As Dutton faces a last-minute policy inquisition, Albanese seems to be on top – and he knows it

19/04/2025 20:00 The Guardian

An increasingly confident prime minister has bounced back from his campaign missteps while a nervous-looking opposition leader is running out of time to make a comebackElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignPolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastTwo weeks until the 3 May election day and Anthony Albanese is cracking jokes about Star Wars.Every profile and sketch of the prime minister during this campaign – which is now past its halfway – speaks of the confidence and even swagger Albanese projects as he travels the country. It is one of the starkest differences to his 2022 campaign, which was dominated by missteps: forgetting key economic figures, then his untimely Covid diagnosis and images of being chased out of a press conference by journalists. Continue reading...

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Australia election live 2025: Coalition pledges child sex abuse offenders register amid crime crackdown

Peter Dutton promises a suite of law and order policies on the eve of early voting opening. Follow the day’s news livePolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: G...

20/04/2025 21:49 The Guardian

Tens of thousands waited more than 24 hours for hospital beds in A&E last year

Patients in England aged 65 or over made up almost 70% of long ‘trolley waits’, with some left for up to 10 days, data revealsAbout 49,000 A&E visits last year resulted in patients waiting 24 hours or more for a hospital bed, with people aged 65 or over making up almost 70% of cases.Accordin...

20/04/2025 21:30 The Guardian

NHS cancer patients denied life-saving drugs due to Brexit costs, report finds

Exclusive: Britons found to have ‘lost out’ while rest of Europe benefits from golden age of research and treatments‘Children with cancer cannot wait’: the human cost of clinical trial delays after BrexitBritish cancer patients are being denied life-saving drugs and trials of revolutionary t...

20/04/2025 16:00 The Guardian

Israeli military admits ‘professional failures’ over Gaza paramedic killings

IDF says it is dismissing deputy commander for giving ‘inaccurate report’ on shooting that caused global outcryIsrael’s military has admitted to several “professional failures” and a breach of orders in the killing of 15 rescue workers in Gaza last month, and said that it was dismissing a...

20/04/2025 15:51 The Guardian

Zelenskyy says Russia has intensified shelling despite ‘Easter truce’ as Moscow also accuses Ukraine of breaching ceasefire – as it happened

‘Easter truce’ ordered by Putin on Saturday but Ukraine president says Russian army continuing efforts to advance. This live blog is closedZelenskyy dismisses Putin ceasefire as ‘PR’ and says Russian attacks continueEaster falls on the same day this year for orthodox and western churches, an...

20/04/2025 14:29 The Guardian

Zelenskyy accuses Russia of violating Putin’s Easter ceasefire 2,000 times

Ukrainian president dismisses move as ‘PR’ amid reports of strikes, while Moscow also claims breaches by KyivVolodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed Vladimir Putin’s Easter ceasefire as a fake “PR” exercise and said Russian troops had continued their drone and artillery attacks across many parts...

20/04/2025 14:16 The Guardian

RAF fighters scrambled twice to intercept Russian planes last week

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20/04/2025 13:28 The Guardian

Jim Ratcliffe’s chemicals business under pressure from Trump tariffs, Moody’s warns

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20/04/2025 13:00 The Guardian

Moscow may gain key role in Iran nuclear deal as US talks progress

Russia touted as possible destination for Iran’s uranium stockpile and could also act as arbiter of deal breachesRussia could play a key role in a deal on the future of Iran’s nuclear programme, with Moscow being touted not only as a possible destination for Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched...

20/04/2025 12:16 The Guardian

The Trump-Harvard showdown is the latest front in a long conservative war against academia

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20/04/2025 12:00 The Guardian

Go-to author on White House reverses take on Biden and slams former president

Chris Whipple’s third book, Uncharted, hits Biden and aides like a bludgeon, with key sources who speak on the record“Biden was mentally sharp, even if he appeared physically frail,” Chris Whipple wrote in The Fight of His Life, his 2023 book on the 46th president, who was then warming up his...

20/04/2025 12:00 The Guardian

British firms urged to hold video or in-person interviews amid North Korea job scam

Google intelligence report finds UK is a particular target of IT worker ploy that sends wages to Kim Jong Un’s stateBritish companies are being urged to carry out job interviews for IT workers on video or in person to head off the threat of giving jobs to fake North Korean employees.The warning wa...

