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• Israel says EU relations 'friendly' again after label spat

  12-02-2016 17:15 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Israel's foreign ministry says relations with the European Union are "close and friendly" again after tensions arose last year over the bloc's decision to label West Bank exports.
  
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• Australia news live: gasps and surprised murmurs in NSW State Library as AusAlert emergency test alarm blares

  27-07-2026 06:22
  Follow the day’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhat you need to know about today’s AusAlert testIt’s also well worth watching this video of Guardian Australia’s community affairs reporter Adeshola Ore’s interview with Barnaby Joyce about Armidale’s refugee resettlement program and One Nation’s policy positions on immigration.One Nation’s policy is that immigrants who do not speak English should “under no
  
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• Pauline Hanson loses bid to overturn Mehreen Faruqi racial discrimination finding

  27-07-2026 06:14
  Judges find in Faruqi’s favour after One Nation leader launched an appeal against judgement she had breached Racial Discrimination ActFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA court has upheld the finding that Pauline Hanson engaged in racial discrimination against Mehreen Faruqi when she tweeted the Greens senator should “pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan”.The One Nation leader launched the app
  
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• Heathrow expansion would take thousands of jobs from other UK regions, report finds

  27-07-2026 06:00
  Airports in England and Wales are likely to lose millions of passengers if third runway goes ahead, DfT economic paper showsExpanding Heathrow airport will take thousands of jobs from other regions of the UK, including almost 10,000 from the West Midlands alone, according to an analysis of the government’s own forecasts.An economic paper published by the Department for Transport last month shows that airports in England and Wales are likely to lose millions of passengers if Heathrow builds
  
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• Pedro Sánchez says Spain is suffering effects of climate crisis as firefighters battle wildfires in France

  27-07-2026 05:58
  Blazes near Madrid coming under control but efforts to contain huge fire near Bordeaux hampered by windy conditionsAuthorities in France battled to contain a huge wildfire near Bordeaux as the forecast of another heatwave threatened to deepen the crisis and the Spanish prime minister, Pédro Saánchez, warned Spain and the Iberian peninsula were suffering the effects of the climate emergency.Windy conditions on Saturday night hampered efforts to extinguish the blaze in the Gironde re
  
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• Two dead in shootings at Bite of Seattle food festival, say authorities

  27-07-2026 05:56
  At least four people taken to hospital after gunfire at Seattle Center near Space Needle, with one reported to be in a critical conditionTwo people were killed and five others wounded in a shooting on Sunday evening during a food festival at an events complex near the Space Needle in Seattle, a city fire department spokesperson said.The Seattle Center was hosting the Bite of Seattle food festival over the weekend. After the shooting, police urged people to avoid the area. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘A new trajectory’: EVs now almost quarter of Australia’s new car sales as fuel crisis bites

  27-07-2026 05:37
  More electric vehicles sold in first half of 2026 than whole of last year, new data showsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralians bought more electric vehicles in the first six months of 2026 than the whole of the previous year, new data shows, as the ongoing crisis in the Middle East causes uncertainty about petrol prices.There were 103,855 battery electric vehicles (EVs) sold nationally between January and June
  
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• Jacinta Allan leadership challenge: Ben Carroll confirms he will stand against Victorian premier

  27-07-2026 04:36
  Deputy premier says he told leader of his intention on Monday after Allan refused request to stand downFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastVictoria’s deputy premier, Ben Carroll, has confirmed he will nominate for the leadership of the Labor party, after a group of MPs told Jacinta Allan she no longer had the support of caucus.The cross-factional group of ministers and MPs met the premier before Monday’s sch
  
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• AusAlert test: what time will national emergency warning siren sound on phones in Australia today? Here’s what to know

  27-07-2026 02:06
  National emergency test alert will be sent to all compatible mobile devices on 27 July, with domestic violence advocates advising how to turn off safe phonesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastVirtually every phone in the country will blare an emergency siren at 2pm AEST on Monday 27 July as part of the first Australia-wide test of a new national warning system called AusAlert.Most phones, and some smartwatches and tabl
  
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• ‘Extraordinarily hot’: US heatwave stretches on with millions still under warnings

  27-07-2026 02:04
  Southern and central states from California to Mississippi face heat indexes above 100F amid another heat domeAt least 40 million people were under extreme heat warnings across central and southern parts of the United States on Sunday as high temperatures and severe humidity gripped large swaths of the country for a second straight day.Heat indexes well above 100F (38C) stretched from Minnesota down to Mississippi, extending west into southern California and Nevada. Parts of the south-west were
  
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• Rising oil prices could force up UK interest rates, say economists

  27-07-2026 01:01
  Bank of England expected to keep rates on hold on Thursday but renewed Iran conflict casts shadow over energy costsThe Bank of England could be forced to tear up its economic forecasts and raise interest rates later this year if oil prices return to above $100 a barrel, according to City economists.Before a meeting of Bank officials on Thursday, economists said that while an interest rate hike would probably be avoided this week there could be some in the future because of conflict in the Middle
  
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• RAF Chinook crash victims’ families ask Andy Burnham for review of disaster

  27-07-2026 01:01
  PM urged to end ‘cover-up culture’ and order independent review taking in evidence that has emerged on 1994 crashThe families of those killed in an RAF Chinook crash in 1994 have urged Andy Burnham to end Britain’s “cover-up culture” and order an independent review into the disaster.Twenty-nine serving military personnel died when the Chinook HC2 helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in south-west Scotland during a flight from Northern Ireland. Continue reading.
  
