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Oct 4, 2024 - World

Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday that a decision to remove the Taliban from a list of terrorist organisations had been "taken at the highest level", the state TASS news agency reported on Friday.

Oct 4, 2024 - World

History is littered with examples of how non-state militant actors, driven by ideology, are easily able to bulldoze their way to power before regional or international consensus-led political alternatives even start materialising.

Oct 4, 2024 - World

Exclusive: Guardian Australia found Coalition politicians cited the 24-hour figure in interviews on at least 12 occasions in AugustGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIt was one of the most potent talking points during the Coalition’s campaign against “rushed” visas to Palestinians fleeing Gaza.“It is not appropriate to give 3,000 tourist visas to people leaving a war zone controlled by a terrorist organisation in an average of 24 hours,” the Liberal senator James Paterson told Sky News on 20 August.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

Oct 4, 2024 - World

McBride has appealed his jail sentence of five years and eight months claiming he ‘blew the whistle on the unequal application of the law’ by the ADFGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe former army lawyer David McBride has lodged his appeal in the ACT supreme court almost five months after he was sentenced to a maximum of five years and eight months in jail.McBride pleaded guilty to three charges in November 2023 after the court upheld a commonwealth intervention to withhold key evidence the government argued had the potential to jeopardise “the security and defence of Australia”. The charges included stealing commonwealth information and passing that on to journalists at the ABC.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

Oct 4, 2024 - World

PM is seeking input on the impacts of phone bans in schools and ideas to maintain the social connection of kidsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has written to the nation’s first ministers asking for their support in implementing a nationwide minimum age for social media.After South Australia’s Labor government announced it would be moving forward with plans to ban children under 14 from accessing social media, Albanese announced the federal government would introduce legislation addressing the same concerns by the end of the year.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...