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PM welcomes ‘encouraging progress’ in ties with Beijing after Brazil meeting. Follow today’s news headlines liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFirst investment announced as part of National Reconstruction FundThe science and industry minister, Ed Husic, was on ABC News Breakfast to discuss the government’s first investment via the National Reconstruction Fund – $40m to a Toowoomba mineral processing factory.The difference in terms of what the [NRF] does is it provides loans, equity, and guarantees to firms that are [working across] seven priority areas to expand and grow their operations.Given the sizes of the investments, it does take more time to be able to go through to shape up what the investment will look like, how big it’ll be, over what term, the rate of return – because the other important thing to stress to viewers is – this is not about handing out grants, and certainly not doing it on the basis of political colour-coded spreadsheets as we saw with the last government.In fact, the social media users were less likely to have a negative attitude towards Jewish and Muslim people, irrespective of where they were on the political spectrum. Continue reading…



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Author : Emily Wind

Publish date : 2024-11-18 20:39:46

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Carve-out for F-35 parts prioritised ‘US confidence in UK and Nato’ over risk of rights violations, court documents showThe UK government did not fully suspend export licences to Israel as it would undermine US confidence in the UK and Nato and have a “profound impact” on international peace and security, court documents reveal.On Monday the UK government returned to the high court in legal action by the Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq and the UK-based Global Legal Action Network (Glan) over the decision to continue arms exports to Israel. Continue reading…



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Author : Geneva Abdul

Publish date : 2024-11-18 19:22:28

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PM questions sanctions against MPs and plight of Jimmy Lai as China’s president says Starmer ‘fixing foundations’UK politics live – latest updatesThe Chinese president has heaped praise on Keir Starmer’s economic policy as the prime minister used their first meeting to raise concerns about sanctions on MPs and the treatment of the pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai.In conversation at the G20 summit in Rio, the first between the UK and China’s leaders in six years, Starmer said he would be keen to host a full bilateral meeting with Xi Jinping and his counterpart Li Qiang in Beijing or London as soon as possible, in a meeting aimed at turning the page on frosty UK-China relations. Continue reading…



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Author : Jessica Elgot in Rio de Janeiro

Publish date : 2024-11-18 18:20:02

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Cable news channel’s top morning hosts seek to ‘restart communications’ with Mar-a-Lago meetingUS politics live – latest updatesMika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, top morning hosts at the liberal MSNBC cable news network, have revealed that they personally met with Donald Trump about “a new approach” as well as to “restart communications” after vocally opposing his successful campaign for a second presidency.On Monday’s edition of Morning Joe, Scarborough said he and Brzezinski spoke with the president-elect at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida three days earlier about “abortion, mass deportation, threats of … retribution against political opponents and media outlets”. Continue reading…



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Author : Ramon Antonio Vargas

Publish date : 2024-11-18 17:18:58

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President-elect posted on social media that it was ‘true’ he was prepared to us military and emergency measures to deport millions of people from the USThe reported tension between Elon Musk and Boris Epshteyn as they vie for status in Donald Trump’s inner circle of un-elected influencers involves the tech entrepreneur, Musk, challenging lawyer Epshteyn on the merits of his suggestions for senior appointments in the incoming Republican administration, according to Axios.It quotes several unnamed sources, who’ve been giving accounts of the apparent strain between the two men bursting out into public rows, saying that Musk argues Epshteyn has too much sway over the names Trump is picking and considering for his cabinet and senior administration posts, while Epshteyn is “bristling” at Musk challenging him. Continue reading…



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Author : Joanna Walters (now) and Yohannes Lowe (earlier)

Publish date : 2024-11-18 16:17:09

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US climate envoy says Trump won’t derail progress as GOP argues for increasing oil and gas production at UN talksThroughout the UN climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijanin recent days, US officials have maintained a studiously sunny disposition, saying that Republican president-elect Donald Trump will not derail climate progress.US climate envoy John Podesta said the fight “for a cleaner, safer” planet will not stop under a re-elected Trump even if some progress is reversed. White House energy secretary Jennifer Granholm said: “The absence of leadership in the White House does not mean that this energy transition is stopped.” And Joe Biden’s climate and energy assistant Jacob Levine told reporters that the president’s climate policies have sparked an unstoppable clean energy “revolution”. Continue reading…



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Author : Dharna Noor in Baku, Azerbaijan

