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- Gang warfare traps thousands in Haiti slum as fuel crisis add to desperation
- Australia v England: third rugby union Test – live!
- Three teens charged over alleged stabbing murder at Sydney’s Royal Easter Show in April
- AMA welcomes Albanese’s decision to extend pandemic leave payments after national cabinet meets
- Russia-Ukraine war: air raid sirens in Kyiv as Russia intensifies long-range bombardment – live
- ‘Travelling circus’: Starmer says Tory hopefuls have lost economic credibility
- Security tight as Sri Lankan MPs meet to elect new president amid first fuel arrival
- Tory leadership hopefuls ‘scratching each other’s eyes out’ in race to No 10, says Labour– UK politics live
- Londoners urged not to travel on Monday and Tuesday because of high temperatures
- Ex-tsar angry at neglect of pupils in England left behind in pandemic
- Edinburgh fringe unaffordable for many young performers, says Brian Cox
- Trump, battered by January 6 testimony, mulls 2024 run – and not all Republicans are happy
- Steve Bannon admitted Trump ‘would lie about anything’, new book says
- Anger as Manchin kills Democrats’ climate plans – what happens now?
- House January 6 panel subpoenas Secret Service for allegedly deleted text messages
| Gang warfare traps thousands in Haiti slum as fuel crisis add to desperation Posted: 15 Jul 2022 11:45 PM PDT Calls for aid to be let into Port-au-Prince district after 'battlefield' violence leaves dozens dead and cuts supplies of food and water Haiti's capital has been racked by a week of heavy fighting between gangs, with the global medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warning that thousands of people were trapped without food or water in one district of Port-au-Prince's notorious Cité Soleil slum. "We are calling on all belligerents to allow aid to enter Brooklyn and to spare civilians," said Mumuza Muhindo, the MSF's head of mission in Haiti, in a statement referring to the contested area within the sprawling Cité Soleil. Continue reading... |
| Australia v England: third rugby union Test – live! Posted: 16 Jul 2022 01:34 AM PDT
Hello everybody and welcome to live coverage of the third and final Test between Australia and England. Kick-off at the Sydney Cricket Ground is 7.55pm local time, which is 10.55am in the UK. At one-apiece in the series there's all to play for at the historic SCG, a beautiful arena, and one that has not hosted a rugby Test for 36 years, with England's tourists not making the pilgrimage since 1975. It promises to be a cracking atmosphere with every seat taken for the first rugby international in Sydney since 2020. Continue reading... |
| Three teens charged over alleged stabbing murder at Sydney’s Royal Easter Show in April Posted: 15 Jul 2022 11:21 PM PDT A 17-year-old was fatally stabbed following a violent brawl on 11 April
A 14-year-old is among three New South Wales teens charged with murder after a young man was fatally stabbed at Sydney's Royal Easter Show. Uati Faletolu, 17, died allegedly following a violent brawl on the evening of 11 April this year. Continue reading... |
| AMA welcomes Albanese’s decision to extend pandemic leave payments after national cabinet meets Posted: 15 Jul 2022 10:18 PM PDT Prime minister says support will continue until the end of September amid winter Covid wave set to peak in August
The Australian Medical Association has welcomed the federal government's backflip on emergency Covid payments, and says they should say in place as long as necessary. "They should never have been removed," president Omar Khorshid said. Continue reading... |
| Russia-Ukraine war: air raid sirens in Kyiv as Russia intensifies long-range bombardment – live Posted: 16 Jul 2022 01:35 AM PDT Three killed in missile attack on central city of Dnipro as eight die in string of shellings on 10 locations in Donetsk region Two people were killed in Nikopol on Saturday when heavy Russian shelling hit the southern Ukrainian town, the emergency services and regional governor said. Rescuers recovered the bodies of two people in the rubble, the emergency services said. The regional governor of Dnipropetrovsk, Valentyn Reznichenko, said that Russia fired 53 Grad rockets at the town, Reuters reports. We assess [that] an official Russian delegation recently received a showcase of Iranian attack-capable UAVs. We are releasing these images, captured in June, showing Iranian UAVs that the Russian government delegation saw that day. Continue reading... |
| ‘Travelling circus’: Starmer says Tory hopefuls have lost economic credibility Posted: 15 Jul 2022 10:00 PM PDT Exclusive: Labour leader, speaking after meeting German chancellor, condemns candidates' 'fanciful' spending plans Keir Starmer has dismissed the acrimonious Conservative leadership race as a "travelling circus", in which the candidates have demolished their party's economic credibility by promising billions of pounds of unfunded tax cuts. Speaking on a visit to Berlin where he held talks with the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, the Labour leader highlighted the "fanciful" spending pledges made by the five contenders battling it out to succeed Boris Johnson. Continue reading... |
