✓Nearly 1,400 missing, mostly tourists, after Nepal-Tibet flash flood kills at least 356
Entire villages swept away after glacial collapse triggers flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims. Nepal-Tibet flash flood – latest updates. Have you been…
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Meta will be happy with its $18bn US settlement – but the costs of child online safety will keep rising for big tech | Chris Stokel-Walker
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Meta agrees to major changes to Facebook and Instagram as it settles US trial over teen addiction for up to $18bn
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Hospital nursery fire kills 14 newborns in Pakistan's capital, officials order immediate inquiry
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Live updates: Kennedy Center case returns to court; Trump heads to Houston to boost Paxton
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✓Ratko Mladic, ex-Bosnian Serb warlord who oversaw atrocities in Bosnia, has died at 84
The ruthless former communist officer-turned-nationalist warlord was one of the most notorious figures of a war that left more than 100,000 people dead. He commanded his troops to…
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✓Parrot eggs hatch after suspected Thai smuggler arrested at South African airport
A 50-year-old Thai suspect was arrested with the eggs in a "homemade incubator" carried as hand luggage
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✓Thieves steal Bronze Age artifacts from Spanish museum in four-minute heist
The Treasure of Villena is a unique trove of almost ten kilos of gold, bowls, bottles and bracelets dating back to the Bronze Age
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Trump administration reportedly considering ‘new round of sweeping tariffs on semiconductors’ – business live
Tech companies warn that move could jeopardise US hopes of dominating AI. The number of young people not in education, employment or training has fallen in recent months after…
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Nepal flash flood: more than 350 killed amid warning of fresh danger from rising lake water – latest updates
Authorities say water rising at lake at site of disaster and it could burst. Nearly 1,400 missing, mostly tourists, and hundreds killed. Visual guide: how the deadly flooding…
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Trump administration won't 'just sit down and take' further retaliation from Canada: Trade rep
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on Wednesday said that the Trump administration would not “just sit down and take” further retaliation from Canada after Ottawa introduced…
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Cook argues Trump administration has no legal basis to remove her from Federal Reserve board
Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook on Wednesday pushed back against the Trump administration's renewed attempt to fire her from the central bank's board of governors, despite…
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✓London neurosurgeons perform first successful AI-assisted operation to remove brain tumour
Surgeons aided by real-time analysis of camera footage that identified critical anatomy in brain to be avoided. Neurosurgeons in London have performed the world’s first successful…
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✓Canada to hit U.S. with retaliatory tariffs. And, remembering music legend Dolly Parton
Canada has announced it plans to hit the U.S. with countertariffs that mirror its actions "dollar for dollar." And, remembering the legacy of country star and icon Dolly Parton,…
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✓Supreme court threatens midterms mail-in voting as it backs Trump plan | First Thing
US president has been obsessed with restricting the ability to vote by mail, despite using it himself. Plus, why we are still fascinated with Meg from the White Stripes. Don’t…
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✓Canada hits back at the U.S. with tariffs as the countries' trade fight escalates
The measures come after President Trump imposed 50% tariffs on many Canadian goods and threatened more after trade talks broke down on Friday
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✓Iran vows to retaliate against countries that cooperate with fresh US sanctions
Test of US rhetoric will rest on whether nations such as India, China and Russia view economic threats as credible. Tehran has vowed to retaliate against any country that…
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✓Norway's royal family gathers at King Harald's bedside as his condition worsens
The 89-year-old has been in hospital for over a week receiving treatment for a rare blood condition
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✓Trial for 9/11 accused, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, set for June 2028
After two decades at Guantánamo Bay, trials for four alleged 9/11 conspirators have been set for 2028
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✓At least 47 killed and dozens kidnapped in gang attack near Haiti capital
Gang leader threatens to kill hostages after attack in Kenscoff in which homes were also set alight. ‘A massacre’: Haiti gangs carrying out mass killings. At least 47 people were…
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✓Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist who became a global superstar, dies aged 97
From the 1950s to the 2020s, Kusama produced vivid paintings, sculptures and vast installations that often drew on her experience of hallucinations. Kusama – a life in pictures.…
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✓Six months of the Iran war – as told through Trump’s social media posts
How a war was announced, prosecuted, declared won, negotiated and then reopened, all in the president's own words
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✓TikTok to pay $400m to US in one of largest child privacy settlements
The deal stems from a 2024 lawsuit alleging TikTok and its parent company ByteDance collected "vast amounts of data" on millions of users under the age of 13
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✓Meta to pay up to $18bn to settle claims its platforms harm children
The deal has been reached during a California federal court trial over claims brought by US states
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Trump crosses Lake Ontario on map, renames it ‘Lake America’
US President Donald Trump posted a video of him crossing out Lake Ontario on a map and writing ‘Lake America’ instead
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NSW’s koala national park will protect threatened species and cap logging across the state. Could the Greens really block it? | Adam Morton
The Albanese government approved a proposal allowing the park to create carbon credits worth hundreds of millions of dollars, sparking a schism among environmentalists. What…
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‘Small changes can make a big difference’: how getting farmers, fishers and beavers together could save a Cornish river
A local initiative is testing simple ways to stop algal blooms in the River Fal threatening some of England’s most biodiverse marine habitats. On a rocky beach in Cornwall, a…
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A Britain of wildfires and flood risks: be sure, the climate crisis is real, and we will deal with it | Angela Eagle
Reform and the Conservatives are willing to mislead the public, but as environment secretary, I believe we must be honest – and act boldly. This long, hot summer has brought our…
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From Scotland, I look at England’s water privatisation disaster. I wish you had done what we did | Devi Sridhar
Listening to debate, you’d think bringing English water companies into public ownership was a radical socialist idea. Here, we call it common sense. Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of…
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‘The day I disclose, my career is over’: the journalist facing an $800 daily fine to keep her sources secret
If Catherine Herridge’s petition to the US supreme court fails, she’ll be on the hook for a daily fine until she discloses her sources – a case unsettling press freedom…
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‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye billions in subsidies
Dozens of projects are in development across US despite concerns over environmental and health risks. The plan to bury carbon under remote Indiana farmland is supposed to be a…
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One of science fiction’s greatest writers warned us about a AI. Does he also hold the remedy? | Alan Finkel
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Revealed: Mexico’s industrial boomtown is making goods for the US. Residents say they’re ‘breathing poison’
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"Stop gaslighting me!": Florida Democrats' Senate nominee and party chair have heated call over socialism
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CIA chief reportedly warns Russia against attacking Nato countries on visit to Moscow – US politics live
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‘If you harm my project, I’ll harm you’: former NSW official tells Icac about fugitive developer’s call
Former building commissioner David Chandler told inquiry of clashes with ‘loud and overbearing’ developer Jean Nassif. Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news…
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Diamonds for sale: lab-grown gem auctions are all over TikTok right now, but some aren’t happy about it
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Queensland concedes law imposing mandatory jail on some offenders as young as 10 breaches human rights
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‘The silence was the worst part’: after culling his entire flock, US poultry farmer now fears bird flu
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