20/04/2025 10:48 The Guardian

Australia election 2025 live: NSW government saves music festivals with $2.25m emergency funding

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19/04/2025 23:56 The Guardian

Putin cannot be trusted, says Ukraine after Russia announces ‘Easter truce’ – as it happened

This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story here:Putin announces surprise ‘Easter truce’Here are some of the latest images on the newswires:Russian troops recaptured the village of Oleshnya in Russia’s western Kursk region from Ukrainian forces, the RIA state news agency cited the...

19/04/2025 16:57 The Guardian

Despair in Gaza as Israeli aid blockade creates crisis ‘unmatched in severity’

Palestinians pushed into new misery as supplies of food, fuel and medicine run out in seven-week siegeGaza has been pushed to new depths of despair, civilians, medics and humanitarian workers say, by the unprecedented seven-week-long Israeli military blockade that has cut off all aid to the strip.Th...

19/04/2025 16:54 The Guardian

‘I love my country but nobody is safe’: the plight of Cameroon’s exiles, trapped in Nigeria

English-speaking minority refugees caught up in clashes between the military and separatists are stranded in neighbouring countryAmid the sound of children excitedly practising a drama for a forthcoming performance, a yam seller calls to passers by with discounts for their wares. Outside a closed gr...

19/04/2025 16:00 The Guardian

JD Vance had ‘exchange of opinions’ with senior cardinal, Vatican says

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19/04/2025 14:26 The Guardian

‘I saw cars on fire. People were lying at my feet’: Ukrainian survivors describe Russia’s attack on Sumy

Alla Shyrshonkova was on a bus when Russian missiles hit the city. Now a toy bear and hippo mark the spot where 35 people, including two children, were killedLast weekend, Alla Shyrshonkova got on the 62 bus on a journey to her cottage near the Ukrainian city of Sumy. It was a warm spring day. “I...

19/04/2025 14:08 The Guardian

Orbán’s stance on Ukraine pushes Hungary to brink in EU relations

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19/04/2025 11:02 The Guardian

Australia to advocate for Melbourne man charged by Russia after fighting for Ukraine

Oscar Jenkins reportedly faces 15-year jail term on charges of fighting as ‘mercenary’Election 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia will use “whatever avenues” it can to help Melbourne man Oscar Jenkin...

19/04/2025 05:10 The Guardian

‘Powerful’ waves continue to pummel east coast as Easter beach death toll rises to five

Lifesavers advised people to heed warnings and stay away from the coastlineGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastWild surf conditions have battered beaches on Australia’s east coast, with hazardous conditions killing five people across the country over the Easter long wee...

19/04/2025 03:35 The Guardian

US senator says margaritas in photo with wrongly deported man planted by El Salvador – as it happened

This blog is now closed. You can read our latest story hereThe US is optimistic that it can end “the very brutal war” between Russia and Ukraine, Vice-President JD Vance said before a bilateral meeting with the Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome on Friday.The meeting comes less than 2...

19/04/2025 01:37 The Guardian

US releases thousands of files related to Robert F Kennedy assassination

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18/04/2025 19:56 The Guardian

Trump team reveals lack of expertise – and patience – as it threatens to abandon Ukraine peace talks

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18/04/2025 18:02 The Guardian

Judge approves Harvey Weinstein’s request to sleep at hospital during retrial

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18/04/2025 17:32 The Guardian

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18/04/2025 17:06 The Guardian

Residents of London apartment block left without running water for 12 days

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18/04/2025 16:22 The Guardian

Trump threatens to abandon Ukraine peace efforts unless deal reached ‘very shortly’

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18/04/2025 15:07 The Guardian

Russia-Ukraine war: Rubio threatens to walk away from peace talks as outline of US minerals deal revealed – as it happened

This blog is now closed, you can read on our report here The Kremlin said on Friday that some progress had already been made in talks about a possible peace settlement to end the war in Ukraine but that contacts were rather complicated with the United States.“Contacts are quite complicated, becaus...

18/04/2025 14:54 The Guardian

‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike

Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her familyAs a young photojournalist living in Gaza, Fatima Hassouna knew that death was always at her doorstep. As she spent the past 18 months of war documenting...

18/04/2025 14:25 The Guardian

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