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• Denuclearization talks with North Korea 'got nowhere': sources

  30-01-2019 23:49 via cnn.com
  As President Donald Trump hails "progress being made," a source familiar with details of the high-profile visit of North Korea's top negotiator this month says those discussions -- at both the State Department level and with the White House --"got nowhere" on denuclearization.A second source agreed with that assessment.
  
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• Australia news live: Julian Leeser says his son no longer feels safe at Jewish events; Barnaby Joyce’s wife bans ABC’s 7.30 from farm

  24-07-2026 09:29
  Liberal MP tells royal commission he remembers his son’s fear when the news broke of the Bondi terror attack. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralian exports sent to the US will be hit with a 12.5% tariff as the US president imposes levies on more than 80 nations.The Trump administration unveiled the latest tranche of tariffs for countries over their “failure to impose and effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation
  
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• Donald Trump hits Australian exports to US with new higher trade tariff over claims of ‘forced labour’

  24-07-2026 09:04
  Australia’s trade minister, Don Farrell, says tariff regime is unjustified and inconsistent with free trade agreement with USFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastDonald Trump has hit Australian exports with new trade tariffs, claiming the country is not doing enough to combat forced labour, but the Albanese government has demanded he remove them immediately.The United States announced on Friday morning (AEST) that
  
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• Australian regulator TGA warns of ‘rare but severe’ eye disorder linked to GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic

  24-07-2026 08:39
  TGA says product information for some diabetes and weight loss drugs updated with warning of NAION disorderFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s medicines regulator has issued warnings for several type 2 diabetes and obesity-related treatments – including Ozempic and Mounjaro – over the potential to cause a “rare but severe” eye disorder that could lead to blindness.The Therapeuti
  
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• ‘A small snippet’: what pubs make of Burnham’s £100m rates giveaway

  24-07-2026 08:00
  
  Landlords say high costs of running hospitality business outweigh potential savings of business rates discountOne of Andy Burnham’s first policy measures as prime minister is a 20% reduction in business rates for pubs, clubs and live music venues.The policy, announced on Thursday, is part of a broader agenda to support the high street and will cost £100m. Continue reading...
  
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• Urgent need for more security after physical attacks and abuse, say MPs’ staff

  24-07-2026 07:00
  
  Exclusive: Westminster survey finds one in two staffers experiencing clinical levels of psychological distressStaff employed by MPs are calling for urgently tightened security after reports of some being physically attacked and hundreds receiving threatening calls and messages.A survey of more than 500 MPs’ staff members found that 78% had received threatening communication and nearly one in three fear for their own safety or that of colleagues. Continue reading...
  
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• Replacing gas stove can help asthmatics as much as some drugs, US experts find

  24-07-2026 07:00
  
  Team in Ohio finds swapping to electric has ‘very large’ impact, despite study being scaled back by Trump cutsA US study has found a 70% drop in hospital admissions and days off from work or school when people with poorly controlled asthma had their gas stove and hob replaced with electric.Ohio’s publicly owned MetroHealth began the study in December 2024 but funding was terminated early by the incoming Trump administration. It had been designed to investigate if replacing gas
  
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• Adelaide airport pulls ads from conservation groups but keeps gas and mining ads during ALP conference

  24-07-2026 06:36
  
  Digital billboards from environmental groups, targeting Labor MPs attending national conference, cancelled with airport stating they are ‘too political’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastConservation groups have questioned why their advertisements targeting Labor politicians were pulled by Adelaide airport for breaking rules on political advertising while others promoting gas and mining kept running.Labor p
  
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• India ‘cockroach’ activist Sonam Wangchuk ends hunger strike as protests spread

  24-07-2026 06:22
  
  Sonam Wangchuk halted strike amid concerns about ‘possible violence’ in India as protest movement urges demonstrations across country on Friday over police brutalityThe Indian “cockroach” activist Sonam Wangchuk has ended a 26-day hunger strike over an exam paper scandal that has spiralled into a wide ranging, youth-led wave of demonstrations against Narendra Modi’s government.Supporters meanwhile have called a nationwide day of protest on Friday. Continue reading..
  
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• Christian Brothers abuse victims to get ‘full’ compensation in backdown after controversial property sales

  24-07-2026 06:17
  
  Edmund Rice Education Australia can be sued over abuse committed by Catholic order, after receiving much of its property holdingsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe entity gifted vast property holdings by the Christian Brothers has agreed to help compensate abuse survivors in full, in a stunning reversal after weeks of public pressure.The Christian Brothers, a Catholic order with a long history of clergy abuse, last
  
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• Trump imposes fresh tariffs on more than 80 countries, drawing protests from US allies and trading partners

