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• US supreme court orders temporary halt to deportations of Venezuelan men

  19-04-2025 08:13 via theguardian.com
  
  The order is the latest example of how the courts are challenging the Trump administration’s overhaul of the immigration systemThe US supreme court has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily halt the deportation of Venezuelan men in immigration custody, after their lawyers said they were at imminent risk of removal without the judicial review previously mandated by the justices.“The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the U
  
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• Man who tackled alleged Bondi gunman ‘couldn’t bear to see people dying’, cousin says

  15-12-2025 09:09 via theguardian.com
  Family of Ahmed al-Ahmed say he ‘doesn’t discriminate’ and would have done anything to save lives during the attackVictims named so farWhat we know about the Bondi terror attackWhen Ahmed al-Ahmed tackled and wrested a gun from an alleged shooter at Bondi beach, he was simply thinking that he “couldn’t bear to see people dying”, his cousin says.Less than a day later, al-Ahmed remains in a critical but stable condition at St George hospital in Sydney. Since the
  
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• Bondi beach shooting live updates: national cabinet vows ‘strong, decisive and focused’ action on gun laws; mourners leave floral tributes at site of attack

  15-12-2025 09:07 via theguardian.com
  Follow liveFull reportVictims named so farWhat we know about the terrorist attackAmid the horror of the shooting, one video has emerged showing incredible bravery – a bystander rushing one of the gunmen from behind to wrestle the firearm off him.Praised a hero, he is being identified by some media as a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire. Continue reading...
  
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• Cliff Richard reveals year-long prostate cancer treatment and backs screening call

  15-12-2025 09:01 via theguardian.com
  Singer, 85, says disease has ‘gone at the moment’ and hopes to join forces with King Charles to raise awarenessCliff Richard has revealed he has been treated for prostate cancer for the past year. The 85-year-old singer said his cancer had “gone at the moment” and backed calls for a national screening test for men.In an interview with Good Morning Britain, he said: “I don’t know whether it’s going to come back. We can’t tell those sort of things bu
  
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• Holocaust survivor, London-born rabbi and 10-year-old girl among victims of Bondi beach terror attack

  15-12-2025 08:18 via theguardian.com
  At least 16 people including one of the alleged gunmen died at the shooting in Sydney on Sunday, aged between 10 and 87Follow the latest live updates on the Bondi beach shootingBondi terror attack: full reportWhat we know so far about the Bondi terror attackAt least 16 people were killed and more than 40 wounded when gunmen fired on a Hanukah celebration in Bondi beach, which Australian police and officials are describing as a terrorist attack.In the latest update on Monday morning, the New Sout
  
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• Call for system that frees rape suspects as alternative to bail to be scrapped in England and Wales

  15-12-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  ‘Released under investigation’ leads to uncertainty and distress for both victim and accused, say campaignersHundreds of suspected rapists in England and Wales are spending years released under investigation, under a system that the government has been urged to scrap as it “doesn’t serve anyone’s interests apart from the police”.Introduced under the Policing & Crime Act 2017, released under investigation (RUI) allows police an alternative to bail, without
  
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• Jimmy Lai: conviction of Hong Kong pro-democracy figure decried as attack on press freedom

  15-12-2025 07:57 via theguardian.com
  Rights groups dismiss ‘sham conviction’ of media tycoon on national security offences in city’s most closely watched rulings in decadesThe rise and fall of Jimmy Lai, whose trajectory mirrored that of Hong Kong itselfJimmy Lai, the Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon, is facing life in prison after being found guilty of national security and sedition offences, in one of the most closely watched rulings since the city’s return to Chinese rule in 1997.Soon after the ruling
  
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• Monday briefing: The latest on the deadly attack on Bondi beach’s Jewish community

  15-12-2025 07:51 via theguardian.com
  In today’s newsletter: On Sunday evening local time, two gunmen opened fire on a gathering at Sydney’s famous beach – here’s what we know so farGood morning. As you receive this email it is Monday evening in Sydney, where the Jewish community, the city and the country are grappling with grief after the deadliest terrorist attack in Australia in modern times.On Sunday evening, at least 15 people, including one child, were killed after two men, said by police to be a father
  
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• Hollywood reacts in shock to death of Rob Reiner: ‘One of the greatest filmmakers to ever live’

  15-12-2025 07:16 via theguardian.com
  Actors, directors and politicians voice their sadness after bodies of Reiner and wife Michele Singer Reiner were found by authoritiesNews: Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner found dead at home in apparent homicideGallery: Rob Reiner – a life in pictures
  Hollywood is in shock after the sudden death of director and actor Rob Reiner, who has been found dead in an apparent homicide at his Los Angeles home with his wife, Michele Singer Reiner.Reiner’s peers paid tribute after reports be
  
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• Young people bearing brunt of UK jobs downturn, thinktank warns

  15-12-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Resolution Foundation report comes in week when data is expected to show October unemployment riseYoung people are bearing the brunt of Britain’s jobs downturn, according to a report, before official figures this week that are expected to show the UK unemployment rate rising to 5.1%.The Resolution Foundation thinktank said a “jobs deficit” was pushing a growing number of graduates and non-graduates into unemployment as employers reduced hiring. Continue reading...
  
