As the West reveres Gorbachev, some in former Soviet states revile a ‘butcher.’

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Virginia Judge Dismisses Case That Sought to Limit Book Sales

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EU Russia: Bloc toughens visa regime but no ban

The bloc remains divided on whether to issue a total ban on entry for Russian travellers.

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John Simpson: Gorbachev was a man of decency but not vision

Mikhail Gorbachev changed the world - but he was a human being first and foremost, writes the BBC's John Simpson.

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Soy un soldado ucraniano, y he aceptado mi muerte

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Short breaks can help boost energy at work, study suggests

Romanian research shows ‘micro-breaks’ of up to 10 minutes may help to reduce fatigue

It may not be long enough to pop to the shops or head out for a run, but taking a work break of less than 10 minutes could still boost wellbeing, research suggests.

The team behind the analysis say “micro-breaks” appear to reduce fatigue and help workers feel more vigorous.

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Why Anthony Fauci’s Covid Legacy Is a Failure

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Historic monuments resurface as severe drought shrinks Spain’s reservoirs

Prehistoric stone circle and 11th-century church uncovered as country’s reservoirs hit 36% of normal capacity

A huge megalithic complex and a centuries-old church are among the underwater monuments to have resurfaced in Spain as a severe drought causes water levels to plunge.

After a prolonged dry spell, Spain’s reservoirs – which supply water for cities and farms – are at just under 36% capacity, according to environment ministry figures for August.

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U.N. Race Panel Sounds the Alarm on Abortion Access in the U.S.

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Daniel Barenboim, Star Conductor, Withdraws from ‘Ring’ Cycle in Berlin

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Russia-Ukraine war latest: what we know on day 188 of the invasion

Ukrainian troops mount long-awaited counteroffensive in Kherson; UN team en route to inspect Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

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Kherson: 'Heavy fighting' as Ukraine seeks to retake Russian-held region

Military experts tell the BBC the battle for the southern region could go on for months.

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Blake Masters, a G.O.P. Senate Candidate, Links Fed Diversity to Economic Woes

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Australia news live updates: Chris Dawson verdict due, push to scrap Covid isolation rule

NSW supreme court justice Ian Harrison is expected to hand down his verdict in the murder trial over the 40-year-old disappearance of Lynette Dawson. Follow the day’s news live

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Buying defence equipment from overseas would save Australia money, study argues

Australia should save money by buying more defence equipment from overseas, an Australian Strategic Policy Institute paper argues.

Avoiding a significant price premium on whichever types and classes of new weaponry Australia obtains might be among the few options available to Defence to boost its purchasing power. Given the size of the projects involved, even modest percentage reductions in the price of preferring domestic over foreign supply could translate into significant dollar gains.

Although any future supply may be years away, decisions made in the coming months will largely determine the outcome.

Look, let’s be really clear about the stage three tax cuts. They’re already legislated and they don’t actually come into play until 1 July 2024. That’s two years away. So, our focus is on the here and now. We’re bringing people together through the jobs and skills summit. We’re getting on with delivering what we promised in the election.

What my focus through the jobs and skills summit is to look at what is a complex issue of boosting women’s participation. It is about training, it is about removing barriers to entering the workforce and remaining in the workforce.

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Make More Room on Your Charcuterie Board

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Undeclared pools in France uncovered by AI technology

Millions in tax revenue has been collected after more than 20,000 undeclared pools were found.

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The New York City Wine and Food Festival Celebrates 15 Years

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Julien Boulangerie Is Expanding With a New Bistro

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Roland Mesnier: Former White House pastry chef dies at 78

French chef Roland Mesnier produced delicacies for five US presidents over 27 years.

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Clashes Between Rival Militias in Libya Kill at Least 32

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Australia’s jobs and skills summit: who’s going and what’s on the agenda?

Labor hopes together business, unions and the community sector will be able to find ways to lift wages, spur productivity and ease skills shortages

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Lifting wages, productivity and easing skills shortages are top of the agenda at Thursday and Friday’s jobs and skills summit.

Here’s everything you need to know about the event.

Maintaining full employment and growing productivity

Equal opportunities and pay for women

Sustainable wage growth and the future of bargaining

Mega-trends driving our current and future skills needs

Workforce opportunities from clean energy and tackling climate change

Skills and training

Migration

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Artemis: Nasa ready to launch new era of Moon exploration

The clock is counting down to the debut flight of the rocket that will send people back to the Moon.

