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• Four people fall ill at LAX airport from 'apparent fume exposure'

  31-10-2022 17:37 via cnn.com
  
  Four people suddenly fell ill at Los Angeles International Airport on Monday from "apparent fume exposure," according to an incident report from the Los Angeles Fire Department.
  
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• ‘Not a significant possibility’ Chris Dawson innocent of his wife’s murder, court told

  14-05-2024 09:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC says judge was correct to convict Dawson who had a ‘possessive’ relationship with a teenagerFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastChris Dawson’s possessiveness of his teenage babysitter meant his claims of innocence after being convicted of murdering his wife should be rejected, a court has been told.The 75-year-old is trying to overturn an August 2022 New
  
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• Budget 2024 live updates: Australia government federal budget announcement and treasurer Jim Chalmers's speech – latest news

  14-05-2024 09:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Treasurer will be able to boast back-to-back surpluses when he speaks at 7.30pm tonight. Follow live updates todayFederal budget to remain in the black with forecast surplus of $9.3bn for 2023-24What makes someone rich? Find out how your income and wealth compares | InteractiveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastNick McKim said he agrees with EY chief economist, Cherelle Murphy, who says that you can look after people without impacting inflation by taking the
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war live: Blinken visits Kyiv as Ukrainians struggle amid intense Russian attacks

  14-05-2024 09:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Mission by US secretary of state comes shortly after Congress approved a long-delayed $60bn package of aidHere are the latest images from Ukraine, as the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, arrived for a visit.“I returned to Kyiv today to demonstrate our unwavering support for Ukraine as they defend their freedom against Russian aggression,” Blinken said. Continue reading...
  
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• Charlise Mutten murder trial: nine-year-old was ‘excited’ before fatal Christmas trip with alleged killer, jury told

  14-05-2024 09:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Schoolgirl once asked her grandfather if her alleged killer Justin Stein would make a good dad, NSW supreme court hearsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastCharlise Mutten was fond of her alleged killer and was excited to be spending Christmas with him and her mother before the fatal visit, a trial has been told.Justin Laurens Stein, 33, is accused of murdering the schoolgirl on or around 12 January 2022 at
  
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• Middle East crisis live: ‘total’ Israeli victory over Hamas neither likely nor possible, top Biden official says

  14-05-2024 09:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Deputy secretary of state Kurt Campbell warns situation could look like those ‘we found ourselves in after 9/11 … the insurrections continue’Israel deepens offensive in Rafah and re-enters northern areas of Gaza‘Total outrage’: White House condemns Israeli settlers’ attack on Gaza aid trucksIsraeli forces have carried out at least eight strikes on humanitarian convoys and their facilities in Gaza since October, even after aid organisations provided their coor
  
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• David Sanborn, jazz saxophonist known for work with David Bowie and more, dies aged 78

  14-05-2024 09:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Musician who played sax solo on Young Americans and released a series of Grammy-winning albums dies from prostate cancerDavid Sanborn, the Grammy-winning saxophonist whose expressive versatility across jazz and pop also made him a sought-after session player for tracks such as David Bowie’s Young Americans, has died aged 78.A message on social media stated he died from “an extended battle with prostate cancer with complications. Mr Sanborn had been dealing with prostate cancer since
  
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• Tory party refers itself to watchdog over alleged data breach

  14-05-2024 09:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Party reportedly copied in more than 300 email addresses in appeal to supporters to sign up for conferenceThe Conservative party has referred itself to the data protection watchdog over an alleged data breach after it revealed hundreds of email addresses in a pitch to sign up for its annual conference.The party’s registration team, urging supporters to complete their applications for conference, reportedly copied in more than 300 addresses in a way that they could be seen by all recipients
  
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• Deakin University requests dismantling of pro-Palestine encampment as protesters pledge to stay

  14-05-2024 09:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Deputy vice-chancellor says Victorian university wants to ensure ‘safety, security and amenity of all campus users’ but protesters say request is ‘Orwellian’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastDeakin University has become the first education institution in Australia to request students dismantle their pro-Palestine encampment, but protestors have vowed they will “not be moved&
  
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• Union chiefs to hold showdown talks with Starmer over workers’ rights

  14-05-2024 09:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Alarm over Natalie Elphicke’s defection also expected to be raised in meeting with Labour leaderUnion leaders are to meet Keir Starmer for a showdown over the party’s plans to overhaul workers’ rights, with some also expected to express concerns over the defection of Natalie Elphicke.The meeting at the party’s Southwark HQ on Tuesday afternoon comes amid divisions over whether the proposals have been watered down since they were first proposed by Labour’s deputy lea
  
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• Australia put on La Niña watch by Bureau of Meteorology as Pacific sea surface temperatures cool

