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Anthony Albanese and Katy Gallagher have rebuked the deputy Liberal leader, Sussan Ley, for drawing parallels between the arrival of the First Fleet to Elon Musk’s SpaceX mission to reach Mars, describing the comparison as “disrespectful” and “nuts”.The prime minister said on Monday that the analogy Ley made in her Australia Day address was “very strange”.“I thought when someone said that to me yesterday they were making it up,” Albanese said of Ley’s comments, which were part of an Australian Day speech to a church service in Albury.“There aren’t people that we know of in Mars,” Albanese said. “Australia was…

The Israeli military raided the Jerusalem home of a Hamas member released as part of an exchange for Israelis being held hostage in Gaza, detaining one person and roughing up others on Saturday evening, including a New York Times reporter conducting interviews at the scene.A squad of soldiers forced its way into the house on the outskirts of Jerusalem and disrupted an event marking the early release of Ashraf Zughayer, a Hamas member imprisoned in 2002 for driving terrorists to the locations of their attacks. Among them was a suicide bomber who killed six civilians by blowing up a bus.…

When my husband and I were on the very long flight last year, he leaned over and asked, “I want to check our Morgan Stanley account. Do you think it’s OK to do it using the plane’s Wi-Fi?”Win a pair of $329 Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. Enter here, no purchase necessary!How did we live without Wi-Fi on a plane? Oh, yeah, we read magazines! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Wi-Fi isn’t as protected as we hope. Fear not. I’ve got some tips on protecting yourself and surfing safely in the skies.10 TECH UPGRADES TO SAVE YOUR TIME,…

Tens of thousands of people are fleeing towns in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s east, as rebel forces close in on the city of Goma.Explosions and gunshots were heard in city – home to more than a million people – late on Sunday evening, according to local media reports.A spokesman for rebel group has told the Reuters news agency its forces will seize control of Goma at 03:00 local time (01:00 GMT).This comes hours after DR Congo’s foreign minister accused Rwanda of declaring war by sending its troops over the border to support the M23 rebels. Rwanda says Kinshasa supports…

TSMC is riding high. The Taiwanese chipmaker—sole supplier of artificial-intelligence (AI) chips to Nvidia, the world’s most valuable chip designer—has seen sales more than double since the start of 2020. While other semiconductor firms fret about cooling demand for gadgets and cars, TSMC believes demand for AI is just gearing up. Investors agree, propelling its market capitalisation towards $1trn and into the world’s ten most valuable firms.

Vice President JD Vance sparred with CBS anchor Margaret Brennan on unvetted illegal immigrants and refugees during a “Face the Nation” interview Sunday.Brennan asked Vance for his thoughts on President Donald Trump, through executive order, putting a pause on refugee resettlement operations while demanding enhanced vetting for visa applications. She specifically asked whether he stood by his past comments that the U.S. should not “abandon anybody who’s been properly vetted.””Well, Margaret, I don’t agree that all these immigrants, or all these refugees have been properly vetted,” Vance said. “In fact, we know that there are cases of people who allegedly were…

New York Sen. Chuck Schumer called on Sunday for a federal safety board meant to prevent and prepare for school shootings to be reinstated — after it was disbanded last week by President Trump.The Department of Homeland Security’s school safety board got the ax only a few months after its first meeting and less than a year after it was established.Acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman said the department was “eliminating misuse of resources and ensuring that DHS activities prioritize our national security,” according to a memo obtained by Education Week.But Schumer said not so fast. He called on Trump…

The government is under growing pressure to get momentum back into the economy amid warnings that businesses plan to cut jobs and raise prices, while millions of families believe their finances will worsen this year.Before a major speech this week by the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, designed to restate Labour’s commitment to improving the economy, the CBI said private sector firms were urgently assessing their budgets to offset measures announced in last October’s budget.The lobby group said it expected another “significant fall” in business activity over the next three months. This measure has now been flat or falling since mid-2022, when…

The Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 is battling Congolese government forces in Congo’s key city of Goma, causing the international airport there to be evacuated.M23 is one of about 100 armed groups fighting for control in the mineral-rich region, where a long-running conflict has created one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises.U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called on M23 to immediately halt all hostile action and withdraw its forces, U.N. spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said.The international airport in Goma was evacuated and commercial flights temporarily grounded on Sunday as fighting between Rwanda-backed rebels and government forces raged around eastern Congo’s key city, leaving…

By Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Joseph Krauss The Associated Press Posted January 26, 2025 11:07 am Updated January 26, 2025 4:30 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Israel has prevented thousands of Palestinians from returning to northern Gaza, accusing Hamas of violating the terms of a fragile ceasefire by changing the order of hostages it has released. Local health officials said Sunday that Israeli forces fired on the crowd, killing two people and wounding nine. Get daily National news Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your…