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Jaimie Branch, Trumpeter Who Crossed Genre Lines, Dies at 39

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Victoria paying more than $1m a day to keep unsentenced prisoners in jail

Despite steep rise in number of prisoners on remand, Andrews government hasn’t reviewed bail reforms

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The number of people in Victoria’s prisons who have not been found guilty of a crime has grown more than 140% in just under a decade and now costs taxpayers more than $1m each day.

Despite this, the Andrews government hasn’t reviewed changes to the state’s bail laws that have contributed to the increase, delaying the possibility of reform until after the November state election.

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Lessons Learned, Israel’s Unlikely Islamist Kingmaker Looks Ahead

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With Disaster Looming, Inspectors Set to Visit Ukraine Nuclear Plant

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Intelligence Officials Will Assess Security Risks From Mar-a-Lago Documents

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Judge Recommends Rejecting Bid by Sept. 11 Families to Seize Frozen Afghan Funds

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Manhattan Has a Glut of Empty Offices. Hochul Wants to Build Even More.

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Several killed in the Netherlands as truck rolls into street party

Dutch police say they are investigating accident but did not give figures for casualties

Dutch police said on Saturday that several people had died in an accident when a truck rolled into a street party in the town of Nieuw-Beijerland in the south of the Netherlands.

The police force, which did not give specific figures for casualties, said it was investigating the accident, which happened at about 7pm (6pm BST), about 20 miles (32km) south of Rotterdam.

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Cloud Wars: Mideast Tensions Rise Along a New Front

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Hungary approves construction of two Russian-built nuclear reactors

Work to begin in coming weeks in move that emphasises ties between Viktor Orbán and Vladimir Putin

Hungary has announced that the €12.5bn (£10.6bn) construction of two nuclear reactors by Russia’s Rosatom will begin in the coming weeks after regulators approved the project.

The war in Ukraine has not deterred Hungary’s interest in the project to add to the four reactors already operating at the Paks plant outside Budapest.

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Ukraine war round-up: Russia burns off its excess gas and war memorial torn down

Image appears to show a plant burning unsellable gas and Latvia removes a controversial Soviet-era monument.

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Joe E. Tata, Peach Pit Owner in ‘Beverly Hills, 90210,’ Dies at 85

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Mar-a-Lago’s time in the spotlight began long before Trump.

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Briton who was Netflix’s ‘ultimate conman’ flees French police

Robert Hendy-Freegard, subject of Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman documentary, may face attempted murder charges

A British conman who was the subject of a Netflix documentary is on the run and facing possible attempted murder charges in France after injuring two police officers while fleeing a raid, local officials have said.

Robert Hendy-Freegard had been illegally breeding dogs while living in the French village of Vidaillat, according to the local mayor, Martine Laporte.

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Why Peloton Is Selling on Amazon

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Russia-Ukraine war latest: what we know on day 183 of the invasion

Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant temporarily disconnected from national grid amid fears over disaster; Putin signs decree to increase armed forces

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The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station was temporarily taken off the Ukrainian power grid. The plant in eastern Ukraine is under Russian occupation and was disconnected from the national power supply for several hours before a last remaining line supplying electricity that cools the reactors was reconnected. Disconnecting the plant raises the risk of catastrophic failure of cooling systems for its reactors and spent fuel rods, which run on electricity.

Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to increase the size of Russia’s armed forces from 1.9 million to 2.04 million, Reuters has cited the Russian state-owned news agency Ria as saying. The figure, which includes a 137,000 increase in the number of military personnel to 1.15 million, will come into effect on 1 January.

The death toll from Russia’s rocket strike on a Ukrainian train station has risen to 25 people. Russian forces attacked a train in the village of Chaplyne, Dnipropetrovsk oblast on Wednesday. Four trains caught fire and the deputy head of the president’s office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, reported on Telegram that two children were killed in the attack. Russia has since confirmed it was behind the attack.

Russia’s defence ministry confirmed its forces struck the railway station, prompting condemnation from the US and the EU. The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said the attack “fits a pattern of atrocities” while the EU’s chief diplomat, Josep Borrell, said those responsible would be held to account.

