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13/11/2025 23:26 The Guardian

Meanwhile 10 schools closed in ACT after warning about children’s play sand. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSome ACT schools partially closed, with preschools also affected over asbestos warning for play sandThe list of schools closed in the ACT also includes partial closures affecting multiple classes and preschool closures.What we’ve done is been very clear and said we’re going back to an approach where the market will determine the types of technologies and the pathways. And that is the traditional Liberal approach to addressing these types of issues. And that’s how business gets certainty because it enables the market to dictate.I think people will understand that they don’t want us racing ahead of the rest of the world, costing us manufacturing jobs, costing us industry jobs and putting unrealistic and unreasonable pressure on households because of their electricity bills. Continue reading...

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Multiple ACT schools shut after alert over asbestos in coloured sand products

Testing and remediation to take place in 15 schools after a consumer safety recall was issued for coloured sand used in sensory play and arts and craftsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMore than a dozen primary and presc...

13/11/2025 23:38 The Guardian

Hegseth announces military operation to remove ‘narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere’– live

A massing of forces in the region have prompted widespread speculation that military action against Venezuela are imminentIs US preparing to attack Venezuela and how has Maduro regime responded?Pentagon’s largest warship enters Latin American waters as US tensions with Venezuela riseDemocrats appe...

13/11/2025 23:27 The Guardian

Cop30: ‘We will exterminate ourselves’ if we keep extracting fossil fuels, activists say – as it happened

Climate Action Tracker report finds pledges made in past year have not cut the forecast for global heatingMore than half of all delegation members at Cop30 have withheld or obscured details of their affiliations, potentially concealing conflicts of interest and undermining trust in the Cop process,...

13/11/2025 20:39 The Guardian

Canada says Russia and China are ramping up spy efforts in Arctic region

Canada’s spy agency says it has observed intelligence threats targeting country’s government and private sectorCanada’s domestic spy agency says Russia and China have a “significant intelligence interest” in Canada’s Arctic, and are targeting both the country’s government and its priva...

13/11/2025 20:21 The Guardian

Tenured professor sues University of Kentucky for banning him from law school over comments on Israel

Exclusive: Ramsi Woodcock, who calls for an ‘end’ to Israel and military intervention against it, says the university violated his first amendment rightsA tenured law professor sued the University of Kentucky on Thursday after he was banned from teaching and from the law school for comments he m...

13/11/2025 18:55 The Guardian

Hundreds of thousands to lose heat pump subsidies in Reeves’s budget plan

Exclusive: Supporters say grants largely going to middle-class households, but experts warn move will slow transition from gas boilersHundreds of thousands of homeowners will lose their right to subsidies for eco-friendly heat pumps as a result of government plans to bring down energy bills at the b...

13/11/2025 16:59 The Guardian

Ukraine’s PM announces plans to audit public companies: ‘corruption is unacceptable’ – as it happened

Yulia Svyrydenko says government will conduct major audit of Energoatom and other state-owned firms in bid to fight corruption allegationsA bitter battle over the future of a Chinese-owned chipmaker in the Netherlands that threatened to cripple the global car industry is a “wake-up call to Europe...

13/11/2025 15:30 The Guardian

Weather warnings as Spain’s Storm Claudia reaches UK on Friday

Risk of flooding in parts of England and Wales as storm that has battered Canary Islands makes landFlooding could hit parts of the UK with forecasters issuing an amber warning for rain.Storm Claudia, which was named by the Spanish meteorological service, will bring heavy downpours and strong winds o...

13/11/2025 14:19 The Guardian

State-sanctioned fuel smuggling cost Libya $20bn over three years – report

Policy body calls for western-backed investigation into oil officials known to be at heart of illegal enterpriseA surge in state-sanctioned fuel smuggling between 2022 and 2024 cost the Libyan people about $20bn (£15bn) in lost revenue – an alarming sum that demands decisive international sanctio...

13/11/2025 14:02 The Guardian

SA attorney general refers anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe’s fundraiser ‘game’ for investigation

Bingo card-style game, where supporters encouraged to ‘buy’ words and phrases linked to contentious abortion bill, condemned by crossbench MLCs as a ‘grift’ that trivialised debateFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcas...

13/11/2025 14:00 The Guardian

Alan Rickman’s personal scripts and mementoes up for auction

Lots include the annotated shooting script for Die Hard and a hand-drawn Halloween card from his Harry Potter co-star Rupert GrintAlan Rickman’s obsessive attention to detail is revealed in the copious annotations he made on all his scripts, as a number of film-related items from the late actor’...

13/11/2025 13:21 The Guardian

Surrey services failed to act on warning signs before Sara Sharif’s murder, finds review

Children’s services did not identify Sara, 10, was at risk of abuse, did not question bruising and overlooked father’s previous violenceServices failed to identify Sara Sharif was at risk of abuse, did not question unexplained bruising and almost all professionals overlooked her father’s viole...

13/11/2025 10:35 The Guardian

Ed Miliband urges Labour to move on after Starmer apologises to Streeting for hostile briefings from No 10 – UK politics live

Fallout from extraordinary briefing operation against Wes Streeting continues as calls grow for Starmer to sack his chief of staff Morgan McSweeneySeverin Carrell is the Guardian’s Scotland editor.Scotland’s auditor general has warned that the Scottish government can spend far less tax than it r...

13/11/2025 09:31 The Guardian

‘I’d do it all again,’ says Dutch minister at heart of car chip standoff with China

Exclusive: Vincent Karremans says row with Beijing that threatened global car production is ‘wake-up call’ to westA bitter battle over the future of a Chinese-owned chipmaker in the Netherlands that threatened to cripple the global car industry is a “wake-up call to Europe and the west”, the...

