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Jeffrey Donaldson trial hears accuser describe details of alleged rape

Witness B said in police interview that she pretended to be asleep when allegedly abused as a child A jury in Northern Ireland has heard details of the alleged rape of a child by the former Democratic Unionist party (DUP) leader Jeffrey Donaldson. A police interview with the complainant was played to Newry crown court in Northern Ireland on Tuesday on the sixth day of the former MP’s trial for sex offences. Continue reading...

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Female dolphins remember who is aggressive when choosing a mating partner, research shows

Researchers observed unavailable female dolphins – those that were older, or with calves – did not show the same avoidant behaviour Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Female dolphins identify males by their unique calls and keep track of their past behaviour, choosing to avoid the most aggressive males during mating season, new research suggests. Bottlenose dolphin society is complex, and male and female dolphins often know each other for decades, said Prof Stephanie King, an expert in animal behaviour at the University of Bristol. Continue reading...

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Fake cigarettes and toys that are ‘essentially weapons’: Choice refers online retailers to regulator over unsafe products

Consumer group makes ‘super’ complaint to ACCC after investigation found dangerous items on platforms such as eBay, Amazon and AliExpress Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Cigarette lighters that look like toys, gel blasters, flick knives and fake tongue studs are among the “frightening” number of unsafe and potentially banned products being sold to Australians on online marketplaces, a Choice investigation has found. After identifying the products, Choice on Wednesday formally asked the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to take action against the retailers and begin a review of the country’s product safety laws more generally. Continue reading...

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Can you not? Plastic and metal ‘franken-can’ named Australia’s worst packaging at Unpackit awards

‘Completely unnecessary’ hybrid cans are not easily recycled or accepted by container refund schemes, and are already banned in WA Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A single-use plastic and metal drinking vessel dubbed a “franken-can” has been given the dubious honour of the nation’s worst plastic packaging. The plastic-metal hybrid can, which is not accepted by container refund schemes or easily recycled – has won the inaugural Unpackit award for Australia’s worst packaging. Continue reading...

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British couple jailed for 10 years over ‘spying on Iran’ lose appeal, family confirms

The Government previously described the couple’s 10-year sentences as ‘completely appalling and totally unjustifiable’

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One Nation's Corey Bernadi ERUPTS and says he will block all legislation until the government treats the right-wing party the same as its rivals

The right-wing party's federal members in Canberra, including Pauline Hanson , had been complaining for weeks about allocated their staff numbers.

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Democrats oppose Trump officials’ effort to include crypto in 401(k) plans

Change backed by labor department would expose workers to greater financial risk, letter shared with Guardian says Congressional Democrats are strongly opposing a US Department of Labor proposal that would allow 401(k) investments to include cryptocurrency, private credit and private equity assets, arguing the change will expose workers to riskier and more complex investments. In a letter shared exclusively with the Guardian, Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Elizabeth Warren and House education and workforce committee ranking member Bobby Scott of Virginia, argued the rule would expose an estimated $14.2tn of 401(k) retirement savings to volatile assets and would probably not withstand a challenge in court. Continue reading...

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Planet Israel review – valuable personal documentary about Israel/Palestine conflict

Gillian Mosely’s film argues that Israelis are asked to accept a ‘forever war’ in part motivated by Netanyahu’s desire to defer investigation into corruption allegations Gillian Mosely has produced a follow-up film to her earlier documentary The Tinderbox, about the Israel/Palestine conflict and about how, as a Jewish person, she came to sympathise with the Palestinians. This film returns to the same subject, reiterating her argument that, since the grotesque antisemitic pogrom of 7 October, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has normalised a cruel, callous and paranoid political culture within an administration that needs far-right elements to stay in power and defer indefinitely any legal pursuit of Netanyahu’s own alleged corruption and cronyism, and that the civilian deaths in Gaza are an international scandal. Further, she says that all Israeli citizens, hawks and doves, are being asked to accept a “forever war” as a mark of patriotic loyalty; an eternal state of bloodshed. It is a perfectly admissible point, complicated by the fact that Israel does indeed have neighbours that deny its right to exist at all; fundamental, existential statehood enmities not faced by Putin, Xi, Trump and other strongmen with whom Netanyahu is often bracketed. Mosely at a later stage in the film damages her own argument, in my view, with a glib and naive statement to the effect that all this “fuels antisemitism”; an equation that comes close to inviting Jews all over the world to blame themselves for anti-Jewish bigotry. (Somehow it is not permissible in the same way to shrug and say that Hamas “fuels Islamophobia” or that Xi “fuels anti-Chinese racism”.) But, as before, Mosely has relevant things to say about a horrendous situation which Netanyahu’s ban on foreign journalists in Gaza is designed to mask. Continue reading...

