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Firefighters pulled a child and adult from the Rokeby home on Sunday morning but were unable to reach the infant in timeGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA infant has been killed and four children and an adult injured in a horrific house fire in Tasmania on Sunday morning.Police and emergency services responded to reports of a fire at Rokeby...

Premier says alleged Kingston domestic violence incident has ‘rocked’ Queensland as woman, 34, remains in hospitalGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA Queensland man has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly setting fire to a woman in a horrific act of domestic violence in a home south of Brisbane.After being treated by paramedics at the scene in the Logan...

Shifting responsibility to consumers minimises the role of energy industry and policymakers, University of Sydney research suggestsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIt’s not unusual to see individuals championed as heroes of climate action, with their efforts to install rooftop solar and buy electric cars promoted as pivotal in the fight to save the planet.Hero figures can motivate others to...

Prime minister hopeful Israel-Hamas ceasefire will hold as Chris Minns vows to strengthen NSW hate speech laws in wake of antisemitic incidentsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThousands have gathered in Sydney and Melbourne hoping to celebrate a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas following a 15-month war.The three-phased ceasefire was to come into effect on Sunday evening Australian time, after...

Former deputy prime minister kicks off run for top job with video of Trump disparaging her for being tough negotiatorChrystia Freeland, Canada’s former deputy prime minister, kicked off her bid to lead Canada by boasting: “Donald Trump doesn’t like me very much” in a campaign video that quickly went viral.For Freeland, who led Canada’s re-negotiation of the North American Free Trade agreement (Nafta) with...

Former Trump White House adviser says supplication akin to Japanese surrender to allied forces in September 1945Steve Bannon, the former Trump White House chief strategist, has described the tech titans gathering at Monday’s inauguration as “supplicants” to Donald Trump making “an official surrender”, akin to the Japanese surrender to allied forces on the deck of the USS Missouri in September 1945.Bannon, who served as...

Administration to send 100 to 200 officers to city on day two of new presidency, Wall Street Journal reportsDonald Trump’s incoming presidential administration plans to launch a large immigration raid in Chicago the day after he takes office, according to unnamed officials talking to various media outlets.Federal immigration officers will target more than 300 people, focusing on those with histories of violent crimes, one...

Comparative quiet on Saturday in Washington contrasts sharply with white-knuckled fury of inaugural rallyEight years since its gargantuan first protests as a reaction to the incoming president being serially accused of sexual misconduct and misogyny and campaigning on restricting reproductive rights, the Women’s March on Saturday reprised in the nation’s capital before the return of that man to the White House – with, as...

Protesters smash windows after officials cite concerns the impeached president could destroy evidence if releasedA South Korean court has extended the detention of the impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol on Sunday citing concerns he could destroy evidence linked to his martial law declaration, enraging his supporters, who attacked the court building.Hundreds of pro-Yoon protesters smashed windows and broke down doors to enter the court...

Unnamed gunman killed Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghisseh before shooting himself, Mezan reportsTwo judges have been killed in a shooting on Saturday at the supreme court building in Tehran, Iranian state media have reported.“This morning, a gunman infiltrated the supreme court in a planned act of assassination of two brave and experienced judges. The two judges were martyred in the act,” the judiciary’s Mizan...

Thousands gather in Whitehall and allegedly break through police line to advance to Trafalgar SquareMore than 70 pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested in central London on Saturday on suspicion of breaching protest conditions after some allegedly broke through a police line as they marched from a rally in Whitehall.Thousands of people had gathered to protest Israel’s 15-month war in Gaza, a day after a ceasefire...

Having a GoFundMe does not disqualify someone from aid – but it might affect their eligibility to cover specific needsAfter the house that she grew up in burned down in the Eaton fire in Altadena, California, last week, Steven Celiceo’s wife Kiri suggested that the couple visit the local library. As a librarian herself, she knew there were resources being distributed – and Fema...

