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Secretary of defense gave information about the military aircraft that collided with the passenger plane, killing 67

Top US officials have said the military helicopter that collided with a passenger jet over the Potomac River on Wednesday was on a training mission for evacuating members of government in the event of a catastrophe or attack.

The US secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, told Fox News that the helicopter was performing a “continuity of government” drill designed to help pilots “rehearse in ways that would reflect a real world scenario”. Hegseth declined to go further, saying he didn’t want to get “into anything that’s classified”.

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Author : Edward Helmore

Publish date : 2025-02-01 15:24:00

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Hardline agendas, especially on immigration, are copied by mainstream conservatives in vain effort to win back votes

Far-right parties could become the largest force on the right in Europe within a decade, experts have said, as mainstream conservative parties look to copy their hardline agendas, especially on immigration, in a vain effort to win back votes.

Germany’s conservatives last week sparked fury when their leader, Friedrich Merz, the country’s likely next chancellor, broke a longstanding pledge by relying on far-right votes to adopt a non-binding motion urging a drastic immigration crackdown. The leader of Alternative für Deutschland, Alice Weidel, hailed “a historic day for Germany” as the Bundestag, for the first time in its history, passed a vote with the backing of her party, which is second in the polls weeks before this month’s elections.

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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/01/vicious-cycle-far-right-parties-across-europe-are-inspiring-imitators

Author : Jon Henley Europe correspondent

Publish date : 2025-02-01 13:23:00

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Voters in Biden’s home town turned to Trump to lower prices, but some are wary of the president’s economic plans

The annual Downtown on Ice festival is under way in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Ice sculptures are dotted around the city – there was little chance of them melting as an Arctic blast pulled temperatures down to 15F (-9C).

Inside Boscov’s, a 100-year-old department store, Sue Sloan says she can’t wait for spring. The 60–year-old housekeeper says she’s also looking for other changes. “Everything is so expensive,” she says. “Food prices, eggs, meat, gas, electricity, everything. It’s terrible,” she says.

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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/01/scranton-trump-biden-us-economy

Author : Dominic Rushe in Scranton, Pennsylvania, with graphics by Aliya Uteuova

Publish date : 2025-02-01 12:00:00

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Eliza and Henrietta Huszti, both 32 and originally from Hungary, were last seen on CCTV near harbour on 7 January

The body of a second woman has been found in the search for two missing sisters who went missing in Aberdeen last month.

Eliza and Henrietta Huszti, both 32 and originally from Hungary, were last seen on CCTV near the Dee at Aberdeen harbour early in the morning on 7 January, walking towards a path along the river.

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Author : Guardian staff and agency

Publish date : 2025-02-01 10:51:00

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Two men handed over to Red Cross in southern Gaza Strip with a third freed in Gaza City in exchange for jailed Palestinians

Middle East crisis live: latest news updates

Three more Israelis – all male civilian hostages – have been released to Israel as part of the continuing ceasefire agreement with Hamas in Gaza.

Hamas handed the first two hostages over to the Red Cross in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday morning before they were received by the Israeli military a short while later.

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Author : Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem

Publish date : 2025-02-01 09:07:00

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Two hostages freed on Saturday, with another expected to be released from different location

Here are images coming in of people in Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square watching a screen broadcasting news footage of this morning’s hostage releases.

The Guardian’s Peter Beaumont is reporting on these latest hostage releases.

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Author : Adam Fulton

Publish date : 2025-02-01 07:58:00

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Immigration minister says such conduct must be ‘nipped in bud’ as lawyer referred to office of the NSW Legal Services Commissioner for consideration

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An Australian lawyer has been referred to a state legal complaints commission, after it was discovered he had used ChatGPT to write court filings in an immigration case and the artificial intelligence platform generated case citations that did not exist.

In a ruling by the federal circuit and family court on Friday, Justice Rania Skaros referred the lawyer, who had his name redacted from the ruling, to the Office of the NSW Legal Services Commissioner (OLSC) for consideration.

