There is no greater treachery than this failure to face up to the climate crisis. How can we now fend off despair?

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Dr Swasti Raychaudhuri, who led the research, noted that although cells possess protective mechanisms, biochemical reactions can undergo changes depending on the circumstances.

Only some people will continue to get the COVID-19 vaccination for free after October 1. Here's what the changes mean for you.

There is no greater treachery than this failure to face up to the climate crisis. How can we now fend off despair?

Operation Rosny has inflicted damage on a cabal of operatives who, through greed, stupidity or a combination of both, allegedly placed themselves in the path of a storm.

Queensland has legislated remote camps for children, while Victoria has made it easier to sentence young offenders as adults. Victoria once kept more kids out of jail by investing in community alternatives. That hard-won approach is being lost in the race to sound tough.

The vaccines will no longer be available as a ‘universal program’ from 1 October, bringing significant changes to free vaccine eligibility.

A temporary vaccination service has been set up for a school community in Adelaide's southern suburbs after four students tested positive for measles.

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The public policy think tank, CEDA, believes Australia could increase its current housing stock by nine per cent if just one in four standalone homes in the five biggest cities are developed into dual...

US submarines at HMAS Stirling, B-52 rotations through Tindal and deepening military integration are tying Australia ever more closely to US strategic priorities – including the prospect of war with C...

Most Australians assume our marine parks are protected from damaging activities like seismic blasting. But the truth might surprise you.  Seismic blasting is still allowed in about half of Australia’s offshore marine parks, including in the offshore marine parks around Lord Howe Island, Coffs Harbour, the Abrolhos Islands and the Kimberley.   Seismic blasting involves vessels firing extremely loud underwater explosions every 10–15 seconds, day and night, to […]

Firms manage $7.3tn in assets and could afford to transition away from fossil fuels yet invest in natural gas and coal-fired plants to power datacenters

Pauline Hanson’s gas policy and the party’s relationship with Rinehart is examined in a new Guardian podcast series, The Populist

<article data-history-node-id="447506" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/senior-rabbi-calls-settler-violence-desecration-judaism" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/senior-rabbi-calls-settler-violence-desecration-judaism" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Senior Rabbi calls settler violence ‘desecration of Judaism’</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, former Rabbi of New North London Synagogue and senior Rabbi of Masorti Judaism, has called settler violence in the occupied West Bank as a “desecration of Judaism”.</p> <p>In an interview with Sky News, Rabbi Wittenberg said that he witnessed what was happening in the West Bank during his recent visit to the occupied territories.</p> <p>“As foreign secretary (Ed Miliband) was making his statement, I was in the village of Umm al-Khair, where last year Awdah Hathaleen was murdered by a settler. I was there again to meet his family. I saw how new settler homes have been erected literally 10 metres from the villagers’s homes, how they have been cut off by an imposed military zone,” he said.</p> <p>Hathaleen, a Palestinian activist and consultant on the 2024 documentary ‘No Other Land’, was fatally shot by Israeli settler Yinon Levi in Umm al-Khair in the South Hebron Hills, West Bank, on 28 July 2025.&nbsp;</p> <p>“This is wrong, and not allowed in any way by Judaism, which tells us that every single human being is created in the image of God. And it is not a few bad apples. It is clearly backed up sometimes by much higher authorities.”</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg on <a href="https://x.com/SkyNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SkyNews</a> speaking out against the rampant settler violence he has personally witnessed.<br> <br> He represents another voice in the Jewish community stressing the necessity of the UK government taking action on Israeli settlements. <a href="https://t.co/IEjugWgLZ1">pic.twitter.com/IEjugWgLZ1</a></p> — Yachad UK (@YachadUK) <a href="https://x.com/YachadUK/status/2098072378408423812?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> </div> </article>

Governmental information manipulation has been hard to measure and study systematically. This paper provides comparable country-level estimates of the extent of misinformation in official data, in a l...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world faced the same basic challenge: measuring a fast-moving public health crisis and communicating its severity to citizens.

Some of the country’s highest-paid public servants would like politicians to stop posting videos of them online. It would be an antidemocratic, even unlawful, move.