Australian War Memorial allegedly defaced with pro-Palestine graffiti, police say

14/06/2024 09:30 The Guardian

ACT police say man allegedly graffitied the outside of building and the ground with ‘pro-Palestine slogans’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian War Memorial has been allegedly defaced with pro-Palestine graffiti, ACT police have said.The police said a man allegedly graffitied three areas on the outside of the Canberra building and on the ground in a publicly accessible area about 1am on Friday morning. Police would not say what the graffiti said, only that it was “pro-Palestine slogans”.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...

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Politicians urge Labour to restore Electoral Commission independence

All-party group say move is needed to stop UK lagging behind global standards on election integrityKeir Starmer is being urged to restore independence to the Electoral Commission, with MPs and peers likely to launch a battle to amend the elections bill in the new year.In a letter to the prime minist...

24/11/2025 07:00 The Guardian

Australian federal MPs warned to turn off phones when Chinese delegation visits Parliament House

Liberal party senator calls Department of Parliamentary Services email ‘incredibly concerning’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPoliticians and staff in parts of Parliament House have been urged to turn off their phon...

24/11/2025 05:54 The Guardian

Australia politics live: question time under way; some MPs and staff warned to turn off phones when Chinese delegation visits Parliament House

Follow today’s news liveWatch: Sussan Ley asks ‘how do we maintain the rage?’ over the 74 Australian women killed in 2024Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastJumping back to Murray Watt: the environment minister was asked on ABC News Breakfast a little earlier about the e...

24/11/2025 03:04 The Guardian

Penny Wong says Ukraine’s territorial integrity must be upheld amid global backlash to Trump plan

Australian foreign minister echoes European call for sovereignty to be respected and for end to ‘Russia’s illegal and immoral war’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastForeign minister Penny Wong has warned any peace pl...

24/11/2025 02:40 The Guardian

US and Ukraine promise ‘updated’ peace framework after criticism of pro-Russian points in original plan

US-Ukraine statement comes hours after European countries propose their own alternative peace The US and Ukraine said they had created an “updated and refined peace framework” to end the war with Russia, hours after European countries proposed their own radical alternative that omitted some of t...

23/11/2025 21:57 The Guardian

Ukrainian refugee Danylo Yavhusishyn wows Japan to win his country’s first elite sumo title

21-year-old beats grand champion HoshoryuWrestler uses ring name Aonishiki ArataDanylo Yavhusishyn has become the first Ukrainian to win a sumo tournament in Japan.The 21-year-old, who fled the war in Ukraine three years ago, won the Kyushu tournament after a tie-breaking victory over grand champion...

23/11/2025 20:19 The Guardian

Many prominent Maga personalities on X are based outside US, new tool reveals

Users posing as rightwing Americans are operating internationally, per the platform’s transparency featureMany of the most influential personalities in the “Make America great again” (Maga) movement on X are based outside of the US, including Russia, Nigeria and India, a new transparency featu...

23/11/2025 18:17 The Guardian

UN warns world losing climate battle but fragile Cop30 deal keeps up the fight

Reaching agreement in divisive political landscape shows ‘climate cooperation is alive and kicking’, says UN climate chiefThe world is not winning the fight against the climate crisis but it is still in that fight, the UN climate chief has said in Belém, Brazil, after a bitterly contested Cop30...

23/11/2025 17:46 The Guardian

Police disclosing suspects’ ethnicity is fuelling prejudice, say campaigners

Fifty groups write letter calling for policy in high-profile cases in England and Wales to be scrappedThe police’s decision to reveal the ethnicity and nationality of suspects in high-profile crimes has had a “devastating effect” and is helping to spread prejudice, racial justice campaigners s...

23/11/2025 17:00 The Guardian

Trump blasts Ukraine for ‘zero gratitude’ as Germany says deal to end war unlikely to be reached by Thursday deadline – as it happened

Chancellor Friedrich Merz says ‘we are still a long way from that’ as Trump blasts Ukrainian leadership on social mediaThe Ukrainian delegation has held talks with European security officials in Geneva, according to the head of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office, Andriy Yermak.“Overall, a series o...

23/11/2025 15:52 The Guardian

‘Stranded’: Palestinians who were in Israel on 7 October 2023 are suspended between exile and war

Unable to reunite with their families in Gaza due to the closed border, Palestinian workers have spent two years in a refugee camp at Nablus stadiumInside a dim locker room at the Nablus municipal stadium, in the occupied West Bank, the television rarely goes dark, streaming day and night the relent...

23/11/2025 14:00 The Guardian

Bereaved parents face ‘harrowing’ delays for NHS postmorterms

Shortage of specialist doctors means service is in crisis, says chair of Royal College of Pathologists committeeBereaved parents are enduring “harrowing” delays of more than a year to find out why their child died because the NHS has too few specialist doctors to perform postmortems.The shortage...

23/11/2025 13:03 The Guardian

French winemakers ‘battle for survival’ as minister prepares for crisis talks

Vineyard owners say sales slump, Trump tariffs and worst harvest in 70 years have put producers in danger of closureFrench winemakers are often accused of viewing the glass as half empty. Dire warnings about the state of the sector – one of the three pillars of the country’s economy – are a ha...

23/11/2025 13:02 The Guardian

Trump’s former ‘drone guy’ Dan Driscoll is the unlikely point man for the Ukraine peace deal

The army secretary has little in his résumé to suggest he can end the war between Russia and UkraineLittle in Dan Driscoll’s résumé – past or present – suggests he has the qualifications to understand the often-tortured and bloody history of relations between Russia and Ukraine.A former in...

