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• Thousands in Spain join nationwide march to protest against housing crisis

  05-04-2025 21:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Organisers say 150,000 joined protest in Madrid urging the government to ‘end the housing racket’ and to demand access to affordable housingTens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Spain in the latest protest against housing speculation and to demand access to affordable homes.Organisers claim that up to 150,000 joined the protest in Madrid while smaller demonstrations were held in about 40 cities across the country. Protesters from Málaga on the Costa del Sol
  
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• Jaguar Land Rover pauses shipments to US as Trump says impact of tariffs ‘won’t be easy’ – as it happened

  05-04-2025 20:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Trump’s baseline 10% tariff on all imports from many countries has begun, with higher levies on 57 trading partners to start next weekAmerica’s Brexit? Trump’s historic gamble on tariffs has been decades in the makingIsraeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to visit the White House on Monday to discuss recently announced tariffs with US president Donald Trump, three Israeli officials said on Saturday, according to Reuters.The impromptu visit was first reported by A
  
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• UN official reappointed despite accusations of antisemitism

  05-04-2025 19:31 via foxnews.com
  
  Controversial United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese has been reappointed to the position for another three-year term. Multiple countries and organizations have condemned Albanese over her history of antisemitic remarks. However, a committee tasked by the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) with reviewing complaints about Albanese was convinced by her "detailed explanations" that she was not an antisemite."We’re talking about one of the world's most blatant legitim
  
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• State-controlled Iranian newspaper calls for firing bullets into Trump’s ‘empty skull’

  05-04-2025 18:57 via foxnews.com
  
  The Islamist revolutionary newspaper that is widely considered the voice of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday stoked a targeted assassination of President Donald Trump.According to the Persian language article published in the mouthpiece Kayhan newspaper of Khamenei, "He’s way out of line! Any day now, in revenge for the blood of Martyr Soleimani, a few bullets are going to be fired into that empty skull of his and he’ll be drinking from the chalice of a cursed dea
  
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• ‘Skyrocketing’ demand for matcha raises fears of shortage in Japan

  05-04-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Fuelled by social media, a global boom is outstripping production of the powdered green teaThe appearance of the vivid-green powder elicits smiles and appreciative sounds, and anticipation among dozens of tea lovers. Their hand-milled batches now ready for whisking with hot water, they will soon be rewarded for their patience.The foreign tourists attending a matcha-making experience in Uji, near Kyoto in western Japan, are united in their love of the powdered, bitter form of green tea the Japane
  
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• Venezuelans with legal status are being illegally detained in the US, lawyers say

  05-04-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Temporary protected status lets people stay when it’s not safe for them to go home, but Ice is arresting them anywayVenezuelans with legal permission to live and work in the United States are being unlawfully arrested by federal authorities at their homes, in their cars, at regular immigration check-ins and on the streets, attorneys say.They are then stuck in immigration detention around the country, sometimes for weeks, despite the law explicitly banning the government from keeping them b
  
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• Phone footage appears to contradict Israeli account of killing of Gaza medics

  05-04-2025 15:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Israel says soldiers fired on ‘terrorists’ in ‘suspicious vehicles’ but footage shows clearly marked ambulancesMobile phone footage of the last moments of some of the 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers killed by Israeli forces in an incident in Gaza last month appears to contradict the version of events put forward by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).The almost seven-minute video, which the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said on Saturday was recovered from
  
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• Space probe to map carbon content of world’s remotest tropical forests

  05-04-2025 15:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Revolutionary scanner to be fired into Earth orbit this month to measure effects of deforestationScientists are about to take part in a revolutionary mission aimed at creating detailed 3D maps of the world’s remotest, densest and darkest tropical forests – from outer space. The feat will be achieved using a special radar scanner that has been fitted to a probe, named Biomass, that will be fired into the Earth’s orbit later this month.For the next five years, the 1.25-tonne spac
  
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• Eighteen people killed in Russian missile strike on Zelenskyy’s home city

  05-04-2025 14:45 via theguardian.com
  Missile attack on Kryvyi Rih left 61 injured including three-month-old baby and elderly residentsEighteen people, including nine children, have been killed in a Russian missile strike on Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s home city, a Ukrainian official has said.A further 61 people were injured in the attack on Kryvyi Rih on Friday, including a three-month-old baby and elderly residents, the regional governor, Serhii Lysak, said. Forty remain in hospital, including two children in critical condition an
  
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• ‘Shame’ on world leaders for neglect of displaced civilians in DRC, says aid chief

  05-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  US and Europe criticised by head of Norwegian Refugee Council for ‘neglect’ of people living ‘subhuman’ existenceWorld leaders should be ashamed of their neglect of people whose lives were “hanging by a thread” at a time of surging violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the international charity leader Jan Egeland has said.In a stinging attack on aid cuts and the “nationalistic winds” blowing across Europe and the US, the Norwegian
  
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• South Korea presidential ouster part of Chinese strategy to 'expand its regional influence,' expert says

  05-04-2025 12:00 via foxnews.com
  
  In a week that saw French right-wing leader Marine Le Pen banned from running for office, the South Korean Constitutional Court's ouster of President Yoon Suk Yeol from office on Friday has critics looking towards Beijing’s hand in efforts to remove the leader from power."Yoon’s foreign and security policies stand in stark contrast to the pro-China figures long supported and controlled by the [Chinese Communist Party (CCP)]," Anna Mahjar-Barducci, Middle East Media Research Institute
  