13/11/2025 08:00 The Guardian

Greens and independents line up to condemn Liberals’ net zero decision – as it happened

This blog is now closedMalcom Turnbull accuses Liberals of ‘Trumpian campaign against renewables’ after party dumps net zeroLiberals formally abandon emissions target but Ley says reaching net zero would still be ‘welcome outcome’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTea...

13/11/2025 07:06 The Guardian

Amid Japan’s surge in bear attacks, a torrent of AI-generated videos is adding to anxiety

Videos show schoolgirls fighting off animals, while others show people feeding bears, with some so realistic that users struggled to distinguish between fact and fictionIf a record number of fatal bear attacks wasn’t terrifying enough, experts say a torrent of AI-generated videos in Japan purporti...

13/11/2025 05:37 The Guardian

Putin opponents criticise EU ban on multi-entry visas for Russians

Restrictions for entry to Schengen zone announced last Friday because of sabotage attacks linked to RussiaRussian opposition figures have reacted with anger and dismay to a decision by the European Union to introduce a ban on multi-entry visas to the Schengen zone for Russian citizens, announced in...

13/11/2025 05:25 The Guardian

‘Utter hypocrisy’: tobacco firm lobbied against rules in Africa that are law in UK

British American Tobacco pushed Zambian ministers to drop or delay ad bans, health warnings and restrictions on flavoured products, letter showsBritish American Tobacco has been accused of “utter hypocrisy” for lobbying against tobacco control measures in Africa that are already in place in the...

13/11/2025 04:00 The Guardian

Anthropic announces $50bn plan for datacenter construction in US

AI startup behind Claude chatbot working with London-based Fluidstack on building vast new computing facilitiesArtificial intelligence company Anthropic announced a $50bn investment in computing infrastructure on Wednesday that will include new datacenters in Texas and New York.“We’re getting cl...

12/11/2025 22:29 The Guardian

Briefing war spotlights relationships between three of Labour’s most senior figures

Rift said to be driven between Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney even before attacks on Wes StreetingOne way to flush out a leadership challenger, according to Gordon Brown’s one-time enforcer, is to push them over the edge.In his chronicle of his time at the centre of power, Damian McBride wrote...

12/11/2025 19:14 The Guardian

Ukrainian energy minister Hrynchuk resigns as corruption probe fallout continues – as it happened

Following Zelenskyy’s request Svitlana Hrynchuk has now also resigned from her post. This live blog is closedAngela Giuffrida in Rome and Kim Willsher in ParisProsecutors in Milan have opened an investigation into Italians who allegedly paid members of the Bosnian Serb army for trips to Sarajevo s...

12/11/2025 18:01 The Guardian

The EU invited Ukraine to join the club, but will it ever happen?

Zelenskyy wants admission before 2030, but with a growing far-right, anti-enlargement contingent and budgetary fears mounting, some countries are hiding behind a Hungarian veto• Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereVolodymyr Zelenskyy may be a wartime leader, but he is f...

12/11/2025 15:53 The Guardian

Stakes rise as Trump deploys world’s largest aircraft carrier to the Caribbean

Expert says military action may be ‘imminent’ in Venezuela, while others suspect deployment is a negotiating tacticExplainer: Is US preparing to attack Venezuela and how has Maduro regime responded?When Donald Trump started sending warships, marines and reaper drones to the Caribbean in August t...

12/11/2025 15:38 The Guardian

Dire warnings over aid and hunger following RSF’s capture of Sudanese city

Fears rise for displaced civilians as UN reports deteriorating situation and MSF warns of ‘staggering’ malnutritionThere are grave fears for civilians who survived the capture of El Fasher by a Sudanese paramilitary group last month, as the UN warned relief operations were on the brink of collap...

12/11/2025 14:37 The Guardian

Cop30 live: US looms over talks despite absence as protests at venue continue

Day three at the Belem summit is expected to see more protests as crucial climate negotiations begin in earnestFear of being bullied by Donald Trump may have prompted Bill Gates to row back on the climate crisis, the former US vice president Al Gore has speculated, as he slammed the billionaire as ...

12/11/2025 14:09 The Guardian

House set to vote on deal to end shutdown amid Democratic splits – US politics live

Democrats have vowed to vote against the proposal after a faction of senators broke with party to pass a compromiseFull report – House to vote on bill that could end government shutdownTop Democrats have vowed to oppose the government funding bill, in large part because it does not directly addres...

12/11/2025 12:45 The Guardian

‘Part of the joy economy’: bumper year for UK toys as Wicked dolls and Pokémon appeal to ‘kidults’

Some of this year’s Christmas must-haves are also expected to appeal to older generationsThere could be tug of war under the Christmas tree this year owing to the growing trend of adult toy collectors, a rundown of the season’s must-haves suggests.Singing Wicked 2 dolls, manga-themed Lego, a Pok...

12/11/2025 09:59 The Guardian

Streeting denies plot to oust Starmer and condemns briefings from No 10

Health secretary says attacks on him from Downing Street ‘self-defeating’ after reports PM’s job could be under threatUK politics live – latest updatesWes Streeting has denied leading a plot to overthrow the prime minister and called for those briefing against him to be sacked, widening an e...

12/11/2025 08:14 The Guardian

Tehan and Ley to reveal Liberals’ net zero emissions position tomorrow – as it happened

This blog is now closedLiberals poised to dump net zero target after majority reject policy in marathon five-hour meetingGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastRemoving CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist saysRemoving carbon from the...

12/11/2025 07:07 The Guardian

Minns says his office possibly not notified of neo-Nazi rally because it was held on the weekend

List of those who were told in advance grows to include police, parliamentary security, lower house speaker and upper house presidentFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe NSW premier, Chris Minns, says staff in his office...

12/11/2025 04:05 The Guardian

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