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Follow today’s news headlines liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastWeather update for Victoria and New South Wales: rain, floods, gusts and snowAngus Hines, a senior meteorologist from the Bureau of Meteorology, spoke with ABC News Breakfast earlier to provide an update on the rainfall across Victoria.That has given us minor to moderate flood warnings including in parts of the Yarra River this morning, as all of the rain from last night and yesterday evening drains out through the river network and out towards the ocean.Take actions to protect your life and property against potential hazards caused by flooding. Continue reading…

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Author : Nino Bucci (now) and Emily Wind (earlier)

Publish date : 2024-07-16 07:55:00

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Ri Il-kyu was responsible for political affairs at Pyongyang’s embassy in Cuba, the Chosun Ilbo daily has reportedA senior North Korean diplomat based in Cuba defected to South Korea in November, a South Korean newspaper has reported, becoming the highest-ranking North Korean diplomat to escape to the South since 2016.Before fleeing to the South, Ri Il-kyu, 52, was responsible for political affairs at the North Korean embassy in Cuba, the Chosun Ilbo said on Tuesday citing an interview with Ri. Continue reading…

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Publish date : 2024-07-16 04:36:24

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Elizabeth Warren calls Vance faux populist while party says he will ‘take women back decades’ on abortionRepublican national convention – live updatesDemocrats were quick to seize on Donald Trump’s decision to name as his running mate JD Vance, the hard-right Ohio senator whose past opposition to the former president and Republican nominee included calling him “America’s Hitler” but who now supports Trump with fiery populist rhetoric.A Democratic party statement said: “Vance is an ultra-Maga extremist who’s ready to help Trump pass his Project 2025 agenda. Stop Trump-Vance. Vote Biden-Harris.” Continue reading…

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Author : Martin Pengelly and Lauren Gambino in Washington

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The Republican party will gather in Milwaukee to officially nominate Trump as its candidate – but there’s plenty else to watch out forUS politics – live updatesThe Republican national convention begins on Monday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with Donald Trump expected to be officially nominated as the Republican party’s candidate for president during the four-day event.It marks a key point in the election calendar. The closely watched convention is a chance for Trump and Republicans to lay out their vision for the US, less than four months from November’s presidential election. Continue reading…

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Author : Adam Gabbatt in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Publish date : 2024-07-15 22:02:08

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TV attack ads and $50m advertising blitz are suspended as US president pleas to ‘lower the temperature in our politics’Trump rally shooting: what we know about the suspected gunmanThe failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump has thrown the Democrats’ presidential campaign into suspension, as they suspended attack ads, refrained from criticism of Trump – and may have halted the drive to depose Joe Biden as the party’s candidate.A campaign that was already in disarray amid uncertainty over the US president’s fate, prompted by last month’s debate fiasco, was plunged into further confusion after the shooting. Having been set on relentlessly attacking the presumptive Republican nominee, Democrats drastically changed tack, stressing the need for national unity. Continue reading…

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Author : Robert Tait in Washington

Publish date : 2024-07-15 18:48:48

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Donald Trump says he sees his speech as a ‘chance to bring the whole country together’ in days since assassination attemptTrump touches down in Milwaukee as Republican national convention beginsPresident Joe Biden has postponed a planned trip to Texas today, where he was to speak on the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act at the Lyndon B Johnson presidential library.An NBC News interview between Biden and anchor Lester Holt will now occur at the White House, instead of in Texas, as initially planned, Associated Press reports.There is no place in America for this kind of violence or for any violence for that matter.An assassination attempt is contrary to everything we stand for as a nation. Everything. It’s not who we are as a nation. It’s not America, and we cannot allow this to happen. Continue reading…

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Author : Léonie Chao-Fong (now) and Martin Belam (earlier)

Publish date : 2024-07-15 15:23:47

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Shadow foreign secretary says Conservatives should hold the leadership election after the party conferenceKeir Starmer faces a possible test to his authority in the Commons next week after the SNP said that it would table an amendment to the king’s speech saying the two-child benefit cap should be abolished.In a letter to the Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, the SNP’s leader at Westminster, Stephen Flynn, said that “the moment Keir Starmer stepped into Downing Street, the Tory two-child cap became the Labour party two-child cap”.The two-child cap is pushing thousands of Scottish children into poverty – and scrapping it is the bare minimum the Labour party government must do if it is serious about tackling poverty.I urge Keir Starmer to include it in his programme for government this week but, if he fails, the SNP will lay an amendment to abolish it immediately. It is shameful and it must go now.It will be a top priority for me, so I think you can read into that that there’ll be early action from this government.I’m very keen that it becomes an issue that we take party politics out of and that we get behind the fans, we get behind grassroots football, and we get behind kids in this country who deserve the right standards. Continue reading…