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• Pentagon reports more than 600 Iran war casualties in quiet database update

  27-07-2026 00:55
  Figures are source of dispute as US defense department days ago reduced record of troops killed and woundedThe Pentagon updated its official war casualty database over the weekend, adding more than 140 wounded service members. The Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) also introduced a new casualty category labeled “Overseas Operations” for personnel killed and wounded “starting July 7”.According to the updated database, the official toll for the earlier phase of the US
  
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• Boy, 16, charged with murder of teenager stabbed in Luton park

  27-07-2026 00:26
  Four others arrested on suspicion of same murder in Luton after death of 17-year-oldA 16-year-old boy has been charged with murdering a teenager who died from multiple stab wounds at a park in Luton, police said.Four other teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of the same murder. Continue reading...
  
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• Water supply restored to Gatwick airport after hours without working toilets

  27-07-2026 00:01
  Airport’s bars and restaurants were also unable to serve drinks to passengers because of lack of running waterWater supply has been restored to most of Gatwick airport after passengers spent hours without access to working toilets, and bars and restaurants were closed.Most toilets had reopened across both terminals on Sunday evening, with the remaining facilities, including bars and restaurants, expected to return to normal for the first of Monday’s flights. Continue reading...
  
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• Burnham to meet Zelenskyy at UK naval base in show of ‘unwavering’ support

  26-07-2026 23:30
  Ukrainian president will be first overseas visitor for new British prime ministerVolodymyr Zelenskyy will become Andy Burnham’s first overseas visitor as prime minister, in a visit that Burnham said underlined Britain’s “unwavering” backing for Ukraine.Less than two weeks after Keir Starmer travelled to Kyiv for the final foreign visit of his prime ministership, the Ukrainian president will on Monday join Burnham at a naval base where Ukrainian forces have been receiving
  
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• Netanyahu accuses Mamdani of ‘fomenting hate’ in calls for PM’s arrest

  26-07-2026 22:43
  Israeli prime minister says ICC’s war crime charges are ‘bogus’ and plans to be in New York for UN gathering this fallBenjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor, is “fomenting hate” by calling the Israeli prime minister a war criminal who should be arrested over Israel’s war in Gaza if he visits the city for the United Nations general assembly.Netanyahu said he intends to be in New York in September to address the annual UN
  
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• ‘Not standard’ for Taylor Farms to ask White House to delay cyclospora recall, ex-FDA head says

  26-07-2026 22:01
  Scott Gottlieb responds to report that company contacted the White House seeking to delay a recall announcementFormer Food and Drug Administration commissioner Dr Scott Gottlieb said on Sunday that it was “not standard operating procedure” for Taylor Farms to ask the White House to intervene as the company prepared to announce a recall tied to a massive cyclospora outbreak.Appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation, Gottlieb was asked about a report from the Wall Street Journal that Ta
  
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• US pauses Iran attacks for second night after Trump advised to halt bombing

  26-07-2026 20:45
  Top military officials say campaign has reached its limit of effectiveness and warn of dwindling stocks of munitionsThe US has paused strikes on Iran for a second night as top military officials advised Donald Trump to halt his bombing campaign, and diplomatic negotiations have continued to avoid a return to all-out war.Trump is said to be weighing up diplomatic and military options in the nearly five-month-old conflict, with Benjamin Netanyahu expected to visit the White House on Tuesday. The I
  
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• Trump ‘border czar’ says ICE officer in Maine killing should not have cleared vetting

  26-07-2026 20:02
  Tom Homan comments on officer’s eligibility to serve after reports that agent’s two ex-wives had accused him of abuseTom Homan, the Trump administration “border czar”, on Sunday said he did not believe the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer at the center of a recent fatal shooting in Maine “should have ever cleared vetting”.Speaking to CNN’s State of the Union, Homan was asked by host Dana Bash about the officer’s eligibility to serv
  
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• Police shoot dead Berlin Pride van and knife rampage suspect, officials say

  26-07-2026 19:53
  Abdul Ballout, 21, reportedly shot in operation at allotment in Spandau district after fatal attack in Tiergarten parkA man suspected of driving a van into a crowd near Berlin’s Pride festival then going on a knife rampage in an Islamist terror attack has been shot dead by police, German officials have said.Police confirmed on Sunday evening that the chief suspect had been shot dead, reportedly during an operation at an allotment garden complex ⁠in the capital’s Spandau distric
  
