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Israel’s military has called for people to evacuate eastern neighbourhoods of Rafah and head to what it claimed was an ‘expanded humanitarian zone’ in southern GazaFollow all our coverage of the Israel-Gaza warAn anonymous Israeli official with knowledge of the ceasefire negotiations has told the New York Times that the two sides were close to a deal a couple of days ago but that comments by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Rafah pushed Hamas to harden its demands in a bid to protect the city from an Israeli ground invasion.On Tuesday Netanyahu vowed that Israel would proceed with an offensive on the southern city even if renewed efforts at internationally brokered talks with Hamas result in the release of hostages and a ceasefire.The idea that we will halt the war before achieving all of its goals is out of the question. We will enter Rafah and we will eliminate the Hamas battalions there – with or without a deal, in order to achieve total victory. Continue reading…



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Author : Gloria Oladipo (now) with Martin Belam, Ben Quinn, Helen Livingstone and Jonathan Yerushalmy (earlier)

Publish date : 2024-05-06 14:26:26

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Swinney may be only candidate after withdrawal of Graeme McCormickLabour has marked the anniversary of the Conservatives re-entering government at the 2010 election by launching a what the opposition have called “Conflix” website [geddit?] that mockingly tells the story of “14 years of Tory chaos”The party’s chair, Anneliese Dodds, was challenged about the site on Sky News this morning and whether the party was relying on “stunts” rather than policy proposals. She insisted that the “detail of policy” was there, in the form of initiatives like GB Energy. Continue reading…



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Author : Ben Quinn

Publish date : 2024-05-06 11:07:38

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Chinese premier to meet Macron and Von der Leyen who will urge him to reduce trade imbalances and use his influence with RussiaChinese president Xi Jinping’s visit to Paris, his first to the EU in five years, will aim to stabilise relations between both sides amid the threat of a looming trade war, a potential arrival of Donald Trump in the White House and the ongoing war in Russia.Vladimir Putin visits Beijing in two weeks time and Emmanuel Macron will plead with Xi to use his influence with the Kremlin.Respect for human rights has severely deteriorated under Xi Jinping’s rule. His government has committed crimes against humanity – including mass detention, forced labor, and cultural persecution – against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang, adopted draconian legislation that has erased Hong Kong’s freedoms, and intensified repression of government critics across the country. Continue reading…



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Author : Lili Bayer

Publish date : 2024-05-06 07:49:17

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The airline agrees to a $100m fine and to repay $20m to customers in settlement with the ACCCFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastQantas will fork out $100m as a civil penalty and pay $20m to customers in compensation, after striking a deal with the consumer watchdog over landmark legal action for allegedly selling tens of thousands of tickets to flights that had already been cancelled in its system.On Monday, Qantas announced it had come to an agreement with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to resolve the court proceedings lodged in August last year, alleging it had advertised and sold tickets for more than 8,000 flights that it had already cancelled in its internal system, revelations which precipitated the early retirement of the former CEO Alan Joyce.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading…



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Author : Elias Visontay Transport and urban affairs reporter

Publish date : 2024-05-06 03:40:32

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Emergency package gives new funds to existing programs and includes prevention and support measures. Follow today’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast‘Lower the temperature’ on protests at university campuses, education minister saysThe education minister was also asked about the pro-Palestine encampments taking place across Australian universities, and whether they should be allowed to continue for as long as students are willing to man them.There’s always going to be protests in a democracy, that’s part of being a democracy. What there’s no place for is hate or violence or prejudice or discrimination and certainly no place [for] antisemitism or Islamophobia – whether it’s on our university campuses or anywhere else in the country.What I’d say is that we’ve just got to lower the temperature. You know, what’s happening on the other side of the world is trying to pull our country apart. We’ve got to work together – whether it’s politicians or religious leaders or community leaders, whether it’s the media, or student representatives – to work to keep our country together, not let it get pulled apart.There’ll be a lot of people who will still be able to work at the same time as they’re doing [placements]. But there are people who can’t [and] this will provide that bit of extra help to pay the bills, put food on the table, pay for transport, sometimes the relocation costs that come with prac.The commonwealth government hasn’t done this before. This is the first time that this has happened. It’s happened in the in response to calls from students – both teaching students and nursing students and social work students – across the country, and it’s come out of the work for the universities accord team that heard loud and clear that there is placement poverty in this country. Continue reading…



