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Extreme weather has caused at least 40 fatalities across parts of the US through the past week, with a variety of hazards including tornadoes, dust storms, and wildfires across the midwest and south. More than 300 tornado warnings were issued by the US National Weather Service (NWS) between Friday and Saturday. By Wednesday, the NWS … Read more

Good morning, After a disastrous week for the Labour government, with many saying the party have abandoned their core values by cutting disability benefits, Ed Miliband is trying to shift focus onto the government’s carbon emissions targets. The government is “absolutely up for the fight” over net zero, Miliband said, as he accused the Conservatives … Read more

The BBC, ITV, BT and sports production company IMG have been fined £4.2m for illegally sharing information about fees for freelance workers at football and rugby matches. The sharing of information, which breached competition law, affected workers such as camera operators and sound technicians, according to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The regulator opened … Read more

The Victorian government has “overstated” the benefits of sections of its contentious Suburban Rail Loop project, Australia’s peak infrastructure body has determined, as it warns blowouts to the $34.5bn price tag of the first section are likely. In its evaluation of the Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) East section, Infrastructure Australia – the commonwealth-funded independent infrastructure … Read more

A grandson of Winston Churchill has revealed he was abused as a child while boarding at a prep school and said he was “completely unembarrassed about it”. Rupert Soames, the chair of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), spoke about his childhood on the Crisis What Crisis? podcast. The businessman, who attended Eton College when … Read more

Sudan’s military has retaken the presidential palace in Khartoum, the last bastion in the capital of rival paramilitary forces, after nearly two years of fighting. Social media videos showed soldiers inside giving the date as the 21st day of Ramadan, which was Friday. A Sudanese military officer wearing a captain’s epaulettes made the announcement in … Read more

A 17-year-old boy who allegedly tried to force his way on to a Jetstar flight at Victoria’s second largest airport with a shotgun earlier this month, before being dramatically overpowered by passengers, is facing fresh commonwealth charges including attempted hijacking. Police allege the boy climbed through a hole in a fence at Avalon airport, near … Read more

A “science nerd” who wanted to collect all the elements of the periodic table could face jail time after ordering radioactive material over the internet. But Emmanuel Lidden, 24, will have to wait to learn his sentence after breaching nuclear non-proliferation laws by shipping samples of plutonium to his parents’ suburban Sydney unit. Lidden pleaded … Read more

Good morning. Yesterday, Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed a European Council summit in Brussels, and emphasised the urgency of the EU’s role in Ukraine’s future as Donald Trump turns away. “It’s crucial that our partners’ support for Ukraine doesn’t decrease but instead continues and grows,” he said. And he added: “Europe must always be at the table … Read more

A migrant worker has died while working on a new stadium being built for the 2034 World Cup, the Guardian can reveal. Muhammad Arshad, from Pakistan, fell to his death from an upper level during the construction of the Aramco Stadium in the eastern city of Al Khobar on 12 March, according to sources with … Read more