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• Teen cycles 750 miles to take her father home amid lockdown

  09-06-2020 06:54 via cnn.com
  
  A 15 year-old Indian girl, who cycled 750 miles to take her injured father home, has brought attention to the plight of migrant workers caught in the lockdown. Activists say her story highlights desperate measures migrants are taking under the Covid-19 lockdown in India. CNN's Vedika Sud reports.
  
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• Australia politics live: officials concede Centrepay system ‘lost its way’ and pledge crackdown on companies wrongly receiving payments

  03-06-2024 04:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Guardian Australia revealed deep and ongoing problems with the system, including that it allowed at least three major energy retailers to wrongly take money from welfare payments of former customers. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastWage increase should be more than inflation so workers get real pay rise: McManusSally McManus says workers are still coming from behind:I won’t be too happy if it’s 3.5%. That’
  
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• Leaf thief: viral sensation Claude the koala returns to nursery to munch on seedlings in broad daylight

  03-06-2024 04:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Koala became online hit after sampling wares at NSW nursery, but conservationists say increasingly brazen behaviour highlights serious issueFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastClaude the koala became Australia’s cutest thief and a viral sensation when he was filmed munching on seedlings at a nursery near Lismore last September.But fame has only made him more brazen, with the hungry marsupial now help
  
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• Antoinette Lattouf was sacked by ABC, Fair Work Commission finds

  03-06-2024 04:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Decision finds in favour of journalist who was sacked from casual presenting role on Sydney radio programFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Fair Work Commission has found Antoinette Lattouf was sacked from a casual presenting role on ABC local radio, paving the way for the journalist to pursue an unlawful termination case.Lattouf was taken off air three days into a five-day casual contract in December
  
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• Mother ‘devastated’ as daughter’s body found in rubble of Sydney home that collapsed after explosion

  03-06-2024 04:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Rescue teams had worked around the clock looking for the woman who was unaccounted for after the blast in Whalan on SaturdayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA mother has been left “devastated” after a woman was found dead in the rubble of a social housing townhouse in Sydney’s west after it collapsed on Saturday following a massive explosion that was felt in neighbouring suburbs.New So
  
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• How to live to 100 | podcast

  03-06-2024 04:00 via theguardian.com
  
  We know more about extending our lifespans than ever before. After
  decades spent drinking, eating and laughing at people with exercise regimes, what will it take for Phil Daoust to join the ranks of centenarians?When he got to 60, Phil Daoust, the deputy editor of the Guardian’s G2 section, made a decision. He was happy, healthy and wanted to remain that way for as long as possible. As a young man he had been unconcerned with diet and exercise regimes, preferring long boozy lunches, pies a
  
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• Minimum wage workers in Australia to get a 3.75% pay rise over the next 12 months

  03-06-2024 03:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Minimum wage will increase to $24.10 an hour or $915.90 a week, with experts suggesting the rise will outpace inflation, delivering a lift in real salariesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s lowest-paid workers will collect a pay rise of 3.75% in the coming year, a result likely to please the Reserve Bank but dismay unions who sought a 5% rise.The Fair Work Commission announced the 2024-2
  
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• Allowing Josh Frydenberg to recontest Kooyong a ‘crazy’ idea, Liberal senator says

  03-06-2024 03:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Jane Hume is against opening preselection for former treasurer while Karen Andrews argues he would be ‘absolute asset’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSenior Liberals are split on reopening preselection to allow Josh Frydenberg to recontest Kooyong for the party, which the shadow finance minister, Jane Hume, has denounced as a “crazy” idea.On Monday Karen Andrews, the former home
  
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• Mexico prepares to elect first female president as violence erupts at polling centers

  03-06-2024 01:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Voting was suspended at one polling site as the country is expected to vote in leftist Claudia Sheinbaum over Xochitl GalvezTwo people were killed in violence at polling centers on Sunday in the midst of Mexico’s historic election expected to make leftist Claudia Sheinbaum, the ruling party candidate, the country’s first female president.Voting was suspended at one polling place after a person was killed in a shooting in Coyomeapan, a town in the state of Puebla, the state electoral
  
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• Minority ethnic heart failure patients ‘36% more likely to die’ in UK

  03-06-2024 01:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Study also finds people from ethnic minorities with atrial fibrillation more than twice as likely to die than white patientsMinority ethnic patients with heart failure are more than a third more likely to die than their white counterparts, according to research.The study, by researchers at the University of Birmingham and supported by the British Heart Foundation, looked at data from more than 16,700 people from 12 existing clinical trials for heart failure patients. Continue reading...
  
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• Three charged with invading pitch during Champions League final

  03-06-2024 00:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Yevhenii Lubnenko, 29, David Carneckij, 28, and boy, 16, accused of going on Wembley pitch during matchThree people have been charged with invading the pitch during the Champions League final at Wembley on Saturday, the Metropolitan police said.Yevhenii Lubnenko, 29, David Carneckij, 28, and a 16-year-old boy are accused of going on to the playing area at a football match contrary to section 4 of the Football (Offences) Act 1991. Continue reading...
  
