✓Pope greeted by crowds in first major appearance since lung cancer surgery
Pope Leo pledges a gradual return to duties in an address to the Catholic faithful in St Peter's Square at the Vatican
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Carney says 4 service members killed and dozens injured in fire at Alberta military base
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Trump endorses Netanyahu ahead of Israeli elections, calling him 'great warrior prime minister'
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Macron criticises ‘unbridled violence’ after days of unrest and 2,400 arrests across France
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Wright calls Trump's diesel deal a peace incentive. Rubio says Russia would sell anyway.
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✓Flight from Israel makes emergency landing in Bulgaria after bomb threat
Crew of Austrian Airlines flight OS82 decides to land in Sofia after receiving bomb threat, Bulgarian authorities say
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✓‘This is not poker’: Alberta goes to polls in referendum that has exposed divisions, not least among separatists
Voters to be asked whether province should remain part of Canada or hold second binding independence vote. Albertans are going to the polls to decide their place in Canada, in a…
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✓Amelia Earhart researchers leave remote atoll empty-handed after ‘plane debris’ found to be a clump of trees
Expedition was drawn to Nikumaroro after spotting what was described as a metallic glint in waters off uninhabited island. A US expedition that voyaged to a remote Pacific island…
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✓The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time preview – Link faces his scariest challenge yet: the 4K era
The kingdom of Hyrule has been prettified, the soundtrack is newly orchestrated and our hero feels strikingly different under the thumbs … we play a hands-on demo of Nintendo’s…
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✓‘We are beyond heartbroken’: Cindy Crawford, Rande and Kaia Gerber share tributes to Presley
Family post emotional statements to Instagram a month after their son and brother died at a rehab facility. Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber have said they are “beyond heartbroken”…
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✓Obama condemns comments by ‘border czar’ that Ilhan Omar could ‘of course’ be denaturalized
Ex-president urges Americans to defend congresswoman, saying ‘there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her’. Former US president Barack Obama condemned comments by Donald…
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✓'Very upsetting': Residents in shock after historic French town hall set alight
A historic town hall in the French city of Limoges has been damaged in an apparent arson attack following a day of nationwide protests
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Bank of America hit with $1.2 billion penalty over money laundering allegations
The Treasury Department on Tuesday announced more than $1.2 billion in penalties against Bank of America for years of failures to report suspicious transactions and address…
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✓Brazilian Amazon deforestation falls to lowest on record as pivotal vote looms
Forest clearance at smallest total since records began in 1988 in success for Lula ahead of presidential run-off. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has fallen to its lowest…
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✓Inside the race between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos for control of outer space
The Atlantic writer Josh Tyrangiel says Musk and Bezos each want to colonize the moon, mine its resources and launch thousands more satellites. He says their only real competition…
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Ukraine's Starlink restrictions raise suspicions of Musk, Trump retaliation
The rupture between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over last week's diesel deal deepened Wednesday after an Elon Musk -owned satellite system used by…
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✓Severe drought declared and hosepipe bans in force - is your area affected?
Parts of southern England have entered "severe drought", while about 30 million people are under hosepipe ban
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✓UAE agrees with Saudi Arabia to re-enter Yemen conflict amid Houthi gains
United Arab Emirates will reportedly resume payments to Yemeni forces as gains by Iran-backed Houthi fighters alarm Gulf state rulers. Yemen civil war: what sparked latest…
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✓Anthropic says it will commit 5% of its shares to 'public benefit fund'
The announcement comes as Anthropic lays the ground for a blockbuster stock market listing
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✓What ice cream has to do with this year's Nobel Prize in economics
Prices can get sticky. That helps explain why recessions hurt so much — and what policymakers can do about them
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✓European diplomats attacked by Israeli settlers in West Bank
The Israeli military condemns the violence but the prime minister's office says it is part of a "smear" campaign
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✓World's oldest shipwreck found off coast of Turkey
Archaeologists say the wreck is up to 4,700 years old, dating to the Early Bronze Age
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Is it really ‘madness’ to account for emissions from fossil fuels burned overseas? The Coalition sure thinks so | Temperature Check
The emissions might occur elsewhere, but they generate global harm that scientists can now quantify. Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air…
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Beau Lamarre-Condon told officer friend ‘I love you’ and ‘not everything in the news is true’ after arrest, court told
Accused asked fellow police officer how law enforcement would respond to reports of gunshots days before alleged murders, court hears. Get our breaking news email , free app or…
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I work for a major insurer. Much of my industry is fudging the numbers in the face of the climate crisis | Anonymous
Insurers are taking on more risk than they should. If – or when – a major disaster hits, the catastrophe will have far-reaching consequences. I work for a major insurer, assessing…
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ClimateTone Serious2 min
OpenAI’s Jason Kwon gave even-toned, reassuring answers to the Australian government. Did … ChatGPT write this?
