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Governments controlling prices? It has long been unthinkable – but may now be inevitable | Andy Beckett

March 27, 2026 · 8:00 AM Andy Beckett

In Mexico and Spain, leaders who have capped public costs have been rewarded at the ballot box. As another cost of...

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Sports

Buttler looks for form as IPL returns with riches, political rancour and aftermath of tragedy

March 27, 2026 · 8:00 AM Taha Hashim

Jos Butler is seeking inspiration from the pioneering Kevin Pietersen as he heads a 12-strong contingent of compatriots...

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World News

Friday briefing: Can the left mobilise itself to outmarch the momentum of the far right?

March 27, 2026 · 6:45 AM Martin Belam

In today’s newsletter: A​s a broad coalition of unions, campaigners and cultural figures prepare to take to the...

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Australia News

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation likely to win second South Australian lower house seat

March 27, 2026 · 6:43 AM Tory Shepherd

ABC projects rightwing populist party will pick up the electorate of Hammond from the Liberals

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Ed Miliband’s stock is rising because he’s a rare commodity in Labour these days: a thinker | Gaby Hinsliff

March 27, 2026 · 6:00 AM Gaby Hinsliff

The party seems to have woken up to its need for an old-style intellectual heavyweight to counter the vacuousness of...

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Australia News

Afternoon Update: Labor hoses down fuel supply concerns; cyclone batters WA coast; and the year’s first big snowfall

March 27, 2026 · 5:54 AM Kris Swales

PM confirms national cabinet will convene over issue as energy minister insists fuel supply will be ‘the same if not...

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Progressive Paris has many weapons to fight the far right, but the best? Spaces where you can simply hang out | Alexander Hurst

March 27, 2026 · 5:00 AM Alexander Hurst

Drop into any of the French capital’s ‘third places’ and you’ll find food, culture, community – and an...

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World News

Australia will be left with no submarines if it abandons Aukus, senior defence official warns

March 27, 2026 · 3:54 AM Ben Doherty

Malcolm Turnbull asks defence department official what Australia would do if the promised Virginia-class and...

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US News

‘Emergency situation’: Trump says he will order payments to TSA agents amid turmoil at US airports – as it happened

March 27, 2026 · 2:00 AM Coral Murphy Marcos, Robert Tait, Lucy Campbell and Tom Ambrose

President says he will order new DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin to pay TSA immediately as Congress remains deadlocked...

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US News

Trump news at a glance: president tries to stop chaos at airports

March 27, 2026 · 1:38 AM Guardian staff

Donald Trump said he will take executive action to pay 50,000 airport security workers as a deal stalled in Congress to...

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Australia News

Morning Mail: Trump renews threats to Iran, big cyclone about to make third landfall, trans Olympic ban

March 26, 2026 · 7:54 PM Martin Farrer

US president implores Tehran to negotiate as Labor tries to fix ‘biggest ever energy crisis’; trans women will not...

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World News

Hungary charges journalist after claims minister was in touch with Moscow

March 26, 2026 · 6:37 PM Flora Garamvolgyi in Budapest and Ashifa Kassam

Investigative reporter Szabolcs Panyi covered story alleging foreign minister had passed information to Sergei Lavrov

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