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Conflicts in Gaza, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have led to a total of 68m IDPs across the worldConflict has forced more than 68 million people to leave their homes as of the end of 2023 – the highest figure since data became available 15 years ago.Natural disasters made a further 7.7 million people homeless, pushing the total number of internally displaced people (IDPs) to a record 75.9 million, according to figures published by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre on Tuesday. Continue reading…



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Author : Kaamil Ahmed

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Treasurer will be able to boast back-to-back surpluses when he speaks on Tuesday night. Follow live updatesFederal budget to remain in the black with forecast surplus of $9.3bn for 2023-24What makes someone rich? Find out how your income and wealth compares | InteractiveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastNick McKim said he agrees with EY chief economist, Cherelle Murphy, who says that you can look after people without impacting inflation by taking the money you are spending on people who don’t need it, and redirecting it to people who do. (Therefore it is the same pool of money, but targeted differently.)McKim:For example, you could end the massive tax breaks for property investors who own multiple investment properties then put in place a rent freeze and a rent cap, for example.You could tax billionaires and CEOs on the basis of their wealth and you could use that revenue to raise income support, which would lift a large number of Australians out of the grinding poverty that they experience every day.No, certainly not. I mean, what the surplus shows is that they’re prioritising their own political benefit over investing in the kind of programs that would provide genuine help to people who are really doing it tough at the moment.So what you’re going to see in the budget tonight is that having talked up an absolute storm on things like climate change and on things like cost of living, Labor is simply not prepared to take the action necessary to respond to those challenges that the urgency and the scale that is required. Continue reading…



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Author : Amy Remeikis

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Rapper’s scathing song Not Like Us, from his headline-grabbing rap beef with Drake, becomes his fourth Billboard chart-topperKendrick Lamar has won the culture-consuming rap beef with Drake, at least as far as Billboard hits are concerned, as his diss track Not Like Us debuted at number one on the US Hot 100.The scathing track, which alleges that the Canadian hit-maker is a “certified pedophile”, is Lamar’s fourth No 1 song, after a feature on Future and Metro Boomin’s Like That earlier this year, 2017’s Humble and his verse on Taylor Swift’s 2015 track Bad Blood. Continue reading…



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Author : Adrian Horton

Publish date : 2024-05-13 20:00:36

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Michael Cohen says he worked with National Enquirer’s Dylan Howard and David Pecker to prevent unflattering Trump stories from going publicMore people here this morning in support of Donald Trump, per poolers:JD Vance, the Ohio senator who is being floated as a potential Republican running mate to TrumpTommy Tuberville, the Republican senator of AlabamaBoris Epshteyn, a longtime Trump aide who was charged with conspiracy, fraud and forgery in ArizonaJason Miller, a Trump campaign adviser Continue reading…



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Author : Victoria Bekiempis and Léonie Chao-Fong

Publish date : 2024-05-13 15:28:30

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PM says Labour have ‘almost nothing to say’ about problems like immigration, energy security or the economySunak starts with global security threats.The dangers that threaten our country are real.There’s an increasing number of authoritarian states like Russia, Iran, North Korea and China working together to undermine us and our values.People are abusing our liberal democratic values of freedom of speech, the right to protest, to intimidate, threaten and assault others, to sing antisemitic chants on our streets and our university campuses, and to weaponize the evils of antisemitism or anti-Muslim hatred, in a divisive ideological attempt to set Britain against Britain.And from gender activists hijacking children’s sex education, to cancel culture, vocal and aggressive fringe groups are trying to impose their views on the rest of us. Continue reading…



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Author : Andrew Sparrow

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MP criticises policies on interest rates and bond-selling as Tory rightwingers call for review of Bank’s independence Jacob Rees-Mogg has accused the Bank of England of “miserable incompetence” over its failure to reduce inflation more quickly and its bond-selling strategy, as rightwing Tories prepare to renew their attacks on the Bank’s independence.The former business secretary accused the Bank of damaging the economy with its interest rate decisions and costing the taxpayer tens of billions of pounds by selling off government debt too quickly in an attempt to reduce its balance sheet – a policy known as quantitative tightening (QT). Continue reading…



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Author : Kiran Stacey Political correspondent

