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Senator Larissa Waters plans to move motion to discharge abortion bill sponsored by Matt Canavan and Alex AnticFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Greens will seek to split the Coalition on the politically fraught issue of abortion by asking the Senate to vote to jettison an anti-abortion bill championed by two...

This blog is now closedGreens to ask Senate to vote on anti-abortion bill in bid to split Coalition on issueGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFirst investment announced as part of National Reconstruction FundThe science and industry minister, Ed Husic, was on ABC News Breakfast to discuss the government’s first investment via the National Reconstruction Fund – $40m to a...

In today’s newsletter: Ukraine can now fire US-made long-range missiles into Russian territory – but it may be too little, too late for Volodymyr Zelenskyy• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning.The US president, Joe Biden, has lifted the longstanding ban on Ukraine using American-made long-range missiles to fire into Russian territory. The Biden administration secretly first sent the army tactical...

Teenagers Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles in hospitals in neighbouring Thailand after incident last weekFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo Australian teenagers are fighting for their lives in Thailand after a suspected methanol poisoning in neighbouring Laos, with the family of one them saying they were struggling to comprehend what had...

Police say about 42,000 people gathered at parliament in the last stage of the nine-day protest in opposition to the Treaty of Waitangi billNew Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi explained in 30 secondsWhat is the treaty principles bill? A protest march estimated to be one of the largest in New Zealand history arrived at parliament on Tuesday, flooding the grounds with song in a display...

Huge rise in attacks by Israeli settlers and soldiers killed 171 children in year after 7 OctoberMohammad was 12, a football-mad teenager who spent his days dreaming of a career on the pitch and his last minutes practising ball skills. Ghassan was 14, a quiet, generous teenager who ran errands for elderly relatives, with an adoring six-year-old brother who stuck to him like a...

The ‘Hong Kong 47’ were arrested in 2021 after holding an unofficial election primary and have now been sentenced to between four and 10 years in jailActivists, professors, legislators: who are the Hong Kong 47?Dozens of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy figures have been jailed – one for 10 years – in the territory’s largest national security trial, following a prosecution that has been...

Europe on 5 Dollars a Day author revolutionized leisure travel and built one of best-known names in travel industryArthur Frommer, whose Europe on 5 Dollars a Day guidebooks revolutionized leisure travel by convincing average Americans to take budget vacations abroad, has died. He was 95.Frommer died from complications of pneumonia, his daughter Pauline Frommer said Monday. Continue reading...

Suit accuses Club Q of lax security and says authorities’ ‘deliberate inaction’ enabled shooter to carry out attackTwo days shy of the second anniversary of a hate-fueled mass shooting at a queer nightclub in Colorado Springs, victims and mothers of those killed have filed lawsuits against the club for lax security and against the sheriff’s office for failing to trigger the state’s red flag...

This live coverage has ended now. You can read our stories at the links below: Historic march arrives at parliament – full reportExplainer: what is the treaty principles bill?The hīkoi has reached parliament, filling the grounds and swelling out into the surrounding roads and streets.It is shoulder to shoulder, with people and flags stretching as far as the eye can see in every direction....

Gigantiello, who let singer film in church, stripped of duties after inquiry shows he sent parish funds to Eric Adams aideThe leader of a New York City church where pop star Sabrina Carpenter filmed provocative scenes for a music video was stripped of his duties on Monday after church officials said an investigation revealed other instances of mismanagement.Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello was relieved of “any...

The poet also wrote the lyrics for the Astro Boy theme song and translated Peanuts into JapaneseShuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died aged 92.Tanikawa, who translated the Peanuts comic strip and penned the lyrics for the theme song of the animation series Astro Boy, died on 13 November, his son...

Former Republican congressman from Wisconsin was also a cast member on MTV’s The Real World: BostonDonald Trump has named Sean Duffy, a former Republican congressman from Wisconsin,and former cast member of the MTV show The Real World, to serve as the secretary of transportation. He was also a co-host on Fox Business but left that role on Monday, according to Fox News Media.Duffy served...