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Moment Arsenal star Martin Odegaard hits police officer on head with football from victory parade bus

Almost a million fans are thought to have lined the streets of north London on Sunday to watch the players complete their victory lap after their Premier League win last week.

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Tuesday briefing: Palantir’s rise – and why so many oppose its role in the British state

In today’s newsletter: Its software is used from health services to militaries. But controversies and criticism of the $375bn company are leading some to ask if Palantir is too powerful Good morning. The Peter Mandelson story keeps unfolding. Peter Walker explains here what is in the latest release of documents, and Henry Dyer takes a look at the key papers missing from the latest disclosures. But today we are covering another major story – Palantir. Few companies attract controversy more than Palantir. Since the pandemic, the US data analytics company has grown voraciously, using its AI-driven software to make sense of intractable datasets for customers around the world. For the NHS, it analyses patient records; for the US military, it’s focused on targets in Iran. Palantir’s products are widely used, with the business now worth $375bn. UK politics | Peter Mandelson was receiving sensitive security briefings about the Foreign Office’s work, and was in discussions with the head of MI6, before he had completed the developed vetting process, documents reveal. Ukraine | Russian air raids on major Ukrainian centres including Kyiv, Dnipro and Kharkiv killed at least five people and wounded dozens by early morning on Tuesday, authorities said. Environment | More than a million jobs, higher wages, nearly half a trillion pounds in investment in the pipeline – the UK’s green economy is powering ahead, according to research by the country’s leading business organisation. US news | Donald Trump is reconsidering whether to keep pressing for a $1.8bn fund to compensate his allies, a person familiar with his thinking said, as the justice department paused the program to comply with a court order. UK news | Sir Alan Bates has said that the schemes set up to compensate post office operators over the Horizon IT scandal have been an “utter disaster” and that the government should not be involved in running them. Continue reading...

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‘Like a Klingon prison’: inside Barack Obama’s audacious, near-windowless, $850m presidential library

Towering over a low-income area of Chicago, and wrapped in a speech that’s hard to decipher, this controversial monolith feels like a menacing sci-fi HQ. Is it a monument – or a mausoleum? The Egyptians had their pyramids. The Anglo-Saxons had their barrows. And the Americans have their presidential libraries – the chief difference being that the leaders the US venerates are usually still alive at the opening. Lacking a royal family or a state religion, the US presidency has swelled to fill the void, transforming over the decades into a national personality cult, complete with its own secular temples to these powerful men. The latest pharaonic edifice is about to open on Chicago’s south side, where it looms on the skyline as a towering totem to the 44th president, Barack Obama. He might have seemed humble in office, but in his post-presidential, Netflix-producing afterlife, Obama has erected the largest, costliest and most audacious complex of them all. Behold the $850m Obamalisk – or, as it sometimes feels morbidly like, the Obamausoleum. Continue reading...

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Grace Tame given a taxpayer-funded job at the ABC - just months after revealing she struggled to find work after her comments about October 7

The human rights campaigner had complained in March that she had lost all of her speaking bookings.

The Guardian World

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Mandelson received sensitive Foreign Office briefings before vetting finished

Revelations appear in second tranche of released files about Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador Peter Mandelson was receiving sensitive security briefings about the Foreign Office’s work, and was in discussions with the head of MI6, before he had completed the developed vetting process, newly released documents reveal. Declassified emails show the ambassador designate and Richard Moore, the former chief of MI6 – a role known as “C” – had agreed to meet in early January 2025 before Mandelson went to Washington. Continue reading...

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University of Manchester to investigate sexual harassment of female medical students

About 20 students report anonymous late-night phone calls from men who ‘intimidated, demeaned and belittled’ them The University of Manchester has launched an investigation after about 20 female medical students complained of receiving anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night from male callers who intimidated and sexually harassed them. The calls have been going on for at least three years, according to Charlotte Buttercase, a final-year medical student and one of those targeted. Continue reading...

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Gunfights, grisly deaths and fentanyl: Euphoria’s finale was a lurid epic of biblical proportions

Sam Levinson’s HBO show went to garish new extremes to show the hollowness of the American Dream This article contains spoilers Ahead of the series finale, I didn’t think there was much more that Euphoria could do to shock me. Since season three of the HBO drama picked up its story five years after the group of teens graduated high school, Sam Levinson’s brainchild has made jaw-dropping scenes its raison d’etre. From Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) cosplaying as a dog and making mega bucks on OnlyFans, to Nate (Jacob Elordi) getting his fingers and toes chopped off before being buried alive, and Jules (Hunter Schafer) being mummified in plastic by her sugar daddy, the last eight episodes have demanded our attention in a media landscape where that very thing is valued above all else. But as I watched the final episode, it once again delivered something unexpected. The 88-minute finale felt like a standalone feature film, with no shortage of biblical references. It even ended with the final words: “May God bless us all.” The sudden pivot into a nostalgic, star-spangled morality is indicative of a confused show that, right up until the last moment, hasn’t been sure what it’s trying to tell us. As a lesson in ethics, it falls flat. Yet looking more deeply, there is something more complicated going on. Continue reading...