The UN’s human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, has called on Vladimir Putin to stop the war in Ukraine and its “unimaginably terrifying” impact on civilians. Bachelet spoke about the six months since the Russian leader ordered his troops into Ukraine during a speech marking the end of her term as the UN’s high commissioner for human rights.

The mayor of the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, has said a building allegedly used by Russian-backed officials in the region has been “blown up”. Fedorov, who is not in the city, posted a video on Telegram reportedly showing damage to the building, which he said was being used to plan a “pseudo-referendum” by Russia-backed authorities on whether the region should join Russia.

The head of the Kyiv regional military administration said Russia launched a rocket attack on the region’s Vyshgorod district north of the city centre early on Thursday morning. Oleksiy Kuleba said there were so far no casualties or damage to residential buildings or infrastructure facilities. Ukraine’s armed forces said “several” explosions were heard at about 3am.

The US president, Joe Biden, was set to speak to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, after the announcement of a further $3bn (£2.5bn) in US military aid for Ukraine. John Kirby, the communications coordinator at the national security council, said the phone call would also provide the Ukrainian president with an update on US arms shipments.

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‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ Review: Desire, Once Upon a Time

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14 Chicken Recipes Our Readers Can’t Get Enough Of

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‘Seoul Vibe’ Review: Grinding Gears

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The expansion averts mass Russian conscription.

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Florida Pair Pleads Guilty in Theft of Biden’s Daughter’s Diary

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Band stuck in Calais queue perform surprise gig

Drivers were treated to a makeshift jazzy concert as they waited in lengthy queues at the French border.

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Consumer Demand Has Been Key Driver of Inflation in the U.S.

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Ukraine independence day overshadowed by fear of Russian attacks

Kyiv celebrations cancelled over concerns of ‘Russian provocations’ as US expected to announce further $3bn in aid

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Air raid sirens sounded across every metre of Ukrainian-controlled territory as the country marked six months since Moscow’s invasion on a sombre independence day, overshadowed by warnings of “brutal” attacks.

The sense of foreboding was deepened by a warning from the White House that the Russians had stepped up preparations to hold sham referenda in occupied regions as a precursor to annexations, and that they could begin “in a matter of days or weeks”.

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Consumer Demand Has Been Key Driver of Inflation in the U.S.

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Oil firm Rockhopper wins £210m payout after being banned from drilling

Italian government ordered to compensate UK firm after exploration forbidden within 12 miles of coast

A corporate tribunal has ordered the Italian government to pay more than £210m to the UK oil company Rockhopper as compensation for an offshore oil drilling ban.

Rockhopper’s case was launched after the Italian government banned oil exploration and production within a 12 mile-limit off Italy’s coast in 2015, scotching the company’s planned Ombrina Mare oilfield.

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Florida 16th Congressional District Primary Election Results

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Zelenskiy warns Russia of strong response to independence day attacks

Ukrainian president defiant as officials report Moscow is preparing strikes on capital and infrastructure

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Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned that any attacks by Russia on the country’s independence day would be met with a powerful response as it prepared to mark 31 years since the end of Soviet rule.

The Ukrainian president’s defiant message followed warnings from western and Ukrainian officials that Russia was preparing to once again attack the capital, Kyiv, on the date that also marks six months since the 24 February invasion. The US on Tuesday urged all its citizens to leave the country, saying it believed Russia would target civilian and government infrastructure in the next few days.

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Iconic Winston Churchill photo vanishes from Canada hotel

Photographer Yousuf Karsh famously plucked a cigar from Churchill's mouth to capture the famous image.

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Europe’s Rivers, Starved by Drought, Reveal Shipwrecks, Relics and Bombs

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Security guard awaiting trial euthanised by prison authorities in Spain

Marin Eugen Sabau granted right to assisted death due to chronic pain he felt after shootout with police

Spanish prison authorities have euthanised a man who had shot and wounded four people in December and was subsequently wounded in a shootout with the police, rendering him paralysed and begging to be allowed to die while awaiting trial.

Courts allowed the man’s assisted death after rejecting several appeals by his victims, who argued that he should face justice. The case reached the constitutional court, which refused to deliberate on it, saying there had been no violation of fundamental rights.

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Review: Without Bloodshed, the Ingénue Takes the Lead

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Struggle to find bulk billing clinics for children prompts fears vaccination rates will fall

Poorer families set to be hit most, expert says, while single mothers routinely neglect their own medical needs to afford children’s care

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As more GP clinics abandon or significantly reduce bulk billing, parents and carers say it is becoming harder to find a clinic that routinely bulk bills children.