Publish date : 2024-05-13 06:00:18

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Nearly 20 missing after monsoon rains trigger flash floods, sending torrents of volcanic material and mud down slopes of Mount Merapi volcanoHeavy rains triggered flash floods and caused torrents of cold lava and mud to flow down a volcano’s slopes on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, killing at least 37 people and leaving more than a dozen others missing, officials have said.Monsoon rains and a major mudslide from a cold lava flow on Mount Marapi caused a river to breach its banks and tear through mountainside villages in four districts in West Sumatra province just before midnight on Saturday. The floods swept away people and submerged more than 100 houses and buildings, national disaster management agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari said on Sunday. Continue reading…



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Dawson was convicted of the murder of his wife Lynette in 1982. Follow the day’s new liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastKaty Gallagher, the finance minister, is continuing her defence of the budget not including any raise for people on Jobseeker and associated payments.She tells Fran Kelly on ABC radio RN Breakfast:It’s a combination of of measures really that go to to putting the final budget together, but it’s a combination of responsible budget management, where we’re looking at spending it’s it’s not just the quantum of the spend, it’s the composition, it’s the timing, it’s the quality of the spend.It’s dealing with some of those issues that are, you know, a big challenges that we’ve inherited after 10 years of of no decisions. Continue reading…



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Publish date : 2024-05-12 21:44:39

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Relatives pay tribute to Anita Mukhey, who was attacked near a bus stop in Edgware on ThursdayA grandmother who was stabbed to death in north London has been remembered for being “devoted to her family”.Anita Mukhey, 66, a medical secretary in the NHS, was attacked near a bus stop in Edgware on Thursday morning. Continue reading…



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Author : Sarah Haque

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Frontbencher says new Labour MP dismissed allegations from Tory former justice secretary that she lobbied him as ‘nonsense’A senior Labour frontbencher has defended his party’s newest MP, Natalie Elphicke, after allegations she lobbied the justice secretary in 2020 regarding the forthcoming trial of her husband, Charlie, on sexual assault charges.Jonathan Ashworth, a shadow Cabinet Office minister, said on Sunday that Elphicke regarded the allegations from Robert Buckland as “nonsense”, urging the former justice secretary to give a full public account of the 2020 meeting. Continue reading…



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Author : Kiran Stacey Political correspondent

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Thousands take to Tel Aviv streets, while Israeli military urges evacuation of more areas of Rafah amid strikes across GazaAl Jazeera is reporting that the Israeli military has intensified the bombardment of north Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, destroying residential houses and attacking evacuation centres.The outlet says Israel has been targeting the camp with drones and has reported, alongside Wafa news agency, that several Palestinians have been killed and injured. An exact death toll has not yet been given. The claims have not been independently verified. Continue reading…



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Author : Yohannes Lowe

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Survivors pick through debris-littered streets and damaged buildings as rescue workers dispatched amid warning some areas cut off by floodingMore than 300 people were killed in flash floods that ripped through multiple provinces in Afghanistan, the UN’s World Food Programme said, as authorities declared a state of emergency and rushed to rescue the injured.Many people remained missing after heavy rains on Friday sent roaring rivers of water and mud crashing through villages and across agricultural land in several provinces, causing what one aid group described as a “major humanitarian emergency”. Continue reading…



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Author : Agence France-Presse in Laqayi, Afghanistan

Publish date : 2024-05-12 02:50:36

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Republican US senator from Alabama best known for delivering widely ridiculed State of the Union speech in MarchKatie Britt, the Republican US senator from Alabama best known for delivering a widely ridiculed State of the Union speech in March, marked the run-up to Mother’s Day on Sunday by introducing a bill to create a federal database to collect data on pregnant people.The More Opportunities for Moms to Succeed (Moms) act proposes to establish an online government database called “pregnancy.gov” listing resources related to pregnancy, including information about adoption agencies and pregnancy care providers, except for those that provide abortion-related services. Continue reading…



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Analysis reveals voters switching from the Tories in pro-Brexit seats could make a Starmer election victory easier to achieveVoters are switching from the Tories to Labour in the most pro-Leave parts of the country in such numbers that Keir Starmer may need a far lower overall swing from the Conservatives to win a parliamentary majority than was previously believed, election analysts have claimed.In their analysis of last week’s local elections, Professors Robert Ford of Manchester University and John Curtice of Strathclyde University both noted that the bigger the 2016 vote was for Leave in an area, the higher the swing was to Labour. Continue reading…



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Author : Toby Helm Political editor

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Four other people also injured in West Midlands incident as officers work with fire service to establish causeTwo men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after two women died and four people were injured in a house fire in Wolverhampton.Emergency services were called to a house in the Dunstall Hill area at 2am on Saturday. Continue reading…



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