<p>One Nation leader to speak at press club for first time in her political career. Follow today’s news live</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p><strong>Kyle Sandilands</strong> has settled his legal dispute with <strong>ARN Media</strong> with a $12m cash payment over three years, but <strong>Jackie O Henderson’s</strong> $82m claim against the broadcaster will continue.</p><p>The shock jock agreed to drop his $85m lawsuit against KIIS FM, in return for a cash payment and $1.5m in advertising contra on ARN’s stations for a new broadcasting venture yet to be announced.</p><p>The inquiry heard evidence of residents being pressured to relocate, deceived about their rights and fearful of losing their homes and communities. Those allegations are serious, but Labor’s response shows they haven’t taken them seriously … They don’t care what the experts say or what people think. We’ve had to send in the Ombudsman to hold Labor to account before they do irreparable damage.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/jun/17/australia-news-live-victoria-marines-weapons-pauline-hanson-one-nation-national-press-club-labor-childcare-medicare-anthony-albanese-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>
Despite mutual praise between the two leaders, there has been a series of setbacks to U.S. relations with India since they last met more than a year ago.
<p>One Nation leader denounces high immigration levels, Islam, transgender rights, the ABC and the Guardian in inflammatory address</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/jun/17/australia-news-live-victoria-marines-weapons-pauline-hanson-one-nation-national-press-club-labor-childcare-medicare-anthony-albanese-ntwnfb">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></p></li><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>Pauline Hanson has declared Australia cannot be multicultural and must exist as a “monocultural society”, warning high migration had caused the country to lose its identity and national values.</p><p>In an inflammatory address to the National Press Club in Canberra, the One Nation leader pledged to axe SBS and overhaul the ABC <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/17/one-nation-health-policies-errors-pauline-hanson-ntwnfb">if she wins the next federal election</a>, including imposing a licence fee for metropolitan households to watch the public broadcaster. Regional services would be protected.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/17/pauline-hanson-national-press-club-address-speech-australia-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>
Despite Zhipu being the hottest stock on the HSTECH Index this year, Felix Wang of Hedgeye Risk Management says the fair value for the stock on the short side is HK$407. He adds that Zhipu lacks pricing power, particularly after the release of DeepSeek’s V4 model, which has triggered a price war among Chinese AI firms. He spoke on “Bloomberg: The China Show.” (Source: Bloomberg)
<p>Girl told mother she thought about killing people ‘all the time’, inquest into 10-year-old Biddy Porter’s death hears</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/jun/17/australia-news-live-victoria-marines-weapons-pauline-hanson-one-nation-national-press-club-labor-childcare-medicare-anthony-albanese-ntwnfb">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></p></li><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>The mother of a child killer did not understand mental health and consulted a naturopathic herbalist about concerns for her teenage daughter, an inquest has been told.</p><p>Two weeks after the 14-year-old confessed to her mother that she thought about killing people “all the time”, the girl killed 10-year-old Biddy Porter at a property in rural New South Wales.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/17/woman-says-she-didnt-understand-mental-health-before-daughter-in-acute-psychosis-killed-another-child-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>
The boom in GLP-1 weight-loss drugs is boosting demand for protein supplements and driving a rally in the stock of Glanbia Plc, a maker of nutrition products popular with gym enthusiasts and athletes.
The mother of Cape Verde’s celebrated goalkeeper Vozinha says she watched his heroics on the TV.
