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Microsoft suspended from applying for green cards for H-1B workers, JD Vance says
Vice-president also says Adobe is barred from visa program that allows high-skilled workers to apply for US residency
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French students continue protests, saying ministers’ pledges not enough
Schools blockaded again across country as teenagers and teachers demand more investment and ‘concrete measures’ to improve conditions
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Marco Rubio brushes off questions about Kimberly Guilfoyle pressing donor to pay credit card
US ambassador to Greece allegedly asked Trump donor to pay $100,000 American Express bill
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Queensland literary awards: ‘stunning’ debut inspired by segregated shantytown wins top prize
Lenora Thaker wins $30,000 prize for ‘a work of state significance’ for The Pearl of Tagai Town, which draws on her ancestors’ stories in Cairns-Malay Town
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Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature 2026
Most prestigious literature prize goes to Canadian known for genre-crossing works such as Autobiography of Red
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‘System is rigged’: Democrat Sherrod Brown puts datacenter danger at heart of populist Senate bid
Ohio former senator attacks Republican rival as the ‘face of datacenters’ as he wraps AI concerns into pro-worker message
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Oil prices rise sharply on Middle East tensions and US hurricane threat
Global bond market sell-off continues and stocks fall amid another wave of potential strikes against Iran
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‘That is a lie’: alleged Alan Jones victim denies family tried to get money out of broadcaster, court hears
Youngest complainant in trial alleges Jones put his tongue in his mouth and touched him on the bottom during visit to shock jock’s property
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Royal Navy service member charged with spying
Teddy Young, 24, from Bedfordshire, charged under National Security Act after arrest by counter-terror police
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Japan beer giants raided over suspicions they colluded to set the price of beverages
Investigators probe Asahi, Kirin, Suntory and Sapporo breweries – which together control more than 90% of Japan’s beer market
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Indonesia accused of ‘gross negligence’ in wildfires lawsuit as haze tests region
NGOs in Indonesian Borneo file class action lawsuit calling for government to better manage annual fires
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New direct train services from London to Wrexham and Rochdale rejected
Regulator also vetoes extra Blackpool service, citing lack of space on west coast mainline for new direct trains to capital
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British consulate in East Jerusalem will stay open as UK mission, says Ed Miliband
UK and Israel back away from full diplomatic confrontation, though British presence in Palestine will be much reduced
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Bachelor star Sam Wood denied bail as police allege he choked wife until she ‘thought she would die’
Court hears police attended Wood’s Victorian home over a similar allegation about three years ago, but Snezana Wood had not complained then out of ‘fear of retribution’
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South Korea threatens legal action if fuel shipments to Russia found to have broken law
Responding to a Guardian report that revealed thousands of tonnes of fuel was transported to Russia, Seoul said it was investigating the cases
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French high school protests continue despite PM’s promise of action – Europe live
Demonstrators have rejected a promise by Sébastien Lecornu to present a plan to fix the country’s education system by the end of the month
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UK’s military needs to focus spending on domestic defence, not overseas missions – report
Exclusive: Thinktank says Britain’s drive towards global commitments is symptom of ‘outdated foreign policy’
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Thursday briefing: Why young people are taking to the streets across France
In today’s newsletter: A youth-led movement is protesting crumbling school buildings and teacher shortages while turning adult focus onto wider educational inequalities
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Covid, Brexit and Liz Truss mini-budget led to lasting decline in mental health, study finds
Researchers found five events, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, caused serious damage to mental wellbeing across UK
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NSW police commissioner made last-minute bid to hold closed-door hearings into Sydney anti-Herzog protest
Police watchdog says Mal Lanyon’s timing in raising the issue was ‘regrettable’ and led to delays
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Supermarket shake-up: why Asda or Morrisons could vanish within a decade
Talks between Sainsbury’s and Morrisons have set industry tongues wagging, with analysts saying the market is ripe for change
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USS Lincoln carrier to return to port in San Diego after record-breaking deployment – US politics live
Vessel spent over 260 consecutive days at sea without a port call, a US navy record
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Polls open in Holborn and St Pancras byelection – UK politics live
Voters choosing replacement for Keir Starmer, who announced he was standing down last month
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OpenAI used AI to help write email warning Australian government AI had hacked its websites
Revelation comes after executive told parliamentary inquiry he did not believe AI had been used to write message, but was ‘happy to go and confirm’
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Donald Trump’s Texas rally rocked by repeated protests
Trump briefly stepped away from the microphone after one protester appeared to approach the stage
