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Activists have agreed that no Hezbollah flags will be flown, police say. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFull Story: the right to protest and Peter Dutton’s strongman politicsAfter protests against strikes on Lebanon at the weekend included some people holding the Hezbollah flag, opposition leader Peter Dutton suggested parliament should be recalled to enact new anti-terrorism laws that would cover such actions if it was not already illegal. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/oct/04/australia-news-live-pro-palestine-rally-police-qld-election-youth-justice-teeth-dentists-healthcare-cost-of-living-ntwnfb Author : Rafqa Touma Publish date : 2024-10-03 21:12:52 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Tina Peters, who was lauded by election deniers, convicted over scheme inspired by false claims about 2020 resultA local elections official who became a hero to election deniers was sentenced to nine years in prison on Thursday for leading a voting system data-breach scheme inspired by the rampant false claims that fraud altered the 2020 presidential outcome.Tina Peters allowed a man affiliated with the pillow salesman and election-lie trafficker Mike Lindell to misuse a security card to access to the Mesa County election system. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/03/tina-peters-election-colorado Author : Rachel Leingang and agencies Publish date : 2024-10-03

International Association of Fire Fighters vote by a margin of 1.2% to not back either White House candidateThe International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) has declined to endorse a candidate ahead of next month’s US presidential election, despite efforts by both the Kamala Harris and Donald Trump campaigns to court the union.“This decision, which we took very seriously, is the best way to preserve and strengthen our unity,” the IAFF said in a statement. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/03/election-fire-union-trump-harris Author : Callum Jones Publish date : 2024-10-03 19:51:53 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Villa Vie Odyssey passengers spent four months stuck in Northern Ireland while their vessel underwent repairsThe luxury cruise liner stranded in Belfast for four months has finally set sail after three days marooned in Belfast Lough.But in another twist to the beleaguered round-the-world voyage, passengers were initially under the impression they were taking a detour to Scotland, a reflection of a saga beset by chaotic communication. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/03/stranded-cruise-ship-finally-leaves-belfast-but-for-scotland-not-france Author : Lisa O'Carroll in Belfast Publish date : 2024-10-03 19:25:23 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

President’s off-the-cuff remark outside White House over possible retaliation triggers global oil price riseMiddle East crisis – live updatesJoe Biden has said that his administration has been “discussing” possible Israeli plans to attack Iran’s oil industry in retaliation for the Iranian ballistic missile attack on Tuesday.Biden’s off-the-cuff remark did not make clear whether his administration was holding internal discussions or talking directly to Israel, nor did he clarify what his attitude was to such an attack. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/biden-says-us-discussing-possible-israeli-plans-to-attack-irans-oil-industry Author : Julian Borger and Patrick Wintour Publish date : 2024-10-03 18:45:05 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

People of Nabatieh are told to leave, adding to mass displacement, and multiple airstrikes are heard in capitalThe Israeli military ordered evacuations of a Lebanese city and other communities north of a UN-declared buffer zone on Thursday, signalling that it may widen a ground operation launched earlier this week against the militant group Hezbollah.Israel told people to leave Nabatieh, a provincial capital in southern Lebanon, and several towns and villages north of the Litani River, which formed the northern edge of the border zone established by the UN security council after the 2006 war in a resolution that both sides

Israel has several possible targets including military, economic or even nuclear sites, but all come with caveatsMiddle East crisis – live updatesIsrael has several options if its leaders want to launch retaliatory strikes against Iran, and while western leaders have urged restraint, a significant assault is expected. Possibilities could include strikes against military, economic or even nuclear targets, although Joe Biden said he had told Benjamin Netanyahu’s government the US would not support the last option.Iran has relatively weak air defences and it is expected it would struggle to prevent Israeli missiles or an air force bombing run, as was

Conclusion of search launched by 1993 picture puzzle book leaves chouetteurs with mixed emotionsSomewhere in France, a small statuette of a bird in flight has emerged from the soil in which it has lain buried for more than three decades. The quest for the golden owl, one of the world’s longest-running treasure hunts, appears finally to be over.“A potentially winning solution is being verified,” read a post on the hunt’s official chatline, published at 6.11am on Thursday. “No more solutions may be submitted. Further information will be communicated as soon as possible.” Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/france-treasure-hunt-buried-owl-statue-ends Author :

