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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has denied her party described its proposed £10bn air defence system as a British 'Iron Dome', despite the party's own press release using that phrase, as she rejected criticism that the budget was inadequate for the scale of the project.
Phosphate, long overlooked as a humble fertiliser ingredient, has become a strategically critical commodity as global supply chain shocks, Middle East disruptions and a Chinese export halt squeeze world food supply, according to a report from Brisbane Times and Sydney Morning Herald.
The Guardian is hosting a live reader Q&A on 6 October with its political and global correspondents to examine how the war with Iran is reshaping American politics and whether it will cost Trump's party at the midterm elections.
A 48-year-old woman has been charged with first-degree murder after allegedly stabbing a seven-year-old girl to death in an unprovoked attack on a sidewalk in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood on Saturday. The victim has been identified as Eddimar Hernandez-Chacon.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has insisted his landlocked country must gain access to the Red Sea, repeating the demand as he was sworn in for another five-year term and as federal forces pushed back opposition fighters in the northern Tigray region.
President Donald Trump's approval rating has dropped to a career low of 32%, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, with Latino voters turning sharply against the administration a month before the midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.
A new Reuters-Ipsos poll shows President Donald Trump's approval rating stuck at a record low of 32 percent, with support among Hispanic voters dropping to 24 percent — its lowest point of his presidency — as the November midterm elections approach.
The Australian Army soldier killed in a vehicle rollover at a Northern Territory training ground has been identified as Corporal Brendan Hannam, a 28-year-old father of two who served in Afghanistan and trained Ukrainian forces. Chief of Army Susan Coyle described him as a 'much beloved junior leader' who would 'give the shirt off his back for anybody.'
France is bracing for a nationwide day of school protests on Tuesday after organisers called for mass mobilisation following a week of demonstrations that saw hundreds of schools blockaded, at least 190 students injured, and more than 5,000 people arrested. The movement, which began in September in Paris and has spread across the country, is demanding greater investment in education.
Pennsylvania has recorded a sixth death in its measles outbreak, with the state's case count rising to 1,137 and hospitalizations to 219. The latest fatality, announced Monday by the Franklin County coroner, was a 39-year-old unvaccinated woman with underlying conditions, as a dispute continues between state officials and the CDC over how measles deaths are classified.
A Nigerian Air Force plane crashed in southwestern Nigeria on Monday, killing all 32 people on board, according to officials. The aircraft went down near a naval base in the Igbokoda area of Ondo State.
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has unveiled the Coalition’s long-awaited migration policy, pledging to slash net overseas migration to 100,000 in the first two years of a Coalition government — a cut of two-thirds from current levels that he described as “the biggest cut to immigration in the history of this country”. The plan would reduce the number of temporary visa holders by around 650,000 over four years while abolishing temporary graduate visas and halving Australia’s humanitarian intake, but adds 100,000 skilled migrant places.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has arrived at the party's annual conference with her position secure and her MPs in an unusually united mood, as colleagues said the party must now focus on the economy rather than cultural battles to win back voters.
Firefighters are working to contain bushfires near Toowoomba, Queensland, according to reports published on Monday, 5 October 2026.
Flávio Bolsonaro, the far-right candidate and son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, has won the most votes in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election, securing a place in a runoff against incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on 25 October, according to results reported by The Guardian.
Pacific leaders and delegates gathered in Fiji this week for pre-COP climate meetings co-hosted by Australia, pressing world governments to honour climate commitments and ensure small island states get a fair say in global climate governance ahead of the COP31 summit in Turkey in November.
With US midterm elections approaching, President Donald Trump has blamed Democrats and Ukraine's attacks on Russian refineries for soaring petrol prices, despite data showing that exports through the Strait of Hormuz have plunged 97 percent since the US-Israel war with Iran began. The average US petrol price has risen to $4.36 per gallon, up from $2.98 before the conflict started in late February, according to the American Automobile Association (AAA).
The United Kingdom has reportedly threatened to expel 27 Israeli diplomats if Israel proceeds with plans to close the British consulate in occupied East Jerusalem by October 8, in retaliation for British sanctions on illegal settlements.
The National Party has pledged to reduce foreign aid outside the Pacific and make the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade more efficient, redirecting the savings into a $604 million uplift in Pharmac's medicines budget and an expansion of free cancer screening, if it leads the next government.
Families in rural Australian communities are being locked out of the federal government's Building Early Education Fund (BEEF), according to childcare advocates and residents who gathered at forums in Longreach and Blackall. They say the fund's eligibility criteria exclude council-run and local not-for-profit centres that are the backbone of early childhood education in remote areas.
Bestselling author and former Conservative politician Jeffrey Archer has died at the age of 86, his publisher HarperCollins announced on Monday. Archer, who sold more than 300 million books over a five-decade career, died "suddenly and peacefully at home" between writing sessions, just one day before the release of his final novel, Adam and Eve.
Barack Obama will travel to Detroit on 24 October to rally with Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for one of the most consequential Senate seats in the country, the Michigan Democratic party announced on Monday. The event, which will also feature gubernatorial nominee Jocelyn Benson, falls on the first day of in-person early voting, 10 days before election day.
Hundreds of Cornell University students, staff and members of the public gathered on campus Monday to demand the resignation of the university's president and an overhaul of how sexual assault allegations are handled, as fresh outrage erupted over a civil lawsuit alleging a 2024 gang rape at a fraternity house. The protest followed an overnight vandalism attack on the university's main administrative building, Day Hall, where activists smashed a glass door and spray-painted messages including 'Smash the patriarchy' and 'At Cornell rapists are protected protesters are expelled.'
