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Australia news live: Burke wanted tougher hate speech laws but ‘we have to deal with the parliament we have’; Sydney lockout measures end
Syrian government, SDF agree on a four-day ceasefire
Kurdish-led SDF accepts truce but reports continued attacks by government-allied forces, despite the agreement.
What’s behind Trump’s push to control Greenland?
Trump undermined antiwar vows in first year. Will Democrats seize on this?
Spain searches for remains of victims from deadly train crash
Emergency teams are searching in a mountain range of the Spanish countryside for the victims of a deadly train crash.
Senegal celebrates dramatic Africa Cup of Nations win
How winter is making Gaza’s humanitarian crisis worse
Kurdish forces withdraw from IS detention camp in north-east Syria
Six-year-old girl is only member of family to survive Spanish rail disaster
Child was on way home from a musical with parents, brother and cousin when trains collided, killing 42 peopleA six-year-old girl who had travelled to Madrid to see a musical was the only member of her family to survive Sunday’s rail disaster in southern Spain, which killed 42 people, among them her parents, her brother and her cousin.The girl, who has not been named, was found walking along the tracks after two trains collided near the town of Adamuz in the Córdoba province of Andalucía. She had emerged from the accident with only a minor head wound. Continue reading...
Trump’s board of peace is an imperial court completely unlike what was proposed
The US president’s global club was endorsed by the security council on a false prospectus and seems aimed at displacing the United NationsLike many punters who have tried to do business with Donald Trump in the past, the UN has found itself a victim of a classic bait-and-switch, thinking it was buying one thing, but getting quite another.When they voted to endorse the board of peace in November, other members of the UN security council hoped they were binding Trump into a Gaza peace process, but it now appears they were hoodwinked into backing a Trump-dominated pay-to-play club: a global version of his Mar-a-Lago court aimed at supplanting the UN itself. Continue reading...
My party had no ‘system’ to misuse EU funds, Marine Le Pen tells appeal trial
French far-right leader denies existence of fake jobs ‘system’ in effort to overturn ban on running for presidentThe French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has told a Paris appeals court there was no “system” set up by her party to misuse European parliament funds, as she gave evidence in a fresh embezzlement trial that will determine whether she can run in the 2027 presidential election.“The word ‘system’ bothers me because [it gives] the impression of a manipulation,” Le Pen said on Tuesday, denying she had told members of the European parliament to hire assistants who instead worked for the party headquarters in Paris. Continue reading...
