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World Health Organization issues flash appeal for $8m of emergency support amid frantic search for survivorsAFP has spoken to relatives anxiously waiting at the site of a collapsed building in Bangkok.Daodee Paruay said she had been at the site for two days, hoping for a miracle. Her brother was an electrician working on site, and he is believed to be under the rubble. “We...

UK PM hosting international summit on illegal migration and claims Labour has achieved the highest return rate for eight yearsDowning Street has sent out more details of the enforced returns numbers quoted by Keir Starmer in his speech to the Organised Immigration Crime summit. (See 9.26am.)It says the more than 24,000 migrants made to leave the country since July 2024 meant the government has...

French far right leader and eight National Rally MEPs found guilty in embezzlement caseThe judges have begun reading their verdicts.Patrick Maisonneuve, lawyer for the European parliament, arriving in court, said that what was at stake was the embezzlement of European taxpayers’ funds. Continue reading...

Sweeping order from military covers most of city in southern GazaAssociated Press are just reporting that Israeli police have arrested two suspects linked to the investigation into ties between Qatar and Benjamin Netanyahu.The case is under a sweeping gag order and police did not name the suspects in their announcement on Monday. The investigation is looking into accusations that Qatar, which is a key...

Research by Cycling UK finds female cyclists report more threatening incidents, as well as a lack of infrastructureIntimidating behaviour from drivers, poor infrastructure and fears over safety are deterring more women in the UK from cycling compared with men, research has found, while bike sales continue to fall after the “Covid boom”.The barriers to cycling have widened between men and women “across every measure...

KKR expected to acquire stake worth £4bn as UK’s biggest water supplier tries to stave off nationalisationThames Water has picked the US investment firm KKR to take a stake in the business, as the embattled water company fights to stave off nationalisation.The UK’s biggest water supplier, which is struggling under a debt pile of close to £20bn, said it had selected KKR as a...

Counsel for ‘Billboard Chris’, AKA Chris Elston, says takedown notice from eSafety commissioner was regulatory overreachElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA Canadian anti-trans activist is testing the Australian online regulator’s power to censor an X post allegedly bullying a trans man, arguing the removal notice issued to Elon Musk’s platform was overreach...

Paul Marchant accepts behaviour fell below standards expected at owner Associated British FoodsThe boss of Primark has admitted an “error of judgment” and resigned following an allegation made by a woman about his behaviour towards her in a social situation, the retailer’s owner has said.Associated British Foods (ABF) said that Paul Marchant accepted that his actions fell below the standards it expected and had...

First-quarter deliveries will be significantly down, say analysts, with the CEO and his links with Donald Trump the ‘core toxic issue’Tesla investors are bracing for evidence of declining global demand this week as the electric carmaker battles headwinds including a consumer backlash against its chief executive, Elon Musk.On 2 April, the US company will release data for first-quarter deliveries – a proxy for sales...

More than 2,000 people sign petition in support of jazz musician and composer of River to Sea, Kellee GreenElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMore than 2,000 people in the music industry have signed a petition supporting a jazz musician and composer whose winning entry River to Sea in the 2025 Queensland Music...

Meanwhile, Adelaide records driest period in decades and Perth swelters through temperatures above 35COutback deluge pushes Queensland towns to the brink: ‘Out here it’s drought or floods’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastQueensland cities and towns are dealing with the effects of flooding – including extensive stock losses and widespread damage – after a year’s worth of rain fell in...

Dennis Richardson argues biggest hindrance to $368bn deal is budgetary capacity and ‘political will’Election 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe US is a “less reliable and a more demanding ally” under Donald Trump’s second administration, but Australia should persist with the Aukus submarine deal, despite its risks and growing political and military concerns,...

After myriad false starts and much fluctuation, the lingering question is not how far Trump can take his trade wars, but how far he willDonald Trump won back the White House with a promise to transform the US economy. Millions of Americans, struggling with higher prices and bigger bills, elected a president who pledged to revive his country’s industrial heartlands – and leave the...

Detail not yet clear about new nature watchdog plan, which comes after previous attempt drew backlash from Western AustraliaElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has confirmed the federal environmental protection agency he has promised to establish if elected would not be “the same model” as the one he promised but failed...

Brief moment of relief as rescue workers carry a woman from the rubble of a hotel in Mandalay after a five-hour operationMyanmar earthquake: What we know so farA woman trapped beneath the remains of a hotel building for nearly 60 hours after a devastating earthquake struck Myanmar was pulled alive from the rubble on Monday, officials said, in a rare moment of hope for...

Sixth-formers discuss the hit show and what it is really like to be a young male in Britain todayWarning: contains spoilersPodcast: What teenage boys really think of girls, influencers and pornEveryone from the prime minister down seems to have a view on Adolescence, the Netflix smash about a teenage murder fuelled by social media and toxic masculinity.But there is one voice missing from the...

Musk denied he was buying votes but said the court election outcome would be critical to Trump’s agenda and ‘the future of civilization’Elon Musk gave out $1m checks on Sunday to two Wisconsin voters, declaring them spokespeople for his political group, ahead of a Wisconsin supreme court election that the tech billionaire cast as critical to Donald Trump’s agenda and “the future of civilization”.“It’s...

Leading figures including Tom Dixon and Sebastian Conran add voices to criticism of government’s AI opt-out proposalA proposed overhaul of copyright law risks “running roughshod” over a British design industry that has created such memorable products as the red phone box, the London underground map and the iPhone, according to a group of leading UK designers.In a letter to the technology secretary, Peter Kyle,...

Tan Suo Yi Hao has been in New Zealand on a joint research operation and is not expected to visit any Australian portsElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese says he “would prefer” a Chinese research vessel was not sitting off the coast of Victoria and stressed it will be closely monitored...

US president says his Russian counterpart’s questioning of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s credibility could delay ceasefireDonald Trump has said he is “pissed off” with Vladimir Putin over his approach to a ceasefire in Ukraine and threatened to levy tariffs on Moscow’s oil exports if the Russian leader does not agree to a truce within a month.The US president indicated he would levy a 25% or 50%...

Newly sworn in Jens-Frederik Nielsen says ‘Trump says that the United States is getting Greenland. Let me be clear: the United States won’t get that’The US will not get Greenland, its new prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, has said in response to Donald Trump’s latest statements that he wants to take control of the vast Arctic country.“President Trump says that the United States is getting...

More than 300,000 without power as storm, expected to continue overnight, pummels Ottawa, Quebec and OntarioMore than 300,000 Canadians faced power outages in parts of Ontario on Sunday as an ice storm pummeled the region over the weekend, according to electricity provider Hydro One.Environment Canada issued winter storm warnings for freezing rain in Ottawa, parts of Quebec and Ontario, with the risk of snow...

In interview Trump said he wasn’t joking when he alluded to a purported loophole for a third term as presidentDonald Trump has said there are “methods” – if not “plans” – to circumvent the constitutional limit preventing US presidents from serving three terms.In an interview aired Sunday on NBC, Trump was asked about his trying to stay in office beyond his second presidency, a...

Red Cross says devastation is of a level not seen in Asia for over a century as more than 1,700 people killedRescue volunteers, many of them poorly equipped local people, raced to find survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings across central Myanmar, two days after a huge earthquake killed more than 1,700 people in the country and at least 18 in neighbouring Thailand.Red...