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Author : Josh Taylor

Publish date : 2025-02-01 03:23:00

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Officials say multiple structures ablaze after plane, with two people reportedly onboard, crashes in city’s north-east

A small plane crashed in north-east Philadelphia on Friday evening, leaving several homes on fire, local law enforcement confirmed to CBS News Philadelphia.

Two people were on the plane.

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Author : Guardian staff and agencies

Publish date : 2025-02-01 00:51:00

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The coalition government will be led by the conservative New Flemish Alliance party’s Bart De Wever

Five Belgian parties struck a coalition deal on Friday to form a new government headed by the Flemish conservative Bart De Wever, after more than seven months of tortuous negotiations.

The agreement paves the way for De Wever to become the first nationalist from the Dutch-speaking Flanders region to be Belgian premier – although in recent years he has backed off on calls for it to become an independent country.

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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/31/belgium-to-form-government-after-seven-months-of-negotiations

Author : Agence France-Presse

Publish date : 2025-01-31 23:05:00

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Websites offer only error messages on Thursday after president demands agriculture department shutter sites

On Thursday, the Trump administration ordered the US agriculture department to remove its websites documenting or referencing the climate crisis.

By Friday, the landing pages on the United States Forest Service website for key resources, research and adaptation tools – including those that provide vital context and vulnerability assessments for wildfires – had gone dark, leaving behind an error message or just a single line: “You are not authorized to access this page.”

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Author : Gabrielle Canon

Publish date : 2025-01-31 22:06:00

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Top bureau officials in five cities in line of fire with dozens of agents who worked on Trump investigations facing axe

The FBI launched a wide-ranging round of staff cuts Friday as Donald Trump’s administration moved to swiftly shake up the US’s leading law enforcement agency, three sources familiar with the matter told the Reuters new agency.

At least five top FBI officials in major US cities – Miami, Philadelphia, Washington, New Orleans and Las Vegas – were ordered to resign or be fired, one of the sources told Reuters.

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Dr Margaret Carpenter faces felony charges in state that has had near-total abortion ban since fall of Roe v Wade

A New York doctor was indicted by a Louisiana grand jury on Friday for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in the deep south state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the country.

Grand jurors at the district court for the parish of West Baton Rouge issued an indictment against Dr Margaret Carpenter; her company, Nightingale Medical PC; and a third person. All three were charged with criminal abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs, a felony.

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Author : Associated Press

Publish date : 2025-01-31 19:58:00

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Claim comes as investigators analyse voice and data recorders from plane crash in which 67 people died

Washington DC plane crash – latest updates

Donald Trump has said that the military Black Hawk helicopter that was in a catastrophic collision with an American Airlines jet in Washington DC was “flying too high, by a lot”, as investigators continued to piece together the reasons for the disaster.

The claim from the president came amid questions about the angle the helicopter was flying at, as well as whether the air traffic control tower was understaffed.

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Author : Oliver Milman, Anna Betts and agencies

Publish date : 2025-01-31 19:09:00

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Schools and universities must revert to Title IX guidance on sexual misconduct complaints from first Trump term

Schools and universities responding to complaints of sexual misconduct must return to policies created during Donald Trump’s first term, with requirements for live hearings and more protections for those students accused, according to new guidance issued on Friday by the education department.

In a memo to education institutions across the nation, the agency clarified that Title IX, a 1972 law barring discrimination based on sex, will be enforced according to a set of rules created by the former education secretary Betsy DeVos. The rules govern how complaints of misconduct are investigated and how to settle cases where students present differing accounts.

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Publish date : 2025-01-31 18:23:00

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Journalist and ex-host of Meet the Press played a key role in pushing back on prominent Republican hire last year

Chuck Todd, the NBC journalist and former host of Meet the Press who was a key figure in pushing the network not to hire a prominent Republican operative last year, said on Friday he is leaving NBC News.

“There’s never a perfect time to leave a place that’s been a professional home for so long, but I’m pretty excited about a few new projects that are on the cusp of going from ‘pie in the sky’ to ‘near reality,’” Todd said in a memo to staffers. “So I’m grateful for the chance to get a jump start on my next chapter during this important moment.”

