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Nov 12, 2026 - World

Film features testimony from 24 Israeli officials involved in surveillance and remote killing of Palestinian civilians• NAZA is in cinemas worldwide and will screen for free on the Guardian’s website from early December. Sign up here to be the first to watch it Continue reading...

Nov 12, 2026 - World

In a major reversal, President Donald Trump appeared to abandon his pursuit of a diplomatic end to his war against Iran Thursday in a rant about Democrats’ “blood.”He also handed Vice President JD Vance a new assignment.As recently as Monday, Trump touted “positive momentum” toward a deal to end the war, which has been deeply unpopular with Americans since it began. In a post on his social media platform Truth Social, however, Trump declared “we don’t need a deal with Iran” anymore.“Those days have long since passed,” Trump wrote. “We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!”Trump also revealed that he had instructed Vance to “focus” his “complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States,” claiming, without providing evidence, that “Billions of Dollars is being stolen each and every month.”“Our Budget could be quickly BALANCED with the correction of this large scale criminal activity,” Trump wrote, again without providing evidence. “CORRUPTION is in the Democrat Leadership’s blood!”Trump has spent much of his second term accusing Democratic-led states of fraud, using a real fraud scandal in Minnesota to go after others. His administration tried to freeze $10 billion in child care and social services funding for California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York before dropping the effort.

Nov 12, 2026 - World

Young people are being found with ‘hard drives full of what can only be described as gore’, one expert saysIn March, Guardian Australia revealed that most people who have been charged with the new federal crime of possession of violent extremist material are under 18.This week Australian federal police sounded the alarm about a surge in teen extremism: 32 of the 37 young people prosecuted in counter-terrorism cases since 2020 were charged in the past two years. Continue reading...

Nov 12, 2026 - World

Chris Minns is trying to address the threat of undeclared lobbying but falls well short of what the commission recommended five years agoGet our daily political email, free app or daily news podcastA dirt file on a state minister peddled to journalists. A subterranean campaign to discredit the building commissioner. Convincing the Liberal party to unseat councillors in the Hills district who were blocking a developer.The New South Wales corruption watchdog’s recent inquiry, Rosny, revealed the ease with which the key protagonists – a group of rightwing Liberal operatives known as the Reformers, all of whom were former staffers – could move along the corridors of NSW parliament. Continue reading...

Nov 12, 2026 - World

Expert warns of ‘huge loophole in political communication laws’ as state government among parties presenting accounts as unaffiliated news sourcesGet our daily political email, free app or daily news podcast“Breaking,” a reel from the Instagram account nswnewsroom reads. “Another Liberal MP quits, almost a third now gone.”The post looks like it could have been made by a media outlet. It cites the source as the Daily Telegraph and Jordan Lane, a New South Wales MP, who is the sixth sitting Liberal member to announce they won’t re-contest their seat at the March 2027 election.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s Politics, really newsletter here Continue reading...