No guarantees Trump will give Netanyahu all he wants
Trump's win has been welcomed by Israel but the change he brings may not be to its liking, writes Lucy Williamson.
Indian officials misplace Rushdie book ban order
India’s ban on the import of Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses is under scrutiny - here's why.
COP29 chief exec filmed promoting fossil fuel deals
Undercover filming shows COP29 chief exec discussing new oil and gas projects ahead of climate summit.
Easy-fit prosthetics offer hope to thousands of Gaza amputees
Children are among the thousands to have lost limbs in Gaza, forcing them to learn a new way of life.
US election result: Where did Harris and her campaign go wrong?
A late start, a failure to differentiate herself from Biden, and the loss of key voting groups made victory impossible.
Watch: Moment road worker dodges high-speed truck crash
Footage shows a truck crash and almost hit a highway worker on the side of an Interstate in New York.
Susie Wiles appointed – who else could be in Trump’s new administration?
The president-elect's transition team starts vetting potential candidates to serve in key posts.
Trump names his chief of staff in first major appointment
Donald Trump made his first major appointment as president-elect, selecting Susie Wiles as his chief of staff.
US authorities probe text messages invoking enslavement of Black people
Texts telling recipients to go to 'nearest plantation' prompt alarm across US states.
Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie elected mayor of San Francisco
Wealthy Democratic outsider unseats incumbent mayor London Breed in expensive race
After years of negative headlines and post-pandemic economic struggle, San Francisco has picked a wealthy Democratic outsider with no government experience to serve as the city’s new mayor.
Daniel Lurie, 47, is one of the heirs to the Levi Strauss jeans company fortune, and previously spent 15 years as the executive of a San Francisco non-profit he founded. He defeated several Democratic challengers, including the current mayor, London Breed, in an election that was expected to break local campaign spending records.
Continue reading...Australia news live: long queues at airports amid IT outage; national cabinet endorses social media minimum age limit
Sydney airport has confirmed there are delays at immigration due to a national outage affecting Border Force processing systems. Follow today’s news headlines live
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Racism, colonialism ‘driving Indigenous self-harm’
Australia’s dark colonial past and ongoing racism are driving self-harm in Indigenous communities, according to a respected Aboriginal psychologist.
That whole process has left communities suffering from intergenerational trauma, disadvantage and ongoing racism, as well as the exclusion from the benefits of society and a lack of acknowledgment and respect for their different cultural values.
We still want clinical approaches but we want to see culture at the centre of that.
In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org
Continue reading...Israeli bombing puts ancient ruins at risk, archaeologists warn
Roman ruins in Lebanon lie just a short distance from sites that have been hit by Israeli air strikes.
Botswana to legalise undocumented Zimbabweans – president
The new president tells the BBC thousands of illegal Zimbabweans should be given temporary permits.
Putin, Zelenskyy offer duelling congratulations after Trump victory
The presidents of Russia and Ukraine have both offered their congratulations to US President-elect Donald Trump.
Republican Dave McCormick wins Pennsylvania Senate seat in key race
McCormick ousts incumbent Democratic Bob Casey after contentious and expensive race, widening party’s majority
The Republican Dave McCormick won the Senate race in the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Thursday, denying the Democratic incumbent, Bob Casey, a fourth term and expanding his party’s majority in the upper chamber. Despite the call from the Associated Press, Casey has refused to concede the race, as the top state election official reported that tens of thousands of ballots remained uncounted.
When the AP called the race at 4.09pm ET on Thursday, two days after polls closed in Pennsylvania, McCormick led by 0.5 points. The narrow margin raised the possibility of a recount, although Casey faces an uphill climb in overcoming McCormick’s lead of roughly 30,000 votes.
Trump wins the presidency – how did it happen?
Full presidential election results and map
Abortion ballot measure results by state
Republicans retake control of the Senate
Senate, House and governor results
Continue reading...No consequences likely after Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie failed to disclose flight upgrades
Independent David Pocock calls for disclosure reform while Liberal James Paterson says many politicians don’t update the log fast enough
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Labor is unlikely to pursue formal Senate action against the Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie for not disclosing 16 flight upgrades over her time in parliament, despite parliamentary rules on travel requiring disclosures within 35 days.
The independent senator David Pocock said it highlighted the need for reforming parliamentary transparency rules.
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Continue reading...Neo-Nazi Jacob Hersant freed on bail as he appeals against one-month jail sentence for Hitler salute in Melbourne
Twenty-five-year-old the first Victorian convicted of intentionally performing the gesture in public
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An Australian far-right extremist has walked out of a Melbourne court on bail after being sentenced to one month in jail for performing an illegal Nazi salute.
Last month Jacob Hersant, 25, became the first Victorian convicted of intentionally performing the salute in public.
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Continue reading...Chinese state television lionises Xi Jinping’s father in 39-part serialised drama
The historical series, Time in the Northwest, chronicles the life of Xi Zhongxun from peasant roots to Communist revolutionary in China
Xi Jinping’s father is the subject of a rousing new historical drama that premiered on Chinese state television on Tuesday.
Funded by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist party (CCP), Time in the Northwest chronicles the life of Xi Zhongxun, the father of the Chinese president, who was himself a CCP elder and key figure in the party under Chairman Mao Zedong.
Continue reading...Up close with the 300 tonne driverless trucks
Big mining firms are switching to driverless trucks and other autonomous equipment.
Indian experts hail breakthrough in bid to save huge native bird
The birth of a great Indian bustard chick through artificial insemination has given hope to conservationists.