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Middle East crisis live: Hezbollah urges Lebanon to pull out of talks with Israel; blockade of strait of Hormuz begins

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-14T01:49:24+00:00

Hezbollah says it will not abide by agreements that result from the Lebanon-Israel talks in the US; Trump claims Iran wants to make a dealUS starts naval blockade of Iranian ports after deadline passesThe Lebanese militant group Hezbollah will not abide by any agreements that may result from direct Lebanon-Israel talks in the US, negotiations it firmly opposes, a senior Hezbollah official has said.Wafiq Safa, a high-ranking member of Hezbollah’s political council, spoke on the eve of talks expected in Washington between Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors to the US. Continue reading...

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US military says it killed two people in another boat strike in eastern Pacific

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-14T01:44:59+00:00

Dispatch of vessel strike, like most of military’s statements on strikes conducted in area, did not provide evidenceThe US military said it killed two people in a strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, claiming the targets were involved in “narco-trafficking operations”.The announcement, like most of the military’s statements on the dozens of strikes it has conducted in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean Sea, did not provide evidence to support its claims that the targets were engaged in narco-trafficking. Continue reading...

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News live: Taylor claims migrants from liberal democracies likelier to share values; Greens accuse Coalition of reviving White Australia policy

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-14T01:37:13+00:00

The opposition leader said Australia is ‘changing for the worse’ due to declining immigration standardsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSydney is getting its first new Roman Catholic Cathedral in more than a century, part of a massive 7.7-hectare integrated precinct in the northern suburb of Waitara. Irish architect Niall McLaughlin, winner of the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Royal Gold Medal, will lead the design.The new cathedral is expected to be a unifying force for more than 250,000 Catholics in more than two dozen parishes in the Diocese of Broken Bay,

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Qantas raises fares and cuts domestic flights as travel patterns shift due to Middle East turmoil

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-14T01:36:30+00:00

As Persian Gulf carriers reduce routes, the Australian airline is also feeling the impact of rising fuel costsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastQantas has lifted fares and cut domestic flights amid a surge in travel demand away from airlines that transit through the troubled Middle East.The Australian airline says it has redeployed capacity from its US and domestic network to take advantage of the strong interest in Europe-bound travel – in particular to Paris and Rome – according to a market update released on Tues

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Top US Senate Democrats again try for war powers resolution – as it happened

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-14T01:30:49+00:00

This blog is now closed – our live coverage continues hereCircling back to Donald Trump’s coming naval blockade, the US military said it would block all Iranian Gulf ports on Monday at 10am ET on Monday (5.30pm in Iran and 1400 GMT), effectively seizing control of maritime traffic in the strait of Hormuz.“The blockade will be enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas, including all Iranian ports on the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman,” US Central Command said on X.This is like a game of chicken. It’s who caves first. The Iranian reg

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Australia news live: Coalition to restrict home deposit scheme under hardline immigration plan; war shock a ‘central banker’s nightmare’, RBA says

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-14T01:14:44+00:00

Labor’s NSW premier calls for more detail from Angus Taylor but backs ‘values-based’ approach to immigrationGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSydney is getting its first new Roman Catholic Cathedral in more than a century, part of a massive 7.7-hectare integrated precinct in the northern suburb of Waitara. Irish architect Niall McLaughlin, winner of the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Royal Gold Medal, will lead the design.The new cathedral is expected to be a unifying force for more than 250,000 Catholics in more than two dozen parishes in the Diocese of Broken

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Ukraine war briefing: Hungary’s new leader says he would ask Putin to end the killing in Ukraine

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-14T01:10:02+00:00

Péter Magyar would ‘talk to Russian president, but won’t initiate contact’; Ukraine welcomes defeat of Orbán. What we know on day 1,511Péter Magyar, Hungary’s new leader, said he would ask Vladimir Putin to end the killing in Ukraine if they speak, and plans to review Hungary’s Russian energy contracts and renegotiate them if needed. Magyar said he would talk to the Russian president, but won’t initiate contact. “If Vladimir Putin calls, I’ll pick up the phone,” he said in his first news conference after his landslide win against Viktor Orbán, a Putin ally. “If we did talk, I could tell him th

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Florida teenager charged with sexually assaulting and killing stepsister Anna Kepner on cruise ship

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-14T01:09:02+00:00

Kepner’s body was found concealed under bed in a room she shared with two teens, including 16-year-old stepbrotherSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailA 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder and aggravated sexual abuse in Florida in the 6 November death of his 18-year-old stepsister on a Carnival cruise ship, the US justice department said Monday.Timothy Hudson was initially charged in February and subsequently indicted on 10 March. But the breadth of the case was not known until a seal was lifted Friday, weeks after US district judge Beth Bloom in Miami said he would be pro

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Fare i conti con Messi

Source: Repubblica Homepage · Published: 2026-04-14T00:41:33+00:00
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Trump deletes post with AI image of himself as Jesus-like figure after outcry

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-14T00:26:32+00:00

The US president’s conservative, Christian supporters decried the Truth Social post, calling it ‘disgusting’Less than a year after signing legislation that will pull nearly 12 million Americans off health insurance by gutting Medicaid, Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself to Truth Social on Sunday depicting him as a Jesus-like figure, with divine light emanating from his hands as he heals a stricken man in a hospital bed with a demon from hell floating in the background.The president has since deleted the post, which also followed a lengthy tirade about Pope Leo XIV on the site