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Author : Andrew Sparrow

Publish date : 2024-07-15 12:02:48

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Incumbent since 2000 is seeking fourth seven-year term after winning more than 90% of votes in last three ballotsPeople in Rwanda are going to the polls for elections in which Paul Kagame is widely expected to extend his rule of the central African country.This is the fourth presidential ballot since more than 800,000 people, mostly members of the Tutsi ethnic minority, were killed in a genocide in the country 30 years ago. Continue reading…

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Author : Carlos Mureithi East Africa correspondent and Ignatius Ssuuna in Kigali

Publish date : 2024-07-15 08:34:01

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David William Wonnocott, 50, caused Higgins and her partner David Sharaz to feel “fearful of their safety”A man facing jail for making death threats to Brittany Higgins, her partner and their dog has been successfully treated for his mental conditions, but his lawyers still want him to see a psychiatrist.David William Wonnocott, 50, has been charged with using a carriage service to menace and threaten to kill.Information and support for anyone affected by rape or sexual abuse issues is available from the following organisations. In Australia, support is available at 1800Respect (1800 737 732). In the UK, Rape Crisis offers support on 0808 500 2222. In the US, Rainn offers support on 800-656-4673. Other international helplines can be found at ibiblio.org/rcip/internl.html Continue reading…

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Publish date : 2024-07-15 05:34:28

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Construction union makes decision amid reports alleging links between projects and organised crime. Follow today’s news headlines liveTreasurer Jim Chalmers has warned about what he calls the “normalisation of extremism” in politics in the wake of the attempted assassination of former United States president Donald Trump at the weekend.In a round of television and radio interviews this morning to spruik the tax cuts now being delivered in Australians’ tax returns, Chalmers also spoke about the Trump rally in Pennsylvania that injured the former president and left one attendee dead and two others critically injured before the alleged shooter was shot and killed.We need to be able to disagree in a peaceful way.We can’t let extremism and polarisation and violence be the norm in our politics. Democracies are supposed to help mend and moderate our differences, not magnify and horrify them. And unfortunately, what we’re seeing with what feels like increasing regularity, is the ugliness and the polarisation and extremism in politics.There is a role obviously for peaceful protests and looking for consensus in our country doesn’t always mean looking for unanimity – there will always be a range of views. But I think if you look around the world and you look around the democratic world, then you can see that politics is getting uglier, more violent, more polarised in extreme ways, and these are very troubling developments.We’ve got a big choice to make as democratic societies, we’ve got an opportunity here to step back from the normalisation of that violence, to make sure that we disagree in civil ways and not in violent ways, and that we settle our difference with votes not violence. Continue reading…

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Author : Emily Wind

Publish date : 2024-07-15 02:18:56

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Lawmakers express shock at apparent security lapses, while Mike Johnson says House will conduct ‘full investigation’Trump rally shooting – latest updatesWhat we know so farDemands for answers were mounting on Sunday as to how an armed man was able to get into position on a roof overlooking a rally and fire shots at Donald Trump – the 2024 presumptive Republican nominee – despite federal and local law enforcement presence and witnesses reportedly alerting police.National lawmakers expressed shock at the apparent security lapses. Mike Johnson, the speaker of the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, said the chamber would conduct a “full investigation”. Continue reading…

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Author : Ramon Antonio Vargas and Joanna Walters

Publish date : 2024-07-14 21:45:09

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Houchen says party must avoid seeming self-indulgent as other Conservatives attack Liz Truss over new interventionThe Conservatives should not have a protracted leadership debate as it would be a “waste of time” and could risk appearing self-indulgent, the Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen has said.His comments came as former Conservative parliamentary candidates rounded on the former prime minister Liz Truss, who has attacked the leadership of Rishi Sunak in the failed general election campaign by saying he had trashed her legacy in office. Continue reading…

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Author : Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor

Publish date : 2024-07-14 19:29:31

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The 20-year-old from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, was a registered Republican who donated to a progressive PACThe early portrait that has emerged of the 20-year-old Pennsylvania man who authorities say tried to assassinate Donald Trump at a campaign rally in the state Saturday before secret service agents shot him to death is a complicated and so far sparse one.Thomas Matthew Crooks resided in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white, generally affluent suburb of Pittsburgh. Public records show he shared a home with parents who were licensed behavioral care counselors. Those same records contain no mention of any criminal or traffic citations – as well as any financial problems such as foreclosures. Continue reading…

