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Student rescued from Mount Fuji twice in one week
Chinese national, 27, reportedly returned to Japan’s highest mountain days after first rescue to retrieve his phone
A university student has been rescued from the slopes of Mount Fuji twice in the space of a week – the second time during an attempt to retrieve his mobile phone.
The hapless climber, a 27-year-old Chinese national who has not been named, was airlifted from Japan’s highest mountain last week, only to be the subject of a second search four days later.
Continue reading...Indian police detain ‘undocumented’ Bangladeshi migrants
Indian police have detained over 1,000 Bangladeshis in a major crackdown on alleged undocumented migrants in Gujarat.
India and Pakistan continue to trade fire across Kashmir border
Fears of wider military escalation persist following deadly attack on resort town of Pahalgam.
Critical week for US’s future in Ukraine-Russia talks, Rubio says
It is a "very critical" week for the White House and its involvement, Secretary of State Marco Rubio tells US media.
China, Philippines Make Rival Claims in Disputed South China Sea – WSJ
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Yemen: Dozens of African migrants killed in US strike, Houthis say – BBC
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- Suspected US airstrike hits Yemen migrant centre, Houthi TV says 68 killed Reuters
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Girl, 5, among Vancouver dead as suspect charged
At least 10 others were killed after a car drove into a crowd at a street festival in Vancouver, Canada on Saturday night.
Girl, 5, among Vancouver dead as suspect charged
At least 10 others were killed after a car drove into a crowd at a street festival in Vancouver, Canada on Saturday night.
Ukraine ready to ‘give up’ Crimea says Trump
Speaking to reporters US President Donald Trump said Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy is ready to “give up” Crimea,
Labor says the CSIRO put a $600bn price tag on Coalition’s nuclear dreams. It’s not quite right
Number comes from the Smart Energy Council (SEC), a renewable energy industry group, almost six months before Coalition modelling
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Labor’s campaign spokesperson, frontbencher Jason Clare, claimed on Monday that CSIRO had put a $600bn price tag on the Coalition’s plans to build taxpayer-funded nuclear reactors at seven sites.
“Have a look at the work that the CSIRO has done that proves that this will cost $600bn. It won’t turn a light on for 20 years. It’ll only produce about 4% of the energy that Australia is going to need,” Clare told ABC Radio National.
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Continue reading...The Vatican closes the Sistine Chapel to the public and prepares for a papal conclave – AP News
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Lights, Camera, Franchise! Hollywood’s summer schedule
A look at the get-rich-quick formula that the movie industry has discovered keeps those cash registers ringing.
Manila denies China ‘dealt with’ Philippine mission to disputed reef
Philippine officials say a mission visited Sandy Cay Reef in disputed South China Sea and unfurled the national flag.
Sole CCTV operator using bathroom when Bondi Junction attack began, Sydney court hears
Coronial inquest into 2024 incident also told killer had ‘preoccupation with death and murder’ before fatally stabbing six people
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The man who fatally stabbed six people in a Sydney shopping centre last April had a “preoccupation with death and murder” and made online searches for serial killers and the Columbine school shooters in the days before his attack, a court has heard.
It also heard that at the moment the attack began, the sole CCTV security room operator had been using the bathroom and re-entered the CCTV room less than two minutes later, towards the end of the man’s stabbing rampage.
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Continue reading...Met police ‘maintain concerns’ about China super-embassy plan
Exclusive: Force, which had dropped objection to plan, says protests of more than 500 people would impede traffic and require extra resources
China’s proposed “super-embassy” in London would require additional police officers to deal with any large protests involving thousands of people, the Metropolitan police have said before a decision by ministers.
Despite having dropped its official objection to the proposals, the Met “maintains concerns” that large protests of more than 500 people outside the embassy would impede traffic and “require additional police resource”, said the deputy assistant commissioner Jon Savell
Continue reading...Dutton claims majority of veterans don’t want welcome to country at Anzac Day ceremonies
Opposition leader says opening of parliament is an appropriate time for ceremonies but that acknowledgment on planes is ‘over the top’
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Peter Dutton has confirmed he does not believe welcome to country ceremonies are necessary at Anzac Day dawn services and on commercial flights, continuing to stoke a culture war in the final week of the election campaign.
It comes days after a neo-Nazi booed and heckled a welcome to country ceremony at a dawn service in Melbourne.
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Continue reading...China and Philippines display competing flags on disputed South China Sea sandbank
Beijing and Manila accuse each other of illegal activities around Sandy Cay near the Spratly Isles, as joint US-Filipino military drills get under way in region
China and the Philippines have displayed their national flags in competing photo opportunities on a disputed sandbank in the South China sea, ratcheting up longstanding regional tensions between the two countries.
The dispute played out at Sandy Cay, which is part of the disputed Spratly Islands, and comes days after the US and the Philippines launched their annual joint military drills called “Balikatan”, or “shoulder to shoulder”, which this year will include an integrated air and missile defence simulation for the first time.
Continue reading...RedBird Capital confident of tabling a deal to take control of Telegraph
Guardian understands plan from US private equity firm to form a consortium or self-fund could come as soon as next month
The US private equity firm RedBird Capital is confident of tabling a deal to take control of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph as soon as next month, in an attempt to end two years of “paralysis and unhappiness” at the 170-year-old titles.
The firm’s founder, Gerry Cardinale, is personally involved in drafting a plan to either form a consortium or self-fund a takeover at Telegraph Media Group, the Guardian understands.
Continue reading...UK banks brace for first-quarter reports after Trump tariff turmoil
Lenders expected to split into two camps: those focused on domestic customers and those with large operations in the US, China and the EU
UK banks’ earnings reports will be studied this week for signs of turmoil linked to Donald Trump’s tariff drama, with uncertainty over global growth likely to weigh on lenders with heavy exposure to China, including HSBC.
First-quarter profits only reflect the January-to-March period that preceded the US president’s “liberation day” tariff announcements on 2 April. But investors will be concerned about any hints of caution around earnings forecasts, as well as an uptick in money put aside for defaults by tariff-hit borrowers.
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