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Italy’s rape law stalls as Matteo Salvini claims it could be used for ‘vendettas’
Parliament delays debate over law defining sex without consent as rape, after comments by far-right deputy PM
Italy’s parliament has delayed a debate over a landmark law that would define sex without consent as rape amid a rift within the ruling coalition.
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More than 24 hours after the first tower caught fire, the Hong Kong residential complex was still burning. Fire crews blasted water from cherrypickers at the mid-level floors, but above that, the fires were roaring out of reach.
Wang Fuk Court, in the northern Hong Kong district of Tai Po, was home to about 4,800 people. The eight-tower complex had been under renovation for years, clad in bamboo scaffolding and mesh.
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What’s happening in Lebanon, a year into the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire?
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Trump says US should ‘re-examine’ all Afghan refugees after suspect named in national guard shooting | First Thing
President called the shooting in Washington an ‘act of terror’. Plus, Hong Kong fire death toll rises to 65
Good morning.
Donald Trump has said the government should review every Afghan immigrant who entered the US during Joe Biden’s administration, after authorities identified the suspect in the shooting of two national guard members in Washington as an Afghan national.
What is the latest on the condition of the national guard members? They remained in critical condition overnight.
Have there been arrests? Yes – police have arrested two directors and an engineering consultant at a construction company.
Our live blog will update you on new developments.
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Video shows speed fire spreads in Hong Kong tower block
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France to bring in form of military service, 25 years after conscription was phased out
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Guardian Australia wins Walkley award for Indigenous affairs for The Descendants series
Christopher Hopkins also named the Nikon-Walkley Press Photographer of the Year for work published in Al Jazeera, The Age, and the Guardian
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Guardian Australia has won a Walkley award for excellence in journalism for a series on Australians facing the truth of their family’s involvement in frontier violence.
Guardian Australia won the Walkley Indigenous affairs at Thursday night’s ceremony for the The Descendants series, which built on Guardian Australia’s 2019 Walkley award-winning series The Killing Times. The series explored the deeply personal process of truth-telling about some of the most horrific incidents in Australia’s past, from both sides of the frontier.
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