Iran has reacted with outrage after Donald Trump said the country will be bombed if it does not accept US demands to constrain its nuclear programme. The US president said on Sunday that if Iran “[doesn’t] make a deal, there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen…
The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has railed against a Paris court’s “political decision” to bar her from competing for the presidency in 2027, attacking the move to ban her from running for public office as “a denial of democracy”. In a day of high political drama, Le Pen was found guilty of embezzlement…
Bradfield independent candidate apologies for allegedly making sexual joke at Sydney hairdressing salon Independent candidate, Nicolette Boele has apologised for allegedly making a sexual joke at a hairdressing salon in Sydney. Nicolette Boele is an independant standing for election in the federal seat of Bradfield. Photograph: The Guardian Boele, who is standing for the Sydney…
The fallout from Myanmar’s earthquake has overwhelmed parts of the healthcare system, the World Health Organization has said, as the official death toll rose to more than 2,000, with many more missing. Rescue operations faced “significant obstacles including damaged roads, collapsed bridges, unstable communications and the complexities related to civil conflict”, the WHO said in…
The 17 additional people the US shipped off to a prison in El Salvador on Sunday and accused of being tied to transnational gangs were sent there from immigration detention at Guantánamo Bay, a White House official confirmed to the Guardian on Monday afternoon. The secretary of state, Marco Rubio, announced the overnight military transfer,…
Trump administration announces review of Harvard The Trump administration has announced a review of federal contracts and grants at Harvard University over allegations of antisemitism. The Task Force will review the more than $255.6 million in contracts between Harvard University, its affiliates and the Federal Government. The review also includes the more than $8.7bn in…