Quilt featuring stories of Catholic women who have had terminations unfurled outside event hosted by the PopeA vibrantly coloured, 15-metre-long quilt woven with stories of Catholic women who have had abortions has been unrolled outside the Vatican in protest against the topic being left off the agenda of a major summit hosted by Pope Francis.Thursday’s demonstration by Catholics for Choice, a US-based abortion rights group, comes days after the pontiff doubled down on his traditional views of women while reiterating that abortion was “murder” and that doctors who terminate pregnancies were “hitmen”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/pro-choice-catholics-stage-protest-after-abortion-left-off-summit-agenda Author :

Deveca Rose convicted of manslaughter after leaving two sets of twins at Sutton home while she went to supermarketA woman has been found guilty over the deaths of her four young boys in a fire after she left them home alone to go to Sainsbury’s.Deveca Rose had left her two sets of twins in the terrace house with the doors locked when the blaze broke out on the evening of 16 December 2021. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/03/woman-found-guilty-manslaughter-home-alone-sons-fire-sutton Author : PA Media Publish date : 2024-10-03 15:40:26 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Uluru statement from the heart architect argues it is ‘incontrovertible’ current policies are not working and need consultation through an elected bodyGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAn Indigenous voice is “an idea whose time will come” because without a consultation body governments will struggle to create effective policies, the Uluru statement from the heart architect, Megan Davis, has argued.In some of her most expansive comments since the referendum was defeated a year ago, the law professor and co-chair of the Uluru Dialogue says many Indigenous leaders have not given up on pursuing constitutional change.Sign up

Hundreds of arachnophiles flock to La Junta to watch the creatures emerge in droves, looking for love on the plainsLove is in the air on the Colorado plains – the kind that makes your heart beat a bit faster, quickens your step and makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up.It’s tarantula mating season, when male spiders scurry out of their burrows in search of a mate, and hundreds of arachnophiles flock to the small farming town of La Junta to watch them emerge in droves. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/03/tarantula-mating-season-colorado Author : Associated Press Publish

Crew will include amputee ex-serviceman and cabin manager who began her career at age of 59A former serviceman who was injured on duty and a cabin manager who began her flight career at the age of 59 are part of a historic all-black airline crew flying from Manchester and London in celebration of Black History Month.The two flights, operated by the airline Tui, were flying from Manchester to Boa Vista in Cape Verde, and from London Gatwick to Jamaica on Thursday. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/all-black-airline-crew-to-fly-from-uk-to-mark-black-history-month Author : Aamna Mohdin Community affairs correspondent Publish date : 2024-10-03 14:00:10 Copyright

New memoir Unleashed admits Vote Leave £350m figure was wrong and criticises David Cameron’s ‘flouncerama’UK politics live – latest updatesThe risk to peace in Northern Ireland from Brexit was exaggerated and was used by opponents “to trap the UK in the EU”, Boris Johnson has claimed in his memoir.The former prime minister’s new book, Unleashed, reveals that many family members urged him to back remain, and concedes that the true figure for UK weekly contributions to Brussels were about half the £350m famously put on the Vote Leave bus. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/oct/03/brexit-opponents-ira-fears-eu-boris-johnson-book-unleashed Author : Peter Walker Senior

Man in Rotterdam faces €100 penalty after law introduced across Netherlands to tackle harassment in public spacesA court in the Netherlands has fined a man for harassing and intimidating a woman on a street in Rotterdam, in the first conviction under a new law tackling sexual harassment in public spaces.The 33-year-old man was fined €100 (£84) by a court in Rotterdam on Wednesday, months after he was accused of grabbing a woman on the street by the hips and holding her. The court set out an additional fine of €180 if he is caught reoffending. Continue reading... Source link :

Regulator says advert by publisher of the Citizen newspaper ‘likely to harm national unity’Tanzania has suspended the online operations of a top newspaper publisher after one of its publications ran an animated advert depicting the country’s president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, and referencing a spate of recent abductions and killings of dissidents.The advert, published on X and Instagram on Tuesday by the Citizen, an English-language newspaper, showed the president flipping through TV channels. Each channel showed people speaking about loved ones they had lost through disappearances. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/tanzania-citizen-newspaper-publisher-advert-killings-dissidents Author : Carlos Mureithi in Nairobi Publish date :

