One Nation claims victory in Secret Harbour byelection in Western Australia

One Nation candidate Luke Herdegen secures 57% of the vote after preferences as party’s WA leader says result will send shock waves across the country

One Nation has claimed victory in the Secret Harbour state byelection in Western Australia

With 74.5% of the vote counted, One Nation’s Luke Herdegen leads Labor’s Georgia Tree 57-42 after preferences.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/30/one-nation-claims-victory-on-secret-harbour-byelection-in-western-australia

‘A New Form of U.S. Colonialism’: Venezuelans Bristle at U.S. Oil Takeover #wanitaxigo

Palestinian woman and NBC News team reportedly attacked in West Bank

Matt Bradley and crew assaulted while interviewing woman who said settlers had driven family out of home

A Palestinian woman and an NBC News team are reported to have been attacked and injured by masked Israeli settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Saturday, amid worsening confrontations in the area.

Benjamin Netanyahu said he condemned the violence committed “by a handful of rioters”.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/29/nbc-news-team-attacked-west-bank

Footage of Tibet floods isn't being shown in China - and we know little about victims there

Some of the most dramatic footage from the deadly flash flooding is hidden from public view in China.

Thieves steal 600-diamond necklace from Vienna museum in broad daylight

Police are hunting two suspects they believe bought a ticket for the exhibition to get at the jewellery.

Volunteers rescue man stuck on 10,000-ft high ledge in Sierra Nevada range

Climber, stuck on 6-in ridge, had veered off treacherous path and ‘any fall would almost certainly be fatal’

An ill-fated move left a man stranded on a 6-in ledge over 10,000ft off the ground for hours in California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range, before a volunteer rescue team came to his aid.

The climber, who has not been publicly identified, had been scaling the Mendenhall couloir, a gully on the face of Laurel mountain, with a friend on Saturday.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/28/volunteers-rescue-man-cliff-sierra-nevada

Three journalists sue Pentagon after being fired from military news outlet

Three employees of Stars and Stripes, a government-funded news service, allege they were fired after reporting on USS Abraham Lincoln

Three journalists who were fired by the Pentagon from a US government-funded news outlet sued the Department of Defense in federal court on Thursday, arguing their dismissals were illegal and violated their first amendment rights to free speech.

The three journalists were all employees of Stars and Stripes, which their court filing calls “the U.S. military’s independent news source since the Civil War with a long history of editorial independence, free from news management or censorship by military command”.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/27/journalists-sue-pentagon-stars-and-stripes