In response to Guardian Australia’s series on the bulk billing crisis, more than 300 people shared their stories of how health care costs are adding pressure to family budgets on top of the rising costs of living.

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Fetty Wap Pleads Guilty to Conspiring With a Long Island Drug Gang

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Russian TV news head hints at country’s role in Skripal poisoning

Editor of state-owned RT network Margarita Simonyan appears to contradict Kremlin position in post about Darya Dugina killing

The influential head of Russia’s RT news network has hinted at Russia’s role in the poisoning of the former spy Sergei Skripal, in a remarkable post that contradicts the Kremlin’s official position on the incident.

In a post on her Telegram channel on Monday, Margarita Simonyan appeared to acknowledge Russia’s part in the Skripal poisoning when she wrote that Russian “professionals who want to admire spires” should travel to Estonia to go after the alleged killer of Darya Dugina, the daughter of an ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue who was killed in a car bomb on Saturday night.

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Hungary's weather chief sacked over wrong forecast

A mistaken forecast saw the postponement of a huge fireworks display planned to celebrate a national day.

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Student Fatally Shot by Woman He Stopped to Help

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Mike Pence Is Spineless

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Australia news live updates: solicitor general’s advice on Morrison’s secret ministries to be handed down

Anthony Albanese is due to receive legal advice on whether Scott Morrison broke the law by taking on five extra ministerial roles. Follow the day’s news live

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Governor general disrespected by being put on the spot, industry minister says

Husic has said he “feel[s] for governor general being put in that position,” and he believes he was “disrespected by putting him in this spot.”

I took that step to look at those grants … when I’d learnt a number of things as an incoming minister.

We’re going through the review and we’ll make a decision … it is a very big call to take money off the table for industries and businesses that have factored that in.

I’m going through it and consulting with the department and considering the advice I’m being given.

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The death of a Putin ally opens a new chapter in the fraught history of political assassinations in Russia.

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Perceived mishaps to Germany’s war response add to its leader’s rocky start.

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Live Performance Is Back. But Audiences Have Been Slow to Return.

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Ukraine braces for intensified attacks after Moscow car bomb killing

Kyiv denies any involvement in death of daughter of ultranationalist Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin

Ukraine is bracing itself for an intensification of Russian missile attacks to coincide with its independence day on Wednesday in the aftermath of the car bomb killing of the daughter of an ultranationalist Russian ideologue.

The country’s military warned Russia had put five cruise missile bearing warships and submarines out in the Black Sea and that Moscow was positioning air defence systems in Belarus. Mass events have been banned in Kyiv for four days from Monday.

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Dennis Rodman plans Russia visit to seek release of Brittney Griner

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NBA hall of famer Dennis Rodman says he has permission to travel to Russia as he attempts to secure the release of fellow basketball star Brittney Griner.

Griner was sentenced to nine years in Russian jail for drug possession earlier this month. Her lawyers have filed an appeal and there are understood to be separate talks underway over a possible prisoner swap. But Rodman told NBC this weekend that he plans to make a trip of his own to negotiate the Olympic champion’s release.

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NSW police strip-searched more than 100 children as young as 13 in two-year period

Exclusive: More than 4,400 strip searches were carried out in total between July 2020 and May 2022

The New South Wales police have been accused of misunderstanding their own strip-search powers after data showed officers continued to use the controversial practice on thousands of people, including children as young as 13, during the height of Covid.

Data reveals police in NSW carried out more than 4,400 strip-searches between July 2020 and May 2022, which includes a Delta-wave lockdown that lasted more than 100 days.

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Parts of Mexico and Texas Are Under a Tropical Storm Warning

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New Zulu king crowned in South Africa

Thousands gather for the traditional Zulu coronation, which saw Misuzulu ka Zwelithini become king.

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Mexico Arrests Top Prosecutor in Case of Missing Students and Issues 80 Warrants

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With Trump, Merrick Garland Can’t Afford to Miss

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Crimea’s civilians sound alarm after Ukrainian drone hits Russian fleet HQ

Worried locals lambast Sevastopol’s governor after attack on region once regarded as impregnable

A Ukrainian drone hit the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea fleet in Crimea this weekend, the latest assault on a region Moscow once considered an impregnable fortress.

