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Internet Watch Foundation report shows 380% increase in illegal AI-generated imagery in 2024, most of it ‘category A’Images of child sexual abuse created by artificial intelligence are becoming “significantly more realistic”, according to an online safety watchdog.The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said advances in AI are being reflected in illegal content created and consumed by paedophiles, saying: “In 2024, the quality of AI-generated videos...

About 7.3m people have cast ballots over four days of advanced voting in sign of elevated interest in 28 April poll Canada elections: who are the key players and what is at stake?A record 7.3 million people have cast their ballots over four days of advanced voting in Canada’s election, official figures showed on Tuesday, in a possible sign of elevated interest in the...

Panel unanimously accepts charges against six more key allies of ex-president over alleged plan to keep him in officeA panel of Brazil’s supreme court justices has unanimously accepted criminal charges against six more key allies of former president Jair Bolsonaro over an alleged coup plot to keep him in office after his 2022 election defeat.Last month, the panel unanimously accepted charges against Bolsonaro and...

Group of gunmen open fire on holidaymakers in Indian-controlled region in midst of US vice-president’s visit to countryAt least 26 tourists have been killed and ten injured after suspected militants opened fire at a popular local tourist destination in Kashmir during a scheduled four-day visit to the country by the US vice-president JD Vance.Most of the victims were Indian, although two foreign nationals were...

International aid workers fear for Palestinians who have fled their homes in search of safetyIsrael has quietly stopped designating areas of Gaza as humanitarian zones since it resumed its strikes on the Palestinian territory last month.The move has heightened fears among aid workers for the safety of civilians sheltering in places previously deemed protected. Continue reading...

After two actors died in Owerri, Imo State, AGN head Emeka Rollas drew comparisons to events last year, when popular Nollywood actor Junior Pope drownedThe president of the Actors Guild of Nigeria has called for mass prayers and increased unionisation after the death of two actors in Owerri, the capital city of Imo State.Posting on Instagram, Emeka Rollas advocated spiritual intervention and better workplace...

Prime minister says he thinks court’s decision has given a ‘much clearer position for those drawing up guidance’In an interview with ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary and minister for women and equalities, criticised the behaviour of some of the activists who demonstrated against the supreme court’s trans ruling at the weekend.Some statues were damaged during the protest in London, and...

US president backs defense secretary after reports Hegseth discussed military information on Signal for a second timeDemocratic party Rep Haley Stevens has launched her US senate campaign in Michigan, claiming that Donald Trump’s economic policies are “putting tens of thousands of Michigan jobs at risk.”Stevens is aiming to make the case that she will protect the state’s crucial auto industry, and said in a...

Pope Francis, head of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, died at his home in the Vatican on Monday aged 88The Vatican also confirmed that Pope Francis’s coffin will be transferred to St Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday morning, where it will stay until the funeral.It will be taken there from the chapel of the Santa Marta residence, pictured in the earlier photo. Continue reading...

Russian president says he is open to bilateral talks as forces launch drone attack on Black Sea port cityHere is some more detail and context on Vladimir Putin saying he is open to the possibility of bilateral talks with Ukraine for the first time in years.As we mentioned in the opening post, the Russian president told state TV yesterday that Moscow has a “positive...

People traumatised by conflict have queued outside the Saint Vincent de Paul neuropsychiatric hospital in Goma each day since free scheme launchedOn a sunny morning in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where fighting between the M23 rebel group and the Congolese army raged earlier this year, men and women rushed towards a line of chairs outside a medical...

Visitors to Buckingham Palace will be able to see works by official tour artists who accompanied visits to 96 countriesForty years ago the then Prince of Wales invited, at his own expense, the artist John Ward to join an official visit to Italy as an official tour artist, with the brief to draw or paint whatever inspired him.Since then, 42 artists to have undertaken...

Ahead of a global summit in London comes a warning that lessons on energy security have not been learnedBusiness live – latest updatesUS trade officials are preparing to impose tariffs of up to 3,521% on imports of solar panels from four south-east Asian countries, while the International Energy Agency has said lessons from the energy crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had not been...

Bridget Phillipson says definition of ‘woman’ provides clarity for places such as hospitals and women’s refugesThe equalities minister has said she welcomes last week’s supreme court ruling on gender recognition, saying the decision was particularly important to provide clarity for spaces such as hospital wards and women’s refuges.Bridget Phillipson, who holds the equalities brief alongside her job as education secretary, said she planned to...

Government wants public to be better informed about foreign criminals but critics say it could reinforce prejudicesThe nationalities of foreign criminals in the UK are due to be published for the first time, under plans to be disclosed by the Home Office.Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, is understood to have ordered officials to publish the data, including crimes that have been committed, by the...

The 55-year-old pleaded guilty to seven charges including two counts of choking a womanGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastThe former Australian Test cricketer Michael Slater has been sentenced to prison for domestic violence offences but will immediately be released from custody on a suspended sentence.Slater, 55, was sentenced in Maroochydore district court on Tuesday after pleading guilty to seven...

This blog is now closedWhat time is the leaders’ debate tonight? How to watch Albanese v DuttonGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideMonsignor Stuart Hall, the dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne, tells mourners that the “beloved” Pope Francis called out to a range of voices including...

Broadcaster says corporation wants to bring in new people, and says he does not regret criticism of Tory asylum policyGary Lineker has suggested the BBC wanted him to leave Match of the Day, ahead of his departure next month after more than a quarter of the century at the helm of the show.In an interview with Amol Rajan for the BBC, Lineker discussed his...

Death of young woman whose body was found in creek on Central Coast not initially treated as suspiciousPolice have revealed they were uneasy about attributing a teenage sportswoman’s death to an accident before new information sparked murder charges.The body of 19-year-old Audrey Griffin was discovered partially submerged in Erina Creek on the New South Wales Central Coast on 24 March after she went missing...

Energy giant to start production off Northern Territory coast at development projected to add more than 270m tonnes of CO2 to atmosphereElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as an emailSantos has received federal approval to commence production from its Barossa offshore gasfield off the coast of the Northern Territory.The National Offshore Petroleum Safety...

Locals hail pontiff’s work in city’s poorest neighbourhoods – but express sadness that he never came back as popeLatest updates after death of Pope FrancisBefore he left Argentina and moved to Italy to become pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio would visit the country’s villas miserias, not in a car flanked by security guards, but by bus – and this is what his people remember.“He would...

Kylie Truswell-Mobbs made repeated attempts to give terminally ill David Mobbs a lethal overdose, prosecutors claimElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignPolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastA woman allegedly murdered her terminally ill partner soon after he delayed making a decision on legal assisted dying at...

The New Zealand First member’s bill is a long shot to become law as it has to be selected at random from a ballot and then garner majority supportA populist party in New Zealand’s governing coalition has introduced a bill to parliament that if enacted would define women and men by their biology, preventing trans women and men being recognised by law.The New Zealand...

Sam Mostyn would be ‘appropriate representative’, PM says as both party leaders step back from election campaign trail before third debateMykola Bychok: the Melbourne bishop who will help choose the next popeElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has paid tribute to the “courage and true leadership” of Pope Francis in Melbourne,...