At $4.5bn each year, extreme weather is costing Australia three times as much compared with 1990s, insurers say

06/10/2025 14:00 The Guardian

‘The trajectory is only up, in terms of insured costs,’ professor of climate risk warnsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe costs of extreme weather events such as floods, bushfires and storms have nearly tripled in Australia since the 1990s, insurers have warned, with poorer communities disproportionately burdened.The climate crisis, ageing infrastructure and growing populations in increasingly affected regions have left the country more vulnerable, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Insurance Council of Australia. Continue reading...

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Three countries are ‘willing and capable’ of assassinating political dissidents on Australian soil, Asio head warns

Spy chief Mike Burgess says it’s possible the unnamed regimes ‘would try to hide their involvement’ in any killingsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastForeign agents from at least three countries are “willing and capable” of assassinating perceived political dissiden...

04/11/2025 09:40 The Guardian

European Union to reveal ratings for candidate countries – Europe live

Kaja Kallas to issue update this afternoon on progress countries are making towards becoming union memberIn other news, Czechs are mourning the Catholic archbishop emeritus of Prague, Dominik Duka, who has died overnight at the age of 82.Cardinal Duka – whose father flew in the British RAF during...

04/11/2025 09:37 The Guardian

UK lawyers warn of ‘race to the bottom’ after Tory MP issues deportation threat

Top lawyers call for change in rhetoric that has left ethnic minority Britons fearful as politicians target migrantsUK politics live – latest updatesLeading British lawyers have warned of a political “race to the bottom”, after a Conservative MP tipped as future party leader said large numbers...

04/11/2025 09:30 The Guardian

‘Beating, torturing, killing’: freed Palestinian author on life in Israeli jails

Nasser Abu Srour says prisons became like ‘another front’ in Gaza war and tells of struggle to adjust to life outsideA celebrated Palestinian author who was freed last month after more than 32 years in Israeli prisons has said the use of torture increased dramatically during his last two years o...

04/11/2025 07:00 The Guardian

RBA holds official interest rate at 3.6% while warning of rising house prices and rents

Reserve Bank’s decision to leave cash rate on hold was widely expected and major banks predict no interest rates cut until 2026Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Reserve Bank has left the official interest rate on ho...

04/11/2025 06:59 The Guardian

Australia news live: federal watchdog investigating about 40 corruption matters including one that ‘relates to a grants scheme’

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04/11/2025 06:25 The Guardian

‘Not over’: Liberal MPs fearing calamity in city electorates launch rearguard action to salvage net zero policy

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04/11/2025 06:19 The Guardian

Joey Barton X posts ‘crossed the line between free speech and crime’, court told

Former footballer on trial over social media posts about pundits Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko and broadcaster Jeremy VineThe former footballer Joey Barton “crossed the line between free speech and a crime” with social media posts aimed at female pundits, a jury has been told.Barton, 43, is accused of...

03/11/2025 18:36 The Guardian

Canada’s Liberal party says budget of ‘sacrifice’ needed to avoid recession

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03/11/2025 18:16 The Guardian

Outrage in Paris as Shein prepares to open its first permanent store

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03/11/2025 17:39 The Guardian

Telegraph bidder reported for potential breach of editorial independence rules

UK government alerted after RedBird Capital’s boss allegedly threatened to ‘go to war’ with the title’s newsroom The boss of the US private equity group bidding for the Daily Telegraph has been reported to the UK government for potentially breaching rules protecting the newspaper’s editori...

03/11/2025 17:06 The Guardian

Rome: worker trapped and one injured after part of medieval tower collapses

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03/11/2025 16:42 The Guardian

At least 36,000 Sudanese have fled since fall of El Fasher to RSF, says UN agency

International Organization for Migration says displaced are heading to Tawila, which is already sheltering 652,000 displaced peopleMore than 36,000 people have fled Sudan’s Kordofan region since Saturday amid a surge in fighting, the UN’s migration agency has said, after the capture last week of...

03/11/2025 16:36 The Guardian

‘I can’t go on anymore’: Mazón resigns as Valencia leader and acknowledges mistakes during deadly 2024 floods – as it happened

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03/11/2025 16:13 The Guardian

Only 3% of international climate aid going to transitioning communities: ‘This is absurd’

New report on funding to slash carbon emissions finds startlingly low engagement with the people affectedLess than 3% of international aid to slash carbon emissions is supporting a “just transition” for workers and communities away from polluting industries, according to a new report.Released on...

03/11/2025 15:00 The Guardian

US government shutdown nearing record for longest in history as Trump delays food benefits to millions – US politics live

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03/11/2025 13:22 The Guardian

First Thing: Top 10 US billionaires’ wealth grew by $698bn in past year

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03/11/2025 13:08 The Guardian

Monday briefing: ‘Heroic’ rail worker fights for life after 15 minutes of horror

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03/11/2025 06:40 The Guardian

‘History won’t forgive us’ if UK falls behind in quantum computing race, says Tony Blair

Exclusive: Former PM and ex-Tory leader William Hague warn UK lacks high-risk capital and infrastructure to harness benefits of powerful technologyTony Blair has said “history won’t forgive us” if the UK falls behind in the race to harness quantum computing, a frontier technology predicted to...

03/11/2025 06:00 The Guardian

Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report

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03/11/2025 05:01 The Guardian

Ukrainian computer game-style drone attack system goes ‘viral’

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03/11/2025 05:00 The Guardian

UK’s unregulated pregnancy scan clinics putting lives in danger, say experts

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03/11/2025 05:00 The Guardian

Police ‘forced to disclose ethnicity of suspects to counter far-right speculation’

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02/11/2025 19:43 The Guardian

California set to approve Prop 50 as voters signal displeasure with Trump

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02/11/2025 16:58 The Guardian

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UK ‘to lose 600,000 workers to illness without better health support at work’

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He told the world what was happening in El Fasher. Then they sought him out. How Sudan lost ‘a true hero of the war’

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02/11/2025 12:00 The Guardian

Ukraine deploys special forces to Pokrovsk in effort to hold key city

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02/11/2025 11:47 The Guardian

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