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Breaking News LIVE Updates May 1: Ukrainian forces fought village by village Saturday to hold back a Russian advance through the country’s east, while the United Nations worked to broker a civilian evacuation from the last defensive stronghold in the bombed-out ruins of the port city of Mariupol. An estimated 100,000 civilians remain in the …

A reporter has tried comparing Anthony Albanese’s response to his COVID-19 infection to Scott Morrison’s, asking Shadow Treasurer Jim Shalmers why Mr Albanese hasn’t held a press conference on his first day out of isolation, when Mr Morrison had when he got out of isolation in March this year. “Anthony Albanese is returning to …

Greens leader Adam Bandt has given a cheeky response when quizzed about wage figures at his address to the National Press Club. After Labor Leader Anthony Albanese’s gaffe over unemployment and interest rate numbers, Mr Bandt responded to an AFR journalist’s question asking him what the current Wage Price Index was with a blunt reply. …

The Prime Minister is continuing to back his government’s financial support to flood-hit regions. It comes after the Queensland and NSW Governments criticised the Morrison government for displaying a lack of understanding at a federal level when it comes to flood funding. Mr Morrison hit back, saying in “New South Wales, we have committed $2.1 …

Health experts are concerned that Australians are downplaying the prospect of a serious flu season this year. A new consumer survey, commissioned by Australian vaccine manufacturer Seqirus, asked 1000 adults aged 18 years and over about their attitudes to the flu. The results showed less than half (45 per cent) think flu is a very …

Welcome to the 9News.com.au live blog for Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Coronavirus cases and hospitalisations have surged across New South Wales and Victoria today as concern grows over spreading infections among students and children. Free tickets to Australian cricket great Shane Warne’s state funeral at the Melbourne Cricket Ground will be made available from 3pm …

Two British citizens who had been jailed in Iran for more than five years — charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and retired civil engineer Anoosheh Ashoori — returned home to their families’ hugs and tears Thursday after the UK settled a decades-old debt to Iran. Zaghari-Ratcliffe hugged her seven-year-old daughter, and her husband and members of …

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Russia’s UN Ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, has said Russia will carry out a ceasefire on Tuesday at 6pm (AEDT — 10am Moscow time) and open humanitarian corridors to evacuate citizens from Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Mariupol. He took the floor at the end of a UN Security Council meeting on the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine to …

If you’re heading to heaven, you really should fly out of Palm Springs. Pandemic-era air travel is a miserable combination of unhappy passengers and unreliable service — except in Palm Springs. There, flying still feels miraculous. The airport is small and easily navigable. And after you speed through security, you emerge into an outdoor desert …