Grounded: Bonza set to join long list of failed Australian airlines

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Australia’s aviation industry, dominated by the Qantas-Virgin duopoly, may have claimed another victim – but it’s far from the first to fall

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The future of Bonza is in limbo as the fledgling budget airline enters voluntary administration – a well-trodden path in Australian aviation.

While Tuesday’s developments may come as a blow to competition in an industry dominated by a duopoly, the abrupt cancellation of services and seizure of planes will trigger memories of a long history of fallen Australian carriers.

AGL’s use of Centrepay not audited for two years despite allegations it wrongly took $700,000 from vulnerable Australians

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Services Australia says it is also working to retrieve overpayments from Queensland’s Ergon Energy

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The federal government has not audited AGL’s use of Centrepay in two years despite revelations that the energy giant wrongly received more than $700,000 in welfare money from its former customers through the government-run debit system.

A Guardian Australia investigation of Centrepay, a system allowing businesses access to welfare payments before they hit recipients’ bank accounts, has revealed significant failings.

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Man who allegedly kicked bison in Yellowstone park arrested for incident

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Clarence Yoder was reportedly injured by animal in return, before police arrested him for disorderly conduct and other charges

A man who allegedly harassed bison at Yellowstone national park by kicking one of the animals was injured in return and arrested in the first such encounter at the famed site this year.

Officials said on Monday that police received a report about a man kicking a bison in the leg and being injured by one of the animals about seven miles from the park’s entrance, near Seven Mile Bridge, on 21 April.

House Democratic leaders announce opposition to attempt to remove Johnson as speaker – live

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The top House Democrats, including minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, say they will oppose any attempt from far-right Republican to vacate Mike Johnson as speaker

Deputy White House press secretary Andrew Bates has condemned protesters’ usage of the word “intifada” and their takeover of a building on Columbia University’s campus, saying the action was “not peaceful”:

President Biden has stood against repugnant, Antisemitic smears and violent rhetoric his entire life. He condemns the use of the term ‘intifada,’ as he has the other tragic and dangerous hate speech displayed in recent days. President Biden respects the right to free expression, but protests must be peaceful and lawful. Forcibly taking over buildings is not peaceful – it is wrong. And hate speech and hate symbols have no place in America.

Reform UK hoping to inflict damage on Tories in Blackpool and beyond

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Polls suggest party could eat into Tory vote in Lancashire town’s Westminster byelection as well as in mayoral and local elections

UK politics – latest updates

Reform UK’s best hope of making headlines this week is Blackpool South’s byelection, but polling also shows the insurgent rightwing party is ahead of the Conservatives in two mayoral races.

While Labour are the frontrunners to regain Blackpool South – which fell to the Conservatives as the “red wall” crumbled in 2019 – the battle for second place there could be crucial to Rishi Sunak’s future.

Hainault: 14-year-old boy confirmed dead in east London sword attack – latest updates

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36-year-old man arrested and two police officers hospitalised with significant injuries after incident police say was not targeted and not terror-related

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The home secretary, James Cleverly, said he is being regularly updated about the incident in Hainault and thanked emergency responders for responding to the attack.

“I would urge people not to speculate or share footage online and provide relevant information to the police,” he wrote on X.

Dead bodies are left behind on Mount Everest, so why are hundreds of climbers heading into the ‘death zone’ this spring? – CNN

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‘The View’ co-host Whoopi Goldberg unloads on ‘clickbait’ reporting on student anti-Israel protests – Fox News

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Germany’s crackdown on criticism of Israel betrays European values

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There is nothing to be gained, but much to be lost, from the silencing of pro-Palestinian voices.

Trump trial enters third week with Michael Cohen’s ex-banker testifying

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Ex-president held in contempt of court while private banker Gary Farro to resume testimony

Donald Trump trial – live updates

Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial enters its third week on Tuesday morning with additional testimony from a private banker, Gary Farro, who last week described financial maneuvering related to the ex-president’s alleged catch-and-kill scheme.

First, however, the ex-president was held in contempt of court and fined $9,000 for violating a gag order. Judge Juan Merchan wrote in an order released moments after he announced the fine that Trump was found “in criminal contempt for willfully disobeying a lawful mandate of this court … on nine separate occasions”.

IS commander wanted for deaths of US forces in Niger killed in operation

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Malian state forces confirm death of Abu Huzeifa, who was believed to have helped carry out 2017 attack

A senior Islamic State group commander, wanted in connection with the deaths of US forces in Niger, has been killed in an operation by Malian state forces, the country’s army said.

Abu Huzeifa, known by the alias Higgo, was a commander in the group known as the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara. The state department had announced a reward of up to $5m for information about him.

Nationwide stops lending on some flood-risk properties

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Banks may follow suit after UK weather-related claims on home insurance reach new high

Britain’s biggest building society has stopped granting mortgages on some properties where there is a high risk of flooding but said this affected only “a very limited number” of homes.