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• India’s Cockroach Janta party protest victory signals trouble ahead for Modi

  26-07-2026 18:42
  Ally forced to resign, with opposition parties reinvigorated and strongman leader’s grip over media channels rockedEven the night before Narendra Modi accepted the resignation of his education minister, India’s prime minister appeared confident that the largest mass uprising to take place in his 12 years in power would do little to rattle his government.Addressing his “young friends” in a late-night Instagram selfie reel on Friday, he thanked the people – who were m
  
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• Joy in Greece as Mount Olympus joins Unesco list of world heritage sites

  26-07-2026 17:39
  Mythical home of the ancient Greek gods designated alongside the D-day landing beaches in NormandyAfter a 12-year wait, Mount Olympus, the mythical home of the ancient Greek gods, has been inducted into a hall of more modern fame as Unesco announced it would be added to its world heritage list.Greece’s highest mountain made the list alongside the second world war D-day landing beaches in northern France and the ancient Japanese capitals of Asuka and Fujiwara. South Sudan’s Boma-Badin
  
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• Police hunt for suspect after one killed and 16 injured in attack at Berlin Pride

  26-07-2026 17:22
  Authorities issue wanted notice for Abdul Ballout, 21, after deadly van ramming described as Islamist terrorismGerman authorities have issued a wanted notice for a suspect in a deadly van ramming near Berlin’s Pride festival that has been described as an Islamist attack.The interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, named the chief suspect as 21-year-old Abdul Ballout. German media reported he was a supporter of Islamic State with a criminal conviction in May. Continue reading...
  
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• Venezuelan men sue aviation firms who flew them to notorious Salvadorian jail

  26-07-2026 07:00
  Exclusive: CSI Aviation and GlobalX accused of violating civil rights as part of Trump immigration crackdownVenezuelan men sent last year to a notorious Salvadorian terrorism prison by the Trump administration are suing the US aviation companies that transported them there.A lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Washington DC accuses the companies CSI Aviation and GlobalX of violating the Venezuelans’ civil rights, false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, neg
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: Alleged $32M COVID-19 fraud fugitive captured in Jamaica and returned to US, FBI says

  25-07-2026 22:15 via foxnews.com
  
  FIRST ON FOX: One of the FBI's most wanted alleged COVID-19 fraud fugitives has been returned to the United States after authorities captured her in Jamaica, where FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News Digital she had been living under the fake identity "Harley Newman" while evading charges tied to a $32 million pandemic relief fraud scheme.Elaine Angene Escoe, 41, arrived back in South Florida Thursday after Jamaican authorities arrested her following a federal manhunt. Prosecutors allege she h
  
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• Brooke Burke flaunts toned figure in green bikini during barefoot Malibu beach stroll

  25-07-2026 22:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Brooke Burke is flaunting her toned body while taking a stroll on the beach in Malibu.The 54-year-old TV personality and model was recently photographed walking barefoot along the shoreline in Malibu in a green bikini, which she paired with a necklace, gold earrings and a stack of bracelets.The bikini top featured a crisscrossed pattern which gave a peek at her chest, and her bottoms had a matching pattern.This is far from the first time Burke has been photographed posing in her bikini on the be
  
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• Longer lives, worse health? Scientists uncover troubling trend across generations

  25-07-2026 21:50 via foxnews.com
  
  People across the world are living longer, but they’re also spending more years coping with ill health, a recent study observed.The "morbidity gap" — the number of years people spend in poor health, typically struggling with chronic challenges such as low back pain, hearing loss and depression — widened across 203 of 204 countries analyzed, and was the most pronounced in America, the researchers found."Globally in 2023, an average of 14·5% of life was spent in poor healt
  
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• Rep Brandon Gill backs Trump executive order, calls to 'clean house' at the Smithsonian

  25-07-2026 21:40 via foxnews.com
  
  Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, threw his support behind President Donald Trump's executive action targeting alleged ideological bias at the Smithsonian and called for museum officials to be fired over what he called left-wing influence at the institution.Speaking on "Fox & Friends Weekend," Gill applauded Trump's directive to place warning signs along National Park Service walkways outside the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History."This is the first time, I think, that we've had a p
  
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• Court checks Pritzker as Trump administration scores another immigration win

  25-07-2026 21:39 via foxnews.com
  
  Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker was dealt a major legal blow Friday after a federal judge gutted key state laws providing in-state tuition, financial aid and scholarships to illegal immigrants, marking another win for the Trump administration's nationwide immigration agenda.U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn, a Trump appointee serving in the Southern District of Illinois, sided with the Justice Department, ruling that Illinois' in-state tuition policies, the RISE Act and the Illinois DREAM Act are "u
  
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