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Horizontal Falls accident: 12 seriously injured after boat capsizes at Western Australia beauty spot
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Investigators are probing what caused a serious jet boat incident in one of Western Australia’s most remote locations as rescuers worked into the late afternoon to winch injured tourists off a pontoon at Horizontal Fa...
Chile government apologizes to woman for forced sterilization
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The Chilean state has apologised to a woman who was forcibly sterilised by doctors because she was HIV positive. The woman, known only as Francisca and then 20, was diagnosed with HIV in March 2002 while pregnant with...
The Guardian view on the Gray report: a diagnosis of sick government
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Of the many things Boris Johnson has told the House of Commons, perhaps the least credible of all is Wednesday’s claim to be “humbled” by Sue Gray’s report into Downing Street parties during the pandemic. There was no...
Swedish government aims to cull wolf population by as much as half
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Sweden’s government has said it aims to carry out a significant wolf cull this year, potentially reducing the current population of about 400 animals by as much as half in a move that could breach EU directives. “We s...
NSW government told it cannot dock pay of MP charged with sexual abuse
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The New South Wales government has been told it cannot strip suspended MP Gareth Ward of his pay, staff or other entitlements without enacting new legislation, a step it should not take because it “may be vulnerable t...
Record 420,000 children a month in England treated for mental health problems
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More than 400,000 children and young people a month are being treated for mental health problems – the highest number on record – prompting warnings of an unprecedented crisis in the wellbeing of under-18s. Experts sa...
Sizewell C ‘may cost double government estimates and take five years longer to build’
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The proposed Sizewell C nuclear power station could cost UK taxpayers more than double government estimates and take an extra five years to build, according to research. Ministers will decide in July whether to approv...
Australia’s rightwing government weaponised climate change – now it has faced its reckoning
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When Scott Morrison won Australia’s federal election in 2019, it seemed like the country would never emerge from the climate wars that had begun a decade earlier. Morrison had taken the prime ministership late in 2018...