Japan’s ruling LDP to pick new leader after PM Ishiba resigns
The embattled party faces mounting pressure over soaring rice prices, declining birth rates and immigration.
Israeli military orders all Gaza City residents to evacuate ahead of ground assault
Prime Minister Netanyahu says recent strikes on high-rises are "only the beginning of the main, intensive operation" to capture the city.
The Battle for Donbas
Ukraine has been fighting to regain control of a key region inside its own borders for more than a decade.
From Haile Selassie to crowdfunding, how Ethiopia’s GERD dam was born
After decades of work, funding delays and regional pushback, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is inaugurated.
ICC hears war crimes case against Ugandan rebel leader
This is the court's first-ever confirmation of charges hearing without the accused present.
Video: Nepal leaders’ homes vandalised and in flames during mass protests
Protesters have stormed the office of Nepal’s largest party and set fire to the residences of prominent politicians.
Tunisia qualifies for FIFA World Cup 2026 with win in Equatorial Guinea
Tunisia joins Morocco as the second African nation to directly qualify for next year's World Cup in North America.
House committee releases image of ‘sickening’ birthday note reportedly from Trump to Epstein – US politics live
White House officials seek to discredit note and claim Donald Trump signature is false
Donald Trump now cannot claim presidential immunity to get off the hook from paying $83.3m in damages to the writer E Jean Carroll, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday, upholding a jury’s 2024 award against the president for defamation.
Trump’s lawyers had pointed to the supreme court’s ruling last year saying the president has immunity for official acts to argue that the damages should be overturned. A three-judge panel for the US court of appeals for the second circuit, rejected that argument.
Continue reading...Emily Thornberry joins deputy Labour leader race and says Gaza and wealth tax among her priorities – UK politics live
Thornberry joins Bridget Phillipson and Bell Ribeiro-Addy in having said she will stand
Kemi Badenoch has just delivered a speech offering to help Labour with legislationg for welfare cuts. I will post key points soon.
She is now taking questions.
Continue reading...Herald Sun failed to seek response from Victorian MP Sam Groth and wife before article that invaded privacy, court documents claim
Groth and wife Brittany are suing a News Corp paper for defamation and breach of privacy over incorrect claims of inappropriate relationship
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The Herald Sun failed to seek a response from Brittany Groth, the wife of Sam Groth, the Victorian Liberals deputy leader and former tennis star, before wrongly outing her as a victim of child sexual assault who was preyed upon by her now-husband when he was her coach, the couple allege in federal court documents.
The Herald and Weekly Times, along with reporter Stephen Drill, who wrote the articles, and his editor Sam Weir, are being sued in the federal court by Brittany Groth, in the first test of a new statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy, and by Sam Groth for defamation.
Continue reading...‘Paying twice’: workers face NHS bills of thousands in immigration crackdown
Campaigners fear plans to make people wait longer for leave to remain could cost tax-paying skilled workers dearly
Every two-and-a-half years, Uche and her husband pay more than a combined £5,000 for NHS care, on top of the tax and national insurance deducted from their salaries as a care worker and an IT worker.
Now, thousands more skilled workers face having to “pay twice” for services for 10 years or more, campaigners fear, as the government considers extending the qualifying period for indefinite leave to remain (ILR) – and eventually citizenship – in an immigration crackdown.
Continue reading...Ethiopia inaugurates GERD dam amid downstream tensions with Egypt, Sudan
Ethiopia celebrates Africa's largest hydroelectric dam as Egypt and Sudan express fears over water security.
Israel’s expanded assault on Gaza City will endanger lives of ‘countless civilians’, charity warns – Middle East crisis live
Warning from ActionAid comes after Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli army told residents of Gaza City to leave
Dan Sabbagh is the Guardian’s defence and security editor
Fifty-one Israeli arms makers and the US defence giant behind the F-35 fighters used to bomb Gaza are among the 1,600 exhibitors at the biennial DSEI trade show that begins in London’s Docklands on Tuesday.
Continue reading...At least 21 civilians killed in Russian attack in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk
'The Russians continue to destroy lives but avoid new strong sanctions,' President Zelenskyy says.
University of Melbourne law professor’s allegedly racist emails were protected ‘political opinion’, court hears
Lawyer argues university’s move to fire Dr Eric Descheemaeker breached Fair Work Act and freedom of academic expression policy
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A law professor at the centre of a leaked email controversy says the University of Melbourne attempted to expel him over his political expression after it unearthed allegedly racist emails which included references to First Nations people.
Dr Eric Descheemaeker launched legal action against Australia’s top-ranked university over his proposed dismissal earlier this year, alleging he was suspended over his political opinion.
Continue reading...‘Shock’ in store for 350,000 UK households on low-interest fixed-rate mortgages
Those on typical £200,000 mortgages taken out between October 2020 and February 2023 may see costs jump by £3,996 a year this winter
More than 350,000 households who locked in to low-interest fixed-rate mortgages five years ago are expected to see their costs jump this winter as they reach the end of their deals.
Analysis by the bill management app Nous found almost half of mortgages taken out between October 2020 – as the housing market revived after an initial Covid shock – and February 2023 were five-year fixed-rate deals.
Continue reading...Nepal prime minister resigns after mass protests and deaths
Nepal’s Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli has resigned, says his aide, after ministers quit over the mass
At least 10 dead after train crashes into bus in Mexico
An investigation is under way after a freight train hit a bus as it tried to cross railway tracks.
Phillipson, Thornberry and Ribeiro-Addy enter Labour deputy race
Education secretary Bridget Phillipson favourite to win as she is most likely to meet the threshold of MP nominations
Bridget Phillipson, Emily Thornberry and Bell Ribeiro-Addy have thrown their hats in the ring for the Labour deputy leadership contest.
Phillipson, the education secretary, immediately became the favourite to win as she is most likely to meet the threshold of MP nominations.
Continue reading...‘Topple this government’: Nepal’s Gen Z protesters demand mass resignations
Nepal's PM resigned on Tuesday as protesters set buildings on fire. But calls for broader change are growing.