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Russian attack on two buses kills 30 near Ukraine frontline
Authorities say 18 people also wounded after incident in Kramatorsk in country’s ‘fortess belt’
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Jurors in Beau Lamarre-Condon murder trial shown photo of alleged ‘execution-style’ gunshot wound
Former NSW police officer has pleaded not guilty to the February 2024 murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in Sydney
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USS Abraham Lincoln scheduled to dock in San Diego after harrowing stretch at sea
Deployment for nearly a year was marked by reports of supply shortages, and deteriorating morale and mental health among crew
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French minister invites UK to ‘come all the way back’ to the EU
Finance minister, Roland Lescure, welcomes Burnham’s pledge to explore closer ties with bloc
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Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90
MIT computer scientist led development of software for moon mission and earned Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Texas set to carry out first US execution since botched lethal injection of Christa Pike
Jamaal Howard’s lawyers urged halt, citing risk of another failed execution, but court denied request
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Multiple protesters interrupt Trump as he speaks at Paxton rally in Texas – US politics live
The interruptions seemed to momentarily derail the president, who baselessly claims protesters are ‘paid’ and repeats lie about James Talarico
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María del Carmen Abascal, symbol of Spain’s housing protests, dies aged 87
Maricarmen’s eviction from Madrid apartment after over seven decades set off wave of protests against housing crisis
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Constitutional expert labels Albanese government’s golf club grant ‘grey corruption’
Anne Twomey says $6m for Marrickville golf club given under ‘farcical scheme’, which Labor has defended as within rules
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Labour Send changes at risk as parents rush to secure support, say experts
Overhaul of special education in England could unravel, thinktank finds, because of ‘use it before you lose it’ dynamic
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‘Catastrophic wildfire loop’ after colonisation left parts of Australia more at risk from bushfires, study finds
Researchers found the shift from open woodland to dense forest after 1788 led to more intense fires, consistent with loss of cultural burning practices
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Rubio in Greece digs into past to tout Trump’s ‘America first’ approach
In the shadow of the Parthenon, the secretary of state gave a selective reading of history as he urged Europe to ‘awaken from its slumber’
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Patricia Krenwinkel, former Manson follower, granted parole for third time
The 78-year-old has spent nearly six decades in prison and California governor has overturned last two parole grants
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Family of student who took his own life say university ‘will be held to account’
Ethan Scott Brown died after being wrongly told he would not be eligible to graduate from the University of Glasgow
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Trump backs away from top aides who reportedly advised pro-Russia government
President floats firing Chris LaCivita and James Blair over any ‘conflict’ after reports of work in Republika Srpska
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Bendy elm still standing against all odds crowned UK tree of the year
Hundred-and-fifty-year-old Wych elm in Newcastle, Co Down has grown sideways owing to strong winds
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Leon Botstein resigns from Bard roles as key Democrat demands investigation into Epstein links
Jamie Raskin says ‘startling’ email asked whether young woman was ‘for me, or are you keeping her for yourself’
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WHO says it does not have ‘full picture’ from Russia following suspected plague death
‘Transparent information sharing’ from Moscow is required to conduct full risk assessment, UN agency says
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‘Neither war nor peace’: Palestinians in Gaza on existing amid disease, despair and ruins
People tell of lives changed beyond recognition after the 7 October attacks by Hamas three years ago and the subsequent Israeli offensive
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Tropical Storm Isaias near Mexico is forecast to become a hurricane
Isaias, which succeeded Tropical Depression Nine, would be the first hurricane of the belated Atlantic season
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British Jewish groups hold London vigil for victims of 7 October attacks
Organisations honour those who died three years ago as Andy Burnham says government stands with British Jews
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Canada to indefinitely bar mental illness as sole reason for access to euthanasia
Legislation is an effort by ruling Liberals to address growing clash over who has access to doctor-assisted death
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Christa Pike severely unwell, ‘angry and confused’, says lawyer, after judge orders all execution evidence preserved – latest
Lawyer says Pike cannot move her arms or swallow, has a blot clot and pneumonia, adding that a request to unshackle her was refused; judge tells Tennessee officials to preserve all evidence from botched execution
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‘Another coup d’état’: fears grow as Flávio Bolsonaro vows to ‘re-democratise’ Brazil
After a surprise first-round victory, critics suggest son of disgraced ex-president could seek to continue his father’s authoritarian project
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Overseas, Albanese sees ‘the very definition of climate injustice’ – but at home, he still wants coal
It isn’t hard to see a contradiction between the PM’s message in Fiji and his opposition to legal action to stop a NSW coalmine