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Exiled Nicaraguan journalist Luis Galeano detained by ICE in Florida

Galeano, who has had asylum application pending for about seven years, was pulled over by agents while driving for Lyft Veteran journalist Luis Galeano, one of at least 94 Nicaraguans whom the Ortega Murillo regime has stripped of citizenship in recent years for opposing the government, has been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Galeano, who has continued critically reporting on the Sandinista government online through his platform, Café con voz, since shortly after arriv

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Macklemore pledges his $1m Ed Sheeran tour salary to Palestine

Rapper, who was dropped from tour after his speech in support of Palestine, challenges Robert Kraft to do the same Macklemore has announced that he will donate the $1m salary he was paid as an opening act for Ed Sheeran’s Loop tour to organizations working with Palestinian people and relief in Gaza, after being dropped from the tour following backlash to his onstage comments in support of Palestine. The rapper also challenged Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots and pr

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Top Trump military adviser says US must prepare to fight around moon

Gen Dan Caine comments at Washington summit come after US revealed it has deployed weapons in space American troops need to prepare for combat not only in Earth’s orbit but around the moon, Donald Trump’s top military adviser said on Wednesday, looking ahead to a new frontier in warfare after the US revealed for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space. Gen Dan Caine, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, told service members and industry figures at the Air, Space and Cyber Conferen

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LA homelessness non-profit workers arrested over alleged corruption and bribes

Pair accused of misappropriating millions in taxpayer dollars as Trump officials target alleged fraud in blue states Federal law enforcement officers have arrested two employees of California-based homelessness non-profits on corruption charges, alleging that they misappropriated millions in taxpayer dollars. The US justice department has arrested Michael Young, a founder of the Culver City-based nonprofit Home At Last, and Lakiya Malone, an employee of the Los Angeles-based Special Service for

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US Federal Reserve raises interest rates for the first time since 2023

Trump urges lower rates after central bank agrees increase by quarter-percentage point to range of 3.75% to 4% Federal Reserve raises interest rates – live The US Federal Reserve voted to raise interest rates on Wednesday for the first time since 2023 as the central bank continues to fight to tamp down inflation. The Fed’s open market committee voted unanimously to raise its benchmark interest rate by a quarter-percentage point to a range of 3.75% to 4%. This is the first time the Fed has rais

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Australia politics live: Labor to reveal new immigration rules; PM hails narrowing of gender gap

Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia has broken into the top 10 of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report, ranking eighth out of 148 countries – its highest ranking ever. The 2026 report marks a significant climb for Australia, moving up 35 places from 43rd since the Albanese government took office. The job is not done and we will continue to focus our efforts on lifting wages, ending gender-based violence, increasing fem

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Democrats criticize Mike Johnson for sending lawmakers home for recess a day early – US politics live

Move means that scheduled votes for Thursday have been canceled, including on a proposal to impeach Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary Sign up for the US Breaking News email Reader Q&A: how united are the Democrats ahead of the US midterms? Later today, my colleagues and I will be hosting a live Q&A all about how united the Democratic party is ahead of the November midterms. We’ll be digging into who are the Democrats running in the upcoming election and where they stand. Continue reading.

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Key House Democrat refuses to clear Trump’s $2.8bn arms sale to Israel

Pro-Israel Gregory Meeks raises concerns over threat to civilian lives from package of 40,000 one-ton bombs The top Democrat on the House foreign affairs committee has thrown up a roadblock to one of the largest US arms transfers of Trump’s second term, refusing to clear a $2.8bn sale of 2,000lb bombs to Israel. Gregory Meeks announced the hold on Tuesday on a package of 40,000 of the bombs, among the most destructive conventional munitions in the US arsenal. Continue reading...

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Charlie Kirk's family blame Utah university officials for his killing

String of ‘reckless decisions’ by Utah Valley University officials left him exposed to sniper, attorneys say Charlie Kirk’s family blamed Utah officials for failing to prevent the conservative political activist’s fatal shooting at a state university, according to a wrongful death notice announced on Wednesday that presages a possible lawsuit. Attorneys for the family said Kirk’s death resulted from a string of “reckless decisions” by officials at Utah Valley University (UVU) that left him expos

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‘Inflation is too high and has been for too long,’ says Kevin Warsh as Fed announces rate hikes – as it happened

This live blog is now closed. US Federal Reserve raises interest rates for the first time since 2023 Kay Haigh, global head and CIO of Fixed Income and Liquidity Solutions at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, has this analysis of today’s decision: The Fed has signalled it does not at this stage envisage an aggressive tightening cycle. Most FOMC members see a total of two hikes this year per the SEP, and it will likely skip October’s meeting given its proximity to the midterm elections. One more