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Australia news live: Qantas lifts fares amid Middle East conflict; Sydney to get first new cathedral in more than a century

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-13T23:59:11+00:00

Irish architect Niall McLaughlin will lead the design of the Roman Catholic cathedral in the suburb of WaitaraGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSydney is getting its first new Roman Catholic Cathedral in more than a century, part of a massive 7.7-hectare integrated precinct in the northern suburb of Waitara. Irish architect Niall McLaughlin, winner of the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Royal Gold Medal, will lead the design.The new cathedral is expected to be a unifying force for more than 250,000 Catholics in more than two dozen parishes in the Diocese of Bro

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Quantum computing: A tech race Europe could win?

Source: BBC News - World · Published: 2026-04-13T23:35:56+00:00

With some promising computing companies in the field, could Europe be a leader in quantum tech?

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Вам варто чистити клавіатуру частіше, ніж сидіння унітаза – ось чому

Source: UNIAN (General) · Published: 2026-04-13T23:30:00+00:00

Незалежно від того, чи користуєтеся ви ноутбуком чи ПК, є велика ймовірність, що на вашій клавіатурі знаходиться набагато більше бактерій, ніж ви думаєте.

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Texas man accused of throwing molotov cocktail at Sam Altman home charged

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-13T23:25:26+00:00

FBI alleges Daniel Moreno-Gama, 20, captured on camera throwing explosive device outside home of OpenAI chiefA Texas man was charged with hurling a molotov cocktail at the home of OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and attempting to set fire to the AI firm’s headquarters.Daniel Moreno-Gama, 20, was captured on surveillance video throwing an incendiary device outside Altman’s San Francisco residence, according to a Federal Bureau of Investigation affidavit filed in federal court on Monday. Continue reading...

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Australia news live: Sydney to get first new cathedral in more than a century; Qantas flight circles off coast for nearly three hours

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-13T23:15:43+00:00

Irish architect Niall McLaughlin will lead the design of the Roman Catholic cathedral in the suburb of WaitaraGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSydney is getting its first new Roman Catholic Cathedral in more than a century, part of a massive 7.7-hectare integrated precinct in the northern suburb of Waitara. Irish architect Niall McLaughlin, winner of the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Royal Gold Medal, will lead the design.The new cathedral is expected to be a unifying force for more than 250,000 Catholics in more than two dozen parishes in the Diocese of Bro

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‘Little progress’ in stopping drug drones at HMP Manchester, watchdog says

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-13T23:01:53+00:00

Chief inspector for England and Wales says prison remains in ‘precarious state’ more than year after urgent notificationThe Prison Service has made “very little progress” in enforcing a formal demand to stop drones from delivering drugs into one of its worst performing jails, a watchdog has concluded.Charlie Taylor, the chief inspector of prisons for England and Wales, said HMP Manchester remained in a “precarious state” after a failure to fix broken windows and install security to stop contraband being delivered to gangs. Continue reading...

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Cultural venues in England to share £130m under Arts Everywhere scheme

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-13T23:01:53+00:00

Galleries, theatres, museums and libraries to benefit from largest cash injection into the arts for a decadeMore than 100 cultural venues, museums, and libraries will share £130m extra funding as part of the largest cash injection into the arts for a decade, ministers have announced.The investment forms part of the Arts Everywhere Fund, a £1.5bn package to support cultural infrastructure projects over the course of this parliament, which was announced by the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, earlier this year. The fund aims to save more than 1,000 arts venues, museums, libraries and heritage buil

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UK households to be urged to use more power this summer as renewables soar

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-13T23:01:53+00:00

Incentives to absorb surplus wind and solar energy could help balance the grid and lower billsThe UK needs more North Sea gas, not greater reliance on US imports | Nils PratleyHouseholds will be called on to boost their consumption of Great Britain’s record renewable energy this summer to help balance the power grid and lower energy bills.Under the new plans, people could be encouraged to run dishwashers and washing machines or charge up their electric vehicles when there is more wind and solar power than the electricity grid needs. Continue reading...

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Starmer accused of ‘corrosive complacency’ about defence by ex-head of Nato

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-13T23:01:42+00:00

George Robertson says the UK is in peril due to military underfunding, adding that Iran war should be wake-up callThe British government has shown a “corrosive complacency towards defence” and put the UK “in peril”, according to a government adviser, in fierce criticisms of Keir Starmer’s military policy.The former Nato secretary general and author of the government’s strategic defence review, George Robertson, believes Starmer was “not willing to make the necessary investment”, the Financial Times has reported. Continue reading...

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Starmer’s ‘corrosive complacency’ on defence has put UK in peril, says ex-Nato chief

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-13T23:01:42+00:00

George Robertson says Iran war should be wake-up call to address military underfunding in scathing remarksThe British government has shown a “corrosive complacency towards defence” and put the UK “in peril”, according to a government adviser, in fierce criticisms of Keir Starmer’s military policy.The former Nato secretary general and author of the government’s strategic defence review, George Robertson, believes Starmer was “not willing to make the necessary investment”, the Financial Times has reported. Continue reading...

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