Cancer Haunts Neighbors of Canada’s Oil Sands Wastelands
Though high rates of the disease persist among the nearby Indigenous communities, the Canadian government is weighing rules that may allow energy giants to release treated mining waste into the river system.
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Five Iranian footballers granted Australian visas after anthem protest
Concern has grown for team after one critic called them "wartime traitors" for failing to salute during the Iranian anthem.
Australia politics live: Iranian women’s football team arrive at Gold Coast airport as Amnesty says players face ‘serious risks to their safety’
Follow updates liveIran women’s football team heads to airport as clock ticks on Australia’s offer of asylumGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBurke confirms Trump has called AlbaneseBurke has confirmed the US president, Donald Trump, has spoken with Anthony Albanese (who will be up to speak in Canberra shortly).I do know that the president called the prime minister and the views of the president put on this, I think, reflected what all good people have been thinking. Everybody’s been looking at this situation and saying, surely, is there something we can do?We’ve been making sure that we had the options, that the women had the opportunity to come forward, and there’s been a good police presence at different points … But can I say the first conversation didn’t have an immediate case of the women saying that they decided. This was a difficult decision for them, and I think we all understand exactly why.I don’t want to begin to imagine how difficult that decision is for each of the individual women, but certainly last night, it was joy, it was relief, and people were very excited about embarking on your life in Australia.They were moved from the hotel to a safe location by the Australian Federal Police … I made final confirmation with the director general of Asio Mike Burgess to make sure that he was completely comfortable in terms of security clearances for the people who I was about to make the offer to. Continue reading...
Middle East crisis live: Trump claims Iran war will be over ‘very soon’ but Tehran says it will determine when
US president says war is ‘very complete’ and threatens worse strikes if passage of oil via strait of Hormuz is blocked; IRGC says it will not let out ‘one litre of oil’Oil prices drop sharply after Trump moves to reassure marketsTrump says Iran war is ‘very complete, pretty much’ as economic toll risesInvestor hopes for a swift resolution to the Middle East conflict propelled Australian shares higher today, with the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 finishing the day up 1.1% and recovering about $35bn in value after yesterday’s $90bn plunge.Oil prices surged to a four-year high early in the week before coming back down below $US90 a barrel after Donald Trump suggested the Iran conflict would end soon, sending global stock markets higher. Continue reading...
Tuesday briefing: Inside the increasingly heated debate about who can – and can’t – vote in the UK
In today’s newsletter: In the wake of this year’s Commonwealth Day, a look at the complex framework of voting rules in different parts of the UKGood morning. In the wake of the Green party’s victory in the Gorton and Denton byelection, Nigel Farage claimed his party would have won if the vote had been restricted to “British-born voters”. The Greens dismissed the suggestion as “dangerous, racist nonsense”.But the argument has thrown fresh attention on a little-understood feature of the UK’s electoral system: who is actually allowed to vote. As it stands, some non-UK citizens – including certain Commonwealth nationals – can cast ballots in general elections, while millions of long-term residents cannot.Middle East crisis | Donald Trump has said the war in Iran is “very complete, pretty much”, as the conflict disrupts global oil trade and threatens to engulf the Middle East in a regional war.AI | A multibillion-pound drive to “mainline AI into the veins” of the British economy is riddled with “phantom investments” and shaky accounting, a Guardian investigation has found.UK politics | Ministers need to act more quickly to combat fast-changing threats from technology such as deepfakes, the technology secretary has said, as she warned about the risks women and girls face online.UK news | A woman who alleged she was raped by Andrew Malkinson admitted to police 22 years ago that she “wasn’t too sure it was the right man”, a court has heard. Malkinson spent 17 years in prison for an attack he did not commit in what jurors heard was a “most terrible” miscarriage of justice.Technology | Liverpool and Manchester United have complained to Elon Musk’s X after the Grok AI feature made offensive posts about Diogo Jota and the Hillsborough and Munich disasters. The posts were generated when users asked the AI tool to make hateful posts about the two football teams. Continue reading...
Woman killed in Bahrain as Gulf states intercept more Iranian missiles
Strikes continue as Trump says US attacks on Iran will dramatically increase if it tries to close Strait of Hormuz.
Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka cricket series called off due to Iran war
Afghanistan were due to host Sri Lanka for a six-match series in the UAE, which has been hit by attacks from Iran.
US to end prosecution of Turkiye’s Halkbank over alleged business with Iran
US prosecutors say Turkish assistance in negotiating ceasefire , release of captives from Gaza contributed to settlement.
Gaza food prices soar as border closures deepen shortages amid Iran war
Families are buying whatever they can while supplies last, fearing that food available today may not be there tomorrow.
The ‘Fourth Successor’: Iran’s plan for a long war with the US and Israel
Tehran built a doctrine to absorb shock, survive decapitation strikes and turn time into a weapon.