The Independent (World)

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Room bursts into laughter as MAGA influencer flounders to name one way the economy has improved under Trump

Conservative pundit Dave Rubin branded ‘a complete imbecile’ after struggling to identify single positive from president’s second term on YouTube debate show Surrounded

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Several protesters arrested at New Jersey ICE facility as clashes continue

Dozens reportedly arrested for defying curfew at Delaney Hall in Newark amid hunger and labor strikes at facility Officials in New Jersey said Monday that several protesters were arrested overnight for defying a curfew at Delaney Hall, the Newark immigration detention center that has seen more than a week of chaotic and often violent clashes. The state’s Democratic attorney general, Jennifer Davenport, posted on X that a group of individuals “had come to the protest armed with helmets, shields, or gas masks, [and] deliberately refused to comply with repeated orders to leave the area”, resulting in their arrest. Continue reading...

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Dems to launch ‘coordinated attack’ on Trump’s $1.8 billion fund as GOP revolt erupts

Democrats have branded the fund a "slush fund" and are vowing to block its implementation, further complicating efforts to pass vital Homeland Security spending legislation

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‘We can all be susceptible’: how did a group of models get taken in by a cult?

In HBO docuseries Bring Me the Beauties, a lesser-known, image-obsessed cult from the 80s is put under the spotlight Documentary film-maker Chris Smith made the seminal 1999 film American Movie, about an indie director’s struggle to complete a horror film, which he hopes will then finance the completion of his dream project. More recently, he’s profiled well-known subjects in projects for Netflix about Jim Carrey and Andy Kaufman, the bands Devo and Wham!, and the disastrous Fyre festival, among others. His new HBO miniseries Bring Me the Beauties is similarly connected to popular culture, but through a story with far less immediately available background material: the rise and fall of Eternal Values, a cult started in the 80s by the eccentric Frederick von Mierers, consisting largely of models. “What was odd about this story,” Smith said, “is that there was very little about it online.” He met Hoyt Richards, sometimes referred to as the first male supermodel and a former Eternal Values member, on another project, “and as we started talking, hours went by”, Smith said. “It was one of those situations where I just became more and more curious about his life.” Richards became the backbone of the series, sitting for many hours of interviews, but wasn’t sure if Smith and his collaborators would be able to coax anyone else into participation. As seen in the series, not everyone’s account of their experience with Von Mierers is the same; not everyone is even convinced they were involved with a cult in the first place. Continue reading...

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Macron says French navy has boarded Russia-linked oil tanker in Atlantic

French president says it is ‘unacceptable for ships to circumvent international sanctions’, adding operation took place with support of UK The French navy has boarded an oil tanker that was subject to international sanctions and sailing from Russia, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, has said. Macron wrote on X: “This operation took place in the Atlantic Ocean, on the high seas, with the support of several partners, including the United Kingdom, in strict compliance with the law of the sea,. Continue reading...

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Jeffrey Donaldson trial hears accuser describe details of alleged rape

Female dolphins remember who is aggressive when choosing a mating partner, research shows

Fake cigarettes and toys that are ‘essentially weapons’: Choice refers online retailers to regulator over unsafe products

Can you not? Plastic and metal ‘franken-can’ named Australia’s worst packaging at Unpackit awards

British couple jailed for 10 years over ‘spying on Iran’ lose appeal, family confirms

One Nation's Corey Bernadi ERUPTS and says he will block all legislation until the government treats the right-wing party the same as its rivals

Democrats oppose Trump officials’ effort to include crypto in 401(k) plans

Planet Israel review – valuable personal documentary about Israel/Palestine conflict

Moment Arsenal star Martin Odegaard hits police officer on head with football from victory parade bus

Tuesday briefing: Palantir’s rise – and why so many oppose its role in the British state

‘Like a Klingon prison’: inside Barack Obama’s audacious, near-windowless, $850m presidential library

Grace Tame given a taxpayer-funded job at the ABC - just months after revealing she struggled to find work after her comments about October 7

Mandelson received sensitive Foreign Office briefings before vetting finished

University of Manchester to investigate sexual harassment of female medical students

Gunfights, grisly deaths and fentanyl: Euphoria’s finale was a lurid epic of biblical proportions

Room bursts into laughter as MAGA influencer flounders to name one way the economy has improved under Trump

Several protesters arrested at New Jersey ICE facility as clashes continue

Dems to launch ‘coordinated attack’ on Trump’s $1.8 billion fund as GOP revolt erupts

‘We can all be susceptible’: how did a group of models get taken in by a cult?

Macron says French navy has boarded Russia-linked oil tanker in Atlantic