Plumes of smoke were seen rising from the Sevastopol military base on Saturday morning, and city residents were urged to stay at home immediately after the strike, the latest in a string of high-profile attacks on sensitive targets there and inside Russia.

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Freya the walrus: Did she have to be euthanised?

After becoming a tourist attraction in Oslo, a travelling walrus was killed. Was that right?

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A Famous Walrus Is Killed, and Norwegians Are Divided

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TikTok Browser Can Track Users’ Keystrokes, According to New Research

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Rewriting Women Back Into Film History

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Trudeau nominates Indigenous woman to Canada’s supreme court

Michelle O’Bonsawin’s appointment to the court would address longstanding criticism over lack of First Nations representation

Justin Trudeau has nominated an Indigenous woman to Canada’s supreme court, in a landmark appointment after decades of criticism over a lack of Indigenous representation on the country’s highest court.

The prime minister announced on Friday that Michelle O’Bonsawin had been selected to fill an upcoming vacancy on the court.

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Al-Shabab: Islamist militants attack hotel in Somali capital

The militant group Al-Shabab says it is "shooting everyone" at the Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu.

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Ukraine war: Damage to nuclear plant would be suicide - UN chief

António Guterres makes the warning during a summit with Ukrainian President Zelensky in Lviv.

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Canada conservation officers seek runaway wolf days after zoo break-in

The Greater Vancouver Zoo revealed a pack of grey wolves had escaped after ‘suspicious’ damage to the fence of their enclosure

Conservation officers in Canada are searching for a runaway wolf three days after a mysterious break-in freed a pack of the predators from a popular zoo.

The Greater Vancouver Zoo announced on Tuesday morning it would not open to crowds that day, and later acknowledged that a pack of grey wolves had escaped after “suspicious” damage to the fence of their enclosure. The zoo said the incident was probably the result of “malicious intent”.

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Pope rules out sexual misconduct probe of Canadian cardinal

A complaint was filed to the Vatican last year alleging misconduct by Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet.

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Norah Vincent, Who Chronicled Passing as a Man, Is Dead at 53

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Huge megalithic complex of more than 500 standing stones discovered in Spain

Archaeologists says prehistoric site in Huelva province could be one of largest of its kind in Europe

A huge megalithic complex of more than 500 standing stones has been discovered in southern Spain that could be one of the largest in Europe, archaeologists have said.

The stones were discovered on a plot of land in Huelva, a province that flanks the southernmost part of Spain’s border with Portugal, near the Guadiana River.

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Thunderstorms in Corsica and parts of Italy leave seven dead

Girl, 13, among dead as violent storms strike after three days of intense rain in region

Violent thunderstorms with winds of up to 139mph (224km/h) have struck the Mediterranean island of Corsica and parts of Italy, killing seven people and leaving at least a dozen more injured.

On Corsica, a 13-year-old girl died after a tree fell on a campsite where she was staying and a 72-year-old woman was killed when the roof of a beach hut was blown off and struck her car. A 46-year-old man also died on the island in a campsite in the town of Calvi.

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Europe storms: Deaths are reported in France, Austria and Italy

Deaths are reported in France, Austria and Italy in violent storms after weeks of heat and drought.

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TikTok to teach influencers about US mid-term election rules

The platform says it is to do more to ensure influencers understand that it prohibits paid political ads.

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That Painted Greek Maiden at the Met: Just Whose Vision Is She?

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Digging in: Matthew Guy’s gamble on scrapping Victoria’s suburban rail loop

Analysis: Liberal leader says health will be prioritised, but Labor is happy for an election on the issue

It was three months out from the 2018 state election when Victoria’s premier, Daniel Andrews, took to Facebook with a slick promotional video accompanied by a soundtrack worthy of a Christopher Nolan film.

“The biggest public transport project in history is coming to Victoria,” a voiceover said, describing a proposed 90km underground railway running between Cheltenham in the south-east and Werribee in the south-west via a long-awaited station at Melbourne airport.

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Labor wants safeguard mechanism to cut emissions from big polluters by up to 6% a year

Consultation paper suggests annual rates of emissions cuts, with tradable carbon credits rewarded to companies cutting pollution quickly

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Australia’s big polluting industries are likely to have to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by between 3.5% and 6% a year from next July under the Albanese government’s plan to respond to the climate crisis.

