Joe Biden says the US would intervene militarily to defend Taiwan if it came under attack from China. ‘That’s the commitment we made,’ the president says during a joint press conference with his Japanese counterpart, Fumio Kishida in Tokyo, adding that “America is committed to a One China policy but that does not mean China has the jurisdiction to use force to take Taiwan’
Ministers defend cut to crossbenchers’ advisers, despite fury of Jacqui Lambie and other independents
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The Albanese government has defended its cut to crossbench MPs’ and senators’ staff, despite suggestions some minor parties could block bills in retaliation. On Friday Labor revealed that crossbench parliamentarians w...
Fury from protesters in US after Roe v Wade overturned – video
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Hundreds of protesters turned out across the US after the supreme court's decision to abolish the constitutional right to abortion. Within hours of Roe v Wade being overturned, abortion was already illegal in many sta...
European politicians duped into deepfake video calls with mayor of Kyiv
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The mayors of several European capitals have been duped into holding video calls with a deepfake of their counterpart in Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko. The mayor of Berlin, Franziska Giffey, took part in a scheduled call on ...
‘Lives will be saved’: Biden signs most sweeping gun control law in decades
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Joe Biden on Saturday signed the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades, a bipartisan compromise that seemed unimaginable until a recent series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 students and two teac...
Biden administration signals fight to stop states banning abortion pill
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Joe Biden’s administration has indicated it will seek to prevent states from banning a pill used for medical abortion in light of the supreme court ruling overturning Roe v Wade, signalling a major new legal fight. Th...
Made in Tredegar: the Welsh town that changed the world – video
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Tredegar is a town in the Welsh valleys that changed the world. Its medical aid society – and local MP Nye Bevan – provided the inspiration for the NHS. Nearly 80 years later, a small group of community film-makers wi...
Biden condemns US supreme court’s ‘tragic error’ of overturning Roe v Wade
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Joe Biden condemned the supreme court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade on Friday, saying the conservative justices’ ruling to eliminate the federal right to abortion access represented “a realization of an extreme id...
Putin’s Russia: dictator syndrome and the rise of a ‘mafia state’ – video
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Guardian correspondent Luke Harding chronicles the defining moments in Putin's early presidency that helped turn Russia into a 'mafia state' – from the clampdown on the independent media, to shocking assassinations an...