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Apr 11, 2026 - World

Exclusive: Move comes after Guardian Australia revealed Gemma Seymour was facing potential suspension over video criticising RMIT’s ties to weapons companiesRMIT University has dropped a misconduct case against a student who accused the institution of being “complicit in genocide” in Gaza, because of its defence and aerospace research centre’s ties to weapons companies.Guardian Australia this week revealed the student, Gemma Seymour, faced potential suspension over a social media video calling for the university’s Sir Lawrence Wackett Defence and Aerospace Centre to be shut down. Continue reading...

Apr 10, 2026 - World

Vice-president’s war doubts and his boss’s desperation to reopen the Hormuz strait constitute a weak deck against bolstered opponentsMiddle East crisis – live updatesAs JD Vance arrives in Islamabad to negotiate a peace deal with Iran, his first high-profile assignment of the war looks to be a poisoned chalice.Vance, a vocal opponent of US wars in the Middle East gone quiet since the beginning of the current military campaign, will now face off with Iranian negotiators who feel emboldened by their new control of the Hormuz strait and their resilience in the face of the largest US-Israeli onslaught in history. Vance’s presence at the talks as vice-president will make it the highest-level meeting since the Iranian revolution of 1979. Continue reading...

Apr 10, 2026 - World

Adams was granted citizenship and a passport from Balkan country by a special decree from the republic’s presidentEric Adams has obtained citizenship and a passport from Albania, the Balkan country which received effusive compliments from the former New York City mayor during a visit there relatively recently.The Albania Daily News first reported on Friday that Adams had requested both and was granted them by a special decree from the republic’s president, Bajram Begaj. A spokesperson for Adams then confirmed that development in a statement distributed to the news media, and it was evidently chronicled in Albania’s official government journal. Continue reading...

Apr 10, 2026 - World

Irish drivers told to buy only fuel they need as filling stations run out and hauliers and farmers block motorways in fourth day of actionMiddle East crisis live – latest updatesProtests over fuel prices have caused chaos in Ireland and spread to Norway in a knock-on effect from the conflict in the Middle East.People in Ireland were urged to only buy fuel they needed as 100 fuel stations ran out, and the National Emergency Coordination Group warned the number could rise to 500 on Friday. Continue reading...

Apr 10, 2026 - World

Vehicle veered into a ravine on island of La Gomera while transporting a tour group for a boat excursionA man has died and 27 people are in hospital after a bus carrying British passengers crashed in the Canary Islands, local officials have said.The incident happened at 1.15pm local time on Friday when the vehicle veered into a ravine on the GM-2 highway near the town of San Sebastián de La Gomera. Continue reading...