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• Tabletop tomatoes and drought-resistant roses tipped as 2026’s top garden trends

  15-12-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  RHS predicts big shift in gardening habits as green-fingered Britons adapt to climate breakdownBouquets of cut flowers will be swapped for tabletop vegetable plants next year, the Royal Horticultural Society has said, as the UK charity announces its top plant trend predictions for 2026.Mini-planters of aubergines, chillies, peppers and tomatoes will be displayed in homes instead of flowers, as breeders develop dwarf varieties that are decorative and capable of supplementing the weekly shop, the
  
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• Bondi beach terror attack: father and son duo allegedly used licensed firearms in shooting

  15-12-2025 06:36 via theguardian.com
  Naveed Akram previously known to security agencies, prime minister says. His gun-owning father, Sajid, was shot dead by police at the sceneFollow the latest live updates on the Bondi beach shootingVictims named so farWhat we know so far about the Bondi terror attackThe alleged gunmen behind the Bondi beach attack are a father-son duo suspected of using legally obtained firearms to commit the massacre, according to police.Naveed Akram, 24, was arrested at the scene and taken to a Sydney hospital
  
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• Brown University shooting: authorities releasing sole person of interest

  15-12-2025 06:31 via theguardian.com
  At least two people were killed and nine others injured in Saturday attack that occurred in engineering building on Providence, Rhode Island campusA person of interest detained after a mass shooting at Brown University that killed two students and injured nine is being released after the investigation took law enforcement authorities in a “different direction,” officials said Sunday night.The disclosure, made at a hastily convened late night news conference, represents a stunning tur
  
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• Hong Kong media tycoon convicted – as it happened

  15-12-2025 06:29 via theguardian.com
  This blog is now closedJimmy Lai verdict: Hong Kong pro-democracy figure convicted of national security offencesThe rise and fall of Jimmy Lai, whose trajectory mirrored that of Hong Kong itselfThe three high court judges have entered the courtroom and taken their seats.The hearing is due to begin and Lai has entered the court, news reports are saying, adding that he waved to his family. Continue reading...
  
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• Troubled Louvre museum in Paris faces disruption as unions call strike

  15-12-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Weeks after jewel heist, world’s most visited museum in dispute over staffing, renovations and ticket price risesTrade unions at the crisis-hit Louvre museum in Paris will begin a strike on Monday to demand urgent renovations and staffing increases, and to protest against a rise in ticket prices for most non-EU visitors, including British and American tourists.The world’s most-visited museum – which has had a difficult few months after a jewel heist, a damaging water leak and s
  
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• People pulling own teeth due to lack of urgent NHS dental care in England, watchdog finds

  15-12-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Emergency help should be available, but some being forced to travel 100 miles or go private, says Healthwatch EnglandPeople needing emergency dental care in England are being denied help from the NHS despite guidance saying that it should be available, in some cases resorting to risky self-treatment such as pulling out their own teeth, the patient watchdog has found.Patients who experience a sudden dental crisis such as a broken tooth, abscess or severe tooth pain are meant to be able to get hel
  
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• Assad family live in Russian luxury as Bashar ‘brushes up on ophthalmology’

  15-12-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Family friend, sources in Russia and Syria, and leaked data help give rare insight into life of dictator’s reclusive householdIn 2011, a group of teenage boys spray-painted a warning on to a wall in their school playground: “It’s your turn, Doctor.” The graffiti was a thinly veiled threat that Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, a London-trained ophthalmologist, would be next in the line of Arab dictators toppled by the then raging Arab spring.It took 14 years, duri
  
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• Director and actor Rob Reiner found dead at home with wife Michele Singer Reiner

  15-12-2025 05:48 via theguardian.com
  Authorities investigating ‘apparent homicide’ after 78-year-old director of Stand By Me and The Princess Bride was discovered dead at LA home with wifeHollywood in shock: ‘One of the greatest filmmakers to ever live’Gallery: Rob Reiner – a life in picturesInterview: Rob Reiner on Trump, family – and his brilliant, beloved movieRob Reiner, the director of beloved films including When Harry Met Sally, Misery, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride and This is Spinal Ta
  
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• ‘The frontline is everywhere’: new MI6 head to warn of growing Russian threat

