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The new Liberal candidate for the seat of Whitlam once claimed school students were being “brainwashed” by Marxist and woke ideologies – despite replacing another candidate dumped by the party for his controversial views. The party’s New South Wales branch administrative committee confirmed on Sunday Benjamin Britton had been disendorsed after Guardian Australia revealed a … Read more

Data Point: Do schools in north India teach southern languages? | Video Credit: The Hindu With the debate over Tamil Nadu’s refusal to adopt the three-language policy still ongoing, the latest data needed to address key questions on the issue is lacking. Vital data that could help bring clarity is the list of languages currently … Read more

Investors have piled back into Australian shares, even as a showdown looms between the US and China in a tariff battle that threatens to paralyse global trade. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 was up 1.5% in early afternoon trading on Tuesday, erasing some of the steep losses suffered a day earlier when the share market recorded … Read more

China’s government says it will “fight to the end” if the US continues to escalate the trade war, after Donald Trump threatened huge additional tariffs in response to China’s retaliatory measures. On Tuesday, China’s commerce ministry accused the US of “blackmail” and said the US president’s threats of additional 50% tariffs if Beijing did not … Read more

The NHS is attempting to ease the pressure on GPs and A&E by sending a new type of health worker door to door in deprived areas to help detect illnesses before people need urgent care. Community health and wellbeing workers (CHWW) are already deployed in 12 areas of England, with 13 others to follow, in … Read more

The Bank of England should use its meeting next month to cut interest rates by at least half a percentage point to 4% in response to the financial turmoil created by Donald Trump’s trade tariffs, the former deputy governor Charlie Bean has said. He believes an aggressive strategy is needed to combat the fallout from … Read more

South Korea will hold a presidential election on 3 June, the country’s acting president said on Tuesday, after predecessor Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached and removed from office over a disastrous declaration of martial law. The government “is to set June 3 as the date for South Korea’s 21st presidential election”, prime minister Han Duck-soo … Read more

A giant quilt made to remember people who died of Aids in Britain is to be publicly displayed later this year at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in London. The UK Aids Memorial Quilt was created in the 1980s at the height of the epidemic to raise awareness of the disease and humanise the people who … Read more

An ambitious €350m (£300m) plan to connect electricity grids across the island of Ireland is heading for the high court after a challenge brought by campaigners claiming Northern Ireland was being used as a “whipping boy” to feed the republic’s energy-hungry datacentres. An estimated 150 landowners representing 6,500 residents have called on the Northern Ireland … Read more

(1) Waqf Amendment Bill passes Parliament A Bill to improve the functioning of the Waqf Board and streamline the process of donating waqf properties passed both Houses of the Parliament on Saturday (April 5, 2025) after several hours of debate in the Lok Sabha. The controversial Bill was accused of allowing the government to interfere … Read more