Home Office official says data protection laws caused the cost of its forced removal programme to increaseThe Conservative government spent more than £130m on IT and data systems for the scheme to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, which will never be used, the Observer can reveal.Digital tools needed to put the forced removal programme into effect made up the second-largest chunk of the £715m...

Hundreds of thousands are now set to return to whatever remains of their houses or to claim bodies from the rubbleAid agencies in Gaza are bracing for chaotic scenes this week as hundreds of thousands of people try to return to homes in the territory after the expected implementation of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on Sunday.Before the ceasefire, which is due to...

President-elect said he’d probably give the company an extension from US ban the supreme court recently upheldDonald Trump has said he will “most likely” give the Chinese-owned TikTok app a 90-day reprieve from a potential ban in the US after he takes office on Monday morning.The incoming president said on Saturday, in an interview with NBC News, that he was considering the extension on...

Those who died had scrambled to take the fuel, which has rocketed in price amid an economic crisisA fuel tanker exploded after flipping over in central Nigeria on Saturday, killing 70 people who had scrambled to take the fuel.Kumar Tsukwam, the head of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Niger State, said a truck carrying 60,000 litres of gasoline had an accident at...

Emergency services say 30 people were involved, of whom 10 were taken to hospital, at Astún in the PyreneesTen people have been hurt, two of them seriously, after a ski lift collapsed at a resort in north-east Spain, hurling dozens of passengers into the snow below.Although initial reports said 35 people had been injured on Saturday at the Pyrenean resort of Astún, in the...

Mexican officials ordered facility to shut down after report on very high levels of pollutants in surrounding neighborhoodRevealed: US hazardous waste is sent to Mexico – where a ‘toxic cocktail’ of pollution emergesAuthorities ordered the shutdown of a Mexican recycling plant that processes hazardous waste exported from the US, after an investigation by the Guardian and Quinto Elemento Lab that revealed heavy metals contamination...

MP says he is totally committed to his constituency after Isabel Oakeshott moved to the Emirates One weekend, it will be the straightforward delights of Skegness seafront; the next, the flashy private beach clubs of Dubai.Richard Tice, deputy leader of Reform UK and its MP for Boston and Skegness, is splitting his time not just between his Lincolnshire ­constituency and the House of Commons,...

Case was fast-tracked after crime in Kolkata sparked protests across India amid concern for women’s safetyA police volunteer has been found guilty of the rape and murder of a trainee doctor who was on duty in Kolkata, a crime that sparked protests across India amid concern about violence against women and girls.The outcry over the killing of the 31-year-old physician in August led to...

Social media accounts blocked for breaking Beijing rules as millions of users join up before ban takes effectNine invaluable things I’ve learned from TikTokWhen Angelica Oung received the notification that her Xiaohongshu account had been blocked for violating the social media app’s code of conduct, her mind started racing.The only picture she had posted on her account, apart from her profile headshot, was of...

Italian PM’s office confirms she will join foreign politicians including France’s Éric Zemmour in WashingtonItaly’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, will attend Donald Trump’s inauguration as US president, joining other European far-right figures including Éric Zemmour, a one-time French presidential candidate known for his xenophobia.Meloni’s attendance at the event in Washington DC on Monday was confirmed by her office and will be seen as further...

WHO is ‘critical in protecting US business interests’, says CEO of firm that may see lean years if Trump carries out vowThe World Health Organization (WHO) could see lean years ahead if the US withdraws membership under the new Trump administration. Such a withdrawal, promised on the first day of Donald Trump’s new administration, would in effect cut the multilateral agency’s funding by one-fifth.The...

Diaries, believed to be genuine, chronicle 139 pre-war meetings between antisemitic aristocrat and Nazi leaderThe diaries of an antisemitic British socialite who was obsessed with Adolf Hitler and struck up a personal relationship with the Nazi leader have been discovered, according to the Daily Mail.The leather-bound journals, which had been lost to historians and unseen for eight decades, appear to reveal the extent of...