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TV reporter and pilot who died in Los Angeles helicopter crash were covering a story

NBC4 colleagues Eliana Moreno and George Marciniw were working to report on a collision between a bus and an SUV More details are emerging after a local news helicopter crashed in a Los Angeles neighborhood on Tuesday evening, killing two people onboard and one person on the ground. Eliana Moreno, an aerial photojournalist, and pilot George Marciniw have been identified as the two victims on the helicopter. A third individual, Edy Gutierrez Mejia, a pedestrian near the crash site, was also kille

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‘Made in Europe’ laws could derail UK plans for reset with EU

Government sources say legislation aimed at China poses a risk to British businesses and must be addressed The UK government’s EU reset summit could be delayed again unless the EU agrees to include “Made in Europe” legislation – that could lock British business out of parts of EU industry – on the agenda, government sources have said. The “Made in Europe” legislation – formally known as the Industrial Accelerator Act – is designed to curb China’s increasing presence in European industry, but was

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Colin Kaepernick says NFL owners are colluding against Macklemore after Ed Sheeran tour ban

Rapper dropped from tour after pro-Palestine remarks Former NFL star settled case over collusion in 2019 Colin Kaepernick has accused NFL owners of colluding against Macklemore after the rapper was removed from Ed Sheeran’s tour over comments he made onstage about Palestine. Kaepernick, whose NFL career was effectively ended in the wake of his protests against police violence, says he sees parallels between himself and Macklemore. Continue reading...

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Is EU’s offer to Canada a blueprint for Britain – or a reminder it is out in the cold?

Ursula von der Leyen has opened door for Canada to become associate member to deepen links in ‘openly hostile world’ Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, has been advocating closer alignment with “middle powers” since January in the face of recklessness in Washington. But what should worry another middle power, the UK, is that it was Brussels that came up with Wednesday’s big reveal in Strasbourg. Continue reading...

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English far-right extremist who discussed killing Jews, Muslims and migrants is jailed

Ivan Jennings, 46, sentenced to five years after pleading guilty to encouraging terrorism on social media A rightwing extremist who discussed poisoning Jews and Muslims and called for the killing of migrants and minority communities has been jailed. Ivan Jennings, 46, called for the murder of hundreds of people he labelled “subhumans”, saying it was “justified and actually needed”, in extreme far-right groups over a period of three months in 2024. Continue reading...

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More Republicans are turning on Iran war as midterms come into view

Three more GOP members voted for war powers resolution to force withdrawal from the conflict as election looms US politics live – latest updates As the US war with Iran drags on, the ranks of Republicans signaling the conflict is a liability for their party continues to grow. When the House of Representatives on Tuesday evening considered its sixth war powers resolution intended to force Donald Trump to withdraw troops from the conflict, three Republicans who had not supported the previous eff

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At least 21 killed after Israeli-hit building in Gaza City collapses

Rescue workers say search for dozens of people hampered by lack of heavy machinery A building housing about 100 displaced Palestinian families has collapsed in Gaza City, killing at least 21 people in their sleep, including 11 children, forcing rescuers to dig through the rubble with their bare hands as they search for dozens of people believed to be trapped. A rescue team from Gaza’s civil defence said they had recovered the bodies of five children among the victims, while 25 injured people wer

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Sweden voted against more power for the far right – but are centrists listening?

Even as the ‘extremist’ AfD seeks further election gains in Germany, Europe’s leaders can learn from Sweden’s dangerous embrace with far-right ideology Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Europe’s focus turned nervously to Sweden on Sunday, after an explosive election in Germany just a week earlier placed a far-right party, officially classed as “extremist”, on the brink of power in a German state for the first time since the Nazi era. A party with neo-Nazi roots has

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Former Kosovo president Thaçi sentenced to 25 years in prison by international court in The Hague – as it happened

Thaçi held criminally responsible for war crimes during the violent break from Serbia in the 1990s Von der Leyen says “kickstarting Europe’s economy is our number one priority,” as Europe needs to tap into its huge market, world class industries and services. She says its single market remains too fragmented and needs to reform further, with the aim of completing it by the end of next year. “Do we want to rally around our European idea that together we can decide our own destiny? Or do we let o

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‘We are prey’: discovery of seven women’s bodies fuels anger over femicide in South Africa

String of female murder victims found near Johannesburg’s international airport, including five in the past week The discovery of the bodies of eight women around Johannesburg’s international airport, including five in the past week, has prompted an outpouring of fear, grief and anger over a lack of progress in tackling femicide. When Elizabeth “Tsontso” Moselakgomo did not return after going for a run on 9 September, her eight-year-old daughter alerted relatives, who contacted police. The 38-ye