| Security tight as Sri Lankan MPs meet to elect new president amid first fuel arrival Posted: 15 Jul 2022 11:33 PM PDT Legislators set to choose within a week after former president flees to Singapore to escape anti-government protests Sri Lanka's parliament began meeting on Saturday to begin the process of electing a new president, as a shipment of fuel arrived to provide some relief to the crisis-hit nation. The resignation of former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa was accepted by parliament on Friday, after he fled to Singapore via the Maldives to escape anti-government protesters who had occupied his official residence and offices. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 16 Jul 2022 01:39 AM PDT Sir Keir Starmer tells the Guardian the Conservative party no longer has any sense of what it stands for The Cabinet Office minister Kit Malthouse will chair a meeting of the government's Cobra civil contingencies committee to discuss the impending heatwave, a government spokesman has confirmed. It will be the second Cobra meeting Malthouse has led on the issue, with temperatures expected to reach as high as 40C in some parts of the UK early next week. Continue reading... |
| Londoners urged not to travel on Monday and Tuesday because of high temperatures Posted: 16 Jul 2022 12:39 AM PDT Transport for London advises passengers to travel only for essential journeys, with strong chance of record high temperatures An incoming extreme heatwave has triggered warnings in London against travelling on Monday and Tuesday. The high temperatures are expected to peak on Tuesday, with an 80% chance of the mercury topping the UK's record temperature of 38.7C (101.7F) set in Cambridge in 2019. Continue reading... |
| Ex-tsar angry at neglect of pupils in England left behind in pandemic Posted: 15 Jul 2022 11:00 PM PDT Sir Kevan Collins says recovery plan may end up little more than 'a few kids in the corner doing a bit of tutoring' The former education recovery commissioner, Sir Kevan Collins, has accused the government of burying its head in the sand over the loss of learning among children in England due to Covid, warning the problem will not just "go away". He expressed regret about lost opportunities after the government rejected his ambitious £15bn plan for recovery, including an extended school day for all, and warned that the flagship national tutoring programme (NTP) was in danger of becoming little more than "a few kids in the corner doing a bit of tutoring". Continue reading... |
| Edinburgh fringe unaffordable for many young performers, says Brian Cox Posted: 15 Jul 2022 10:00 PM PDT Succession star warns cost of rental accommodation is 'squeezing the lifeblood' out of festival The Succession star Brian Cox has warned the Edinburgh fringe risks "cutting off the lifeblood" of young talent at the festival if action is not taken to lower soaring accommodation costs for performers. The 76-year-old actor, who plays Logan Roy in the hit HBO show, said the festival, which starts on 5 August, is the only one like it in the world – and it is a "conduit for young talent". Continue reading... |
| Trump, battered by January 6 testimony, mulls 2024 run – and not all Republicans are happy Posted: 15 Jul 2022 11:00 PM PDT Republicans are odds-on to take back the House and Senate in November, and the last thing the party needs, experts say, is a Trump distraction On Thursday the Trump campaign sent out a begging-bowl email to hundreds of thousands of supporters, previewing the former president's rally in Arizona this weekend and teasing the recipients with a portent of momentous things to come. Donald Trump "wants to make sure it's one of his best rallies yet", his loyal followers were told. "He is preparing the speech that he will give in front of the American people." Continue reading... |
| Steve Bannon admitted Trump ‘would lie about anything’, new book says Posted: 15 Jul 2022 11:00 PM PDT Bannon, according to Jonathan Lemire's Big Lie, said Trump lies 'to win whatever exchange he [is] having at that moment' The former White House strategist Steve Bannon has publicly claimed Donald Trump does not lie. But according to a new book, Bannon told aides: "Trump would say anything, he would lie about anything." The former president lies "to win whatever exchange he [is] having at that moment", Bannon said. Continue reading... |
| Anger as Manchin kills Democrats’ climate plans – what happens now? Posted: 15 Jul 2022 11:00 PM PDT The centrist senator has seemingly sunk Biden's hopes of passing a major bill, and among climate activists the despair is palpable Joe Manchin, the Democratic senator who has made millions of dollars through his founding of a coal-trading company in his home state of West Virginia, has seemingly sunk fellow Democrat and US president Joe Biden's hopes of passing a major bill to combat the climate crisis. Continue reading... |
| House January 6 panel subpoenas Secret Service for allegedly deleted text messages Posted: 15 Jul 2022 09:10 PM PDT The subpoena is the first to an executive branch agency in investigation focused on possible erasure of communications The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack has issued a subpoena to the US Secret Service for text messages from 5 January and 6 January 2021 understood to have been erased, pursuing what investigators suspect might be an instance of corruptly destroyed records. The subpoena issued late on Friday – the first to an executive branch agency – compelled the production of messages and after-action reports concerning the attack as part of a sweeping records demand aiming to establish the circumstances around the erasure of some communications and obtain any that remain. Continue reading... |
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