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Author : Ramon Antonio Vargas

Publish date : 2024-07-14 16:32:15

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Spectator and suspect, named as Thomas Matthew Crooks, killed in shooting at Pennsylvania rallyTrump shooting: as it happenedShooter named as Thomas Matthew CrooksWhat we know so farKremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has been speaking to reporters about the Trump rally shooting.He said:We do not believe that the attempt to eliminate and assassinate Trump was organised by the current authorities.But the atmosphere around candidate Trump … provoked what America is confronting today. Continue reading…

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Author : Yohannes Lowe

Publish date : 2024-07-14 13:03:30

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More fans are embracing ‘nolo’ booze and canned ‘mocktails’ while watching the game to be sure of a clear head the next dayFor some England fans it would be unthinkable to watch the Euro 2024 final without a beer in hand, but with the prospect of work in the morning, many will be dodging a hangover by switching to alcohol-free booze.Retailers have seen huge sales of no- or low-alcohol (nolo) beer, cider, wine and canned “mocktails” in the past few days, as hosts get ready for Sunday night’s viewing parties. Continue reading…

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Author : Zoe Wood Consumer affairs correspondent

Publish date : 2024-07-14 09:00:43

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Suspected shooter and one rally attendee dead, says Butler county district attorney – here’s what else we know about the situationTrump rally shooting – latest updatesTrump rally shooting being investigated as attempt on his life as spectator killedA shooting occurred at a Donald Trump rally on Saturday, followed by the former president being rushed off the stage with blood around his ear. Here’s what we know about the situation so far.Trump was speaking at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when loud noises were heard in the crowd around 6.13pm.Trump appeared to have been struck by something in the area of his right ear as he was speaking, and videos show him quickly clutching his ear and then ducking down to the ground, as security agents and others leap to his aid.One spectator was killed and at least two were injured.Trump stood up with blood on the side of his face and appeared to be saying “fight, fight” while pumping his fist.Trump was then quickly escorted from the stage and into his vehicle.The rally location is now an active crime scene. The FBI has taken over the investigation.Trump’s team and the Secret Service confirmed that he was “fine” and being checked at a local medical facility.Trump later posted a statement on Truth Social, saying he was hit by a “bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear”. There are also reports that the former president was hit by shards of glass.The Butler county district attorney confirmed that the suspected shooter and one rally attendee were dead. One person at the rally was in serious condition. The Secret Service later said two people were critically injured.The shooting is being investigated as an attempted assassination.The Secret Service shared more details on the shooter’s position and confirmed that the shooter was killed by the Secret Service. ABC News reported that law enforcement officials the suspect was perched on a rooftop and used an AR-style rifle.The president, Joe Biden, said “everybody must condemn political violence” in a speech shortly after the shooting. The White House later said the president and Trump had spoken. Biden is traveling back to the White House. Continue reading…

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Publish date : 2024-07-14 05:18:45

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Ex-president says bullet hit ear amid earlier reports he was hit by glass fragments; president says he hopes to speak to Trump soonFull report: Trump ‘safe’ after gunshots fired at rally‘There was clearly blood’: eyewitnessWhat we know so farPennsylvania’s Democratic governor Josh Shapiro rejected political violence in a statement posted on X following the apparent shooting of Donald Trump at a rally in his state today:Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung tells me in a statement that the former president is being assessed at a local medial facility: Continue reading…

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Author : Chris Stein (now) and Fran Lawther (earlier)

Publish date : 2024-07-14 03:12:36

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Boy, 17, faces charges including assault, threats to kill and threatening with bladed weapon A 17-year-old boy has been charged with multiple offences after an attack involving a bladed weapon at a Sikh place of worship in Kent, police said.Kent police were called to the Sri Guru Nanak Darbar gurdwara in Gravesend at 8.10pm on Thursday to reports of a disturbance inside the premises and two women being assaulted outside. Continue reading…

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Author : Nadeem Badshah

Publish date : 2024-07-13 23:44:47

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Senator hails ‘most effective president in modern history’ and says Biden is strongest bet to beat ‘demagogue’ TrumpBernie Sanders has offered his backing to Joe Biden, dismissing calls for the man he described as the “most effective president in the modern history of our country” to stand down in the upcoming US presidential election.Sanders, the totemic progressive US senator, used an opinion piece in the New York Times to endorse Biden, who has come under increasing fire from fellow Democrats over his ability to beat Donald Trump following a disastrous televised debate between the two. Continue reading…

