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Victims say Home Office attempt to curtail spycops inquiry will result in a ‘cover-up’
Shabana Mahmood is concerned about length and £144m cost of inquiry into intrusive police surveillanceVictims of intrusive police surveillance have accused the government of seeking to cut short the spycops public inquiry that has been examining widespread misconduct committed by undercover officers.The independent judge-led inquiry is scrutinising how officers, who spied on tens of thousands of political activists over more than four decades, carried out abuses such as deceiving women into sexual relationships and fathering children. Continue reading...
Earl Spencer says media treatment of Harry and Meghan ‘echoes’ Diana’s experience
Comments come after he accused King Charles of gaslighting him in response to claims made in new memoirEarl Spencer has said the relationship between the press and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex “echoes” the way the media treated his sister Diana, Princess of Wales.In an interview with the BBC to be aired on Sunday evening, Spencer described the press’s coverage of Harry and Meghan as having a “cancerous influence”, adding it would be “beholden on people to learn from Diana’s example”. Continue reading...
One child dead and two children and woman in critical condition after Blue Mountains stabbing
Crime scene established at Waratah Road, Valley Heights as NSW police say they ‘are not looking for any other people at this time’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA child has died in a stabbing attack in the Blue Mountains, with two other children and a woman in hospital in critical condition, New South Wales police say.In a statement on Sunday afternoon, police said emergency services responded to reports of three children and a woman with stab wounds in a vehicle on Waratah Road, Valley Heights. Continue reading...
Three men charged with domestic violence-related murders after three women killed in separate incidents in NSW
A Bondi Beach woman in her 90s, a 23-year-old in Wagga Wagga and a woman in her 70s in Mole River died within hours of each other on Saturday Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThree men have been accused of domestic violence-related murders after the deaths of three women in New South Wales on Saturday.Sergei Mitnik did not apply for release on Sunday when he appeared in a bail court hours after being charged with the murder of an elderly woman inside a unit at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Continue reading...
Video: Smoke, Fire At Riyadh Airport As Houthis Fire "Ballistic Missiles"
Firefighters extinguished a blaze on a fuel tank with the logo of Saudi oil giant Aramco at a fuel depot near Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport.
Hundreds of drones target Moscow on last day of voting in Russia’s parliamentary election
Authorities accuse Ukraine of trying to disrupt poll and say 1,600 drones in total intercepted, while at least two people killed and oil refinery damagedHundreds of drones targeting Moscow and its surrounding region killed at least two people and damaged a major refinery on the final day of the country’s parliamentary elections, authorities said on Sunday.The capital’s mayor said that more than 1,600 drones had been intercepted and shot down, 450 of which were aimed at Moscow. Continue reading...
More Australians to live into their 90s as life expectancy forecast to rise over coming decades
Treasury’s latest intergenerational report projects life expectancy at birth will reach 89 for women and 86 for men by 2066Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralian households will shrink but more people can expect to live well into their 90s, according to the latest update to forecasts of the country’s long-term future.Treasury’s latest intergenerational report, to be published in full on Monday, will project the impact of government policies 40 years into the future. Continue reading...
Pakistani forces kill 5 militants and free 23 hostages in operation
Pakistani security forces have killed five militants in a shootout and freed 23 hostages in the country's southwest
North Korea fires short-range ballistic missile toward sea in latest weapons display
South Korea says that North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile toward the sea in its latest weapons display
Future of German chancellor hangs in the balance as two states go to polls
Embattled Friedrich Merz faces nervous wait while far-right Alternative für Deutschland party targets further gainsVoters in two German states are going to the polls with the political future of the embattled chancellor, Friedrich Merz, hanging in the balance and an emboldened far right targeting further gains.Coming two weeks after a seismic election in Saxony-Anhalt in which the anti-immigration, pro-Kremlin Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) scored its highest ever result in a regional poll, the nativist party is expected to drain support again from Merz’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Continue reading...
A state funeral in Hong Kong honors Tung Chee-hwa, the city's first post-colonial leader
A state funeral was held in Hong Kong on Sunday for the city's first post-colonial leader, Tung Chee-hwa
Scholar flags Trump insecurity that just ended decades of US military dominance: analysis
The Trump administration warned U.S. allies that shipments of key weapons could be delayed by as much as five years as the United States faces a “shortfall in ammunition” amid its war against Iran, Bloomberg reported on Saturday, leading international law scholar Alonso Gurmendi to float a jarring theory.According to Bloomberg, “multiple European nations” have been informed that deliveries of key weapons, including “missile and air defense capabilities,” will face severe delays. Japan was also told by the United States that a shipment of Tomahawk missiles would be “delayed by as much as two years.”Gurmendi, a London School of Economics Fellow in Human Rights, argued that the development represented the end to US “military superiority” on the world stage, and blamed two key figures for the fallout: Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who’s been increasingly accused of having “dragged” Trump into the deeply unpopular U.S. war against Iran.“Netanyahu and Trump have ended US military superiority,” Gurmendi wrote in a statement published on social media. “It’s frankly a jarring level of incompetence driven by religious/ideological fundamentalism and male fragility, respectively.”Trump has been scrutinized for years regarding what countless critics have described as his “fragile male ego,” with male fragility playing an outsized role in his first bid for the White House, according to social psychologists Eric Knowles and Sarah DiMuccio.“The Pentagon’s decision to prioritize its own stockpiles is also straining Ukraine’s push for the U.S. to send it more Patriot air defense interceptors ahead of what is expected to be a difficult winter for the war-torn nation,” Bloomberg’s report reads. “The issue of Ukraine’s badly needed air defense will be a key topic at next week’s United Nations meetings in New York.”Netanyahu and Trump have ended US military superiority. It’s frankly a jarring level of incompetence driven by religious/ideological fundamentalism and male fragility, respectively. https://t.co/qMCNcJ5HbO— Alonso Gurmendi (@Alonso_GD) September 19, 2026
