Japan and China in growing row after PM Takaichi says Taiwan conflict could trigger military deployment 11. November 2025 (05:17) New prime minister says an attack on Taiwan could trigger the deployment of her country’s self-defence forces if the conflict poses threat to JapanJapan and China are embroiled in a row about Tokyo’s potential military involvement in the event of a conflict over Taiwan.Beijing reacted angrily this month after Japan’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, said an attack on Taiwan could trigger the deployment of her country’s self-defence forces if the conflict posed an existential threat to Japan. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Planes came within metres of hitting Melbourne airport workers in ‘terrifying’ incidents after runway shortened 11. November 2025 (04:53) Australian safety investigation finds serious accidents involving two planes in September 2023 were only avoided ‘by luck’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo passenger planes only narrowly avoided colliding with construction vehicles and workers during takeoff at Melbourne airport in 2023, in one case by less than five metres, because the flight crews were unaware the runway was nearly 1,600m shorter than usual, an Australian safety investigation has found.The incidents, described as “terrifying” for workers on the ground, have prompted changes to domestic and international practices on notifying flight crews about critical safety information to reduce the potential for human error in takeoff. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
‘I can’t breathe in this city’: inaction over Delhi’s suffocating pollution sparks rare protest 11. November 2025 (04:42) The failure by state governments to do anything about pollution means it has often been met with apathy. But at a rare protest anger and frustration were rifeAs a familiar smoky evening haze gathered over Delhi, the crowd began to assemble in their hundreds. Mothers and children, students, retirees and environmentalists were all united by a basic but desperate demand: the right to breathe safely in India’s capital.“Delhi is not a liveable city any more, it’s a death trap,” said Radhika Aggarwal, 33, an engineer who joined the protest on Sunday. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Alan Jones sexual abuse case to hear from 139 witnesses over up to four months 11. November 2025 (04:26) Radio host denies 25 charges of indecent assault and two of sexual touching against nine alleged victimsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA massive sexual abuse hearing against Alan Jones has been locked in despite claims the radio host was kept in the dark about the police investigation against him.The 84-year-old faces 25 charges of indecent assault and two of sexual touching against nine alleged victims. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Protests as rightwing Charlie Kirk activist group makes final campus tour stop 11. November 2025 (04:22) People shout ‘Fascists out of Berkeley’ as Turning Point USA brings message to college with history of leftwing activismTurning Point USA, the influential rightwing college group founded by Charlie Kirk, has brought Kirk’s message to a campus with a long history of leftwing activism two months after his death.An event at the University of California, Berkeley, on Monday evening marked the chaotic last stop of the American Comeback tour, which Kirk had just begun at the time of his death at Utah Valley University. In the aftermath of Kirk’s fatal shooting, the events have come to serve as memorials, with prominent conservative speakers, including JD Vance, highlighting the staggering impact the controversial rightwing influencer’s death has had on American politics. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Trump asks supreme court to throw out jury’s finding in E Jean Carroll lawsuit 11. November 2025 (04:19) Writer and author had testified, and won, at trial that the president had sexually assaulted her in the mid-1990sDonald Trump asked the US supreme court on Monday to throw out a jury’s finding in a civil lawsuit that he sexually abused writer E Jean Carroll at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her.Trump’s lawyers argued in a lengthy filing with the high court that allegations leading to the $5m verdict were “propped up” by a “series of indefensible evidentiary rulings” that allowed Carroll’s lawyers to present “highly inflammatory propensity evidence” against him. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Trump scolds air traffic controllers and blames rivals for economy in interview 11. November 2025 (03:47) President put forth his version of ‘Trump Care’ and insisted ‘we have the greatest economy we ever had’Donald Trump chastised overwhelmed air traffic controllers, cast blame and doubt in response to poor economic indicators and claimed that increased access to food stamps had put “the country in jeopardy”, in an exclusive interview on Fox News Monday evening.Speaking with Laura Ingraham, the president shared his thoughts on a wide range of topics from housing mortgages to foreign policy, interspersed with insults flung at his political opponents that were teed up by Ingraham’s questions, including Gavin Newsom, the California governor and Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