  14-05-2024 09:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Weather bureau says there is now a 50/50 chance of La Niña forming this yearFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralia has been placed on La Niña watch by the Bureau of Meteorology with early signs the climate pattern linked to cooler and wetter conditions across most of the country could form later this year.The bureau said there was now a 50/50 chance of La Niña forming this year
  
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• Disqualified Eurovision contestant Joost Klein likely to face charges, say Swedish police

  14-05-2024 09:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Klein may be charged over alleged threats and face a fine if convicted, after a member of the production crew made a complaint to policeJoost Klein, the Netherlands’ Eurovision contestant who was disqualified from the competition just hours before the grand final, will probably be charged with making illegal threats, Swedish police have said.The 26-year-old favourite to win was expelled from the competition in Malmö, unprecedented in the 68-year history of Eurovision, after a female m
  
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• More than a third of children’s restaurant meals still exceed salt target

  14-05-2024 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Prezzo and Wetherspoon’s among worst offenders, Action on Salt survey suggestsMore than a third of children’s main meals sold in restaurants still exceed the government’s maximum salt target, with Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Wetherspoon’s and Prezzo among the worst offenders, a survey suggests.Action on Salt found that 37% of children’s main meals sold in the “out of home” sector exceeded the government-set maximum target of 1.71g of
  
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• Michael Cohen to continue testimony at Trump hush-money trial

  14-05-2024 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Former fixer told Manhattan court on Monday that Trump had asked him to keep stories about his personal life out of the mediaDonald Trump’s ex-lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is set to continue crucial testimony on Tuesday in the former US president’s New York hush-money trial, where Trump faces charges of allegedly falsifying records of payments to a porn actor to cover an affair.Cohen’s testimony is seen as crucial to the prosecution’s arguments that the money paid to St
  
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• UK real pay grows at fastest rate in two years as unemployment rises

  14-05-2024 08:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Figures provide mixed message for Bank of England when it considers interest rate cut next monthBusiness live – latest updatesThe level of real pay for UK workers is rising at its fastest rate in more than two years despite a cooling of the labour market that has led to rising unemployment and falling job vacancies, the latest official figures show.Fresh data from the Office for National Statistics showed the mild recession in the second half of 2023 has had an impact on demand for workers
  
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• Great Ormond Street hoping to license gene therapy for ‘bubble baby’ syndrome

  14-05-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Hospital to take unprecedented step after drug firm pulled out despite successful trial of treatmentWhen Great Ormond Street hospital (Gosh) published the results of its gene therapy trial for “bubble baby” syndrome it was hailed as a medical breakthrough. The treatment had a more than 95% success rate for treating the life-threatening disorder in which children have no immune system. But less than a year later, the therapy had been dropped by the pharmaceutical company that planned
  
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• Andrei Belousov: Putin picks trusted technocrat to run defence ministry

  14-05-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Loyalist economist who ‘thinks years ahead’ inherits Kremlin’s biggest challenge as it prepares for the long haul in Ukraine In 2014, Russia’s bloc of economic strategists was panicked by Vladimir Putin’s decision to annex Crimea and foment a war in east Ukraine, a move that led to western condemnation and sanctions against Russia that were seen as potentially ruinous.But his adviser Andrei Belousov was a rare economist who publicly stood by his side, calling the da
  
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• Smaller grocery stores ‘annihilated’ by major supermarkets’ tactics, Queensland inquiry told

  14-05-2024 07:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Aldi, IGA and FoodWorks have appeared at the pricing inquiry a day after Coles and Woolworths were grilledFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSmaller grocers have criticised the business tactics used by retail giants, telling a Queensland inquiry they have been “annihilated” by major supermarket chains.A day after Coles and Woolworths were grilled by the premier, Steven Miles, the likes of IGA
  
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• Tuesday briefing: How Russia’s advance on Kharkiv might end

  14-05-2024 07:52 via theguardian.com
  
  In today’s newsletter: A major new attack on territory known for Kyiv’s biggest victory has led to a sense of Ukraine’s prospects viciously unravelling, town by town• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. In September 2022, Kharkiv province was the site of the greatest Ukrainian victory of the war so far: the lightning counteroffensive that liberated at least 12,000 square kilometres from Russian control, pushed Moscow’s artillery out of r
  
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• Ministers mount last-ditch attempt to save EU laws on restoring nature

  14-05-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Representatives of 11 countries led by Ireland urge other states to help get legislation on rescuing habitats over the lineA last-ditch attempt to try to save the EU’s nature restoration laws from oblivion has been mounted by 11 member states, which are racing to get the legislation over the line in the next four weeks.In a move led by Ireland, 11 environment ministers have written to countries that have said they will either abstain or vote against ratification of the laws, urging them to
  
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• Global violence causing record numbers of internally displaced people

