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Shadow home secretary says Labour would examine ‘offshore processing arrangements’Sign up for our Election Edition newsletterPlaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth has said Keir Starmer wants to “act as the puppet master within all of the Labour party” through his “parachuting of candidates last minute to Wales”.He told Sky News’s Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips programme that his party would support a no-confidence motion in Welsh first minister Vaughan Gething next week. Plaid Cymru ended its cooperation agreement with the Labour-led government in Wales last month.We have no confidence in the first minister. More importantly than that, the Welsh public

City saw 143mm of rain on first day of winter – more than the June average of 132mmFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSydney has been inundated with more than a month’s rain in less than a day while storms along Australia’s west coast have sparked hundreds of emergency calls.Persistent, moderate-to-heavy rain on Saturday drenched Sydney with 143mm of rain, topping the city’s June average of 132mm on the first day of winter, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. Rose Bay recorded more than 170mm.Sign up

Dong Jun rails at length about democratic island’s ‘separatists’ during Shangri-la Dialogue defence conference in SingaporePeaceful “reunification” with Taiwan remains China’s goal but the prospect is being eroded by Taiwanese “separatists” and external forces, the Chinese defence minister, Dong Jun, has said.Taiwan – which is democratically governed, and has never been ruled from the Communist-run People’s Republic of China – on 20 May inaugurated its newly elected president, Lai Ching-te. The routine democratic transition was greeted with fury by the Chinese Communist party, which staged war games around the island as a “punishment”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/02/chinas-defence-chief-repeats-threat-of-force-against-taiwanese-independence Author