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Author : Oliver Milman

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Experts say the next head of the Office for Students must oversee a programme that will protect higher educationThe new head of the Office for Students (OfS) will have to oversee rescue plans to avoid a “domino effect” with a number of universities going under, experts have warned.The new government’s Department for Education (DfE) announced on Tuesday that it had accepted the resignation of the OfS’s controversial chair, James Wharton, a former Tory MP who ran Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign. Lord Wharton, who was given the job of running the independent regulator in 2021 despite having no experience of higher education, did not give up the Tory whip in the Lords and was widely criticised for being too close to the Conservative government. Continue reading…

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Author : Anna Fazackerley

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Catherine to make second public appearance since cancer diagnosis, at final on Sunday between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak DjokovicThe Princess of Wales will award the Wimbledon men’s trophy to the winner of the final on Sunday, in a rare public appearance since her cancer diagnosis.It will be the second time she has appeared in public after undergoing abdominal surgery in January, which led to the discovery of the cancer and the beginning of chemotherapy treatment in late February. Last month, she attended the trooping the colour ceremony for King Charles’s official birthday before which she released a statement saying she was “making good progress” but was “not out of the woods yet”. Continue reading…

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António Guterres’ comments come as head of UN Palestinian refugee agency Unrwa says it has funds to continue Gaza emergency operations until SeptemberSee all our Israel-Gaza war coverageArgentina designated Hamas a terrorist organisation on Friday and ordered a freeze on the financial assets of the group, a largely symbolic move as president Javier Milei seeks to align Argentina strongly with the US and Israel, reports the Associated Press (AP).

Announcing the decision, Milei’s office cited Hamas’s cross-border attack on Israel last 7 October that killed 1,200 people and took 250 others hostage. The statement also mentioned Hamas’s close ties to Iran, which Argentina blames for two deadly militant attacks on Jewish sites in the country.

The AP reports that the move comes just days before the 30th anniversary of one of those attacks: the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. It killed 85 people and injured hundreds more in the worst such attack in Argentina’s modern history.

The other attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, in 1992, killed more than 20 people. Argentina’s judiciary has accused members of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group of carrying out the two attacks.

Friday’s announcement professed Milei’s “unwavering commitment to recognising terrorists for what they are,” adding that “it’s the first time that there is a political will to do so.”
The US, EU and several other countries long put a terrorist designation on Hamas, which ruled the Gaza Strip before its current war with Israel.

According to the AP, previous left-leaning Peronist governments in Argentina, home to the largest Jewish community in Latin America, have maintained friendly ties with Israel but also voiced support for Palestinian statehood.

Since coming into office in December, Milei has set himself apart from even Israel’s closest allies in his vocal support for prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Continue reading…

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Author : Amy Sedghi

Publish date : 2024-07-13 10:37:31

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FA has supplied Oura health trackers popularised by stars including Prince Harry to Gareth Southgate and teamAdored by royalty and celebrities across the globe, the a £300 smart ring has found itself centre stage at the Euros, adorning the fingers of England players and staff, who are hopeful it can give them the edge over Spain on Sunday.Bought in bulk in March by the FA – and previously described as “addictive” by defender John Stones – the hi-tech piece of titanium monitors the players’ heart rate, sleep and stress levels, calculating their readiness to train and seize victory on the pitch. Continue reading…

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Author : Samuel Gibbs Consumer technology editor

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BoM says most severe impacts expected on Sunday and Monday, with warnings of flash flooding in TasmaniaGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAn intensifying low pressure system off Australia’s south-east is bringing frigid temperatures to large parts of the country’s south and a chance of snow as far as northern New South Wales.The Bureau of Meteorology (Bom) was carefully monitoring the system on Saturday, which was expected to move from the NSW coast towards Tasmania, intensifying as it goes.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading…

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Crime scene in place in west London’s Shepherd’s Bush as hunt for another suspect continuesHuman remains at a house in west London as police investigated the discovery of the body parts of two men in a pair of suitcases near the Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol, Scotland Yard has said.A Met police statement said: “While searching a flat in Scotts Road, W12 on Friday, 12 July, officers found human remains which are in the process of being sensitively removed. Additional postmortem examinations will be arranged as soon as possible. Continue reading…

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Author : Jamie Grierson

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