  24-07-2026 06:03
  The new tariffs will replace a 10% global duty set to expire on Friday, and comes as after the US supreme court declared many of the earlier levies were illegalDonald Trump has imposed a fresh round of sweeping tariffs on more than 80 countries to replace a 10% global duty that was due to expire, setting off a wave of criticism and protests from US allies and major trading partners.In its latest attempt to instate aggressive trade policies despite challenges from the America’s highest cour
  
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• Racy short story by Alan Turing offers glimpse of ‘playful, funny, cheeky’ side

  24-07-2026 06:00
  
  Writing from year after gross indecency arrest challenges ‘isolated mathematician’ image, says Cambridge academicWhen people think of Alan Turing, they might imagine he was arrogant, isolated, humourless, tortured. A better way of remembering the father of modern computing would be, an academic argues, as “playful, funny, cheeky, literary, and someone who really liked sex”.The Cambridge University English literature professor Sarah Dillon has transcribed and studied a lit
  
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• Ireland urged to put pressure on Germany over pro-Palestinian activist’s trial

  24-07-2026 06:00
  
  Irish politicians concerned about Daniel Tatlow-Devally’s treatment in jail want Micheál Martin to send observers to Ulm 5 trialA cross-party delegation of Irish politicians has urged Dublin to send observers to a high-security trial of pro-Palestinian activists in Germany and to raise concerns about the Irish defendant’s detention when the German chancellor visits next week.Mairéad Farrell of Sinn Féin, a member of the seven-member delegation, said she and her c
  
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• ‘Burnham bounce’ and World Cup lift mood in July, says data firm

  24-07-2026 06:00
  
  ‘Wave of optimism’ is sparked by prospect of new PM, England football team’s progress and hot weatherConsumer confidence in the UK jumped this month by its biggest margin for nearly three years as the prospect of Andy Burnham becoming prime minister became almost certain.The data company GfK said a “Burnham bounce” along with a strong run by the men’s England football team at the World Cup and sunny weather had lifted the mood of consumers in its long-running
  
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• Middle East crisis is ‘getting out of control’, UN chief warns – as it happened

  24-07-2026 04:33
  
  This live blog has not closed, you can read our latest story from the region hereEarlier in the US day, before Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it had stopped three oil tankers from passing through the strait of Hormuz, Donald Trump issued this threat on his Truth Social platform:From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other device or weapon, the United States will bomb and destr
  
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• The ‘cockroaches’ marching on India’s government – podcast

  24-07-2026 04:00
  South Asia correspondent Hannah Ellis-Petersen on the Cockroach movement – and the students driving India’s biggest protests in years‘I’ve never seen this many young people out on the streets,’ says Hannah Ellis-Petersen.For days, tens of thousands of Indians have been marching under the banner of the Cockroach Janta party. Continue reading...
  
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• Democrats criticize Trump’s new tariffs as ‘end-run around the supreme court and Congress’ – as it happened

  24-07-2026 04:00
  
  This live blog is now closed.Trump to impose fresh wave of tariffs on more than 80 countriesSign up for the Breaking News US emailBy a vote of 214-208 lawmakers in the House passed a war powers resolution to curb the Trump administration’s military action in Iran, ahead of the lower chamber’s August reccess.Four Republicans, Brian Fitzpatrick, Warren Davidson, Tom Barrett and Thomas Massie, voted yes, alongside all Democrats. Continue reading...
  
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• What to know about Trump’s new tariffs on more than 80 countries

  24-07-2026 03:56
  
  Tariffs ranging from 10%-12.5%, taking effect on Friday, are US president’s latest effort to circumvent CongressJust before a temporary levy on global imports was set to expire, the Trump administration issued a fresh wave of tariffs on more than 80 countries late on Thursday, ranging from 10% to 12.5%. The new tariffs take effect Friday morning.It’s Donald Trump’s latest effort to continue imposing global levies without congressional approval, despite the supreme court ruling
  
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• Pentagon list of service members killed in Iran war removes most recent four

  24-07-2026 03:49
  
  New York Times reports that list of those killed changed from 18 on Wednesday to 14 on ThursdayThe Pentagon’s official online list of service members killed in the ongoing Iran war does not include the four soldiers who died during renewed fighting over the weekend, despite the fact that their names were included in a Pentagon press release on the formal transfer of their remains back to the United States on Wednesday.A review of the current list on the Pentagon’s Defense Casualty An
  
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• Prosecutors say blood stains on objects in D4vd’s home probably of victim

  24-07-2026 03:34
  
  Defense attorneys question LAPD criminalist on third day of hearing to decide whether singer will stand trialBlood stains on objects recovered from singer D4vd’s former Los Angeles residence probably came from Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the 14-year-old whose decomposed body was found in his Tesla last fall, according to testimony heard in court on Thursday.Prosecutors say D4vd, born David Anthony Burke, fatally stabbed 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez last year to prevent her from exposin
  
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• Thousands flee wildfires in France and Spain as temperatures reach extreme levels in southern Europe

