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Health secretary Wes Streeting lobbied behind the scenes for emergency funds to pay off 18,000 staff losing their jobsRachel Reeves has rebuffed a plea from Wes Streeting for an emergency injection of £1bn into the NHS’s budget to cover the cost of mass redundancies.The chancellor’s decision is a setback for the health secretary, who had been lobbying behind the scenes in Whitehall for extra money to pay off 18,000 personnel […]

Mike Burgess points to successful infiltration in the US by units known as Salt Typhoon and Volt Typhoon ‘working for the Chinese government’Australia’s intelligence agency has accused “Chinese hackers” of seeking to gain access to critical infrastructure assets, including telecommunications networks.In a speech to a business forum in Melbourne, the director-general of the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation, Mike Burgess, said the nation now faced a threat of “high-impact sabotage”. […]

SA’s Leah Blyth says Australia ‘can’t afford’ net zero target. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastRemoving CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist saysRemoving carbon from the atmosphere will be necessary to avoid catastrophic tipping points, one of the world’s leading scientists has warned, as even in the best-case scenario the world will heat by about 1.7C. Continue […]

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Israelis continue to attack Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza, as death toll in the latter tops 69,000. Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Arrival of US aircraft carrier off Latin America fuels speculation that US could try to overthrow Venezuelan government.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Youth offenders, aged as young as 14, could face 20-year jail terms for violent crimes under proposalFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastChildren as young as 14 who commit “serious crimes” will be sentenced as adults under a Victorian government plan to combat youth crime.The state government said on Wednesday that it will adopt an “adult time for […]