23/11/2025 13:00 The Guardian

Trump, war, absent media: five threats to climate progress that dogged Cop30

Did the talks succeed or fail? The verdict must take account of the geopolitical minefield they took place inCop30 in Belém wrapped up on Saturday night more than 24 hours later than planned, and with an Amazonian rainstorm thundering down on the conference centre. The UN structure just about held,...

23/11/2025 10:21 The Guardian

Safe haven to sanctions: how Jersey sheltered Roman Abramovich’s billions

Court papers show the island cautiously welcomed the oligarch – with London’s approval – before Russia’s invasion of UkraineFor decades the Channel Islands tax haven of Jersey has played a big role in moving fortunes made in some of the world’s most despotic countries into the west, attrac...

23/11/2025 10:00 The Guardian

Palestine Action ban could lead to people being wrongly criminalised, Home Office official says

Exclusive: Member of homeland security group says anti-terrorism Prevent scheme risks being overwhelmed by Palestine advocatesThe anti-terrorism Prevent programme risks being overwhelmed because of the government’s ban on Palestine Action and could lead to people being wrongly criminalised, a memb...

23/11/2025 06:00 The Guardian

Trump says Ukraine deal is not ‘final offer’ as officials gather for Geneva summit

US president signals potential room for adjustments after Zelenskyy says proposals force Ukraine to choose between national dignity and losing the USDonald Trump said on Saturday that his “peace plan” was “not my final offer”, after a furious backlash from Ukrainians who described it as remi...

23/11/2025 03:02 The Guardian

Western leaders at G20 say US peace plan for Ukraine ‘will require work’

European leaders say Washington’s proposal needs major changes, as Macron warns G20 risks losing relevanceWestern leaders have said the US peace plan for ending the war in Ukraine “will require additional work” at the G20 summit in Johannesburg, which Donald Trump boycotted.The draft plan, whi...

22/11/2025 21:49 The Guardian

Human rights fears over Australia’s role in F-35 parts after Trump’s decision to sell fighter jets to Saudi Arabia

Experts warn US deal on ‘lethal’ aircraft presents issues for Australia that ‘we’ve tried desperately to ignore with the Israelis’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastDonald Trump’s unilateral decision to sell F-...

22/11/2025 19:00 The Guardian

Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system

Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’Boris Johnson took four days off from official government business during a key period in the UK’s Covid preparation when the NHS was bracing to be “overwhelmed” by the virus...

22/11/2025 17:00 The Guardian

US plan for Ukraine needs ‘additional work’, say Kyiv’s allies at G20 summit – as it happened

This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereLeaders from Europe, Canada, Japan and Australia are expected to huddle on the sidelines of the G20 summit on Saturday to “discuss the way ahead on Ukraine”, an EU official said.A European diplomatic source told Agence France-Presse (A...

22/11/2025 15:45 The Guardian

Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee

Bolsonaro was under house arrest for masterminding coup to stop 2022 election winner, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, taking officeBrazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign emb...

22/11/2025 15:16 The Guardian

Trump to end temporary protected status for Somali immigrants in Minnesota

Move could affect hundreds of Somalis who fled civil war in their home countryDonald Trump said on Friday night that he’s “immediately” terminating temporary legal protections for Somali migrants living in Minnesota, further targeting a program seeking to limit deportations that his administra...

22/11/2025 15:08 The Guardian

US tells Nato if Zelenskyy does not sign peace deal Ukraine will face worse in future

US army secretary briefs ambassadors at ‘nightmare meeting’ in Kyiv on Friday after talks with Ukrainian leaderUS officials have told Nato allies they expect to push president Volodymyr Zelenskyy into agreeing to a peace deal in the coming days, under the threat that if Kyiv does not sign, it wi...

22/11/2025 10:50 The Guardian

Beware buy now, pay later temptation on Black Friday, debt charities warn

Billions will be spent on credit over the discount weekend but experts say the payment option is ‘not risk-free’Black Friday bargain-hunters should be wary of the flood of “buy now, pay later” offers at the checkout, money experts have warned, amid record numbers of people seeking help with...

22/11/2025 09:00 The Guardian

‘They decided to kill us with cold’: Ukrainians struggle against Russian assault on power network

Chernihiv residents say they are without power for 14 hours a day as they gather in ‘invincibility points’ to charge up and warm upValentyna Ivanivna showed off her new head torch. It was a present from her grandson, she said. Most evenings she wears it while doing household chores: cooking dinn...

22/11/2025 05:00 The Guardian

Trump says he is ending immigration protections for Somalis in Minnesota

President claims he is ‘immediately’ terminating temporary protected status in US state with largest Somali communityDonald Trump said on Friday night he was “immediately” terminating temporary legal protections for Somali migrants living in Minnesota, further targeting a program seeking to...

22/11/2025 03:15 The Guardian

Zelenskyy says Ukraine has impossible choice as Trump pushes plan to end war

US president demands that Kyiv accepts plan that would mean giving up territory to Russia Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukraine faces one of the most difficult moments in its history, after Donald Trump demanded Kyiv accepts within days a US-backed “peace plan” that would force it to give up terr...

21/11/2025 23:37 The Guardian

Group of Epstein abuse survivors say they have received death threats

In a signed statement, 28 victims say they are bracing for blame for their abuse and threats of harmA group of survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse have warned they have received death threats and are worried about an escalation as they wait for the release of the files related to the late...

21/11/2025 22:58 The Guardian

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