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• John Swinney says SNP facing its biggest challenge for years

  02-06-2024 23:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Leader launches party’s election campaign as polling suggests it will pay high price for recent woesJohn Swinney has described July’s general election as “the biggest challenge the SNP has had for years” as he used his party’s official campaign launch to repeatedly attack Labour, which is threatening the nationalists in dozens of seats across Scotland.Swinney, who told the rally of more than 200 activists and former MPs in Glasgow that it was a “surprise&rdquo
  
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• With policy battle lines set, Sunak and Starmer prepare for TV combat

  02-06-2024 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  With PM as underdog hoping to use TV debates for comeback, Labour leader is also preparing for election to turn personalWhen the history of Keir Starmer’s resurrection of the Labour party comes to be written, one of the most important turning points will be the decision to start playing the man, not the ball, when it came to Boris Johnson and Partygate.Rishi Sunak’s key weak spot in the leader debates this election is his career as a hedge fund partner at the time of the financial cr
  
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• Tories will allow bars on trans women, says Kemi Badenoch

  02-06-2024 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Conservatives would change law so trans people could be excluded from single-sex spaces, if party wins electionKemi Badenoch has said the Conservatives will change the Equality Act to rewrite the definition of sex and allow organisations to bar transgender women from single-sex spaces, including hospital wards and sports events.The party will make clear that the protected characteristic of sex means biological sex, enabling those who wish to bar male-bodied people from organisations or activitie
  
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• College students leave behind hoard of trash at California’s Shasta Lake

  02-06-2024 22:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Despite being asked to clean up after themselves, about 3,000 students celebrating Memorial Day weekend left piles of debrisCollege students celebrating Memorial Day weekend by California’s Shasta Lake left behind hoard of trash, according to US Forest Service officials.Last weekend, approximately 3,000 students from the University of California, Davis and the University of Oregon partied at Shasta Lake, a 30,000-acre reservoir in the golden state, and left piles of debris cluttered around
  
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• More than 100 artists tell Starmer to halt arms sales to Israel if he becomes PM

  02-06-2024 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Letter signatories from Steve Coogan to Paloma Faith urge Keir Starmer to ‘take stand’ for human rights and international lawActors including Steve Coogan, Miriam Margolyes and Juliet Stevenson have joined forces with musicians, writers and directors in calling on Keir Starmer to halt arm sales to Israel if elected prime minister.The singer Paloma Faith, the film-maker Mike Leigh and the author Michael Rosen are among the more than 100 celebrities who have signed a joint letter, coor
  
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• Final results in seismic South Africa election confirm ANC has lost majority

  02-06-2024 20:56 via theguardian.com
  
  ANC says demands that President Cyril Ramaphosa must step down is ‘no-go area’ as rival Jacob Zuma stokes fears of violenceFinal results from Wednesday’s seismic South Africa elections have confirmed that the African National Congress (ANC) party has lost its majority for the first time in 30 years of full democracy, firing the starting gun on unprecedented coalition talks.The ANC, which led the fight to free South Africa from apartheid, won just 159 seats in the 400-member nat
  
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• Italian village with 46 residents has 30 local election candidates

  02-06-2024 20:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Two-thirds of Ingria near Turin are competing for positions including a mother and son in rival camps The last time Igor De Santis ran for mayor in Ingria, a tiny village surrounded by forests and mountains near Turin, he won an easy landslide victory. But he faces a tough challenge in his bid for a fourth mandate, after his mother joined a rival camp.Ingria, one of the smallest villages in Italy, is home to 46 inhabitants. A further 26 people, registered to vote from abroad, make up the elector
  
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• Couple finds safe stuffed with $100,000 cash while magnet fishing in New York

  02-06-2024 19:51 via theguardian.com
  
  James Kane and Barbie Agostini pull up safe in Queens park with bundles of $100 bills inside and are told by police they can keep itA New York City couple who were “magnet fishing” in a lake caught more than they had bargained for when they pulled out a safe that had $100,000 cash inside.James Kane and Barbie Agostini tossed a line with a strong magnet attached to the end into a lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens on 31 May, Friday afternoon. Continue reading...
  
