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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 […]

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

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

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 […]

A possible Democratic contender for the White House says he's at the COP summit with an "open hand not a closed fist" - as he vowed not to let China dominate the green space.Source: feeds.skynews.comRead full article

Lawsuit alleges doctor at Fort Hood was allowed to continue working despite complaints against him for yearsMilitary officials in Texas have suspended a US army gynecologist over allegations he inappropriately touched and secretly filmed dozens of women during appointments at an on-base medical center.A civil lawsuit filed in Bell county on Monday alleges that Blaine McGraw, a doctor and army major at Fort Hood, repeatedly groped a woman during a […]

This live blog is now closed. You can read the full Guardian coverage of the climate talks in Brazil hereIn the run-up to Cop30, the Guardian published a series of articles looking at the ten biggest polluters of greenhouse gas, and their plans to clean up. Here’s a piece my colleague Jonathan Watts wrote in September about China, which according to an analysis published today has plateaued its emissions.Chinese power […]