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Author : Marina Dunbar

Publish date : 2025-01-31 17:25:00

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Helmet of Coțofenești, a Romanian national treasure, among items stolen while on loan to Drents Museum

Hours before the sun rose over the Netherlands, the group crowded around the large external door, appearing to pry it open. Seconds later, the grainy security video appeared to show a powerful explosion, sending plumes of smoke and sparks into the air, and the thieves rush into the museum in the north-eastern city of Assen.

Minutes later they were gone. But the mystery of what exactly took place during their few minutes in the Drents Museum – and what came afterwards – has left officials in the Netherlands scrambling for answers, and prompted a row that has stretched to the other side of Europe.

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Author : Ashifa Kassam

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Messaging app said it had ‘high confidence’ some users were targeted and ‘possibly compromised’ by Paragon Solutions spywareNearly 100 journalists and other members of civil society using WhatsApp, the popular messaging app owned by Meta, were targeted by spyware owned by Paragon Solutions, an Israeli maker of hacking software, the company alleged today.The journalists and other civil society members were being alerted of a possible breach of their devices, with WhatsApp telling the Guardian it had “high confidence” that the users in question had been targeted and “possibly compromised”. Continue reading…



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Author : Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington DC

Publish date : 2025-01-31 14:46:00

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General secretary highlights ‘legacy of 14 years of falling living standards under the Tories’In an article for the Guardian, the Labour MP Clive Lewis said Rachel Reeves’ growth speech this week means the party has abandoned its pre-election green commitments.Here is an extract.A growing suspicion looms that our government lacks a coherent governing philosophy or ideological compass beyond the vague pursuit of “growth”. But if growth at any cost is the mantra, the costs will soon become painfully clear. Why pledge to be clean and green, only to undermine that commitment with a Heathrow expansion promise six months later? Burning the furniture to stay warm doesn’t signal confidence – it reeks of panic.Regardless of the motivation, Labour has crossed the Rubicon. Approving Heathrow expansion is an irreversible break with our pre-election pledges. In 2021, Reeves stood in front of the Labour party conference and declared that she would be the “first-ever green chancellor”. Now, Labour is accused of obstructing the climate and nature bill and abandoning its ambitious decarbonisation plans. The rapid turnaround is striking …I do a bit. There are nine million working age adults who are not working. And as we compete globally with countries like, you know, South Korea, China, India, you know, we need a work ethic. We need everybody to be making a contribution. … we need to lift our game and to up our game.Chris Philp was the architect of the Liz Truss budget which crashed the economy and sent family mortgages rocketing.After the Conservatives’ economic failure left working people worse off, it takes some real brass neck for the Tory top team to tell the public that it’s really all their fault.I was making the case that tax cuts…need to be accompanied by spending control or spending reductions … in order to show that the books are being balanced and to avoid the market reaction that we saw …I made that case internally … but it wasn’t unfortunately listened to. I think had my suggestions been listened to a bit earlier, then there was a there’s a much higher chance that [the mini-budget] would have worked. And it’ll be always a matter of regret that those points weren’t taken on board. Continue reading…



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Author : Andrew Sparrow

Publish date : 2025-01-31 13:39:00

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Yarden Bibas scheduled for release with Keith Siegel and Ofer Calderon on Saturday in latest handover of hostagesMiddle East crisis – live updatesHamas has announced it will release Yarden Bibas on Saturday, the Israeli father of a young family kidnapped to Gaza who have been one of the most enduring symbols of Israel’s hostages in the coastal strip.The Hamas spokesperson Abu Obeida said on its Telegram channel that Bibas would be released with Keith Siegel, a joint US citizen, and Ofer Calderon, who also has French nationality. Continue reading…



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Author : Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem and Emma Graham-Harrison in Tel Aviv

