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Nov 21, 2024 - World

Extreme heat expected to hit much of South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania and inland NSW as central Queensland braces for flooding Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMuch of Australia’s east coast will swelter through heatwave conditions this weekend with temperatures set to soar to up to 12C above average, while central Queensland braces for flash flooding after days of soaking rain.The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe heatwave warning for much of Victoria and New South Wales stretching out into the weekend, with temperatures expected to top 36C on Friday and Saturday in Melbourne.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

Nov 21, 2024 - World

Israeli move follows Guardian report that 12-year-old girl’s evacuation for treatment had been repeatedly blocked The Israeli authorities have permitted Mazyouna Damoo, a 12-year-old Palestinian girl whose face was “ripped off” when an Israeli missile struck her home in June, to leave Gaza for medical treatment, five days after the Guardian reported that repeated requests for her urgent medical evacuation had been denied.Last Friday, the Guardian highlighted the Damoo family’s desperate battle to get Mazyouna evacuated from Gaza to the United States to receive emergency surgery on devastating injuries to her face sustained in a missile attack by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which tore off half of her cheek and exposed her jawbone. Continue reading...

Nov 21, 2024 - World

Justice department urges court to force Google to share data with rivals as part of wide-ranging changes to end online giant’s monopoly on web searchingAlphabet’s Google must sell its Chrome browser, share data and search results with competitors and take a range of other measures to end its monopoly on searching the internet, US prosecutors have argued to a judge.Such changes would essentially result in Google being highly regulated for 10 years, subjecting it to oversight by the same Washington federal court that ruled the company maintained an illegal monopoly in online search and related advertising. Continue reading...

Nov 21, 2024 - World

Former publisher Jimmy Lai has denied that he asked a colleague to draft a list of potential sanction targets in testimony at his landmark national security trial in Hong Kong

Nov 21, 2024 - World

Greens and legal advocates say bill will make it harder to hold authorities accountable for conditions in detention facilitiesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLabor has introduced a bill that would allow drugs and mobile phones to be confiscated from non-citizens in immigration detention, despite opposing a phone ban when attempted by Peter Dutton in 2020.The Albanese government is proposing greater safeguards than the Coalition’s attempts to ban phones, but the move has already outraged the Greens and legal advocates who warn it will make it harder to hold authorities accountable for conditions in detention.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...