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Australia news live: NSW police commissioner says ‘I unreservedly apologise’ for miscommunication over 18-year-old bushwalker Lily Hooper’s death

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-20T07:03:00+00:00

Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast‘Outrageous’: Greens leader says sending Israeli ambassador home should be on the tableGreens leader Larissa Waters says strong words are not enough, and the government should sanction the state of Israel after its defence force decided not to pursue a criminal investigation into the killing of World Central Kitchen aid workers including Australian Zomi Frankom.It is absolutely outrageous that after two years of investigating, the Israeli authorities have cleared themselves of any wrongdoing … The Australian gov

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L’influenza di Jennifer Hegseth sul Pentagono e il sogno della Casa Bianca

Source: Repubblica Homepage · Published: 2026-08-20T06:58:30+00:00

Secondo il ritratto del New York Times, la terza moglie del segretario alla Difesa sta crescendo nella scala sociale di Washington: oltre a tenere il marito Pete lontano dall’alcol, gestisce i rapporti con la stampa e seleziona personalmente i suoi collaboratori

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GCSE results: hundreds of thousands of pupils across England, Wales and Northern Ireland receive grades – latest updates

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-20T06:56:06+00:00

Students across England, Wales and Northern Ireland are starting to open the envelopes containing their GCSECompulsory GCSE resits in England harm teenagers’ mental wellbeing, study findsEducation secretary Lucy Powell is on the media round this morning as students prepare to pick up their GCSE results, including her own daughter.She said it was a “big day” that marks “a really important moment in a child’s progression”. Continue reading...

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Erin Patterson appeal: prosecutors seek life in prison without parole for triple murderer – as it happened

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-20T06:48:56+00:00

This blog is now closedCase against Erin Patterson is ‘overwhelming’ and mushroom killer’s appeal should be dismissed, prosecutors sayGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastProsecution turns to argument Patterson wasn’t severely ill after beef wellingtonMcWilliams is touching on the prosecution’s argument in its closing address that Patterson was not severely ill after the poisoned beef wellington lunch. Patterson’s lawyers have pointed to evidence heard in the trial, including testimony about her lowered potassium levels. McWilliams says her potassium levels were “clinic

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Kyiv comes under heavy Russian missile attack, killing at least 13

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-20T06:46:01+00:00

Children’s hospital and residential areas hit in latest bombardment of capital and surrounding regionA heavy Russian bombardment has killed at least 13 people in Ukraine’s capital and its surrounding region overnight, authorities have said.A missile attack on Kyiv struck residential areas and warehouses, said the mayor, Vitali Klitschko. The attack damaged residential buildings, a medical facility and an educational institution and killed 12 people and wouned 33, he said. Continue reading...

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Erin Patterson’s mushroom murders sentence too lenient and she should die behind bars, prosecutors argue

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-20T06:44:17+00:00

Crown prosecutor tells Victorian court that all seven of Patterson’s grounds for appeal should fail while arguing for tougher sentenceGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTriple murderer Erin Patterson should have been given no possibility of ever being released from prison, or a non-parole period so lengthy that she was likely to die behind bars, Victoria’s highest court has heard.Patterson, 51, is appealing against her convictions in the court of appeal, with the Director of Public Prosecutions is also appealing against the sentence handed down to her, arguing it is “ma

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China Sentences Evergrande Founder to Life in Prison

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-08-20T06:39:52+00:00

Hui Ka Yan’s punishment caps the downfall of a property empire whose collapse set off a prolonged crisis in the Chinese economy.

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More than 1,000 birds found dead in three mass mortality events amid ‘significant’ H5 escalation in Australia

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-20T06:16:49+00:00

South Australian premier Peter Malinauskas says there have still been no detections in poultry or livestock and no mass deaths involving mammalsSouth Australian premier Peter Malinauskas has declared a “significant escalation” in H5 bird flu in the state after the detection of three mass mortality events involving more than 1,000 greater crested terns.Malinauskas said the cause of the deaths was presumed to be H5 bird flu. Continue reading...

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Trilegal opens dedicated disputes office at Mumbai’s Killick House

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-08-20T06:12:18+00:00

The disputes practice comprises 28 partners and over 215 lawyers nationally, covering commercial litigation, domestic and international arbitration, insolvency proceedings, regulatory investigations, and white-collar matters

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Alan Jones’s barrister argues alleged victim was not groomed because that ‘happens to young children’

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-20T06:07:02+00:00

Sydney court hears complainant was more than 40 years younger and far less powerful than the shock jock when he started working as his driverAlan Jones’s defence team has suggested his alleged victim was never groomed because “grooming is something that happens to young children”.Complainant C was on Thursday cross-examined in a Sydney court over allegations the former 2GB star broadcaster touched him on the penis and kissed him when he worked for Jones as a young man. Continue reading...

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Farage using Christianity ‘to stir anti-Muslim feeling’, says Rowan Williams

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-20T06:00:45+00:00

Former archbishop of Canterbury also has ‘awkward questions’ for activist Tommy Robinson on his claimed faithA former archbishop of Canterbury has accused Nigel Farage of misusing the UK’s Christianity “to channel anti-Muslim feeling” and said he also had “some awkward questions” for the far-right activist Tommy Robinson.Dr Rowan Williams, who was the archbishop of Canterbury for 10 years until 2012, said there was an “inevitable scepticism these days about some claims to religious conviction”. Continue reading...

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Melancholy made in Hungary is fuelling bestsellers across the globe – and widely misunderstood

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-20T06:00:44+00:00

A ‘capacity for despair’ forged by political oppression has long been consider a Magyar national trait. But after Orbán, writers in the country remind us that melancholy must not always be bleakA lone visitor looks for a garden outside an empty monastery. A morose housekeeper won’t let anyone behind the door of her own home. A retired general living alone on a crumbling estate waits 40 years to confront the only friend he ever had. Melancholy, an affinity with oblivion without a concrete cause, suffuses the Hungarian fiction translated for foreign audiences over the past 30 years, from the tor

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В Москве снижается число кофеен

Source: Vedomosti – Business · Published: 2026-08-20T06:00:00+00:00

Столичный рынок перенасыщен и здесь высокая конкуренция, объясняют эксперты

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