Publish date : 2025-01-31 12:41:00

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Scheme backed by €170m fund crucial to getting agreement from farmers, politicians and environmental groups“Plant-based foods are the future.” That is not a statement you would expect from a right-wing farming minister in a major meat-producing nation. Denmark produces more meat per capita than any other country in the world, with its 6 million people far outnumbered by its 30 million pigs, and it has a big dairy industry too. Yet this is how Jacob Jensen, from the Liberal party, introduced the nation’s world-first action plan for plant-based foods.“If we want to reduce the climate footprint within the agricultural sector, then we all have to eat more plant-based foods,” he said at the plan’s launch in October 2023, and since then the scheme has gone from strength to strength. Backed by a €170m government fund, it is now supporting plant-based food from farm to fork, from making tempeh from broad beans and a chicken substitute from fungi to on-site tastings at kebab and burger shops and the first vegan chef degree. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/31/more-carrot-less-stick-how-meat-loving-danes-were-sold-a-plant-led-world-first

Author : Damian Carrington

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Donald Trump says tariffs will start at 25% and ‘may or may not’ rise over timeHere’s more on those comments from President Trump threatening to impose 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada, two of the US’ largest trading partners.He said he was making the threat “for a number of reasons” but that he wants both countries to do more to secure their borders to reduce illegal migration and the flow of fentanyl into the US. Continue reading…



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Author : Christy Cooney

Publish date : 2025-01-31 11:20:00

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Bundestag set to review Influx Limitation Act, which looks to tighten rules in existing laws on residence as Friedrich Merz grapples with rise of far rightin BerlinThe Bundestag debate has been delayed for half an hour on request of the CDU, thought to be to do with misgivings within the party over the debate, not least due to large numbers of protesters outside the CDU headquarters in Berlin. Continue reading…



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Author : Jakub Krupa

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Diana Johnson says Labour is ‘starting from a difficult position’, after Essex police say they could get rid of PCSOsPolice forces in England and Wales are facing “difficult and challenging” circumstances, the policing minister has accepted, as some have been forced to cut their number of officers.Diana Johnson said forces would need to make decisions locally on how many officers to have, days after Essex police said they could get rid of all 99 police community support officer roles within the force, pending consultation, amid a £12.5m budget shortfall for 2025-26. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/31/policing-minister-police-forces-england-wales-challenging-cuts

Author : Aletha Adu Political correspondent

Publish date : 2025-01-31 09:32:00

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Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as US president said he would impose first tariffs of new administration on 1 FebruaryEuropean stock markets have moved in lockstep at the opening bell on Friday morning.Here are the opening snaps via Reuters:EUROPE’S STOXX 600 UP 0.2%BRITAIN’S FTSE 100 UP 0.2%; GERMANY’S DAX UP 0.1%FRANCE’S CAC 40 UP 0.2%; SPAIN’S IBEX UP 0.2%EURO STOXX INDEX UP 0.2%; EURO ZONE BLUE CHIPS UP 0.2%We’ll be announcing the tariffs on Canada and Mexico for a number of reasons. Number one is the people that have poured into our country so horribly and so much. Number two are the drugs, fentanyl and everything else that have come into the country. Number three are the massive subsidies that we’re giving to Canada and to Mexico in the form of deficits.Our data show that investors are getting used to Trump’s policy shifts and rhetoric. Fear of a meaningful change in immigration policy, tariffs and spending has not been borne out.Our mood index, which captures equity buying against bill selling, remains extremely positive but with peaks this week, suggesting significant downside risks for the month ahead. Continue reading…



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Publish date : 2025-01-31 08:04:00

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Public sector union criticises opposition leader’s ‘lack of understanding of modern workplaces’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has foreshadowed the axing of diversity and inclusion positions in the public service as part of wider cuts to the commonwealth bureaucracy if he wins the federal election.The main public sector union said the idea was straight out of the playbook of US president Donald Trump, who has declared war on so-called DEI measures (diversity, equity and inclusion) since returning to the White House. Continue reading…



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Author : Dan Jervis-Bardy

Publish date : 2025-01-31 06:28:00

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