This live coverage has ended. Thanks for following along. You can read our full story on the latest allegations against Matt Gaetz below: Trump pick Matt Gaetz under further scrutiny amid fresh allegationsThe reported tension between Elon Musk and Boris Epshteyn as they vie for status in Donald Trump’s inner circle of un-elected influencers involves the tech entrepreneur, Musk, challenging lawyer Epshteyn on the...

Tehran alleged to have targeted retired politician, 84, who is also human rights activist and critic of IranCanadian authorities foiled an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate a former justice minister and rights activist who has been a strong critic of Tehran, the Globe and Mail newspaper has reported.The 84-year-old was justice minister and attorney general from 2003 to 2006. He retired from politics in...

President-elect’s surrogates accuse president of seeking to spark ‘world war three’ over decision to allow limited strikesAllies of the president-elect, Donald Trump, have lashed out angrily at Joe Biden for his decision to permit Ukraine to use long-range US missiles to launch attacks inside Russia for the first time, in what the Kremlin has termed an “escalation” in the war.Key Trump surrogates, including his...

Hamas-run interior ministry says it carried out security operation after armed looters hijacked almost 100 trucksGaza’s Hamas-run interior ministry has said that at least 20 people have been killed in an operation targeting “gangs” accused of looting trucks bringing aid into the war-torn territory which is facing the threat of famine.Gunmen attacked and looted about 100 trucks carrying desperately needed supplies over the weekend,...

Whisky and migration thwarted earlier deal but UK PM hopeful of reaching agreement with Narendra ModiKeir Starmer is to restart the aborted UK-India trade talks in the new year after an agreement stalled amid disagreements over whisky tariffs and migration.No progress has been made on the deal since early this year after the last round of talks concluded. As prime minister, Boris Johnson promised...

US president arrived for photograph with other world leaders – but found they had gone ahead without himJoe Biden headed for a photo with fellow G20 leaders in Rio de Janeiro at his final summit as US president on Monday – only to find they had already taken the picture without him.Frustrated US officials blamed “logistical issues” for the blunder which meant that Biden...

PM questions sanctions against MPs and plight of Jimmy Lai as China’s president says Starmer ‘fixing foundations’China’s president, Xi Jinping, has heaped praise on Keir Starmer’s economic policy, as the UK prime minister used their first meeting to raise concerns about sanctions on MPs and the treatment of the pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai.During their conversation at the G20 summit in Rio, the first meeting...

Sherry Rehman says rich nations should pay ‘internationally determined contributions’ to help poorer and worst-affected countriesAmid the endless politicking and inscrutable arguments at the UN climate negotiations in Baku, Azerbaijan, this month, it can be hard to remember what is at stake. That’s why Sherry Rehman, Pakistan’s former climate change minister, is calling on global leaders to “keep an eye on the big picture”.“We’re...

Summit’s first day notable for frosty meeting of far-right Argentinian leader Javier Milei and leftwing hostThe president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has opened the G20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro with the launch of an alliance to combat hunger, which he described as the “ultimate symbol of our collective tragedy”.Brazil holds the rotating presidency of the group and is hosting the...

Group were held after a meeting about what mining firm referred to as unsubstantiated claims regarding taxes and leviesAn Australian goldmining company has agreed to pay $160m ($A247m, £126m) to Mali’s government after the west African country’s junta detained its chief executive and two other employees.Resolute Mining’s chief executive, Terence Holohan, and the other two employees were detained on 8 November in Mali’s capital,...

Singer says his ‘understanding of the narrative’ around Do They Know It’s Christmas? has changed since 2014 appearanceEd Sheeran has said he would rather not be on the forthcoming 40th-anniversary version of Band Aid charity single Do They Know It’s Christmas?, aligning himself with criticism of it as dehumanising and damaging to Africans.Sheeran is one of an all-star cast to be drawn from three...