Nationwide’s head of property risk, Rob Stevens, said the lender used mapping technology to identify which homes were vulnerable to flooding, and it would decline to grant a mortgage to buy a property it deemed to be at high risk.

Paleo diet? Study reveals new insight on what Stone Age humans really ate – CNN

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The world’s most advanced economies just agreed to end coal use by 2035 – with a catch – CNN

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Four officers killed and four wounded in shooting at North Carolina home

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Police say officers were in Charlotte serving warrant for suspect, who was also killed, wanted over firearms possession

Eight law-enforcement officers were shot, four fatally, during a shootout on Monday outside a home in North Carolina. The officers were serving a warrant to a person wanted for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon when the shooting began.

As marshals approached a home on the 5000 block of Galway Drive in Charlotte, the subject of the warrant began shooting at them in the front yard, police said. Officers shot back and killed the man.

Tory chair refuses to say whether party took further £5m from Frank Hester

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Richard Holden says Hester apologised for remarks about Diane Abbott and ‘we should accept that’

UK politics – latest updates

The Conservative party chair, Richard Holden, has four times refused to say whether the party continues to take millions from its biggest donor, Frank Hester, after it was revealed the businessman had made comments condemned as racist and misogynistic.

Holden said he could not comment on whether the Tories had recently accepted £5m, after it emerged that Hester told colleagues in 2019 that looking at Diane Abbott made you “want to hate all black women” and said she “should be shot”.

Miami Grand Prix organizers stop plans for Trump fundraiser in luxury suite

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Trump associate Steven Witkoff allegedly planned to host a $250,000-a-head soiree at an upcoming Formula One race

Officials with the Miami Grand Prix recently halted a Donald Trump presidential campaign fundraiser being planned for the upcoming Formula One race, sending a cease-and-desist letter to its organizer.

A Miami Grand Prix representative notified Steven Witkoff, a close friend of Trump, that Witkoff would not be allowed to use a suite at the race to fundraise for the former president, the Washington Post first reported.

I paid only $14 for real $14K Cartier earrings thanks to a glitch — jealous haters say I’m a thief – New York Post

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I paid only $14 for real $14K Cartier earrings thanks to a glitch — jealous haters say I'm a thief New York Post
Mexican man wins case against Cartier after buying $13,000 earrings online for $13 CBS News
Man bags gold and diamond earrings from Cartier for just $13 thanks to internet mistake Daily Mail
He Paid $13 for $13000 Cartier Earrings, and Then the Jeweler Noticed The New York Times
Man buys $14k Cartier earrings for under $14 after price glitch drama USA TODAY

Admit women or we quit, Sting and Stephen Fry tell Garrick

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In letter ahead of vote, signatories including Mark Knopfler say relations with female colleagues have been damaged

The musicians Sting and Mark Knopfler have co-signed a letter with leading theatre producers and actors, warning that they will be obliged to resign their memberships of the men-only Garrick Club if members refuse to approve a decision to admit women in a vote next Tuesday.

The letter, seen by the Guardian, was also signed by the actor Stephen Fry, the West End and Broadway theatre producer Karl Sydow, and Matthew Byam Shaw, an executive producer on The Crown television series and co-founder of Playful West End theatre production company.

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Grounded: Bonza set to join long list of failed Australian airlines

AGL’s use of Centrepay not audited for two years despite allegations it wrongly took $700,000 from vulnerable Australians

Man who allegedly kicked bison in Yellowstone park arrested for incident

House Democratic leaders announce opposition to attempt to remove Johnson as speaker – live

Reform UK hoping to inflict damage on Tories in Blackpool and beyond

Hainault: 14-year-old boy confirmed dead in east London sword attack – latest updates

Dead bodies are left behind on Mount Everest, so why are hundreds of climbers heading into the ‘death zone’ this spring? – CNN

‘The View’ co-host Whoopi Goldberg unloads on ‘clickbait’ reporting on student anti-Israel protests – Fox News

Germany’s crackdown on criticism of Israel betrays European values

Trump trial enters third week with Michael Cohen’s ex-banker testifying

IS commander wanted for deaths of US forces in Niger killed in operation

Nationwide stops lending on some flood-risk properties

Paleo diet? Study reveals new insight on what Stone Age humans really ate – CNN

The world’s most advanced economies just agreed to end coal use by 2035 – with a catch – CNN

Four officers killed and four wounded in shooting at North Carolina home

Tory chair refuses to say whether party took further £5m from Frank Hester

Miami Grand Prix organizers stop plans for Trump fundraiser in luxury suite

I paid only $14 for real $14K Cartier earrings thanks to a glitch — jealous haters say I’m a thief – New York Post

Admit women or we quit, Sting and Stephen Fry tell Garrick