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Health officials in turmoil over 11th-hour backflip on aged care algorithm override powers, emails reveal

Ministers given emergency briefing about changes to algorithm decisions just three days before tool rollout Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Senior department of health officials were in turmoil before the rollout of an algorithm to determine funding packages for older Australians, after discovering legislation had been drafted so rigidly that the tool could not legally be overridden by aged care assessors. Emails published under freedom of information (FoI) by the d

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Bondi attacks prompt creation of new institute for emergency care of children in NSW

NSW Institute for Paediatric Trauma will help doctors, researchers and specialists prepare for trauma cases Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast A new institute dedicated to improving emergency medical care for severely injured children will be established in New South Wales following recent high-profile trauma events in the state. Based at the Sydney Children’s hospital in Randwick, the NSW Institute for Paediatric Trauma will bring together clinicians, researchers and

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Battle of Chile director Patricio Guzmán dies aged 85

Passionate documentary maker won international acclaim for unsparing but poetic films exploring the impact of the Pinochet regime in Chile Patricio Guzmán, the film-maker who chronicled Chile’s bloody 1970s political strife and its subsequent social and political turmoil in films such as The Battle of Chile and Nostalgia for the Light, has died aged 85. According to Chilean news outlet Emol, Guzmán died on Tuesday in Paris after a cardiorespiratory arrest. Guzmán’s chief preoccupation througho

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US to bar some South Africans over claims of anti-white discrimination

Announcement of visa restrictions follows Trump’s false claims of ‘white genocide’ taking place in South Africa The US has announced visa restrictions on some South Africans as Donald Trump’s administration continues to claim that South Africa’s government racially discriminates against white minority Afrikaners. The announcement did not specify individuals who were barred from the US. Trump has spent his second term falsely claiming there is a “white genocide” in South Africa and railing agains

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Michelin-starred Seoul restaurant fined for serving dessert topped with ants

Prosecutors sought jail term for chief executive of Evett after insects not approved for consumption were on menu A South Korean court has fined the operator of one of Seoul’s most celebrated restaurants and its chief executive for serving a dessert topped with ants, an insect not approved for consumption under local food safety law. The operator of Evett, a two-Michelin-star restaurant in the affluent Gangnam district, was fined 10m won (£5,400) and its chief executive 15m won, Newsis reported.

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‘It’s how Jean does business’: fugitive developer left Jeremy Greenwood ‘high and dry’, Icac hears

Greenwood denies that invoices for almost $1m sent in a single day in September 2021 were ‘bogus accounts’ to cover up political donations Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A Liberal factional figure has been left “high and dry” by fugitive property developer Jean Nassif, but did not chase him for payments because “it’s how Jean does business”, New South Wales’ anti-corruption watchdog has heard. Jeremy Greenwood

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Al-Qaida and IS-linked violence in Africa’s Sahel belt set to hit record levels this year

Twenty-five years after 9/11, figures compiled by conflict monitor underline how Sahel region has become centre of Islamist terror Islamist extremist violence in Africa’s Sahel region is set to reach historic highs after a series of sweeping offensives by groups linked to al-Qaida and Islamic State, according to new figures compiled by the conflict monitor Acled. As the US marks the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks launched by al-Qaida against targets in Washington and New York, the statisti

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Slave-trade wealth was embedded in Britain’s financial system, research finds

Dozens of Bank of England directors and founding subscribers invested in trafficking of enslaved Africans The Bank of England and the British financial system were for centuries deeply involved in the enslavement and transatlantic trafficking of millions of African people, according to new research on Britain’s slavery history. Research by historians compiling the Register of British Slave Traders has found that the scale of the financial system’s involvement in enslavement is greater than previ

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Australian politics live: Greens say AI companies’ ‘audacity is gobsmacking’; growing risk of selling Sydney or Melbourne units at a loss

Follow the day’s news live Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast Sports precinct funding report reveals a ‘pattern of behaviour’, Wilson says Tim Wilson says there are questions for Labor to answer over an ABC report which says health minister Mark Butler’s office asked an Adelaide council to put forward a $6m sports precinct upgrade for federal funding before any detailed costings or formal planning had been done. I think what we’re now seeing is a pattern of behaviour.

