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Hindu nationalism, misogyny and the “manosphere” have been identified as breeding grounds for extremism in a leaked report commissioned by Yvette Cooper after last summer’s riots. The home secretary’s “rapid analytical sprint” also dismissed claims of “two-tier policing” as a “rightwing extremist narrative”. It argued that the authorities should adopt a “behaviour-based and ideologically agnostic…

On a day of startling blue skies, Auschwitz survivors stood before princes and presidents on Monday to remind the world, perhaps for the final time, of the horrors they suffered there during one of the darkest moments of human history. Beneath a white marquee erected in front of the gate to the former Nazi death…

More than 1,200 sites in NSW still affected by power outage after storm More than 1,200 sites are affected by power outages this morning following lightning and stormy weather conditions in New South Wales last night. The number of outage sites listed on the Ausgrid site jumped to more than 2,400 earlier this morning, after…

The race for domination in artificial intelligence was blown wide open on Monday after the launch of a Chinese chatbot wiped $1tn from the leading US tech index, with one investor calling it a “Sputnik moment” for the world’s AI superpowers. Investors punished global tech stocks on Monday after the emergence of DeepSeek, a competitor…

Fighters from the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group claim to have taken the eastern city of Goma after a lightning advance in recent weeks that has forced thousands from their homes and risked reigniting a broader regional war. The M23 spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka said on X: “We urge all residents of…

Trump to sign executive order banning transgender troops – report Donald Trump is expected to sign three executive orders on Monday that would reshape the military, including banning transgender service members from serving in the US armed forces, CNN reports. The orders will also include gutting the military’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and…