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• Revealed: Russian legal foundation linked to Kremlin activities in Europe

  02-06-2024 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Leaked internal documents show Pravfond has spent millions of euros to finance propaganda and legal campaignsLeaked internal documents have exposed the activities of a Russian state-backed legal defence foundation that European intelligence agencies and analysts say is in fact a Kremlin influence operation active in 48 countries across Europe and around the world.Internal documents from the Fund for Support and Protection of the Rights of Compatriots Living Abroad (Pravfond) indicate
  
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• California firefighters battle wind-driven wildfire near San Francisco

  02-06-2024 18:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Two fire workers injured after Corral Fire, which began Saturday afternoon,spread overnight east of San FranciscoCalifornia firefighters aided by aircraft battled a wind-driven wildfire that began Saturday and continued burning early Sunday morning in an area straddling the San Francisco Bay Area and central California, authorities said.The Corral Fire began Saturday afternoon near the city of Tracy, 60 miles (96km ) east of San Francisco, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the ci
  
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• China’s Chang’e-6 probe lands on far side of the moon

  02-06-2024 18:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Spacecraft to collect samples from rarely explored area after landing heralded as ‘enormous technical achievement’China has landed its uncrewed Chang’e-6 lunar probe on the far side of the moon, marking an important step in the country’s 53-day mission to retrieve rock and soil samples from the “dark” lunar hemisphere, in what would be a world first.The landing elevates China’s space power status in a global rush to the moon, where countries including th
  
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• AI hardware firm Nvidia unveils next-gen products at Taiwan tech expo

  02-06-2024 18:28 via theguardian.com
  
  CEO Jensen Huang tells packed stadium in Taipei ‘next Industrial Revolution has begun’ Nvidia has unveiled new products and plans to accelerate the advance of artificial intelligence, with the AI hardware company’s chief executive telling a packed stadium in Taipei on Sunday that “the next Industrial Revolution has begun”.Jensen Huang is in Taiwan for the island’s leading tech expo, Computex, along with the CEOs of some of the world’s biggest semiconduct
  
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• Nagelsmann condemns survey asking if German team has enough white players

  02-06-2024 18:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Coach backs Kimmich’s view of ‘absolutely racist’ ARD surveyParticipants asked if they preferred more white players in teamThe Germany head coach, Julian Nagelsmann, has said he is shocked that a public broadcaster asked survey participants if they would prefer more white players in the national football team.Nagelsmann has agreed with midfielder Joshua Kimmich, who said on Saturday that the survey for German state broadcaster ARD was “absolutely racist” and that it
  
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• Netanyahu tries to avoid coalition implosion over Gaza ceasefire plan

  02-06-2024 18:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Israeli prime minister juggles differing demands of partners after Joe Biden announced latest peace proposalBenjamin Netanyahu is once again trying to balance the demands of centrist and far-right members of his government after a threat from his extremist allies to collapse the coalition if Israel moves forward with a new ceasefire plan for Gaza announced by the US president, Joe Biden.In an unexpected broadcast from the White House on Friday night, Biden urged Hamas to accept what he said was
  
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• Trump hails Republicans for defending him and calls conviction ‘a scam’

  02-06-2024 17:15 via theguardian.com
  
  In Fox interview, Trump derides his conviction and baselessly characterizes it as political weaponization of US justice systemDonald Trump on Sunday lauded the Republican party for rallying behind him in the wake of his conviction on 34 felony charges in a hush-money case aimed at influencing the 2016 election.Trump made the comments in his first sit-down press interview since the guilty verdict was returned on Friday that held he falsified business records linked to an illicit affair with adult
  
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• Rescue worker dies amid flooding in southern Germany

  02-06-2024 17:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Heavy rain that trapped people in their homes and reportedly caused a train derailment is forecast to continueA volunteer firefighter died during a rescue operation during heavy rain and flooding in the south of Germany, local police said on Sunday.Four emergency workers were attempting to reach people trapped by the flood waters near Pfaffenhofen in the region of Bavaria when their boat capsized. Continue reading...
  
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• Zelenskiy: Trump risks being ‘loser president’ if he imposes bad deal on Ukraine

  02-06-2024 16:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Ukrainian leader says bad peace deal in event of Trump victory would mean end of US as global ‘player’Donald Trump risks being a “loser president” if he wins November’s election and imposes a bad peace deal on Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said, saying it would mean the end of the US as a global “player”.In an interview with the Guardian in Kyiv, Zelenskiy said he had “no strategy yet” for what to do if Trump returned to the Whi
  
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• Trump joins TikTok despite seeking to ban app as president

  02-06-2024 15:57 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘The campaign is playing on all fields,’ an adviser to Trump’s campaign tells PoliticoFormer president Donald Trump has joined social media platform TikTok and made his first post late Saturday night, a video featuring the Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO, Dana White, introducing Trump on the social media platform.The move came despite that fact that as president Trump pushed to ban TikTok by executive order due to the app’s parent company being based in China. Trump sa
  
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• China’s defence chief repeats threat of force against Taiwanese independence

  02-06-2024 15:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Dong Jun rails at length about democratic island’s ‘separatists’ during Shangri-La Dialogue defence conference in SingaporeThe Chinese defence minister, Dong Jun, has warned that anyone who dares pursue independence for Taiwan will be “crushed to pieces” and face “destruction”, as he accused external forces of dragging the island into “a dangerous situation”.In a speech to the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Asia’s biggest defence sum
  
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