Anthony Albanese switches to election footing with blitz of three campaign battlegrounds | Australian election 2025 newsthirst.

Anthony Albanese will frame this year’s federal election as a choice between “building Australia’s future” under Labor or “taking Australia backwards” under the Coalition as the prime minister opens 2025 with a blitz of three campaign battlegrounds. The prime minister will move to an election footing this week, travelling to electorates across Queensland, the Northern…

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Giorgia Meloni meets Donald Trump in flying visit to Mar-a-Lago | Italy newsthirst.

Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, made a flying visit to Donald Trump’s Florida golf club on Saturday, during which the US president-elect praised the far-right leader for “really taking Europe by storm”. The pair were photographed in the grand ballroom of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club. The five-hour visit comes a few days before Meloni is due…

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Uniqlo, Gymshark and Lush stop hiring UK workers via gig economy apps | Gig economy newsthirst.

Lush, Uniqlo and Gymshark have stopped using freelance retail workers hired through apps such as YoungOnes and Temper, after unions criticised the gig economy companies. The TUC wrote to the retailers urging them to stop using freelance retail workers amid concerns they were missing out on significant employment rights. Some retailers recruited temporary shop assistants…

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Grieving killer whale who carried calf’s body spotted again with dead baby | Whales newsthirst.

An apparently grieving killer whale who swam more than 1,000 miles (1,600km) pushing the body of her dead newborn has lost another calf and is again carrying the body, a development researchers say is a “devastating” loss for the ailing population. The Washington state-based Center for Whale Research said the orca, known as Tahlequah, or…

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