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• Amadou Bagayoko of music duo Amadou & Mariam dies aged 70

  05-04-2025 10:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Malian singer and guitarist, who sold millions of albums with his wife, Mariam Doumbia, had been ill for a while, say familyThe guitarist and singer Amadou Bagayoko of the Malian music duo Amadou & Mariam has died aged 70 after an illness, his family said, paying tribute to the Grammy-nominated blind musician.Amadou and his wife, Mariam Doumbia, formed a group whose blend of traditional Malian music with rock guitars and western blues sold millions of albums across the world. Continue readin
  
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• ‘What was their crime?’ Families tell of shock over IDF killing of Gaza paramedics

  05-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Relatives who waited agonising week before bodies were found speak of passion that drove Red Crescent workers• Our aid workers were brutally killed and thrown into a mass grave in Gaza. This must never happen againGaza is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a civilian now that Israeli forces have resumed their military campaign with even more ferocity, but for the first responders who rush towards the wreckage of bombed buildings, the risks are multiplied many times over.The
  
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• Port of Darwin operator says Albanese and Dutton are treating it like ‘a political football’ in election

  05-04-2025 07:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Labor and Coalition would both end Chinese company Landbridge’s long-term lease of strategically important assetPolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcast The Chinese company that controls the Port of Darwin has accused Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton of treating it like “a politic
  
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• Cameraman injured after football kick; PM visits flood-hit Queensland – as it happened

  05-04-2025 07:02 via theguardian.com
  
  This blog is now closedPort of Darwin operator says Albanese and Dutton are treating it like ‘a political football’Anywhere but Canberra: Australian voters on what matters to themInteractive guide to electorates in the Australian electionListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastPoll points to risks in key seats for LaborWe’ve made it to a week
  
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• Australia election news live: Dutton says Coalition would ‘move immediately’ on Port of Darwin; Albanese’s furlough scheme for flood-hit workers

  05-04-2025 01:49 via theguardian.com
  People in western Queensland left without work will get federal help, PM says; main parties both vow to reclaim strategic facility. Follow liveAnywhere but Canberra: Australian voters on what matters to themInteractive guide to electorates in the Australian electionListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet ourafternoon election email,free app ordaily news podcastWe’ve made it to a week into the election campaign. S
  
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• Is Anthony Albanese worried Jacinta Allan’s poor standing will hurt his election chances in Victoria?

  05-04-2025 01:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The PM has so far avoided the Victorian premier on his campaign trail. It has some state Labor MPs worrying she could be made a scapegoatElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignPolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastDuring the 2022 election campaign, Anthony Albanese wa
  
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• Jury orders Chevron to pay more than $744m for destroying Louisiana wetlands

  05-04-2025 00:50 via theguardian.com
  Verdict marks end of the first trial of 42 lawsuits filed about 12 years ago, alleging firm’s projects destroyed the regionsChevron has been ordered to pay more than $744m in damages for destroying parts of south-east Louisiana’s coastal wetlands over the years.The ruling, which came in the form of a civil jury verdict on Friday, marks the conclusion of the first trial among 42 lawsuits filed about 12 years earlier which alleged that the company’s oil and gas projects have led
  
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• Trump extends deadline for TikTok sale to non-Chinese buyer to avoid ban

  05-04-2025 00:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Deadline set by US president was supposed to be Saturday, with Trump now considering decreasing tariffs to get dealDonald Trump said he will sign an executive order to extend the TikTok ban deadline. This is the second time the president will have delayed the ban or sale of the social media app, and will punt the deadline to 75 days from now.The TikTok deal “requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed”, Trump announced on his Truth Social platform on Friday. Conti
  
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• Los Angeles agrees to $4bn deal to settle thousands of sexual abuse claims

  05-04-2025 00:20 via theguardian.com
  County’s offer – largest of its kind – would settle lawsuits filed over alleged abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959Los Angeles county has reached a $4bn agreement to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959, officials said Friday.The agreement, which still needs approval from the Los Angeles county board of supervisors, would be the largest of its kind and have long-lasting financial effects for the county, officials said. Continue readin
  
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• Los Angeles agrees $4bn deal to settle thousands of sexual abuse claims

  05-04-2025 00:20 via theguardian.com
  County’s offer – largest of its kind – would settle lawsuits filed over alleged abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959Los Angeles county has reached a $4bn agreement to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959, officials said Friday.The agreement, which still needs approval from the Los Angeles county board of supervisors, would be the largest of its kind and have long-lasting financial effects for the county, officials said. Continue readin
  
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• Anti-abortion campaigner convicted of breaching buffer zone outside UK clinic

  05-04-2025 00:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Livia Tossici-Bolt given conditional discharge and ordered to pay £20,000 costs in case that drew US state department concernAn activist whose case had been cited by the US state department over “freedom of expression” concerns in the UK has been convicted of breaching a buffer zone outside an abortion clinic.Livia Tossici-Bolt, an anti-abortion campaigner, went on trial at Poole magistrates court last month accused of breaching a public spaces protection order on two days in M
  
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