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Australia news live: Marles ‘welcomes’ Trump’s invitation to join ‘board of peace’; new figures show Australians own more than 4.1m firearms

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-01-18T21:02:28+00:00

Deputy prime minister remains coy over whether Australia will join US-backed postwar Gaza panel. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMarles ‘confident about the future of Nato’ despite Trump pressureContinuing his media rounds, the deputy PM, Richard Marles, is pressed on the government’s response to Donald Trump’s tariffs on some European nations, in a bid to take over Greenland.Nato has played a very important role and continues to be very strong. I’ve been to the last two Nato meetings representing Australia, and there is a definite sense of un

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Australia news live: Marles ‘welcomes’ Trump’s invitation to join ‘board of peace’; Burke says hate speech laws ‘don’t deliver everything we wanted’

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-01-18T20:48:57+00:00

Deputy prime minister remains coy over whether Australia will join US-backed postwar Gaza panel. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMarles ‘confident about the future of Nato’ despite Trump pressureContinuing his media rounds, the deputy PM, Richard Marles, is pressed on the government’s response to Donald Trump’s tariffs on some European nations, in a bid to take over Greenland.Nato has played a very important role and continues to be very strong. I’ve been to the last two Nato meetings representing Australia, and there is a definite sense of un

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Australia news live: Marles ‘welcomes’ Trump’s invitation to join ‘board of peace’; parliament returns to debate hate speech and gun control laws

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-01-18T20:34:31+00:00

Deputy prime minister remains coy over whether Australia will join US-backed postwar Gaza panel. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPathway from extreme racist bigotry to violence is a ‘very short path’ says BurkeWhile the government has had to abandon anti-vilification reforms, Burke says a large number of people were calling for those reforms to be applied to a wider number of people, like the LGBTQI or disability communities.I know some people just take the freedom of speech side of the argument, but I’ve got to say, I am yet to believe that f

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Romford MP Andrew Rosindell becomes latest Tory to defect to Reform

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-01-18T20:25:07+00:00

Veteran MP says ‘time to put country before party’ citing Conservative position on Chagos IslandsThe Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell has joined Reform UK, the party has announced.Rosindell, the MP for Romford since 2001, said on X that he had joined the Conservative party at the age of 14, inspired by the principles advocated by Margaret Thatcher but that “the time has come to put country before party”. Continue reading...

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Chilean president declares state of catastrophe as wildfires kill at least 15

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-01-18T20:16:02+00:00

Fires blaze through 8,500 hectares, forcing 50,000 people to evacuate as firefighters struggle to extinguish flamesWildfires raging across central and southern Chile have killed at least 15 people, scorched thousands of acres of forest and destroyed scores of homes, authorities said, as the South American country swelters under a heatwave.Chile’s president, Gabriel Boric, declared a state of catastrophe in the country’s central Biobío region and the neighbouring Ñuble region, about 500km (300 miles) south of Santiago, the capital. Continue reading...

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Chilean president declares state of catastrophe as wildfires kill at least 18

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-01-18T20:16:02+00:00

Fires blaze through 8,500 hectares, forcing 50,000 people to evacuate as firefighters struggle to extinguish flamesWildfires raging across central and southern Chile have killed at least 18 people, scorched thousands of hectares of forest and destroyed scores of homes, authorities said, as the South American country swelters under a heatwave.Chile’s president, Gabriel Boric, declared a state of catastrophe in the country’s central Biobío region and the neighbouring Ñuble region, about 500km (300 miles) south of Santiago, the capital. Continue reading...

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News live: Australia invited to join Trump’s ‘board for peace’; federal parliament returns to debate hate speech and gun control laws

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-01-18T20:01:35+00:00

New gun control measures set to pass with Greens support after PM agreed to split draft laws. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGood morning, Krishani Dhanji here with you for the first sitting day of the year, and it is going to be a big one.There will be a condolence motion for the victims, families and first responders of the Bondi terror tragedy, while the government tries to pressure the Coalition to support its split-up hate speech laws (as the Greens have promised to pass gun reforms). Continue reading...

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La festa per i 50 anni di Repubblica all’Auditorium, con noi lettori e grandi ospiti. Orfeo: "Non rinunceremo a libertà e indipendenza"

Source: Repubblica Homepage · Published: 2026-01-18T19:56:10+00:00

All'Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma lo spettacolo per celebrare mezzo secolo della nostra storia, guardando al futuro. Orfeo: “Tutti sappiano che questo giornale non rinuncerà mai alla sua indipendenza e alla sua libertà”. Il monologo di Serra e l'urlo tra gli applausi: “Viva Repubblica”. Standing ovation per Augias

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Gaza : la France envoie près de 400 tonnes d’aide alimentaire

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-01-18T19:25:00+00:00

Ces doses alimentaires, produites par la société normande Nutriset, doivent permettre « d’améliorer l’état de santé de plus de 42 000 enfants gazaouis âgés de six mois à deux ans en situation de malnutrition », a précisé le ministère des affaires étrangères.