Publish date : 2024-11-18 15:00:36

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Counter-terrorism commander says risk of contamination in Salisbury was not discussed with public health leadersPeople were not warned against picking up discarded objects after the 2018 novichok attack on the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal despite concerns that a container of the nerve agent had been left in Salisbury, a senior counter-terrorism police chief has said.Commander Dominic Murphy told an inquiry that he believed no warning was issued by public health leaders until after the poisoning of Dawn Sturgess three months later when she sprayed herself with a dose of nerve agent hidden in a fake perfume bottle apparently found in a bin in the city. Continue reading…



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Author : Steven Morris

Publish date : 2024-11-18 14:02:49

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After 20 people including 15 first responders killed in Douris, rescuers ask why state service was targetedAll the corpses had been recovered but still the rescuers sifted through the rubble. A paramedic carried a sack with him, filled with the charred remains of his colleagues. Every few feet he stopped and knelt down, assessing. In the twisted mess left behind by the Israeli airstrike, it was hard to distinguish between flesh, earth and the life-saving equipment that had melted in the heat of the blast.The night before, on Thursday, an Israeli jet had dropped a bomb on the salon of the Douris civil defence centre on the outskirts of the ancient Lebanese town of Baalbek, killing 20 people, including 15 first responders. Five were rendered unrecognisable by the force of the explosion. On Friday afternoon, emergency workers were still collecting bodily remains to be taken for DNA analysis. Continue reading…



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Author : William Christou in Douris

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Interim leader Muhammad Yunus confirms plans to put former PM on trial accused of crimes against humanityBangladesh will seek the extradition of the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to face trial on charges including crimes against humanity, the country’s interim leader, Muhammad Yunus, has said in a speech.Hasina, whose autocratic regime governed Bangladesh for 15 years, was toppled in a student-led revolution in August. Since then she has been living in exile in India after fleeing the country in a helicopter as thousands of protesters overran the presidential palace. Continue reading…



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Author : Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondent

Publish date : 2024-11-18 11:46:13

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Starmer in Rio de Janeiro for G20 summit and is set to become first UK PM to meet Chinese president in six yearsNigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, has more voters who like him than any other leading politician – but also more who dislike him than most other leading figures, according to polling from Ipsos.The figures show that 28% of people have a favourable view of him – but 48% have an unfavourable view of him, giving him a net score of -20.These numbers show that politicians are not a popular bunch in Britain right now, with more Britons holding unfavourable opinions than favourable for all of the ones on our list. Nigel Farage has the highest proportion favourable overall, but it remains to be seen whether he can convert that into increased support for Reform UK moving forward. Continue reading…



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Author : Andrew Sparrow

Publish date : 2024-11-18 10:45:42

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National insurance increase and higher interest rates mean company failures will stay high, says Begbies TraynorBusiness live – latest updatesHigher employment costs as a result of the budget may push more British businesses into financial difficulty, according to the UK’s largest insolvency practitioner.Begbies Traynor said that increased employment costs, as well as higher interest rates, would extend a period of “elevated insolvency levels”, in a statement to the stock market on Monday. Continue reading…



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Author : Jasper Jolly

Publish date : 2024-11-18 09:50:12

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Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsThe oil price is rising this morning, after the conflict between Russia and Ukraine intensified last weekend.Brent crude, the international benchmark, is up 0.3% at $71.26 per barrel, having hit its lowest level since the start of October on Friday. Continue reading…



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Author : Graeme Wearden

Publish date : 2024-11-18 07:23:47

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Analysts say market is still relatively busy despite decline of 1.4%, which is unusually high for this time of yearThe average asking price for a UK home has dropped by more than £5,000 this month as the autumn budget caused housing market jitters before the usual Christmas slowdown.Average asking prices from new sellers fell by £5,366, or 1.4%, in November to £366,592, compared with the 0.8% decline usually recorded at this time of year, according to the website Rightmove. Continue reading…



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Author : Julia Kollewe

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Campaigners want anti-racist content to be embedded in curriculum and for Black history to be compulsory subjectSchools and colleges are failing in their legal duty to prevent and address racism, say campaigners who are calling for the national curriculum in England to include an explicit anti-racism focus with Black history as a compulsory subject.A coalition of organisations representing young people’s voices has written to the prime minister, warning that “racism is holding all young people back” and calling for urgent action to “address the impacts of this growing crisis”. Continue reading…



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Author : Sally Weale Education correspondent

Publish date : 2024-11-18 05:00:30

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