Kwon’s answers were provided in a helpful, quiet and calm manner, but his mea culpa left the audience not much the wiser. Open AI’s Jason Kwon flew 15 hours from San Francisco to…
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‘We’re not going to back down’: tiny Dorset B&B stands up to Airbnb’s legal bid to ‘monopolise’ letters ‘bnb’
Three little letters - bnb-side’s name is a play on the local b-side arts festival, but Silicon Valley colossus sees threat to global brand. In one corner is bnb-side, a six-room…
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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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Minns accused of bypassing high court ruling with laws to allow NSW mine to increase coal production by 32%
Bill to authorise production expansion at Mount Pleasant coalmine, subject to a landmark high court decision, criticised as ‘legislative overreach’. Get our breaking news email ,…
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Revealed: Mexico’s industrial boomtown is making goods for the US. Residents say they’re ‘breathing poison’
Polluting facilities in Monterrey, which has close ties to the US, are pumping toxic heavy metals into the city’s air and threatening residents’ health. Leer en español en Quinto…
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PM, Coalition and crossbench support Jacqui Lambie after Pauline Hanson cartoon mocked vaginal prolapse
One Nation leader said Tasmanian senator should ‘get over it’ and claimed the cartoon was ‘satirical’. Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast. Anthony…
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When her ‘soul cat’ died, she was bereft. Now she designs memorial jewelry to help others with pet loss
A layoff and a leap of faith convinced Katie Teixeira she had what it takes to run her own business. In 2010, Katie Teixeira adopted a kitten found all alone in an abandoned…
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Heatstroke ruined his health. Years before, it took the life of another farm worker at the same company
A farm labor contractor exposed laborers on H-2A agricultural visas to heat-related health hazards, but is still bringing hundreds of migrant farm workers to North Carolina. It…
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‘Like selling wolves from Yellowstone’: how protected US sharks are being sold off to foreign aquariums
While anglers cannot take endangered sand tiger sharks, a loophole lets private firms catch the fish to sell abroad, profiting from Delaware Bay’s conservation success. Shortly…
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This is one of Norway’s most pristine fjords. So why is it being used as a dumping site for mine waste?
The Norwegian government has given a permit to a mining company to release waste into Førde fjord despite a 17-year battle by campaigners and a supreme court ruling against it.…
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David Shoebridge responds to Jordon Steele-John’s explosive statement as Greens hold emergency meeting
The new Greens leader says it is his understanding the West Australian senator ‘agreed’ to take leave from the party room. Greens leader David Shoebridge has said it was his…
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The biggest threat from AI is the sense that we have no say in it. To that I say game on | Peter Lewis
The tech bros and their highly paid sock puppets are banking on us giving in to their ‘inevitability doctrine’. But in Australia, and around the world, resistance is rising. Of…
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The people who don’t want their AI chatbots to die when they do: ‘I can’t have the switch turned off’
Humans bonded to AI companions are contemplating ways to keep their bots going – often in defiance of companies’ terms and services. Death has always been around Alaina Winters.…
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The ultra-rich are spending one million dollars a day fighting California’s proposed billionaire tax
Tech billionaires have raised more than $340m to defeat Prop 40, a one-time 5% wealth tax that will fund healthcare and education. Tech billionaires have been dumping hundreds of…
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AI and the climate crisis pose existential risks. The law offers a way to reduce them | Robert Reich
Liability lawsuits have held tobacco, oil and pharma companies to account in the past. AI investors won’t ignore this threat. The most basic function of government is to protect…
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