Trial told Thomas Kwan, 53, disguised himself as a nurse and told Patrick O’Hara he was getting a Covid jabA GP worried about his inheritance disguised himself as a nurse and injected deadly poison into his victim after duping them into believing they were being given a home-visit Covid booster jab, a court has heard.Thomas Kwan was not injecting Covid vaccine into Patrick O’Hara, prosecutors allege, but a poison that gave his victim a rare and life-threatening flesh-eating disease. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/03/gp-injected-mothers-partner-flesh-eating-chemical-inheritance-kwan-patrick-ohara-newcastle Author : Mark Brown North of England correspondent Publish date : 2024-10-03 11:29:55 Copyright for

Venezuela’s president attempts to move on from bitterly disputed election result by declaring Christmas in October’Twas 85 nights before Christmas when the decorations went up – at least in Venezuela, where President Nicolás Maduro has decided festivities should start early in an apparent attempt to lift spirits and distract minds after the recent election scandal.A month after Maduro announced that Christmas 2024 would begin in October, residents of Caracas left home on Tuesday to find the capital’s boulevards and plazas decked with LED light strings and sculptures declaring: “Feliz Navidad.” Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/christmas-caracas-early-festivities-are-no-joke-as-maduro-tightens-grip Author : Tom Phillips

Bill is likely to include measures such as ending ‘exploitative’ zero-hours contracts and changes to sick payBusiness live – latest updatesUK politics live – latest updatesThe boss of Tesco has called on the UK government to work with business to ensure new legislation to improve workers rights also increases productivity and growth as the retailer revealed better-than-expected profits.Ken Murphy, the chief executive of the UK’s biggest supermarket, said he was keen to use a planned consultation on the wide-ranging employment rights bill, announced by the government in the king’s speech in July, to “make sure that whatever the government decides

Law Commission also suggests reopening cemeteries declared full as part of England and Wales consultationGraves could be reused and closed burial grounds reopened under proposals aimed at tackling a lack of space for the dead.The Law Commission has suggested that cemeteries which have been declared full could be reused for new burials. The proposal is part of a public consultation by the commission on updating 170-year-old burial laws in England and Wales. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/03/graves-could-be-reused-under-proposals-to-tackle-lack-of-space-for-the-dead Author : Matthew Weaver Publish date : 2024-10-03 08:53:30 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

The prime minister said he’d paid back £6,000 worth of gifts and hospitality, including Taylor Swift tickets and his wife’s rented clothingGood morning. Yesterday Keir Starmer made the surprise announcement that he has paid back £6,000 worth of gifts and hospitality, including Taylor Swift tickets and rented clothing for his wife, received since he became prime minister. The news overshadowed reports about what happened on his visit to Brussels to meet the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen (also important – here’s our story), but No 10 felt they had to put the news out yesterday because the donations

Social media stars of 367 Collins Street welcome baby birds to the nestFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastJoy can be hatched in the most unexpected places. On Thursday, it was nestled into the ledge of a skyscraper in Melbourne’s CBD, where two peregrine falcon chicks entered the world for the first time.The newest members of Melbourne’s favourite family hatched in the morning on top of 367 Collins Street, witnessed by more than 1,000 viewers on the building’s rolling live feed.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email

Party that campaigned with manifesto warning of ‘24/7 surveillance state and social credit system’ claims seats across stateGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLibertarians who fear “smart cities” technology will be used to curtail freedoms have been elected to councils across New South Wales after the Liberal party failed to nominate more than 130 of its candidates.“Smart cities” is a broad term that encompasses the use of technology to collect data on people’s movements to help guide local government planning on matters such as traffic, rubbish collection and reducing carbon emissions.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking

‘Where there’s smoke sometimes there’s fire,’ WA senator’s chief of staff and ‘preference whisperer’ tells Guardian AustraliaFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFatima Payman’s chief of staff has encouraged speculation the Western Australian senator will create a political party to run Senate candidates including in other states.Responding to a report suggesting Payman’s party could be launched in weeks, Glenn Druery quibbled with the timing but did not deny the plan to run for the Senate, and possibly lower house candidates in select seats.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking