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A large, festive reception for the Indian prime minister in Melbourne belied tensions over migration in the country.
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Edmund Rice Education Australia does not consent to being made a defendant, in case that has ‘high court written all over it’, Victorian judge hearsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe entity that benefited from vast land and property transfers from the Christian Brothers will fight a move by abuse survivors to make it liable for compensation claims, triggering a potentially costly battle that has “high court written
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SK hynix, a supplier of advanced memory chips, has seen profits skyrocket thanks to the global race to build AI datacentresSouth Korean chip maker SK hynix set pricing for its mega US listing on Friday, aiming to raise $26.5bn as it takes advantage of the AI boom in what will be one of the world’s biggest ever stock sales.The Asian semiconductor giant plans to issue the equivalent of about 18m shares on Wall Street’s tech-heavy Nasdaq index later in the day. Continue reading...
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Gigs by Gallagher brothers, Coldplay, Lana Del Rey and Beyonce gives £11bn boost to the economyBig name artists including Oasis with their highly anticipated reunion tour, Coldplay and Beyoncé helped to attract a record number of fans to travel to watch live music last year, helped by a surge in overseas visitors at UK gigs.A report from the industry body UK Music estimated that 24.7 million “music tourists” attended concerts and festivals last year, up 4.8% on 2024, leading to an unprecedented
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Exclusive: Plan to improve skills of thousands of financial sector workers to keep pace with tech revolutionChancellor Rachel Reeves is to announce a new City “skills compact” that will commit firms such as Barclays and Lloyds to retraining thousands of financial sector workers for the AI revolution.The financial services skills compact will be launched on Tuesday, during what is likely to be Reeves’s final Mansion House speech to City bosses before Andy Burnham’s expected takeover of No 10. The
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The latest escalation of hostilities over the Strait of Hormuz is empowering Iranian hard-liners
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The young elephant seal has gained fans around the world. But the authorities warn he could be in danger of being loved to death.
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National Audit Office says system needs to be upgraded before it is extended to ease strain on overcrowded prisonsThe rapid expansion of electronic tagging to reduce pressure on prisons will put public safety at risk without robust improvements to a system already under significant strain, the UK’s public spending watchdog has warned.The number of people in England and Wales being electronically monitored has doubled to 28,700 over five years, and is estimated to rise to 22,000 tagged each year
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Military intelligence officer admits witnessing killing of woman believed to have left explosive device outside oligarch’s homeThe case of a suspected bomber accused of targeting a Ukrainian oligarch has taken another murky turn, after details of her subsequent murder were revealed in court with evidence suggesting the involvement of Kyiv’s intelligence agencies.French police last week named Anastasia Berezovska as the person captured on CCTV leaving a rucksack outside a Monaco apartment block.
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Media figure and former senator died overnight at home, with radio station 3AW leading tributesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastDerryn Hinch, the former journalist and senator, has died aged 82.Hinch had reportedly been in poor health since a recent fall. Continue reading...
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Albanese attended the Indigenous cultural festival every year since 2019 and committed to ‘be here and engaged with you’ while he remains in officeAnthony Albanese won’t attend this month’s Garma Festival, breaking a commitment made just 12 months ago to travel to northeast Arnhem Land each year for Australia’s largest Indigenous cultural gathering.The prime minister last year vowed to keep attending the annual celebration of Yolŋu culture so long as he was in the role. Continue reading...
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Dead greater crested tern – a common coastal bird – tests positive for disease after being discovered at Robe on SA’s Limestone CoastFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe first case of deadly H5 bird flu in local wildlife has been recorded in a bird found on the South Australian coast.The federal agriculture minister, Julie Collins, said on Friday that a greater crested tern – a common coastal bird – had tested positi
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Vicki Brady grilled at first public appearance since returning from overseas as SA police say call to triple zero failed before deathFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTelstra has admitted it knew of the dangers of a failure of its time systems and is now investigating why backup measures failed to stop this weeks outage, as its chief executive says she’s “deeply sorry” about its impacts.It came as South Australian pol
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Six people were injured in the blaze in Los Gallardos in the province of Almería.
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Satellite imagery reveals upgrades to at least nine of the North Korean dictator’s luxury compounds.
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Agents seeking different person when they killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Mexican who had lived in US for 35 yearsLorenzo Salgado Araujo, a man killed by federal immigration agents during a traffic stop in Houston this week, was not the intended target of the “enforcement operation”, the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday.Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were reportedly seeking two people from Guatemala when they attempted to stop Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant who ha
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The shares are set to start trading on the Nasdaq on Friday in what will be the largest ever debut by a foreign firm.
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Wildfire comes as Spain suffers a heatwave, with scorching temperatures triggering orange weather warningsTwelve people were reported killed in a wildfire in Almeria in southern Spain, as about 150 firefighters battled the blaze which broke out amid soaring temperatures.“The number of people who died in the fire in Los Gallardos has risen to 12 after the confirmation of six more deaths,” the regional government of Andalusia said in a statement. Continue reading...
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Bipartisan Election Assistance Commission maintains mail-voter registration form, among other dutiesDonald Trump has terminated the remaining members of the independent, federal commission that assists election administration officials nationwide just a few months before the midterm elections, multiple outlets reported Thursday.The remaining three commissioners of the four-member bipartisan commission were forced out on Thursday in different ways. The one Republican appointee resigned and the o
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The administration appears to be reverting to an all-stick, no-carrot approach. But it has yet to answer why it believes economic warfare and bombing will yield a different result this time.