in 24 hours.Most of Cuba’s 10 million people, however, remained...

Shia group has not claimed responsibility for attack on PM’s home but says it fired several barrages of rocketsBenjamin Netanyahu’s house in the seaside town of Caesarea was hit by a drone on Saturday, causing superficial damage and no casualties, as Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon rage unabated after the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.The Israeli government said that one of the...

Leaders paint Kamala Harris as Jezebel, who is cast out – from a window, trampled by horses, and eaten by dogsAs the sky darkened on the National Mall in DC last Saturday, evangelical pastor Ché Ahn addressed the thousands of worshippers gathered there and issued a decree.Trump, Ahn said, was a figure akin to the biblical King Jehu, and “Kamala Harris is a type...

Jean-Noël Barrot says Russian victory would ‘push the international order toward chaos’ as he backs negotiationsFrance’s foreign minister pledged his support for Ukraine’s plan for ending the war with Russia, telling reporters in Kyiv on Saturday that he would work with Ukrainian officials to secure other nations’ backing for the proposal.Presented by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, this week, Kyiv’s “victory plan” hopes to...

The history of ‘decapitation strategies’ tells us it is almost impossible to know what effect assassinating a key figure such as Yahya Sinwar will haveIsraelis and others have ­welcomed the killing of Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas and the ­master­mind of the 7 October 2023 attacks, as an “Osama bin Laden moment”. This reflects how many in Israel feel about the death of...

Former guerillas were accused of 1989 killing, but supporters say government wants to intimidate activistsSix former guerrillas, whose trial for a civil war-era murder was criticised by fellow environmentalists as politicised, have been acquitted by a court in El Salvador.Prosecutors had sought up to 36 years in prison for the former rebels of the hard-left Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front. Continue reading...

Driver in Stalowa Wola described fearing he had hit person after he saw body in roadA funeral home in Poland has apologised after a body that it was transporting fell out of a hearse and into traffic.Polish media reported that a man was driving down a street on Friday in Stalowa Wola, a city in south-eastern Poland, when he saw a sheet on his...

Researchers hope to uncover how people died and how diseases have developed over 1,000 yearsDeep beneath the streets of Paris, the dead are having their last word. They are recounting 1,000 years of death in the city: how many are ­buried in the labyrinth of tunnels that make up Les Catacombes, what killed them and how the diseases that may have led to their demise...

Lawyer Elvino Dias and official Paulo Guambe shot as their party plans a national strike over disputed electionAttackers killed a Mozambique opposition lawyer and a party official after firing rounds at a car in which they were travelling, ratcheting up tensions before protests against a disputed election result, the EU and rights groups have said.Mozambique’s new opposition Podemos party and its presidential candidate, Venâncio...

Unique experiment in German-language public broadcasting 3sat faces pressure from populist rightIn many countries around the world, breakfast TV means cele­brity interviews, soap operas and last night’s football highlights. On the German-language channel 3sat this Sunday morning, it means a one-hour philosophical discussion on trauma psychology, followed by a book review programme and a classical concert by the Munich Radio Orchestra.The collaboration between public...

Spokesperson says Israeli prime minister was not in the vicinity and there were no casualtiesHere are some of the latest images coming in via the news wires:Naval drills hosted by Iran with the participation of Russia and Oman and observed by nine other countries began in the Indian Ocean on Saturday, Iran’s state TV said, according to Reuters. Continue reading...

Former partner of One Direction star spoke out as Payne’s father travelled to Buenos Aires to repatriate his bodyLiam Payne’s former partner Cheryl Tweedy has described media coverage of his death “abhorrent”.It came as the singer’s father, Geoff Payne, travelled to Buenos Aires in Argentina to organise the repatriation of his 31-year-old son’s body. He was seen exiting the CasaSur Palermo hotel, where the...

Airstrikes Israel says are targeting Hezbollah have killed the city’s mayor as well as civil defence workersMiddle East crisis: latest news updatesHussein Jaber, the head of Nabatieh’s civil defence station, picked his way through a mess of shattered concrete and twisted metal piled knee high, surveying what was left of the city’s Ottoman open-air market, built in 1910 and destroyed by Israeli airstrikes last...

Foreign secretary discussed China’s treatment of Uyghurs and support of Russia as well as ‘areas of cooperation’David Lammy pressed his Chinese counterpart on human rights concerns and China’s support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine during talks in Beijing, the Foreign Office has said.The foreign secretary had been under pressure to take a tough line on a range of human rights issues with the Chinese...

Poetry of Byron borrowed by schoolboy Leonard Ewbank, who studied at Oxford and was killed at Ypres in 1916A book borrowed from a school library before the first world war has finally been returned – more than a century overdue.A copy of Poetry of Byron was found by a man in Carmarthenshire, south Wales, who felt it should be returned to St Bees School,...

CBA says ‘the process to reverse these transactions has been completed’ and any fees charged will be refunded Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Commonwealth Bank says it has resolved the error which left customers’ balances lower than they should have been after the bank charged some transactions twice, and left some worrying about how they would buy essentials...

Six boats among impounded assets worth at least $100m off country’s south-west coast, navy says, after arresting 23 peopleMexico’s navy has said it arrested 23 people in its largest-ever drugs bust, seizing over eight tonnes of illicit cargo in an operation off the country’s south-western Pacific coast.“Navy personnel seized 8,361 kilograms of illicit cargo, which represents the largest amount of drugs seized in a...

Ministers heralded ‘record-breaking’ £63bn total at London event but £16.5bn appears to have preceded July electionAbout a quarter of the investment announced by the government at its summit this week appears to have been secured or initiated before Labour came to power.Ministers touted £63bn of investment at the summit on Monday, where they hosted hundreds of company bosses in a showcase of the UK’s...

Abduqadir Mohamed Nur’s reported abduction from home and detention is latest attack on press freedom for critical writing on regime, media union saysA Somali journalist was abducted from his home by intelligence agents early on Friday, according to press freedom campaigners.The journalists’ union Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) said the detention of Abduqadir Mohamed Nur was a “brazen attack” on the reporter and his news...