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Six green card holders in Texas charged in federal crackdown on illegal voting – as it happened

This live blog is now closed. Sign up for US Breaking News emails Kash Patel, the FBI director, is now testifying before lawmakers on the Senate judiciary committee. A reminder that the last time he appeared before Congress was in May, when he sparred with senators on the appropriations committee and denied – under oath – allegations of excessive drinking and unexplained absences on the job, dismissing them as “baseless” during a fiery congressional hearing. Today’s hearing is also expected to

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The Palestinian school under siege – podcast

At least five pupils at a village school in the West Bank have been killed in the last year by settlers and soldiers. Emma Graham-Harrison reports on how the school found itself on the frontline, while a teacher explains what life is like for staff and students. Waheed Abu Naim is an English teacher at the Al Mughayyir boys’ school in a village in the West Bank. He loves his job, he says. “I am happy to be a teacher. Although we don’t get lots of money, because my students, especially in the mor

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Saudi Arabia warns of ‘red line’ after Houthi drone intercepted close to holy city of Mecca

The Iran-aligned militant group rejected the suggestion it had targeted Mecca, while the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation condemned the attack Saudi Arabia’s air defences intercepted and destroyed a ⁠Houthi drone south of Mecca on Tuesday before it entered prohibited airspace over the holy city, according to a ⁠spokesperson for the ⁠Saudi-led ​military coalition which is fighting the Iran-aligned group in Yemen. The security of Islam’s two holiest sites and of pilgrims was a “red line”, ⁠coal

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Human remains found in Arizona after deadly Grand Canyon flash floods

Hiker Timothy Smith, 53, missing after late-August floods but officials decline to identify remains Human remains have been discovered near Arizona’s Crystal Rapids, over two weeks after a flash flood tore through the Grand Canyon, leaving two people dead and one person missing. National Park Service personnel recovered the remains, before transferring them to the Coconino county medical examiner’s office, the agency confirmed over email. Continue reading...

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Russia plotting to kill Ukraine allies in US and Europe, FBI says

Intelligence services allegedly attempted to pay people to surveil and kill people perceived to be aligned with Ukraine Russia’s intelligence services are plotting to carry out targeted killings in the United States and in European nations supporting Ukraine, federal authorities said Tuesday as they announced charges against five people who remain at large. An indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court said a network of the intelligence services had paid and attempted to pay individuals in t

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Anthropic CEO renews call for AI slowdown as Nvidia’s urges acceleration

At San Francisco conference, OpenAI chief Sam Altman calls for more rigorous security measures Anthropic’s CEO took the stage at a conference in San Francisco on Tuesday to reiterate his call for a slowdown of AI development, while Nvidia’s CEO argued against such deceleration. Dario Amodei used an automotive analogy to make his point: when a competing car company has a safety incident like brake failures, it is a moment for all car companies to stop and review their own practices, he said at Sa

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Yvonne Whear’s car found in river as mystery surrounding NSW woman’s disappearance continues

Police say personal items thought to belong to Whear recovered from waterlogged vehicle Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A car belonging to missing woman Yvonne Whear has been found in northern New South Wales, about seven months since the 73-year-old was last seen. Police divers found the car in the Rous River in Dulguigan on Saturday 12 September – a short distance from Whear’s home. Continue reading...

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About 1,500 Britons a day quitting their jobs to become unpaid carers

More than a million people have left work to look after loved ones in the past two years, Carers UK says About 1,500 Britons a day are quitting their jobs to become unpaid carers, as they try to balance their vulnerable relatives’ growing care needs with declining access to state-funded social care services. Research estimates that more than a million people have left the workplace to look after ageing, ill and disabled loved ones in the past two years, highlighting the social challenges caused

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Britons of all ethnicities feel racial inequality is worsening, study shows

Nearly half of minority ethnic respondents in a poll say they have faced prejudice over the past year Many Britons feel inequality is worsening and that discrimination has become more common, according to a thinktank study. The report by British Future has found that people across ethnic groups believe racial equality is worsening in Britain. One in six people are from minority ethnic backgrounds. Continue reading...

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Search under way for three-year-old boy missing from Suffolk playground

More than 100 people reported to have joined search for Noah, who is autistic, non-verbal and has partial hearing loss Police are urging people to check their gardens and sheds for a three-year-old boy who went missing on Tuesday during a visit to a playground near the Suffolk-Essex border. The boy, named Noah, was last seen at 3pm in Merriam Close in Brantham, near Manningtree, before being separated from a relative. Officers from Suffolk constabulary said Noah was reported to have run down an

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Labor accused of throwing creatives ‘under the bus’ with proposal to ease copyright protections for AI giants

Compromise revealed as senior personnel from OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, meets Albanese ministers Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast The Albanese government is considering giving AI companies access to Australian creatives’ works by default as it pursues a compromise with US tech giants. The proposals were revealed as senior personnel from OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, met with Labor ministers and warned that Au