  15-12-2025 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Blaise Metreweli expected to say UK faces new ‘age of uncertainty’ in speech identifying Kremlin as key threatAssassination plots, sabotage, cyber-attacks and the manipulation of information by Russia and other hostile states mean that “the frontline is everywhere”, the new head of MI6 will warn on Monday.Blaise Metreweli, giving her first speech in the job, is expected to say the UK faces a new “age of uncertainty” where the rules of conflict are being rewrit
  
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• Ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast elected Chile’s next president

  15-12-2025 00:40 via theguardian.com
  The son of a Nazi party member and an admirer of Pinochet, Kast built his campaign on a promise to expel tens of thousands of undocumented migrantsThe ultra-conservative former congressman José Antonio Kast has been elected as Chile’s next president.With more than 99% of polling stations counted, Kast took 58.16% of the vote, against 41.84% for the leftist Jeannette Jara, a former labour minister under the current president, Gabriel Boric. Continue reading...
  
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• How an Oklahoma student's gender essay became a national culture war fight

  15-12-2025 00:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  Ryan Walters had a suggestion for the University of Oklahoma student who emailed him for help over a bad grade.“Fight back.”The student, Samantha Fulnecky, a junior on a pre-med track, recently got a 0 on her essay that leaned on her Christian beliefs for an assignment on gender stereotypes in her psychology class. The instructor told her in a Nov. 16 message that her essay was offensive and lacked evidence.
  
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• Trump says building DC triumphal arch is domestic policy chief’s ‘primary thing’

  14-12-2025 23:46 via theguardian.com
  Trump praises Vince Haley, his ex-speechwriter tasked with creating Arc de Triomphe knockoff amid affordability crisisAmid concerns that he has failed to address a worsening affordability crisis, with health insurance premiums about to spike dramatically for over 20 million Americans, Donald Trump revealed on Sunday that his domestic policy chief’s main priority is building a triumphal arch for Washington DC.Speaking at a White House holiday party, the president praised Vince Haley, his fo
  
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• Brown University students shelter in place during shooting

  14-12-2025 23:46 via nbcnews.com
  Brown University students shelter in place during shooting
  
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• Hong Kong court set to rule in Jimmy Lai's landmark national security trial

  14-12-2025 23:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Hong Kong court on Monday found prominent China critic and media mogul Jimmy Lai guilty of collusion and sedition, in a landmark verdict that epitomizes the tensions between the city’s judicial autonomy and Beijing’s political grip.
  
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• US immigration crackdown forces teens to caretake after parents are detained

  14-12-2025 23:21 via theguardian.com
  As federal agents target families, teens are left to care for siblings – from accessing bank accounts to medical recordsVilma Cruz, a mother of two, had just arrived at her newly leased Louisiana home when federal agents surrounded her vehicle in the driveway. She had just enough time to call her oldest son before they smashed the passenger window and detained her.The 38-year-old Honduran house painter was swept up in an immigration crackdown that has largely targeted Kenner, a New Orleans
  
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• Death toll in Bondi Beach shooting rises to 16

  14-12-2025 23:15 via nbcnews.com
  Death toll in Bondi Beach shooting rises to 16
  
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• The Chiefs will miss the playoffs for the first time in Patrick Mahomes' career

  14-12-2025 22:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  For the first time in his career as a starting quarterback, Patrick Mahomes will not only fail to reach the AFC Championship game — he won't even play in the postseason.
  
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• Ukraine willing to drop ambitions to join Nato, Zelenskyy says

  14-12-2025 22:36 via theguardian.com
  Move marks big shift for Ukraine, which has fought to join Nato as safeguard against Russian attacksVolodymyr Zelenskyy has offered to drop Ukraine’s aspirations to join the Nato military alliance, as he held five hours of talks with US envoys in Berlin on Sunday to end the war with Russia.Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff said “a lot of progress was made” as he and the US president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, met Zelenskyy in the latest push to end Europe
  
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• Suspects in Bondi Beach shooting identified as father and son

  14-12-2025 22:34 via nbcnews.com
  At least 15 people were killed in the attack at Bondi Beach and multiple remain injured. Officials identified suspects in the attack as father and son. According to Commissioner Mal Lanyon, police are not looking for additional shooters in connection with the attack.
  
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• MIKE DAVIS: Clinton-appointed judge once again sabotages DOJ's Comey case

  14-12-2025 22:17 via foxnews.com
  
  After more than eight years of Democrat lawfare against President Trump, his aides and his allies, the Justice Department under Attorney General Pam Bondi is bringing much-needed accountability — which is what American voters demanded in our last presidential election. But Democrat activist judges are doing what they do best: weaponization and sabotage.In South Carolina, Clinton-appointed Judge Cameron Currie — handpicked by a Biden-appointed judge — wrongly disqualified Easter
  
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