  14-05-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Conflicts in Gaza, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have led to a total of 68m IDPs across the worldConflict has forced more than 68 million people to leave their homes as of the end of 2023 – the highest figure since data became available 15 years ago.Natural disasters made a further 7.7 million people homeless, pushing the total number of internally displaced people (IDPs) to a record 75.9 million, according to figures published by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centr
  
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• Children of austerity need a rescue plan, Gordon Brown says

  14-05-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Former prime minister proposes £3bn support package for more than 3 million of ‘blighted generation’Gordon Brown: ‘Millions of British children born since 2010 have only known poverty. My plan would give them hope’Gordon Brown has called for a rescue plan for “austerity’s children” – a generation of more than 3 million UK young people born after 2010 from low-income families who “have never known what it is like to be free of poverty&rd
  
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• US gives Saudis green light to try to revive peace deal with Houthis

  14-05-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Saudis are keen to end their engagement in Yemen and US needs Saudi support to end Gaza conflictUS determination to keep Saudi Arabia engaged in a peace process with Israel has led Washington to give Riyadh an informal green light to try to revive a peace deal with the Houthis, the Yemen-based rebels who have been attacking commercial shipping in the Red Sea since November.The proposed Yemen UN roadmap for peace was agreed in outline in early December but progress was immediately frozen as the H
  
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• Rohingya being forcibly conscripted in battle between Myanmar and rebels

  14-05-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Myanmar military has conscripted 1,000 Rohingya men and boys since February, with fears some are being used as human shields, according to NGOsFor more than four hours Abdullah* waited in the darkness as soldiers marched 30 of his neighbours from their homes in the Myanmar border state of Rakhine and forced them by gunpoint to join him on the truck that would take them all to a military base.By the morning they were standing in front of a military commander ordering them to fight with the army a
  
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• At least eight Israeli strikes on Gaza aid groups since October, says report

  14-05-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Human Rights Watch says warnings were not issued before attacks, which have killed or injured dozensSee all our Israel-Gaza war coverageIsraeli forces have carried out at least eight strikes on humanitarian convoys and their facilities in Gaza since October, even after aid organisations provided their coordinates to the Israeli authorities, according to a report by Human Rights Watch.HRW said the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) did not issue warnings to the aid organisations before the strikes, whic
  
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• UN denies Gaza death toll of women and children has been revised down

  14-05-2024 05:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Spokesperson says confusion results from Gaza health ministry’s new way of classifying those not yet fully identifiedThe UN has denied that the estimated death toll of women and children in the war in Gaza has been revised downward, pointing towards a confusion between the total numbers of dead bodies recorded, and the number of those who have so far been fully identified.After the Gaza health ministry’s revised totals of those killed first appeared on the website of the UN’s o
  
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• Biden signs bipartisan bill banning imports of Russian uranium

  14-05-2024 04:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Ban, to begin in about 90 days, is White House’s latest effort to apply pressure on Vladimir Putin over his invasion of UkraineJoe Biden has signed into law a bipartisan bill that bans the import of enriched uranium from Russia, in the latest effort by Washington to apply further pressure on Vladimir Putin over his invasion of Ukraine.The ban on imports of the fuel for nuclear power plants begins in about 90 days, although it allows the Department of Energy (DOE) to issue waivers in case o
  
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• ‘Pressured to withdraw’: BJP accused of intimidation tactics in India polls

  14-05-2024 04:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Opposition say ruling party undermining democracy by using police to harass candidates into not contesting in electionsWhen the people of Gujarat cast their votes last week in India’s six-week-long election, there was one constituency in the state that stood silent. There were no polling stations or impatient queues of people, and no one with the tell-tale inky finger. In Surat, no voting was necessary – the outcome was already decided.Mukesh Dalal, from the ruling Bharatiya Janata p
  
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• Man who crashed truck into White House barriers in 2023 pleads guilty

  14-05-2024 02:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Sai Varshith Kandula from Missouri, who was carrying a Nazi flag at time of arrest, said he hoped to overthrow the US governmentA Missouri man pleaded guilty on Monday to crashing a rented truck into metal barriers surrounding the White House in May 2023, admitting that he had been “fueled by the ideology of Nazi Germany” and hoped to overthrow the US government.Sai Varshith Kandula, 20, from Chesterfield, Missouri, and also a citizen of India, pleaded guilty to a single count of dam
  
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• Kristi Noem banned by two more Native tribes in South Dakota

  14-05-2024 01:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Governor, plagued by dog-killing story, unwelcome in 20% of her state after she accused tribal leaders of benefiting from cartelsKristi Noem, the South Dakota governor who was once considered one of Donald Trump’s top vice-presidential contenders, has been banned from nearly one-fifth of the state after two more tribes voted to prohibit her from their lands.The move by the Yankton Sioux tribe and the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate tribe last week follows criticism from the governor who has &ndash
  
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