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Author : Emily Wind

Publish date : 2024-05-05 23:38:12

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Three men from Scotland and one from Colombia held in connection with discovery at Stags Head Inn, Lelley, East YorkshireFour men have been arrested after £40m worth of cocaine was found in the back of a van in a Yorkshire village pub car park.About 500kg of the drug was discovered in a Vauxhall Vivaro in the car park of the Stags Head Inn in Lelley, East Yorkshire, the National Crime Agency said. Continue reading…



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Author : Mabel Banfield-Nwachi

Publish date : 2024-05-05 18:34:47

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Yoav Gallant says Hamas appear to not be serious about reaching a truce as negotiators resume peace talks in CairoA local official in southern Lebanon said an Israeli strike on a village on Sunday killed a couple and their child, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.“The dad, the mother and their little son were martyred”, according to the Mays al-Jabal municipality chief Abdelmoneim Chukair. Continue reading…



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Author : Yohannes Lowe (now) and Tom Bryant (earlier)

Publish date : 2024-05-05 13:50:59

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Former home secretary says ‘we must not change our leader’ as Tories reel from local and mayoral election resultsLabour triumphs in London and West MidlandsKeir Starmer: It’s time to end the UK’s divisions – Labour is for allFull mayoral and council results for EnglandMark Harper is now being interview by Laura Kuenssberg on the BBC. When it is put to him that people in his party want it to change course, Harper says the government will stick to its plan.In his interview on Sky News Mark Harper, the transport secretary, ducked a question about whether the party should shift to the right, as Suella Braverman is advocating, or to the centre, as Andy Street proposes. (See 7.55am.)What he is talking about there is what I just said. He is talking about you focus on the priorities of the British people, that is what you do.We are going to stick to focusing on the priorities that the prime minister set out, which are the government’s priorities, the prime minister’s priorities but they are also the priorities of the British people. Continue reading…



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Author : Andrew Sparrow

Publish date : 2024-05-05 09:06:36

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Katy Gallagher says more aid for women escaping violence could come in form of increased rent assistance as sector struggles to recruit workersFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastJust 30 of the 500 frontline domestic violence workers promised by the Albanese government have been delivered so far, the minister for women, Katy Gallagher, says.Gallagher, who is also the finance minister, revealed the difficulty recruiting workers in a pre-budget interview with ABC’s Insiders, suggesting that further help for women escaping violence could come in the form of increased rent assistance.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading…



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Author : Paul Karp Chief political correspondent

Publish date : 2024-05-05 02:54:14

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Rutan, known for smooth flying style, survived having to eject twice from planes and being stranded at north poleBurt Rutan was alarmed to see that the plane he had designed was so loaded with fuel that the wingtips dragged along the ground as it taxied down the runway. He grabbed the radio to warn the pilot, his older brother Dick Rutan. But Dick never heard the message.Nine days and three minutes later, Dick, along with co-pilot Jeana Yeager, completed one of the greatest milestones in aviation history: the first round-the-world flight with no stops or refueling. Continue reading…



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Publish date : 2024-05-04 23:38:03

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Interior minister Nancy Faeser promises ‘tough action’ to protect democracy as political assaults riseThe German interior minister Nancy Faeser has vowed to fight a surge in violence against politicians after a German member of the European parliament had to be taken to hospital following an attack while he was campaigning for re-election.Matthias Ecke, 41, a member of Faeser’s Social Democrats (SPD), was hit and kicked by a group of four people while putting up posters in Dresden, capital of the eastern state of Saxony, police said. An SPD source said his injuries would require an operation. Continue reading…



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Author : Reuters in Berlin

Publish date : 2024-05-04 18:33:42

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