  24-07-2026 02:16
  
  France asks EU for help while Spain declares national emergency around Madrid, as marine heatwave sees parts of Mediterranean Sea 5C hotter than normalBrutal heat torching southern Europe has forced about 30,000 people to flee wildfires in France and Spain as a marine heatwave scalds the Mediterranean and researchers warn that “Dantesque” scenarios cannot be ruled out as infernos worsen.France has requested assistance from ⁠the European Union to help it deal ⁠with a ̼
  
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• UK ‘ready to defend itself’ after Iranian threat over US bases

  24-07-2026 00:41
  IRGC claims base in south-west England was used by US to launch bombing missions, making it ‘legitimate target’The government has said the UK is “ready to defend itself” after Iran’s military warned that any bases being used by the US were “legitimate targets”.The UK has allowed the US to launch “defensive” operations from British bases hosting American planes since the start of its war on Iran but has refused to help in offensive operations.
  
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• Donald Trump says decision on ‘massive attack’ against Iran is close

  23-07-2026 18:58
  
  President’s remarks follow Houthi strikes on Saudi tankers in the Red Sea and oil prices rising past $100 a barrel againDonald Trump has said he is close to deciding whether to launch “a massive attack” against Iran, on a scale larger than strikes already witnessed during the months-long conflict with Tehran.Speaking to the Axios news site, the US president said: “I am considering a massive attack. Bigger than ever before. I am close to making a decision. We are all set f
  
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• Mayor shot dead in Mexico months after surviving assassination attempt

  23-07-2026 18:32
  
  Valentín Lavín Romero is the 14th mayor to be murdered since Claudia Sheinbaum became president in 2024A mayor was shot dead on Wednesday in the Mexican state of Morelos after having survived a previous assassination attempt earlier this year. He is the 14th mayor to be murdered since Claudia Sheinbaum became president in October 2024.Valentín Lavín Romero, who was from the Green party, an ally of the ruling leftwing Morena party, was wounded at the end of January whe
  
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• Ousted Ukrainian defence minister refuses any other role in Zelenskyy’s government – as it happened

  23-07-2026 18:13
  Mykhailo Fedorov says only in his former post could he ‘combat procurement corruption and complete the army’s transformation’EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has offered a bit more detail on the new package of sanctions, saying they are “the largest round in four years,” and will “hit Putin where it hurts most.”In a statement, she said:“We have agreed on the 21st sanctions package against Russia. It delivers sweeping measures targeting Moscow&rs
  
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• Owner of Viking ship used in The Odyssey says studio has not paid bill for damage

  23-07-2026 17:28
  
  Swedish nonprofit alleges cost to repair replica was $6,000 but Universal – which made $264m on film’s opening weekend – has not stumped upThe Swedish owners of a Viking longship replica that features in the Hollywood blockbuster The Odyssey say they feel “forgotten” after film-makers allegedly returned the vessel damaged and failed to foot the bill for repairs.In nearly three decades at sea, the warship Glad av Gillberga – based on a wreck from around 1040 fo
  
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• Murdoch and Musk in the crosshairs at Venice film festival

  23-07-2026 16:58
  Danny Boyle’s drama about the acquisition of the Sun and a four-hour Elon Musk documentary will premiere alongside new films from Martin McDonagh and Werner Herzog – but only one female director has a movie in competitionThe Venice film festival promises to take a swing at media moguls of the print and digital era this year, with Trainspotting director Danny Boyle’s new film about Rupert Murdoch’s acquisition of the Sun and a new documentary about Elon Musk included in th
  
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• Israeli security minister joins Jewish extremists as they storm al-Aqsa mosque compound

  23-07-2026 16:33
  
  Far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was among thousands who gathered at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy siteIsrael’s far-right minister of national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, joined thousands of Jewish extremists who stormed Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site on Thursday.Escorted by armed police, they prayed, waved the Israeli flag and sang the national anthem in a provocative display of political power. Continue reading...
  
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• Two Russian men jailed in Angola for terrorism and spying

  23-07-2026 16:24
  
  The men were convicted over alleged plan to stage coup and organise deadly demonstrations over fuel prices last yearTwo Russian men have been found guilty by an Angolan court of terrorism and spying after being accused of planning a coup and helping to organise deadly demonstrations in the southern African country last year.Lev Lakshtanov and Igor Ratchin were sentenced to eight and 11 years in jail respectively. They had denied the charges, claiming they were in Angola for cultural and business
  
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• MoD cancels army training in Kenya over powers to prosecute British soldiers

  23-07-2026 16:06
  September exercise called off after Kenya raises concerns over funding and jurisdiction for criminal offencesThe British army has been forced to cancel training for its troops in Kenya after the Kenyan government refused to ratify a bilateral defence agreement.While the UK government wanted to renew the existing agreement, Kenyan lawmakers had sought changes to give local authorities greater powers to hold British soldiers accountable for any offences committed in the country. Continue reading..
  
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