The government on Thursday released a consultation paper setting out how it could reform the safeguard mechanism, a policy that was introduced by the Coalition under Tony Abbott in 2016 to prevent increases in industrial emissions. In practice, companies have been allowed to increase pollution without penalty and industrial emissions have continued to rise.

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Robotic submarines fast-tracked for Sydney Harbour to bridge defence capability gap

First of three 30 metre-long underwater drones capable of carrying weapons and diving up to 6,000 metres will be ready in a year

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Three robotic submarines will be built on Sydney Harbour within three years to help “mitigate” a looming capability gap, military technology company Anduril’s Palmer Luckey has said during a visit to Australia.

The Anduril chief executive officer said the first 30 metre-long underwater drone would be ready within a year and would act as a deterrent to Chinese aggression.

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First diocese of Australia’s breakaway Anglican church officially launched

New conservative Diocese of the Southern Cross – which explicitly forbids same-sex marriage – is headed by bishop Glenn Davies

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The first congregation of Australia’s breakaway Anglican church was about to meet in a suburban RSL, and the man who was supposed to be leading the service was worried.

Ten minutes before the Rev Peter Palmer was due to start, there were less than a dozen people at the Beenleigh RSL and golf club in south-east Queensland.

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‘Anything is possible’: Indigenous women gather in Canberra to inspire new generation of leaders

Straight Talk participants say ‘empowering’ summit at Parliament House will help build community leadership

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Nikki McKenzie has seen a lot of loss and trauma in her remote Western Australian home of Derby and says few people there have been untouched by suicide.

“We have one of the highest rates of suicide in the world and where are the services? It’s frustrating and heartbreaking,” McKenzie said.

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Eastern Australia faces wet weather and flooding with 70% chance of third consecutive La Niña

Bureau of Meteorology forecasts heavy rain in spring driven by negative Indian Ocean Dipole and warm waters in the north

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Australia could be lashed with more rain and possible floods for the next three months with La Niña conditions predicted to return for a rare third consecutive year.

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology raised the El Niño-Southern Oscillation La Niña outlook from “watch” to “alert” on Tuesday afternoon.

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Lebanese man who held bank staff hostage to access savings released

Many Lebanese praised Bassam Hussein after he took hostages in an attempt to access his savings.

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Polio vaccine in Pakistan: Two policemen guarding vaccinators shot dead

Gunmen kill police guarding a vaccination team in the latest local incident of anti-vaccine violence.

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Chinese navy vessel arrives at Sri Lanka port to security concerns from India

Yuan Wang 5 is officially described as a ‘scientific research ship’ but India suspects it has military functions

A Chinese navy vessel has arrived at a southern Sri Lankan port that Beijing leases from the government, prompting renewed security fears from India.

On Tuesday morning, the Yuan Wang 5 sailed into the Hambantota port, which was built by Beijing, and was welcomed by senior Sri Lankan and Chinese officials in a traditional ceremony that involved red carpet and a massive banner that read: “Hello Sri Lanka, Long Live Sri Lanka-China Friendship.”

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NSW government to create a new reconstruction authority in response to flood report

New body will lead housing recovery, as recommended in a long-awaited report to be released Wednesday

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A reconstruction authority will be established in New South Wales to replace part of Resilience NSW in an overhaul of the state’s emergency management after unprecedented flooding earlier this year.

The premier, Dominic Perrottet, will announce the new body in Lismore on Wednesday, when he formally responds to the recommendations made by the NSW chief scientist, Mary O’Kane, and former police commissioner Mick Fuller after their probe into the February and March disasters.

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Mariah Carey 'Queen of Christmas' trademark attempt prompts backlash

The singer's attempt to trademark the title causes a dispute with other Christmas-associated stars.

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Trump Executive Nears Plea Deal With Manhattan Prosecutors

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Grenadian minister Simon Stiell to be next UN climate chief

Grenada’s environment minister faces task of getting countries back on track to meet climate goals ahead of Cop27

The next UN climate chief will be Simon Stiell, the environment minister of Grenada, a surprise appointment that will cement the importance of holding global temperature rises to 1.5C.

Stiell will face the task of putting countries back on track to meet international climate goals at a time of rising geopolitical tensions and a global energy price crisis.

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