51 m. ago Putin’s play for an Indonesian airbase was always likely to fail – but Russia has wider ambitions

Russia remains a key arms supplier in South-east Asia, and Trump’s unstable leadership is providing more opportunities to make inroadsA defence industry report claiming that Russia requested a permanent base for its warplanes in Indonesia’s remote Papua region, right on Australia’s northern doorstep, sent Canberra into a tailspin. But in Indonesia, it was the frenzy whipped up in Australia’s tight election campaign that came as the real surprise.Foreign policy and defence experts are highly sceptical about the prospect that Jakarta would ever acquiesce to such a Russian request, and besides, it is hardly new. Moscow has sought permanent basing rights for its planes at Indonesia’s Biak airfield in Papua for almost half a century – and not once has it won approval. Continue reading...

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56 m. ago Family says ICE agents smashed car window to take man seeking asylum

The family and their legal representation are now demanding answers

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2 h. ago Deadly floods in DRC becoming more likely with climate change, say scientists

More than 70 people have been killed and more than 5,000 displaced by floods currently hitting the country, reports Nick Ferris

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2 h. ago Donald Trump will give money and a plane ticket to illegal immigrants who want to 'self

Donald Trump has announced a new plan that will see the US offer financial aid and a plane ticket to any immigrant who is in the country illegally and wants to "self-deport"

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3 h. ago Judge says labor unions' lawsuit over DOGE access to Labor Department systems can move forward

A federal judge says he won’t dismiss a lawsuit from labor unions seeking to block Elon Musk’s team from accessing systems at the Labor Department

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3 h. ago Justin Bieber breaks silence on claims he is broke and millions in debt as he slams 'ill

Justin Bieber's team have vehemently denied the allegations that he is in millions of dollars of debt dubbing the report 'clickbait stupidity' and it's 'sources' as being 'ill-informed'

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4 h. ago Myanmar frees around 4,900 prisoners to mark traditional new year

The head of Myanmar’s military government has granted amnesty to around 4,900 prisoners to mark the country's traditional new year, but it wasn’t immediately clear how many were political detainees locked up for opposing army rule

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5 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy hails ‘good progress’ on minerals deal talks

Ukrainian president says legalities almost finalised and officials signal US concessions in talks that are progressing ‘quite fast’; deadly Shahed strike on Dnipro. What we know on day 1,149Minerals deal negotiators have made “good progress”, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said on Wednesday. A senior official with knowledge of the negotiations told Agence France-Presse that newer drafts of the US-Ukraine accord appeared not to recognise previous US military aid as a debt owed by Ukraine, adding that talks were moving forward “quite fast”. That assessment echoed a report by Bloomberg News that said Washington had eased a demand that Kyiv pay for aid already delivered since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.“The basic legal stuff is almost finalised, and then, if everything moves as quickly and constructively, the agreement will bring economic results to both our countries,” Zelenskyy said in his daily address on Wednesday. The Trump administration has demanded some sort o...

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5 h. ago Golfer left with broken jaw after vicious brawl on Canadian course

Golf is known as a serene game while Canadians are famously polite and friendly, but neither generalization is entirely true, as two groups of players proved in British Columbia on Monday.

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6 h. ago Fifty years on, New Zealand’s tribunal upholding Māori rights faces a turning point

The Waitangi Tribunal has had a significant impact on Indigenous rights and policy but as it marks its 50th anniversary its role is being questionedIn the 1980s, New Zealand’s department of Māori affairs set aside money for language groups to spend on projects as they saw fit. When Wellington teacher Huirangi Waikerepuru received his group’s share, he used it to challenge the government.He took his complaint to a relatively new body called the Waitangi Tribunal. Formed in 1975 amid a wave of protest, it was designed to address Māori grievances by determining whether the meaning of the country’s founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi, was being adhered to. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Trump’s pick to run the critical DC attorney’s office has appeared on Russian state media over 150 times: report

Ed Martin reportedly appeared on RT and Sputnik from August 2016 through April 2024

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7 h. ago Major NHS change will see GPs paid to keep two million patients out of hospital

The government has rolled out a new NHS system for GPs to seek advice from specialists themselves to avoid two million 'unnecessary' hospital appointments in the UK

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7 h. ago Wife of deported 'Maryland man' reveals horrors she experienced at his hands in scathing police report

The wife of deported Salvadorian migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia accused her husband of violently beating her multiple times in a 2021 court filing exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com.

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7 h. ago Wife of deported 'Maryland man' reveals horrors she experienced at his hands in scathing police report: 'I was scared of him'

Deported Salvadorian migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is at the center of a major Trump administration legal case, has been accused of being an active MS-13 gang member and 'wife-beater.'

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7 h. ago Teachers exempt from reporting teenage sex under ‘Romeo and Juliet’ clause

Consensual relationships should not be considered abuse in the absence of coercion, minister says

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7 h. ago Coronation Street Wes' true identity and link to Zoe revealed after fan plea

Coronation Street spoilers have explained newcomer Wes' connection to another newcomer on the ITV soap, after fans speculated they were connected amid a plot with Dee-Dee Bailey

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8 h. ago Democrat left red faced after showing up at El Salvador prison to 'rescue' deported 'Maryland man' Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia

Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen shared a clip of himself to X before boarding a flight to the country where Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, 29, is being held.

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8 h. ago Saka and Martinelli fire Arsenal to last four after famous win at Real Madrid

When at last the never ending story reached its final page, there was Bukayo Saka standing at the north end of the Santiago Bernabéu shrugging a familiar shrug that says: how about that, then? And that was pretty special, Arsenal’s own story written as Mikel Arteta had demanded and a moment they will remember for a long time. Here was the goal that effectively put them into the semi-final of the Champions League for the third time in their history and a portrait of the way they had played here: an exercise in patience, control, and maturity.Precision and courage too. Saka had missed a first-half penalty that might have set up their passage sooner, but he was not sunk. None of them were: not by the legend, the atmosphere, the history, not by the quality of players in front of them either, the fatalism that saw so many others crumble and fall. Instead, the Santiago Bernabéu spell was broken, Real Madrid eliminated. And deservedly so. At no point really was Arsenal’s 3-0 lead from the ...

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9 h. ago Martínez and Pavard send Inter past Bayern into Champions League last four

Buffeted by wind and water, Inter ultimately brought the fire. Nobody should sleep on them as a credible contender to rule Europe now Bayern Munich, who took them to the wire in a tie that pulsated throughout, have been dismissed. Goals from Lautaro Martínez and Benjamin Pavard edged them through amid jubilant scenes and filthy conditions, eventually rendering an English double from Harry Kane and Eric Dier irrelevant. Their semi-final against Barcelona is a delicious prospect; Bayern, and Kane in particular, will regret opportunities spurned across the 180 minutes.San Siro had crackled at the outset. This venue is firmly of its time but that need not always be a fatal flaw and what a loss it will be if Inter and Milan, its two tenants, make real their plan for a new venue nearby. Serious business happens here: there may be nowhere that oozes Champions League like this, or even positively screams it. When the competition’s anthem played before kick-off, the home support hummed to it...

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9 h. ago Alexander Isak caps cruise past Crystal Palace and fires Newcastle into third

When Eddie Howe fell ill last week and it became clear Newcastle’s manager could be absent for some time, the team’s captain, Bruno Guimarães, convened an emergency meeting of senior players.Everyone resolved, in Guimarães’s words, to “keep our standards as high as ever” and subsequent actions have shown they meant it. Continue reading...

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