Food shortages spark scuffles outside supermarket in Bolivia
<p>Minnie the Minx and Macbeth feature in National Library’s exploration of how rainfall has shaped Scottish science, literature, history and identity</p><p>It seems fitting that, 250 years ago, one of Scotland’s foremost scientists took a close interest in what is arguably the country’s most famous feature: rain</p><p>James Hutton, celebrated by Scots as the father of modern geology, went so far as to write a formula for “a theory of rain”. In 1784, he sketched out the key principles for the <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsnr/article/79/1/20240030/116637/James-Hutton-and-the-measurement-of-atmospheric">“condensation of aqueous vapour contained in the air”</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/17/rain-exhibition-national-library-scotland">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Exclusive: Cain has been lauded by corporation for his appeal to young men despite history of abusive and misogynistic remarks</p><p><strong>• Warning: this article contains sexually explicit, offensive language</strong></p><p>A BBC presenter lauded by the corporation for his appeal to young male audiences has a history of making abusive and misogynistic remarks about women, whom he has variously called “slags”, “sluts”, “psychos” and “bitches”, the Guardian can reveal.</p><p>Ashley Cain is the presenter of the BBC Three documentary series <em> </em>Ashley Cain: Into the Danger Zone<em>, </em>which was filmed on location earlier this year after the BBC commissioned a second series.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/17/bbc-presenter-ashley-cain-called-women-slags-sluts-bitches">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Exclusive: health professionals, survivors and politicians voice concerns in open letter over comments by Fatima Maadi Bio, who denies supporting the practice</p><p>The first lady of Sierra Leone has denied that she supports female genital mutilation amid rising anger around her perceived approval of the practice.</p><p>But in an exclusive response to the Guardian, Fatima Maada Bio, the wife of President Julius Maada Bio, also said she would not openly condemn FGM until she saw “reliable data” that the practice was harmful.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/17/sierra-leones-first-lady-refuses-to-condemn-fgm-without-reliable-data-on-harms">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Upgrade to Buchanan Galleries part of £50m spend this year and £800m by 2029 to revive appeal of department stores</p><p>John Lewis is to spend £20m on a revamp of its Glasgow store in the city centre’s Buchanan Galleries in a vote of confidence in the shopping mall not long ago scheduled for demolition.</p><p>It is the largest cash injection within a wider plan to spend £50m this financial year on refreshing its shops, with department stores in Reading, Cambridge, Leicester and Liverpool all earmarked for an upgrade.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/17/john-lewis-glasgow-city-centre-reboot">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Arnault’s addition of leading weekly to stable of publications raises concerns about media ownership in France</p><p>He is known as the “wolf in cashmere” – the owner of the world’s biggest luxury group whose brands including Louis Vuitton, Dior and Tiffany have made him one of the world’s richest people.</p><p>But <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/bernard-arnault">Bernard Arnault</a>, a close friend of Donald Trump, is under fire from journalists’ unions in France for buying up almost all the country’s business and economic press.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/17/fashion-tycoon-bernard-arnault-accused-of-stranglehold-over-french-business-press">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Heads of state and participants from more than 80 countries at three-day event in Accra to pursue actionable commitments to reconciliation and restitution</p><p>Ghana is hosting a conference to advance the continent’s push for reparatory justice after the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/25/un-votes-slave-trade-gravest-crime-against-humanity-reparatory-justice">adoption of the landmark</a> United Nations (UN) resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans as the gravest crime against humanity.</p><p>Heads of state and government, ministers, civil society representatives, historians, researchers and legal experts representing more than 80 countries are converging in the capital, Accra, for the three-day event, billed<a href="https://reparations.mfa.gov.gh/"> Next Steps</a>, which starts on Wednesday. It is the first major gathering on the issue since <a href="https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4107547/files/A_RES_80_250-EN.pdf">the resolution was adopted</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/jun/17/ghana-to-advance-reparatory-justice-at-first-major-gathering-since-landmark-un-resolution">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Exclusive: Ed Davey to make call ahead of 10th anniversary of Brexit vote, in strengthening of party’s position on EU</p><p>The Lib Dems will urge Andy Burnham to end Labour’s “torpor and timidity” towards the EU as they call for the UK to rejoin the single market, in a notable strengthening of their own position.</p><p>Ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote next week, Ed Davey will challenge Burnham to scrap Labour’s red lines on the customs union and single market if he becomes prime minister and immediately begin talks on a more ambitious deal with the EU.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/17/lib-dems-to-urge-labour-to-drop-torpor-and-timidity-on-eu-and-rejoin-single-market">Continue reading...</a>
There’s an initial deal between the U.S. and Iran. But bringing the global economy back online after months at reduced speed isn’t going to be quick or easy.
Two oil tankers heading toward Africa have u-turned in the Indian Ocean this week, switching their destinations to the Middle East as shipowners race to re-position vessels ahead of the possible reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Iron ore sank below $100 a ton for the first time since March on signs of abundant seaborne supplies just as demand in China faces headwinds.
The Swiss National Bank will this week reveal if it’s too soon to dial down its franc rhetoric before a prospective Middle East peace deal becomes reality.
European Central Bank officials are signaling that a US-Iran peace accord won’t necessarily stop them lifting interest rates further, even if it prevents a more pronounced overshoot in inflation.