Australia news live: eSafety chief rejects US claim she is a ‘zealot for global takedowns’; union asks for investigation into ANZ job cuts
Meanwhile Guardian Australia report on Roblox gaming platform raised at Senate estimates. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMore on the eSafety commissioner’s letter to a US lawmakerJulie Inman Grant told senators that Australians expect companies providing services into Australia to abide by Australian laws. She also pointed out that since the Wakeley church stabbing case that X challenged in the court and eSafety ended up dropping, the agency had accepted geo-blocking Australian users from seeing the posts as compliance with Australian law.So the conclusion is nothing that we do here with the Online Safety Act affects anything that an American platform will serve to Americans. So no, it does not impinge upon Americans’ freedom of speech.I am just in the process of sending that to the chairman right now. I think out of respect for him – when he sent me his letter, he sent it concurrently, it appears, to Sky News – I prefer to send it official to official. Continue reading...
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Putin says Russia not seeking war with Europe but is ‘ready’ to fight amid peace talks – as it happened
This live blog is now closed.Russia ‘ready’ for war with Europe, Putin says as peace talks with US beginIn parallel to Witkoff’s meeting in Moscow, we will also follow Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s first visit to Ireland.He has arrived in Dublin last night, and has a busy schedule today, paying a brief visit to the country’s new president Catherine Connolly, before meeting with key government figures including the taisoeach, Micheál Martin, and addressing both chambers of the Irish parliament in the afternoon. Continue reading...
Trump calls Somali immigrants ‘garbage’ as US reportedly targets Minnesota community
US president’s xenophobic rant comes amid reports of stepped-up effort to deport Somalis in Minneapolis-St PaulUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump on Tuesday called Somali immigrants “garbage” and said they should be sent back home in a rant that came as the administration is reportedly increasing immigration enforcement against undocumented Somalis in Minnesota.In a xenophobic rant during a cabinet meeting, Trump went off on Somalis and Ilhan Omar, the representative who is from Somalia and is a US citizen. He said Somalia “stinks” and is “no good for a reason”. Continue reading...
Trump threatens strikes on any country he claims makes drugs for US
Trump signals imminent land strikes in Venezuela, blaming a navy admiral for a deadly September attackDonald Trump warned on Tuesday that any country he believes is making drugs destined illegally for the US is vulnerable to a military attack.The US president’s comments came during a question and answer session at the White House at which he also said military strikes on land targets inside Venezuela, which he has accused of narco-terrorism, will “start very soon”. Continue reading...
Stranger Things season 5 breaks Netflix viewership record
New episodes of sci-fi series achieve 59.6m views in first five days of release, a new record for an English language showThe upside-down is still the right way for Netflix – Stranger Things 5 is now the company’s biggest English-language debut ever.The fifth season of the streaming company’s flagship sci-fi series achieved 59.6m views in its first five days on the platform, making for the best premiere week for an English-language series ever on Netflix, and the third biggest debut overall behind the second and third seasons of the Korean sensation Squid Game. Continue reading...
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Hegseth says he ‘didn’t stick around’ to watch second strike on alleged drug boat; Trump vows land strikes on cartels are coming ‘very soon’ – live
President says countries manufacturing and selling drugs to the US are “subject to attack”, adding that strikes wouldn’t be limited to VenezuelaTrump says he and Hegseth didn’t know about second strike on alleged Venezuelan drug boatPete Hegseth told US soldiers in Iraq to ignore legal advice on rules of engagementJoseph Gedeon is a politics breaking news reporter based in WashingtonThe FBI director, Kash Patel, is “in over his head” and leading a “chronically under-performing” agency paralyzed by fear and plummeting morale, according to a scathing 115-page report compiled by a national alliance of retired and active-duty FBI special agents and analysts. Continue reading...
Family members identify victims of shooting at toddler’s birthday party in California
Dead included children, aged eight, nine and 14, and a 21-year-old man who were shot at a banquet hallDetails are beginning to emerge about the victims of the shooting at a toddler’s birthday party in Stockton, California, that left four people dead and at least 11 injured over the weekend.The dead included children, aged eight, nine and 14, and a 21-year-old man who were shot at a banquet hall in the Central valley city where they had gathered with at least 100 other people to celebrate a two-year-old’s birthday. Continue reading...
Family of victim in Trump drug boat killings files first formal complaint
Exclusive: Petition says Colombia citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was illegally killed in US airstrike on 15 SeptemberA family in Colombia filed a petition on Tuesday with the Washington DC-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alleging that Colombia citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was illegally killed in a US airstrike on 15 September.The petition marks the first formal complaint over the airstrikes by the Trump administration against suspected drug boats, attacks that the White House says are justified under a novel interpretation of law. Continue reading...