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• The GuardianAustralia news live: Government fined $140,000 after child’s hands caught fire at Questacon; unemployment at highest rate since pandemic

  Follow the day’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMore than 600 Qantas ground crew workers have begun a 24-hour strike this morning across the country over an escalating industrial dispute.Qantas said that it has contingency plans in place and any impacts would be felt primarily by the airline’s freight and regional QantasLink services.We remain focused on reaching an agreement through the bargaining process and continue to engage constructively with the union.Australia and the Netherlands remain resolute in their commitment to pursuing truth, justice and accountability on behalf of the victims of the downing of MH17 and their next of kin. Continue reading...

  09/24/2026
• The GuardianUK losing up to £6.5bn a year in EU trade due to mismatched product rules

  IPPR finds failure to align testing standards has forced companies to abandon exporting to EU and is costing costing 0.18% of national incomeThe UK is losing out on annual exports to the EU that could be worth as much as £6.5bn without a deal with Brussels that allows manufacturers to jettison duplicate product testing.In the latest attempt to calculate the loss of trade with the EU after Brexit, the IPPR thinktank said many companies have given up selling goods to the EU or set up subsidiaries inside the trade bloc after successive governments failed to secure a mutual recognition agreement that would avoid the extra administration costs.Motor vehicle and part exports would have been between £2.48bn and £3.42bn higher each year.Electronic exports could have been between £1.17bn and £1.67bn higher.Pharmaceutical exports would have had an estimated annual uplift of between £740m and £820m. Continue reading...

  09/24/2026
• The GuardianElif Eralp: ‘Germany’s Zohran Mamdani’ who vows to be a mayor for all Berliners

  Die Linke candidate, a lawyer affected by her experiences as the child of political migrants from Turkey, poised to head Berlin coalition governmentElif Eralp launched her election bid last autumn with the blunt statement: “People like me are actually not supposed to become mayor in this country.” So the fact that the 45-year-old lawyer and daughter of political migrants from Turkey is on the verge of becoming Berlin’s next mayor and the capital’s first leader of Turkish origin is quite the moment in German politics.After last weekend’s city state election, in which her far-left party, Die Linke, came first with more than a quarter of the votes, Eralp has become a household name. Continue reading...

  09/24/2026
• The GuardianThe long-range drone war: Ukraine and Russia scramble for supremacy in the skies

  A conflict that began with tanks and then artillery is now pivoting around a new generation of drones focused on military, industrial, economic and civilian targetsFinally, in the dead of night, the threat above has passed. The rain has eased and the Ukrainian drones are ready, prepared by a ground crew shrouded in hard-to-detect green and red lights. A small succession of Ukrainian Fire Point FP-2 craft, miniature monoplanes with a 6-metre wingspan and more than 100kg of explosive, line up for an attack mission into occupied Luhansk, over 200 miles away.The drone’s main piston engine is a familiar scooter’s buzz, but its launch booster is something else. The jet sound reverberates, almost painfully. A burst of fire lurches into the distance, the last of which signifies it is time for Ukraine’s 413 Raid drone regiment to pack and go.The launch of an FP-2 drone during the mission into occupied Luhansk Continue reading...

  09/24/2026
• The GuardianVenezuela being ‘reborn’, Rodríguez tells UN; Trump greets Xi Jinping ahead of high-stakes US-China summit – live

  Acting president says Venezuela returning strongly after ‘setbacks’; Chinese leader says Beijing and Washington should be partners not rivals after arriving in US for state visitTrump greets Xi Jinping at plane as Chinese leader arrives for state visitThese latest attacks come just hours before Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s address to the UN general assembly, so he is likely to reflect on them during his UN speech later.So far, we have had no public comment from Zelenskyy or Ukraine’s foreign minister Andrii Sybiha. Continue reading...

  09/24/2026
• The GuardianAlan Jones welcomed prominent athlete to luxury home with ‘hug and slap on the bottom’, former butler tells court

  Jones, 85, has pleaded not guilty to 21 charges of indecent assault and sexual touching, including two charges involving the athleteFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastListen to the podcast Alan Jones on TrialThe man who was Alan Jones’s butler for almost two decades has told a Sydney court his boss would welcome a prominent athlete to his luxury harbourside apartment with “a hug and a slap on the bottom” and would call him “champion”.The butler, David Allan, testified in the Downing Centre court that he worked at “the coalface” of the broadcaster’s domestic life as a household manager for 18 and a half years up until August 2019. He cooked, cleaned and ironed everything including his underpants and socks, while his employer “tried to exist on 2.5 hours [sleep] a day”. Continue reading...

  09/24/2026
• Al Jazeera‘They uprooted it all’: Israel bulldozes Palestinian-owned olive groves

  Israeli bulldozers uprooted olive groves near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank weeks before the annual harvest.

  09/24/2026
• Al JazeeraSpain’s Sanchez warns of far-right threat in UNGA speech

  Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez has warned of the growing power of ‘selfish, ignorant and cruel’ forces undermining humanity.

  09/24/2026
• BBCOpenAI agent 'infiltrated' Australian government website, PM says

  Albanese said he expressed "concern" to OpenAI founder Sam Altman, after authorities were informed three months after the breach in June.

  09/24/2026
• Al JazeeraAustralia says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal

  Canberra expressed extreme concern to Sam Altman after OpenAI took three months to report the breach.

  09/24/2026
• Al JazeeraVenezuela’s Rodriguez pledges elections, path forward in UNGA speech

  Venezuela’s Interim President Delcy Rodriguez says her country must abandon the ‘extremism’ of the past.

  09/24/2026
• Al JazeeraIran’s president brings receipts of US strikes on civilians to the UNGA

  Iran’s president delivered his UN General Assembly address after US President Trump threatened to ‘annihilate’ Iran.

  09/24/2026

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