Mexico has requested that the United States provide evidence of a cross-border shooting that allegedly targeted US Coast Guard personnel in late September, an incident that prompted the deployment of 500 US troops to the border. President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday that Mexican security forces had not detected any shots fired from Mexican territory.
One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce has declared his party is driving the political agenda after the Coalition prepared to announce deep cuts to Australia's migration levels, saying the opposition had effectively adopted One Nation's policy.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia of sinking a civilian grain ship in Romania's section of the Black Sea, an attack he described as a 'horrific strike' that killed two people and raised fresh concerns about the war spilling over into NATO territory.
A British Airways flight from London Heathrow to Chicago was forced to return to the United Kingdom on Monday after a technical issue caused a rapid descent of 28,000 feet over Ireland. The aircraft landed safely at Heathrow and passengers are being rebooked on services departing Tuesday.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's popularity has fallen to a new low in the latest opinion poll, according to reports from multiple Australian news outlets.
The NSW government has capped screen time to as little as 15 minutes a day for the youngest students, following landmark research that found widespread digital distraction and that only 10 percent of high school leaders believe students can self-regulate their technology use.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has arrived in Iceland, beginning a four-day European tour, and said he would not directly tie the removal of US B-1 bombers from a British base to last week's arrest of several men on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts near that base.
A shadow Conservative Home Office minister has claimed there are “no-go zones” in Luton where “white people won’t go”, drawing immediate criticism from community leaders and police who say the town has no such areas.
Conservative plans to cut the UK's overseas aid budget by 90 per cent would leave Britain unable to meet existing international commitments and irreparably damage its global credibility, charities and development organisations have warned. The proposal, announced by party leader Kemi Badenoch at the Conservative conference in Birmingham, would reduce spending from £9bn to £1bn a year, with the savings redirected to fund 50,000 new prison places in England and Wales.
The United States says it is closely monitoring the death of a young female employee at an anti-plague laboratory in Siberia, after Russian authorities gave conflicting accounts of whether she contracted the plague. The woman, in her 20s, died last week in Irkutsk from what officials have called pneumonia of unknown origin, but local media and an initial social media post from a regional governor suggested she may have been infected with the pneumonic plague after a lab accident.
A 33-year-old woman has been charged with attempted murder following a knife attack at a home on Kirby Street in Glendene, West Auckland, late Sunday night that left three people injured, including a baby.
A person presented at Christchurch Hospital in the early hours of Tuesday with a gunshot wound, received treatment and was discharged. Police are now investigating what happened.
A Four Corners investigation has found that Veteran Benefits Australia (VBA), a Brisbane-based network of companies, made millions by turning veterans into sales leads on an industrial scale, with staff allegedly told to have veterans sign over their taxpayer-funded care plans to access other services.
Health authorities in Tasmania have issued a public warning after an overdose death that may have been caused by drugs possibly laced with a strong synthetic opioid. The case is the first known detection of a novel U-class opioid in the state, the Department of Health confirmed.
A winter visit to Cambridge has revealed a side of the city that summer tourists rarely see: an almost empty Cam, with no other boats on The Backs and the temperature hovering near zero. The experience stands in stark contrast to peak-season visits, when the river is busy with students, beer gardens and visitors.
Sixteen days before Cameron Bancroft was caught hiding sandpaper down his pants during the third Test in Cape Town, a journalist covering the Australia-South Africa series received an unexpected delivery at his Port Elizabeth hotel room: a USB stick containing previously unseen footage of the stairwell clash between David Warner and Quinton de Kock, further fuelling what was already an explosive tour.
The Mecca Alliance has agreed to activate collective deterrence measures in response to recent Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, with Pakistan, Turkiye and Saudi Arabia pledging to rapidly deploy military forces to the kingdom, according to a joint statement from the Pakistani Foreign Ministry.
A 10th grade student and one other person were killed and about 26 students were taken to hospital when a school bus flipped onto its roof in Winter Haven, central Florida, on Monday morning, authorities said.
Former Victorian premier Daniel Andrews made a quiet return to Spring Street in June for a meeting with Mental Health Minister Ingrid Stitt, the latest ministerial diaries reveal, as part of his role as chairman of youth mental health organisation Orygen.
Four years into Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, North Korea has sent an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 troops to Russia's Kursk region since October 2024, suffering roughly 6,000 casualties, according to intelligence from South Korea and the United Kingdom. The deployment, which has no direct connection to Pyongyang's national interests in Ukraine, has prompted questions about what Kim Jong Un hopes to gain from the sacrifice.
Tajikistan is tapping Iran as a fuel supplier after Russian supplies ran dry, an emergency hedge that places Dushanbe in the path of United States secondary sanctions, according to The Diplomat.
Two Cardiff men have been sentenced for running an illegal poker den from an industrial unit in Splott, an operation police said was actively promoted to people involved in serious crime.
Russia is intensifying and widening its air war against Ukraine, striking railways, ports, gas stations, shopping malls and data centers in a systematic campaign to paralyze the Ukrainian state as winter approaches, according to a report from Foreign Policy.
A review commissioned by the public inquiry into the 2024 Southport knife attacks has found that violent material was still available online two weeks after being reported in more than 80% of cases, raising concerns about the effectiveness of content moderation on platforms including X, TikTok and Instagram.
An inquest jury has found that strict terrorism control measures imposed by the government had a "substantial impact" on the mental state of a prisoner who took his own life, and that the prison service failed to provide the support he needed. Akhtar Uddin, 35, a builder from east London, died at HMP Wandsworth on Christmas Day 2021 after being jailed the previous year for breaching a Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures (TPIM) order.