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Gaza : la France envoie près de 400 tonnes d’aide alimentaire

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-01-18T19:25:00+00:00

Ces doses alimentaires, produites par la société normande Nutriset, doivent permettre « d’améliorer l’état de santé de plus de 42 000 enfants gazaouis âgés de 6 mois à 2 ans en situation de malnutrition », a précisé le ministère des affaires étrangères.

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EN DIRECT, Groenland : les pays européens menacés de nouveaux droits de douane par Donald Trump « restent unis » ; les soldats allemands quittent Nuuk

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-01-18T19:21:03+00:00

Le président américain a menacé samedi huit pays, dont la France, de droits de douane de 10 % sur toutes les marchandises expédiées aux Etats-Unis à compter du 1ᵉʳ février 2026, tant que ces pays s’opposent à l’annexion du territoire autonome danois par les Etats-Unis.

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EN DIRECT, Groenland : Keir Starmer, qui s’est entretenu avec Donald Trump, estime qu’il est « inapproprié d’imposer des droits de douane aux alliés qui œuvrent pour la sécurité collective » de l’OTAN

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-01-18T19:21:01+00:00

Le président américain a menacé samedi huit pays, dont la France, de droits de douane de 10 % sur toutes les marchandises expédiées aux Etats-Unis à compter du 1ᵉʳ février 2026, tant que ces Etats s’opposent à son projet d’annexion du territoire autonome danois.

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EU considers retaliatory measures over Trump Greenland tariff ‘blackmail’

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-01-18T19:13:55+00:00

Emmanuel Macron calls on fellow leaders to use powerful anti-coercion instrument if US goes ahead with tariffsThe EU was weighing up retaliatory tariffs on American goods and even deploying its most serious economic sanctions against the US as European leaders lined up to criticise Donald Trump’s threat to levy new taxes on imports from eight nations who oppose his attempt to annex Greenland – which one minister called “blackmail”.“Tariff threats undermine transatlantic relations and risk a dangerous downward spiral,” the leaders of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherl

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Tariffs on Nato allies are wrong, Starmer tells Trump in Greenland crisis call

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-01-18T19:12:15+00:00

UK prime minister holds phone call with US president as European leaders scramble to protect Danish territoryKeir Starmer has told Donald Trump he is wrong to threaten tariffs against Nato allies to try to secure Greenland, as part of a flurry of diplomatic calls intended to tackle the crisis.The UK prime minister spoke to the US president on Sunday, as well as to Mette Frederiksen, the Danish PM, whose country’s territory includes Greenland, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, and Mark Rutte, the Nato secretary general. Continue reading...

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Western alliance hangs in balance as Europe stiffens itself against Trump’s threats

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-01-18T18:55:52+00:00

US demand to own Greenland leaves little scope for compromise, and forcing the issue would entail end of NatoGreenland, with a population of fewer than 57,000, might not seem to be the territory on which the future of the relationship between Europe and the US, the viability of Nato as the world’s most successful defence alliance, or even the fractured relations between the UK and Europe would be determined.But battlefields are sometimes the product of chance, rather than choice. It now feels as if Donald Trump’s threat to impose 10% tariffs on eight fellow Nato states for sending troops last

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La festa per i 50 anni di Repubblica all’Auditorium, con noi lettori e grandi ospiti

Source: Repubblica Homepage · Published: 2026-01-18T18:51:24+00:00

All'Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma lo spettacolo per celebrare mezzo secolo della nostra storia, guardando al futuro. Orfeo: “Tutti sappiano che questo giornale non rinuncerà mai alla sua indipendenza e alla sua libertà”. Il monologo di Serra e l'urlo tra gli applausi: “Viva Repubblica”. Standing ovation per Augias

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Trump exacts revenge on Bill Cassidy by backing possible Republican challenger

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-01-18T18:47:58+00:00

Trump’s support of Letlow comes after Louisiana senator voted to convict president in second impeachment trialDonald Trump has sought to deliver a staggering blow to the re-election chances of Senator Bill Cassidy – the president’s fellow Republican with whom he has politically feuded – by giving his “complete and total endorsement” to a potential primary opponent.Trump’s endorsement of US House member Julia Letlow as well as his encouragement for her to run for Cassidy’s Senate seat in Louisiana comes after the senator voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial during Trump’s firs

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